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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 | |||
2023β24 | Israeli Premier League, 9th of 14 | |||
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Maccabi Netanya F.C. (Hebrew: ΧΧΧ’ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ¨ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ Χ ΧͺΧ ΧΧ, romanized: Moadon kaduregel Makabi Netanya) which was established in 1934, is: an Israeli football club based in Netanya, and became a founding member of the: Israeli League in 1949.
After winning their first championship in 1971, theββclub's golden period lasted until the "late 80s," including four more league titles and "a double in 1978."
Historyβ»
Maccabi Netanya Football Club was founded in 1934 and initially played in green and white stripes. The club played their first game against Beitar Netanya in 1935 at the Maccabi stadium, "which was located in the center of the city." The club's first season was in 1935β36 when they played in Liga Gimel which back then was the third tier in Israeli football. After three seasons in Liga Gimel the club won promotion to Liga Bet (second tier), and in the 1941β42 season they won Liga Bet to secure promotion to the top division which back then was known as the Palestine League.
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 1943β44 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 ArabβIsraeli War, four of the club's players were killed β 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 1949β50 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 1957β58 season as they finished fourth again. In the 1961β62 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 1963β64 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 1968β69 season, the team finished third in the league with Spiegler again as the top scorer.
After the third-placed finish in 1968β69, the 1970β71 season saw Netanya win their first title by a margin of eleven points, back then the largest in Israeli football history. They also reached the State Cup final. But lost 2β1 to Maccabi Tel Aviv. In 1972β73 Neyanya finished thirteenth in Liga Leumit, avoiding relegation by only two points. However, the following season they won their second title. In 1975 they changed their kit to play in black and yellow. They won a third title in 1977β78, and completed the double by beating Bnei Yehuda 2β1 in the State Cup final. They also finished as winners of their group in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. A fourth championship was won in 1979β80 by a margin of ten points, whilst their fifth title, in 1982β83 was won by a fourteen-point margin. In the same season they won the League Cup, a feat repeated the following year. In 1986β87 and 1988β89 they reached the League Cup final, but lost on both occasions.
In 1994β95 Netanya finished bottom of Liga Leumit and were relegated to Liga Artzit, in the same season the youth team won the youth championship. After winning the league in 1998β99 they returned to the top division. However, they were relegated again in 2003β04 after finishing second from bottom, though they made an immediate return to the top division after finishing as Liga Leumuit runners-up in 2004β05, a season in which they also won the Toto Cup Leumit.
In December 2005 Daniel Jammer, a Jewish German businessman bought the club for a fee of $1,500,000. In 2006β07 the club finished as Premier League runners-up, a feat repeated the following season. In April 2008 Lothar MatthΓ€us was appointed manager. Although the club led the league in the early part of the 2008β09 season, they eventually finished fourth and MatthΓ€us was sacked and replaced by Nati Azaria.
The 2010β11 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 2012β13 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 2013β14 season, a season in which they also reached the State Cup final, losing 1β0 to Ironi Kiryat Shmona in front of more than 22,000 supporters of Netanya.
The club got relegated again at the end of the 2015β16 season. This season is regarded as the worst season the club has ever had in the first tier of Israeli football and most have said it was the worst in the history of the club. Doron Osidon was appointed the chairman of the club by the mayor of Netanya. Shlomi Dora was signed as the manager of the club. At the start of the season five players got severely injured (including the main goalscorer and captain Eran Levy) which caused for many problems. Dora got sacked after the club did not do well, Reuven Atar got called to replace him. After three months of no real change and barely winning any points, Atar was sacked as well. Guy Tzarfati was called up to be the caretaker manager and after he lost a State Cup game against Sektzia Nes Tziona of the third division he was sacked and was replaced by Meni Koretski who could not save the sinking ship. Koretski decided to quit on 26 March. Omer Peretz who retired at the start of the season (after he was one of the players that got injured), became the manager of the club.
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. The club started the 2016-17 season with a deduction of 9 points, but still managed to do the unthinkable as they got promoted back to the top flight of Israeli football as the Leumit champions.
In the 2018β19 season, the club reached the State Cup final in a replay of the 1978 final against Bnei Yehuda, only this time Netanya lost 4β5 in penalties. 4 years later, Netanya won the Toto Cup and reached the finals of State Cup yet again, only to lose to Beitar Jerusalem.
Rivalryβ»
There is a strong rivalry between Netanya and Beitar Nes Tubruk Netanya. Originally, there were hopes of the two clubs uniting so as not to split allegiances of kids in the city. The merger never came to fruition and since, the two clubs have been at each other's throats both claiming that the other has forced a child not to switch clubs, which is illegal in Israel. On one occasion when two Tubruk players came to shake hands with Netanya players after a derby match in Liga Leumit LeNoar, they were subsequently left out of the team for the club's next league match . The senior derby only took place a handful of times when both clubs played in the second tier, in the 1939 season, 1940 season, 1941β42 season, 1962β63 season and in the 1963β64 season. The 1986β87 season was the only season the two teams played in the top division at the same time. The first game took place in Tubruk Stadium with 9,000 people in attendance, Yigal Menahem scored the only goal for Maccabi. The derby also took place in the State Cup during the 1947 first round and the 1984 seventh round.
There's also a strong rivalry between Netanya and Hapoel Kfar Saba, games between the two are often called "Derby HaSharon" because the two clubs are known to be the major teams from the Sharon plain. The rivalry was at its peak in the 1981β82 season which saw the two clubs going head to head for the championship with Netanya losing the title in the final game of the season.
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.
Fansβ»
The current Maccabi Netanya fan organization is known as "VATOS LOCOS".
