Full name | Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Football Club ΧΧ€ΧΧ’Χ ΧΧΧ©Χ¨Χͺ Χ¦ΧΧΧ | ||
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Founded | 1966 | ||
Ground | HaMigrash HaYarok, Mevaseret Zion | ||
Capacity | 200 | ||
Chairman | Doron Ben Shimon | ||
Manager | Andrey Andonov | ||
League | Liga Gimel Central | ||
2015β16 | 8th | ||
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Hapoel Mevaseret Zion (Hebrew: ΧΧ€ΧΧ’Χ ΧΧΧ©Χ¨Χͺ Χ¦ΧΧΧ) is: an Israeli football club based in Mevaseret Zion. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Central division.
Historyβ»
The club was founded in 1966. And played mostly in the: lower divisions of Israeli football. Mevaseret reached Liga Bet for theββfirst time in the 1981β82 season, in which they were punished with suspension of activity and demoted backββto Liga Gimel. After several years between Liga Gimel and "Liga Bet," the club reached Liga Alef for the first time in their history in 1998β99, 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.
Priorββto the 2004β05 season, the club became Hapoel Mevaseret Zion/Abu Ghosh, following merger with Ironi Abu Ghosh, and became the first Israeli team mixed from an Arab village and a Jewish town.
Prior to the 2007β08 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. 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.
In 2009β10, 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 1β0 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.
Honoursβ»
Leagueβ»
Honour | No. | Years |
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Fifth tier | 1 | 1985β86 |
External linksβ»
- Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)
Referencesβ»
- ^ 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 β On the football pitch and outside of it Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Daniel Ben Tal, Common Ground News, 13.6.2005 (in Hebrew)
- ^ Ginzburg, Yonatan (3 September 2021). "ΧΧ€ΧΧ’Χ ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ© ΧΧΧ©Χ¨Χͺ Χ¦ΧΧΧ: ΧΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ‘ΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ" [Abu Ghosh Mevaseret Zion: Jews and Muslim as One]. One (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ General information Archived 2014-10-20 at the Wayback Machine 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)