Maccabi Sha'arayim F.C.

Maccabi Sha'arayim

Full name

Maccabi Sha'arayim Football Club

Founded

1950

Ground

Maccabi Sha'araim Stadium, Rehovot

Capacity

500

Chairman

Simcha Gad

Manager

Shlomi Amar

League

Liga Alef

2016–17

Liga Leumit, 16th (Relegated)

Home colours

Away colours

Maccabi Sha'araying's crest used in 2016-17 season

Maccabi Sha'arayim (Hebrew: מכבי שעריים‎‎) is an Israeli football club from the city Rehovot, currently playing in Liga Alef.

The club spent the past seven seasons in the top division from 1963 to 1969, and a single season in 1985–86.

History

The club was promoted to Liga Leumit (then the top division) for the first time in 1963. In their first season in the league they finished 11th out of 15. The following season the club finished sixth, which remains their highest ever league position.

In the 1965–66 season they narrowly avoided relegation, finishing one place above the relegation zone. In 1969 Maccabi reach the cup final for the first (and to date only) time, but lost 1–0 to Hakoah Ramat Gan.^[1] In the same season they finished second bottom of the league and were relegated back to Liga Alef.

The final match of the 1971–72 season saw the club have a chance to return to the top flight, but they lost 2–1 to Hapoel Marmorek, which were promoted instead.^[2] Two years later they qualified for the promotion/relegation play-offs, but failed to win any of their five matches and finished bottom of the group.

At the end of the 1977–78 season they finished bottom of Liga Artzit (the second division) and were relegated to Liga Alef (now the third tier).

At the end of the 1983–84 season they won Liga Alef South division and returned to Liga Artzit, and won a second consecutive promotion in the following season, returning to Liga Leumit for the first time in 16 years. However, they finished bottom, and were relegated back to Liga Artzit.

The club dropped back into the third tier at the end of the 1992–93 season, and were relegated to the fourth tier at the end of the 2000–01 season, before dropping into Liga Bet, the fifth tier, at the end of the 2005–06 season. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club returned to Liga Alef (now the third tier), following a victory of 2–1 against Hapoel Azor in the promotion play-off.^[3]

In the 2015–16 season, the club won Liga Alef South division and promoted to Liga Leumit. Thus, the club returned to the second tier of Israeli football after 23 years.

Current squad

As of 2 August 2017

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Raz Rahamim
9	FW	Liran Vaza
11	FW	Tom Madhele
14	MF	Yair Elias
23	DF	Ran Berkovic
25	DF	Nadav Muniss
26	DF	Yogev Ben Simon
33	GK	Eran Shifris

No.	Position	Player
55	MF	Shay Revivo
58	DF	Oded Gavish
99	MF	Hamza Rani
	DF	Itay Shabo
	MF	Noam Porat
	MF	Omer Ben Sha'anan
	FW	Eden Shaer
	FW	Itai Ben Harush

Honours

Third tier
- Champions: 1955–56, 1959–60, 1983–84, 2015–16
Fourth tier
- Champions: 2011–12
Toto Cup Leumit
- Winner: 2016-17

References

↑ Israel – List of Cup Finals RSSSF
↑ The Rehovot derby is here again Doublepass, 18.9.2013 (in Hebrew)
↑ Sha'arayim promoted to Liga Alef after beating Azor One, 10.5.2012 (in Hebrew)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maccabi Sha'arayim (Association football).

Club website
Club Official facebook page
Maccabi Sha'arayim Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

Third Level Israeli football leagues seasons
North	F.C. Haifa Robi Shapira F.C. Tira Hapoel Asi Gilboa Hapoel Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hapoel Beit She'an Hapoel Herzliya Hapoel Iksal Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Kafr Kanna Hapoel Migdal HaEmek Hapoel Shefa-'Amr Hapoel Umm al-Fahm Ironi Tiberias Maccabi Daliyat al-Karmel Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata Maccabi Tzur Shalom
South	Beitar Kfar Saba F.C. Dimona F.C. Holon Yaniv F.C. Kafr Qasim Hakoah Ramat Gan Hapoel Azor Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden Hapoel Hod HaSharon Hapoel Kfar Shalem Hapoel Mahane Yehuda Maccabi Jaffa Kabilio Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Sha'arayim Maccabi Yavne Nordia Jerusalem Sektzia Nes Tziona
Seasons (third level)	1938 1940 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 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 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
See also: Liga Artzit

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