Maccabi Shefa-'Amr F.C.

Maccabi Shefa-'Amr

Full name

Maccabi Shefa-'Amr Football Club
מכבי שפרעם

Founded

1968

Dissolved

2006

Ground

Shefa-'Amr Stadium, Shefa-'Amr

2005–06

Liga Alef North, 14th (Relegated)

Home colours

Away colours

Maccabi Shefa-'Amr (Hebrew: מכבי שפרעם‎‎) was an Israeli football club based in Shefa-'Amr.

History

The club was founded in 1968 and played in the lower divisions of Israeli football until the late 1970s, when the club enjoyed a period of success, after they won Liga Bet North A division in the 1979–80 season and were promoted to Liga Alef. Two seasons later, they finished runners-up in Liga Alef North division and qualified for the promotion play-off, where they faced the South division runners-up, Hapoel Bat Yam. After the first leg ended in a goalless draw, Shefa-'Amr made historic promotion to Liga Artzit, the second tier of Israeli football at the time, after they won the second leg by a result of 4–3 after extra time, with all their four goals scored by Zahi Armeli,^[1] who would later moved to Maccabi Haifa and became their all-time top scorer.^[2]

The club's spell in Liga Artzit lasted only one season, as they finished third bottom in the 1982–83 season, winning only five games, and relegated back to Liga Alef. In the 1985–86 season, the club suffered further relegation, after they finished bottom in Liga Alef North division and relegated to Liga Bet.

By the mid-1990s the club had returned to Liga Alef, and came close to achieve promotion to Liga Artzit (then the third tier), after runners-up finish in the 2001–02 season. In the 2005–06 season, the club finished bottom in Liga Alef North division, relegated to Liga Bet and eventually folded. Later, the management rights of other Liga Alef club, Maccabi Ironi Shlomi/Nahariya, were transferred to the Maccabi Shefa-'Amr association.^[3] That club was folded as well, at the end of the 2008–09 season, after they were demoted to Liga Gimel by the Israel Football Association, following an attempt of match-fixing.^[4]

Maccabi Tzeirei Shefa-'Amr

Full name

Maccabi Tzeirei Shefa-'Amr Football Club
מכבי צעירי שפרעם

Founded

2009
2014 (Re-established)

Ground

Shefa-'Amr Stadium, Shefa-'Amr

Chairman

Mounir Natour

Manager

Nazia Odeh

League

Liga Gimel Lower Galilee

2015–16

1st

Home colours

Away colours

In 2009, a successor club, Maccabi Tzeirei Shefa-'Amr (Hebrew: מכבי צעירי שפרעם‎‎), was founded and joined Liga Gimel. Although the club's activity was ceased after the 2010–11 season, it was re-established prior to the 2014–15 season and currently plays in Liga Gimel Lower Galilee division.^[5]

Maccabi Tzeirei Shefa-'Amr are still commonly known and referred as Maccabi Shefa-'Amr.^[6]^[7]

References

↑ Zahi Armeli: Racism will be defeated once it will not be treated Maccabi Haifa (Hebrew)
↑ Zahi Armeli Maccabi Haifa (Hebrew)
↑ The Lower leagues – News of the week – 11.9 Livegames, 11.9.2008 (Hebrew)
↑ Ironi Shlomi demoted to Liga Gimel NRG, 17.6.2009 (Hebrew)
↑ Maccabi Tzeirei Shefa-'Amr The Israel Football Association (Hebrew)
↑ Maccabi Shefa-'Amr opens its home ground with a victory against Maccabi Tamra Ala'a Badarneh, Goler1, 10.11.2014 (Hebrew)
↑ Liga Gimel – The weekly forecast Eli Shmueli, Doublepass, 22.1.2015 (Hebrew)

Liga Bet

North A	Ahi Acre Ahba Arraba Ahva Kafr Manda Beitar Haifa Beitar Nahariya F.C. Julis Hapoel Bu'eine Hapoel Ihud Bnei Sumei Hapoel Kaukab Hapoel Shefa-'Amr Ihud Bnei Majd al-Krum Ironi Bnei Kabul Maccabi Bnei Nahf Maccabi Ironi Acre Maccabi Sektzia Ma'alot-Tarshiha Maccabi Shefa-'Amr

North B	F.C. al-Nahda Nazareth F.C. Daburiyya F.C. Tzeirei Tur'an Hapoel Bnei Ar'ara 'Ara Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel Hapoel Sandala Gilboa Hapoel Tirat HaCrmel Hapoel Umm al-Fahm Ihud Bnei Baqa Ihud Bnei Kafr Qara Maccabi Ahi Iksal Maccabi Ein Mahil Maccabi Ironi Yafa Maccabi Sulam Maccabi Umm al-Fahm

South A	Agudat Sport Holon F.C. Ironi Or Yehuda F.C. Roei Heshbon Tel Aviv F.C. Tzeirei Tayibe Beitar Petah Tikva Beitar Ramat Gan Hapoel Holon Hapoel Ihud Bnei Jaff Hapoel Kafr Qasim Shouaa Hapoel Kiryat Ono Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda Hapoel Pardesiya Hapoel Ramat Yisrael Maccabi Ironi Amishav Petah Tikva Maccabi Ironi Kfar Yona Shimshon Tel Aviv

South B	Beitar Giv'at Ze'ev Beitar Ironi Ma'ale Adumim Beitar Yavne Bnei Eilat Bnei Yeechalal Rehovot F.C. Be'er Sheva Ironi Beit Shemesh Ironi Modi'in Maccabi Be'er Sheva Maccabi Ironi Ashdod Maccabi Ironi Netivot Maccabi Ironi Sderot Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi Maccabi Segev Shalom Nordia Jerusalem Tzeirei Rahat

Seasons (fourth level)	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

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