Maccabi Netanya F.C.
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Full name | Maccabi Netanya Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Diamonds | |||
Founded | 1934; 89 years ago | |||
Ground | Netanya Stadium, Netanya | |||
Capacity | 13,610 | |||
Owner | Eyal Segal | |||
Manager | Marco Balbul | |||
League | Israeli Premier League | |||
2022–23 | Israeli Premier League, 5th of 14 | |||
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Maccabi Netanya F.C. (
History
Maccabi Netanya Football Club was founded in 1934 and initially played in green and white stripes. The club played their first game against
During the early to mid 1940s, a number of British players who served in military bases near Netanya played for the club. The most famous were Bertie Mee and Tom Finney, who were the first foreigners to play for the club. The 1943–44 season of the Palestine League was the first season that Maccabi Netanya played a full season in the top tier of football in the country, they finished the season in the sixth place. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, four of the club's players were killed – Israel Arbaitman, Yehuda Blecher, Haim Goldstein, David Liebster and coach Baruch Feuer.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, Maccabi Netanya was among the 13 teams that formed the senior league in Israel. In the 1949–50 season, Netanya finished in ninth place. In 1954 the club qualified for the Israel State Cup for the first time and the next season the club finished in fourth place in the league. After two rather successful seasons, the club had to fight against relegation in the 1955-56 season. Netanya managed to get back in the top of table in the 1957–58 season as they finished fourth again. In the 1961–62 season, after a few years in the bottom of the league, the club got relegated to the second division after finishing 12th and final in the league. Netanya played two seasons in Liga Alef until in the end of the 1963–64 season when they won the league and got promoted back to the top division. With the return of the team to Liga Leumit, the team joined the top ranks, with Mordechai Spiegler playing in its ranks. Spiegler finished three consecutive seasons as the top scorer of the league. In the 1968–69 season, the team finished third in the league with Spiegler again as the top scorer.
After the third-placed finish in 1968–69, the
In
In December 2005
The 2010–11 season saw the club finishing sixth in the top playoff games. The next season Netanya finished in fourth place when they shared the same number of points as the runners-up. This was quite an achievement considering the fact that the club did not have a stable budget behind them or an owner to invest in the club. They were relegated again in 2012–13 after finishing second from bottom.
In August 2013 Eli Segav and Yossi Maor took over as the new owners of the club. Netanya made an immediate return to the top division after finishing as the champions of Liga Leumuit in the 2013–14 season, a season in which they also reached the State Cup final, losing 1–0 to Ironi Kiryat Shmona in front of more than 22,000 supporters of Netanya.[4]
The club got relegated again at the end of the 2015–16 season.
In June 2016 Eyal Segal (a known die hard supporter of Maccabi Netanya) took over as the new owner of the club and declared the goal is to get promoted at the end of the season.
Rivalry
There is a strong rivalry between Netanya and
There's also a strong rivalry between Netanya and
And there's a rivalry between Netanya And Maccabi Herzliya because both clubs are from the Sharon District and in the 1994/95 season, Maccabi Herzliya defeated Maccabi Netanya and dropped Netanya to the second division.
Since the late 1990s, the strongest rivalry has probably been Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
Fans
The current Maccabi Netanya fan organization is known as "VATOS LOCOS".
Stadium
The club plays its home matches at the 13,610-capacity Netanya Stadium, which was opened in October 2012. The club former stadium was the 7,500-capacity Sar-Tov Stadium, which was commonly known as HaKufsa (lit. The Box). It was named after Yosef Sar-Tov, who was amongst the club's founders, and was its first chairman.
"The Diamonds" nickname etymology
"The Diamonds" nickname origin is in the large diamonds industry that was in the city of Netanya, in the beginning of diamonds industry in Israel in early 1940s. In the 1940s 33 factories started to work in Israel, mostly in Netanya and Tel-Aviv, and Netanya was nicknamed "Diamonds City".
