Beitar Ezra F.C.

Beitar Ezra
Full name Beitar Ezra Football Club
בית"ר עזרא
Founded 1954
Ground Neve Golan, Jaffa
Chairman Tzadok Hamami
League Liga Gimel Tel Aviv
2015–16 14th

Beitar Ezra (Hebrew: בית"ר עזרא) is an Israeli football club based in the Ezra neighbourhood of Tel Aviv. The club currently plays in Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division.

History

The club was founded in 1954 and played its entire history in the lower divisions of Israeli football.

Beitar joined Liga Gimel at the 1954–55 season, the last season in which Liga Gimel was the third tier of Israeli football league system. The club's best period was at the mid-1960s, when they won Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division in the 1962–63 season and promoted to Liga Bet, then the third tier. In the 1964–65 season, Beitar was topping the table of Liga Bet South A division after 15 games and was crowned as the "winter champions" of the league.[1] However, drop in form saw the club finish the league at the seventh place. In the following season, the club finished second bottom and relegated back to Liga Gimel after three seasons playing in Liga Bet. From that point, the club became known as one of the worst teams in Israeli football.[2] Beitar have conceded 202 goals at the "double season" of 1966–68, and in 1969, the club found itself playing at the newly formed bottom tier, Liga Dalet.[3] In 1985, Liga Dalet was scrapped and the club returned to Liga Gimel, where they play since at the Tel Aviv division. The 2009–10 season was exceptional, as the club finished the league with even number of wins, draws and loses and with a positive goal difference of +14.[4]

The club's founder and chairman, Tzadok Hamami, which holds UEFA Pro Licence, have also renewed his footballer card at age of 82.[5] However, his last match as an active player for Beitar Ezra, was at 25 December 2009, aged 79, when he entered as substitute at the 90th minute in the 0-0 draw against Hapoel Neve Golan.[6]

Current Squad

As of 23 February 2016
No. Position Player
1 Israel GK Oran Israel
2 Israel DF Elad Kaufman
3 Israel DF Tomer Shwartz
4 Israel DF Lior Ben-Harush
5 Israel DF Moshe Levi
7 Israel MF Roey Shraabi
8 Israel MF On Cohen
9 Israel DF Victor Levy
10 Israel MF Stav Cohen
11 Israel MF Gilor Barades (Captain)
12 Israel MF Ron Cohen
No. Position Player
15 Israel MF Rotem Feldman (Vice-Captain)
17 Israel DF Malasa Lakachew
19 Israel FW Koby Zaharangi
20 Israel FW Kfir Ben-Baruch
22 Israel GK Tal Nagari
26 Israel MF Matiko Mulat
28 Israel FW Dor Vaknin
44 Israel DF Ofir Gal
77 Israel FW Ronen Margolis

Honours

League

Honour No. Years
Fourth tier 1 1962–63

External links

References

  1. Beitar Ezra - "Winter champions" of South division Heruth, 7.2.1965, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
  2. The Yemenite oligarch Eyal Levy, NRG, 17.2.2006 (Hebrew)
  3. And again Liga... Dalet (Page 7) Hadshot HaSport, 26.9.1969, archive.football.co.il (Hebrew)
  4. Liga Gimel Tel Aviv - 2009/2010 The Israel Football Association (Hebrew)
  5. At age of 82: Tzadok Hamami renewed his player card Doublepass, 27.8.2012 (Hebrew)
  6. Hamami Tzadok The Israel Football Association (Hebrew)
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