Hapoel Mevaseret Zion F.C.

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion

Full name

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Football Club
הפועל מבשרת ציון

Founded

1966

Ground

HaMigrash HaYarok, Mevaseret Zion

Capacity

200

Chairman

Doron Ben Shimon

Manager

Andrey Andonov

League

Liga Gimel Central

2015–16

8th

Home colours

Away colours

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion (Hebrew: הפועל מבשרת ציון‎‎) is an Israeli football club based in Mevaseret Zion. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Central division.

History

The club was founded in 1966 and played mostly in the lower divisions of Israeli football. Mevaseret reached Liga Bet for the first time in the 1981–82 season, in which they were punished with suspension of activity and demoted back to Liga Gimel.^[1] After several years between Liga Gimel and Liga Bet, the club reached Liga Alef for the first time in their history in 1998–99, the first out of two seasons in which the club played in the third tier of Israeli football, as following the creation of the Israeli Premier League in the following season, Liga Alef became the fourth tier, up until 2009, when Liga Artzit (then the third tier) was closed, and Liga Alef regained its status as the third tier.

Prior to the 2004–05 season, the club became Hapoel Mevaseret Zion/Abu Ghosh, following a merger with Ironi Abu Ghosh, and became the first Israeli team mixed from an Arab village and a Jewish town.^[2]^[3]

Prior to the 2007–08 season, disenchanted fans of Hapoel Jerusalem, extremely dissatisfied with the management, resolved to create a company with the aim of purchasing Hapoel Jerusalem. When it became evident that reaching such a deal was impossible, they joined forces with Hapoel Mevaseret Zion/Abu Ghosh and became known as Hapoel Katamon/Mevaseret Zion.^[4] The merged club failed to achieve promotion to Liga Artzit, after they finished runners-up in Liga Alef South division, one point behind champions, Ironi Bat Yam. The following season was less successful, as the club finished in the seventh place. The merger between Mevaseret and Katamon came apart at the end of the season. Hapoel Mevaseret Zion continued in Liga Alef, whilst Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem were registered in Liga Gimel as a new club.^[4]

In 2009–10, the season in which Liga Alef regained its status as the third tier of Israeli football, Hapoel Mevaseret Zion, now as a separate entity, finished in the bottom place and relegated to Liga Bet. In the following season, the club narrowly avoided relegation to Liga Gimel, after they finished bottom in Liga Bet South B division and earned a place in the Relegation play-offs due to the dismissal of Ironi Ramla from the league. Mevaseret beat F.C. Dimona 1–0 in the first round of Liga Bet South B Relegation play-offs and remained in Liga Bet. However, in the following season, they finished once more in the bottom place and were relegated to Liga Gimel, the fifth and lowest tier of Israeli football, where they play today.

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Fifth tier	1	1985–86^[5]

External links

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

References

↑ Who will be relegated from North B? (Page 7) Hadshot HaSport, 16.5.1982, archive.football.co.il (in Hebrew)
↑ Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret union HaAretz, 3.3.2005 (in Hebrew)
↑ Fighting for equality – On the football pitch and outside of it Daniel Ben Tal, Common Ground News, 13.6.2005 (in Hebrew)
1 2 General information Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
↑ Promotion to Liga Bet Playoffs: Givat HaRakafot and Bat Yam Won David Lavie and Amir Eisenberg, 18 May 1986, History Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

Liga Gimel
Upper Galilee	F.C. Aramshe Danun F.C. Bnei M.M.B.E. HaGolan VeHaGalil F.C. Tzeirei Tamra Hapoel Bnei Bi'ina Hapoel Bnei Hurfeish Hapoel Bnei Tuba-Zangariyye Hapoel Bnei Peki'in Hapoel Bnei Rameh Hapoel Merom HaGalil Hapoel Nahariya Hapoel Tarshiha Maccabi Ahva Yarka Maccabi Ahva Sha'ab
Lower Galilee	Ahi Bir al-Maksur Beitar Kiryat Ata F.C. Halat al-Sharif Bnei Arraba F.C. Kfar Kama F.C. Tzeirei Bir al-Maksur Hapoel Bnei Deir al-Asad Hapoel Ironi Bni I'billin Maccabi Bnei Nujidat Ironi Bnei Sha'ab Maccabi Kafr Manda Maccabi Ironi Tamra
Jezreel	Beitar Afula Beitar Ein Mahil Beitar Umm al-Fahm Bnei Musheirifa Baiada F.C. Nazareth Illit Hapoel Bnei Ar'ara 'Ara Hapoel Bnei Musmus Hapoel Ein as-Sahala Ihud Bnei Baqa Maccabi Bnei Reineh Maccabi Basmat Tab'un
Samaria	Beitar Pardes Hanna Hapoel Ahva Haifa F.C. Pardes Hanna-Karkur Hapoel Bnei Fureidis Hapoel Halissa Hapoel Kiryat Haim Hapoel Ironi Or Akiva Hapoel Isfiya Hapoel Menashe Maccabi Neve Sha'anan Eldad Maccabi Isfiya Maccabi Ironi Barta'a
Sharon	Beitar Tubruk Bnei Qalansawe F.C. Bnei Ra'anana F.C. Ironi Ariel F.C. Kafr Qasim Nibrass F.C. Netanya F.C. Tzeirei Tira Hapoel Jaljulia Hapoel Oranit Hapoel Kafr Bara Maccabi HaSharon Netanya Shimshon Bnei Tayibe Shimshon Kafr Qasim
Tel Aviv	Beitar Ezra Beitar Jaffa Bnei Yehud Elitzur Jaffa Tel Aviv Elitzur Yehud Yotel Inter Aliyah Tel Aviv Hapoel Kiryat Shalom Hapoel Neve Golan Maccabi Hashikma Hen Maccabi Ironi Or Yehuda Maccabi Pardes Katz Maccabi Spartak Ramat Gan Otzma F.C. Holon Shikun Vatikim Ramat Gan Shimshon Tel Aviv Sporting Tel Aviv
Central	A.S. Ashdod Beitar Ashdod F.C. Rishon LeZion F.C. Tzeirei Lod Hapoel Abirei Bat Yam Hapoel Bnei Ashdod Hapoel Ironi Gedera Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Hapoel Matzliah Hapoel Ramla Hapoel Tirat Shalom Ironi Lod Maccabi Kiryat Ekron Maccabi Rehovot
South	A.S. Ashkelon Beitar Kiryat Gat Elitzur Ironi Yehuda F.C. Arad F.C. Be'er Sheva Haim Levy F.C. Ironi Kuseife F.C. Tzeirei al-Hoshla Hapoel Ar'arat an-Naqab Hapoel Merhavim Hapoel Rahat Hapoel Yeruham Maccabi Dimona Maccabi Ironi Hura
Seasons (fifth level)	1958–59 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 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17
Seasons (sixth level)	1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09

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