Hapoel Afula F.C.

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Hapoel Afula

Full name

Hapoel Afula Football Club
הפועל עפולה

Nickname(s)

Afula

Founded

1950's

Ground

Afula Illit Stadium

Capacity

1,000

Chairman

Ami Azoulay

Manager

Yaron Hochenboim

League

Liga Leumit

2012-13

Liga Alef North, 1st (Promoted)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Hapoel Afula is an Israeli football club based in Afula. The club will be playing in Liga Leumit in the 2013-14 season. Their main rivals are Hapoel Asi Gilboa.

In the mid-1950s and early 1960s the club played in Liga Alef which back then was the second tier in Israel but they never managed to play in the top flight.

In 2004 the club won the Liga Bet North B division and was promoted to Liga Alef. After 9 seasons in Liga Alef the club finally managed to win promotion when they won the league by a margin of ten points.

Current squad

As of January 2014

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Meir Cohen
3	DF	Ido Saundres
5	MF	Shlomi Hanuka
8	MF	Oren Ido
9	FW	Elnatan Salami
10	MF	Kevin Reinshtein
11	FW	Netanel Goldman
15	MF	Dor Kochav
16	MF	Nadav Abera
17	FW	Matan Nachmani
18	MF	Yuval Shawat
19	FW	Shahar Hirsh

No.	Position	Player
21	MF	Jonathan Tennenbaum
22	GK	Ben Vaitzman
23	DF	Igor Andronic
24	DF	Geva Barkai
26	DF	Shachaf Helman
28	DF	Shinhar Murad
30	DF	Gizzie Dorbor
45	DF	David Moombram
99	FW	Hasiv Abu Rukon
	MF	Iman Harbat
	FW	Constantin Mandricenco

Honours

Liga Bet (North B):
- Winners (1): 2003-04
Liga Alef (North):
- Winners (1): 2012-13

Notable former players

Managers

Tzahi Tayer (2006-07)^[1]
Felix Naim (2007)^[2]
Dror Cohen (2007)
Baruch Saar (2007)
Arez Bnodis (2007)
Felix Naim (2008)

Albert Edri (2008)
Lior Levy (2008-09)
Alon Schwager (2009-10)
Oded Koter (2010-11)
Yaron Hochenboim (2011-present)

References

External links

Hapoel Afula Israel Football Association
Hapoel Afula Transfermarkt

v t e Liga Leumit

Clubs	Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla Hakoah Ramat Gan Hapoel Afula Hapoel Ashkelon Hapoel Bnei Lod Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Katamon Hapoel Nazareth Illit Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Rishon LeZion Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Maccabi Herzliya Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Umm al-Fahm Maccabi Yavne

Stadia	Green Stadium Haberfeld Stadium HaMoshava Stadium Herzliya Municipal Stadium Ilut Stadium Lod Municipal Stadium Ness Ziona Stadium Netanya Stadium Ramla Municipal Stadium Sala Stadium Teddy Stadium Winter Stadium

Seasons (second level)	1946–47 1949–50 1951–52 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

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