European Campaigns
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2007–08 | UEFA Cup | 2nd qualifying round | U.D. Leiria | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
2008–09 | UEFA Cup | 2nd qualifying round | Cherno More Varna | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 |
2009–10 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round | Sliema Wanderers | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
3rd qualifying round | Galatasaray | 1–4 | 0–6 | 1–10 | ||
2012–13 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round | KuPS | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 (a) |
2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 2nd qualifying round | İstanbul Başakşehir | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
Players
Current squad
Updated 31 January 2024
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Other players under contract
- As to 20 June 2022
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Out on loan
Foreigners 2023–24
Only up to six non-Israeli nationals can be in an Israeli club squad (only five can play at the same time). Those with Jewish ancestry, married to an Israeli or have played in Israel for an extended period of time, can claim a passport or permanent residency which would allow them to play with Israeli status.[citation needed]
Honours
Domestic
League
- Israeli Premier League
- Liga Leumit
- Winners (5):
- Runners-up: 2004–05
Cups
- State Cup
- League Cup
- Toto Cup
- Winners (1): 2022–23
- Runners-up: 1986–87, 1988–89
- Toto Cup Leumit
- Winners: 2004–05
- Israeli Supercup
Minor honours
- Nesher Cup
- Winners: 1941
- Netanya Cup
- Winners: 1953
Records
Local
- First Goal in the Top Division: Yitzhak Casspi, 1948
- Record Win: 12–0 v Hapoel Ramla, 1974
- Record Defeat: 1–10 v Maccabi Petah Tikva, 25.6.1949
- Record home Attendance: 13,800 v Hapoel Tel Aviv in the opening game of the new Netanya Stadium, 4.11.2012
- Most Appearances: Haim Bar with 417
- All Time Scorer: Mordechai Spiegler with 274 goals (in all competitions)
- Most League Goals in a Season: 82, 1966–68
- Most League Goals in a Season by a Player: 38 goals by Mordechai Spiegler, Liga Leumit, 1966–68
- Most Goals in European competitions by a Player: 21 goals by David Lavi (scored in UEFA Intertoto Cup between 1978 and 1984)
- Most Points in a Season: 61 – 30 games, 1982–83
- Longest unbeaten run (League): 28 games, 14 May 2016 to 8 March 2017
- Record signing – $400,000 Ferenc Hamori (1999),[11]Itay Shechter(2006)
- Record sale – €2,000,000 Dia Saba (2018)
European
- First Appearance in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup – vs. FK Sloboda Tuzla, 24 June 1978
- Biggest Win in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup – vs. IF Elfsborg (7:1), 1 July 1978[12]
- Biggest Defeat in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup – vs. FC Admira Wacker (0:6), 21 July 1984 & UEFA Europa League – vs. Galatasaray (0:6), 6 August 2009
Managers
- Zigrman Vdofrman (1935–36)
- Gershon Peskov (1936–37)
- Ben Ami Michlis (1937–38)
- Armin Weiss (1938–39)
- Baruch Feir (1939–40)
- Armin Weiss (1941–42)
- Jerry Beit haLevi (1943–45)
- Jacob Feuer (1946–47)
- Armin Weiss (1949–50)
- Jerry Beit haLevi (1951–52)
- Gershon Meller (1953–54)
- Chibi Brown (1954–56)
- Gershon Meller (1956)
- George Raygesh (1956)
- Yitzhak Casspi (1956–57)
- Jerry Beit haLevi (1957–60)
- Itzhak Schneor (1960–61)
- Joseph Tessler (1961–62)
- Yitzhak Casspi (1962–63)
- Milan Bečić (1963–65)
- Otto Schlefenberg (1965–67)
- Emmanuel Scheffer (1967)
- Itzhak Schneor (1968–70)
- David Schweitzer (1970–71)
- Eli Fuchs (1971–72)
- Arie Radler (1972–74)
- Eliezer Spiegel (1974–75)
- Shmulik Perlman (1975–79)
- Ya'akov Grundman (1979–81)
- Shmulik Perlman (1981–82)
- Mordechai Spiegler (1982–84)
- Shmulik Perlman (1984–85)
- Ze'ev Seltzer (1985–88)
- Yehoshua Feigenbaum (1988–90)
- Mordechai Spiegler (1990–92)
- Shmulik Perlman (1992–94)
- Vico Haddad (1994–95)
- Shmulik Perlman (1995)
- Albert Gazal and Benyamin Lam (1995–96)
- Gideon Cohen (1996–98)
- Asher Messing (1998)
- Uri Malmilian (1998–99)
- Motti Ivanir (1999)
- Uri Malmilian (1999–00)
- Rami Levy (2000)
- Uri Malmilian (2001–02)
- Gidi Damti (2002)
- Gili Landau (2002–04)
- Eli Cohen(2004)
- Reuven Atar (2004–06)
- Eli Guttman (2006–07)
- Reuven Atar (2007–08)
- Lothar Matthäus (2008–09)
- Nati Azaria (2009)
- Reuven Atar (2009–12)
- Tal Banin (2012–13)
- Reuven Atar (2013)
- Yossi Mizrahi (2013–15)
- Ronny Levy (2015)
- Shlomi Dora (2015)
- Reuven Atar (2015–16)
- Meni Koretski (2016)
- Slobodan Drapić (2016–2020)
- Raymond Atteveld (2020–2021)
- Benyamin Lam (2021–2022)
- Ran Kojok (2022–2023)
- Guy Tzarfati (2023–2024)
- Marco Balbul (2024–)
- Managers marked in bold have won an honour with the club.
References
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- ^ "הזרים של נתניה הודיעו: לא נמשיך בתום העונה". One.co.il. 5 March 2016.
- ^ "מנחם קורצקי התפטר ממכבי נתניה: "המאבקים הפנימיים השפיעו". פיירברג לועגת". Sports.walla.co.il. 27 March 2016.
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- ^ "הבעלים של נתניה: עלייה היא לא מילה גסה". Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ "עונה אחת ודי: מכבי נתניה עלתה לליגת העל". One.co.il. 28 April 2017.
- ^ "Kan-Naim כאן נעים: המגרש ברחוב זנגביל". Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ "Club Maccabi (Netanya). 1978". Wildstat.com.
External links
- Official website (in Hebrew)