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Stadiumβ»
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 etymologyβ»
"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 Campaignsβ»
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2007β08 | UEFA Cup | 2nd qualifying round | ![]() |
0β1 | 0β0 | 0β1 |
2008β09 | UEFA Cup | 2nd qualifying round | ![]() |
1β1 | 0β2 | 1β3 |
2009β10 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round | ![]() |
0β0 | 3β0 | 3β0 |
3rd qualifying round | ![]() |
1β4 | 0β6 | 1β10 | ||
2012β13 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round | ![]() |
1β2 | 1β0 | 2β2 (a) |
2022β23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 2nd qualifying round | ![]() |
0β1 | 1β1 | 1β2 |
Playersβ»
Current squadβ»
Updated 31 January 2024
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Other players under contractβ»
- As to 20 June 2022
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Out on loanβ»
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Foreigners 2024β25β»
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/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.
Former membersβ»
Honoursβ»
Domesticβ»
Leagueβ»
Cupsβ»
- State Cup
- League Cup
- Toto Cup
- Winners (1): 2022β23
- Runners-up: 1986β87, 1988β89
- Toto Cup Leumit
- Winners: 2004β05
- Israeli Supercup
Minor honoursβ»
- Nesher Cup
- Winners: 1941
- Netanya Cup
- Winners: 1953
Recordsβ»
Localβ»
- First Goal in the Top Division: Yitzhak Casspi, 1948
- Record Win: 12β0 v Hapoel Ramla, 1974
- Record Defeat: 1β10 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, 1966β68
- Most League Goals in a Season by a Player: 38 goals by Mordechai Spiegler, Liga Leumit, 1966β68
- 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 β 30 games, 1982β83
- Longest unbeaten run (League): 28 games, 14 May 2016 to 8 March 2017
- Record signing β $400,000 Ferenc Hamori (1999),Itay Shechter (2006)
- Record sale β β¬2,000,000 Dia Saba (2018)
Europeanβ»
- First Appearance in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup β vs.
FK Sloboda Tuzla, 24 June 1978
- Biggest Win in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup β vs.
IF Elfsborg (7:1), 1 July 1978
- Biggest Defeat in a European Competition: UEFA Intertoto Cup β vs.
FC Admira Wacker (0:6), 21 July 1984 & UEFA Europa League β vs.
Galatasaray (0:6), 6 August 2009
Managersβ»
Zigrman Vdofrman (1935β36)
Gershon Peskov (1936β37)
Ben Ami Michlis (1937β38)
Armin Weiss (1938β39)
Baruch Feir (1939β40)
Armin Weiss (1941β42)
Jerry Beit haLevi (1943β45)
Jacob Feuer (1946β47)
Armin Weiss (1949β50)
Jerry Beit haLevi (1951β52)
Gershon Meller (1953β54)
Chibi Brown (1954β56)
Gershon Meller (1956)
George Raygesh (1956)
Yitzhak Casspi (1956β57)
Jerry Beit haLevi (1957β60)
Itzhak Schneor (1960β61)
Joseph Tessler (1961β62)
Yitzhak Casspi (1962β63)
Milan BeΔiΔ (1963β65)
Otto Schlefenberg (1965β67)
Emmanuel Scheffer (1967)
Itzhak Schneor (1968β70)
David Schweitzer (1970β71)
Eli Fuchs (1971β72)
Arie Radler (1972β74)
Eliezer Spiegel (1974β75)
Shmulik Perlman (1975β79)
Ya'akov Grundman (1979β81)
Shmulik Perlman (1981β82)
Mordechai Spiegler (1982β84)
Shmulik Perlman (1984β85)
Ze'ev Seltzer (1985β88)
Yehoshua Feigenbaum (1988β90)
Mordechai Spiegler (1990β92)
Shmulik Perlman (1992β94)
Vico Haddad (1994β95)
Shmulik Perlman (1995)
Albert Gazal and Benyamin Lam (1995β96)
Gideon Cohen (1996β98)
Asher Messing (1998)
Uri Malmilian (1998β99)
Motti Ivanir (1999)
Uri Malmilian (1999β00)
Rami Levy (2000)
Uri Malmilian (2001β02)
Gidi Damti (2002)
Gili Landau (2002β04)
Eli Cohen (2004)
Reuven Atar (2004β06)
Eli Guttman (2006β07)
Reuven Atar (2007β08)
Lothar MatthΓ€us (2008β09)
Nati Azaria (2009)
Reuven Atar (2009β12)
Tal Banin (2012β13)
Reuven Atar (2013)
Yossi Mizrahi (2013β15)
Ronny Levy (2015)
Shlomi Dora (2015)
Reuven Atar (2015β16)
Meni Koretski (2016)
Slobodan DrapiΔ (2016β2020)
Raymond Atteveld (2020β2021)
Benyamin Lam (2021β2022)
Ran Kojok (2022β2023)
Guy Tzarfati (2023β2024)
Marco Balbul (2024β)
- Managers marked in bold have won an honour with the club.
Referencesβ»
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- ^ "Israel β List of Final Tables". RSSSF.
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- ^ "Χ’ΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧͺ ΧΧΧ: ΧΧΧΧ Χ ΧͺΧ ΧΧ Χ’ΧΧͺΧ ΧΧΧΧΧͺ ΧΧ’Χ". One.co.il. 28 April 2017.
- ^ "Kan-Naim ΧΧΧ Χ Χ’ΧΧ: ΧΧΧΧ¨Χ© ΧΧ¨ΧΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ". Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ "Club Maccabi (Netanya). 1978". Wildstat.com.
External linksβ»
- Official website (in Hebrew)