Beitar Petah Tikva F.C.

Beitar Petah Tikva

Full name

Beitar Petah Tikva Football Club
בית"ר פתח תקוה

Founded

1943

Ground

Sportek Stadium, Kfar Sirkin

Chairman

Binyamin Shabtai

Manager

Tal Levy

League

Liga Bet South A

2014–15

13th

Home colours

Away colours

Beitar Petah Tikva (Hebrew: בית"ר פתח תקוה‎) is an Israeli football club based in Petah Tikva. The club currently plays in Liga Bet South A division and play home matches at the Sportek Stadium in Kfar Sirkin.

History

The club was founded in 1943,^[1]^[2] although Beitar branch in Petah Tikva was founded in 1928^[3] and footballing activities in the branch have occurred already in 1939.^[4]^[5] The club played its first match on 20 February 1943, against a reserve team of Beitar Tel Aviv, losing 1–3.^[6]

In the 1943–44 season, the club played at the second tier league of the Palestine League, alongside several reserve teams of clubs which have played at the 1943–44 Palestine League. Beitar Petah Tikva finished after league winners, Beitar Netanya; However, no club was promoted, after the EIFA has previously decided that no club would be promoted to the Palestine League or relegated from there.^[7]

Beitar was included in the South division of Liga Bet, the second tier as of then, for the 1946–47 season; However, they were not among the nine clubs which have finished the league.^[8]

After the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the club played in the lower divisions of Israeli football, with the highest tier in which the club reached, was Liga Bet, which was the third tier at the time, where the club played in the North B division from the 1964–65 season until they were relegated at the end of the 1968–69 season. Prior to that season, the club merged with other Beitar club from Petah Tikva, Beitar Mahane Yehuda, and became Beitar Petah Tikva\Mahane Yehuda, before reverting to Beitar Petah Tikva in the 1980s.

The club currently plays in Liga Bet South A division (now the fourth tier), where they play since promotion from Liga Gimel Sharon division, after runners-up finish at the 2011–12 season.^[9]

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Third tier	1	1954–55¹
Fourth tier	1	1963–64
Sixth tier	1	2008–09

¹Won by Beitar Mahane Yehuda

External links

Official website (Hebrew)
Beitar Petah Tikva Dado The Israel Football Association (Hebrew)

References

↑ In Sports Hamashkif, 6.4.43, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Lists from the Mother of the Moshavot Hamashkif, 26.12.43, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ The Mother of the Moshavot celebrates the 15th anniversary of Beitar Petah Tikva Hamashkif, 10.6.43, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Sports Hamashkif, 30.4.39, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Beitar Petah Tikva defeats Beitar Mahane Hamashkif, 12.6.39, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Beitar Reserve T.A. - Beitar P.T. HaBoker, 21 February 1943, via archive.football.org.il (Hebrew)
↑ Football in the 1943-4 season Hamashkif, 23.7.44, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ In the EI Football Association Hamashkif, 22.9.46, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Liga Gimel Sharon - 2011/2012 The Israel Football Association (Hebrew)

Fourth Level Israeli football league seasons

North A	Ahi Acre Ahi Bir al-Maksur Ahva Kafr Manda Al-Nahda Nazareth Beitar Haifa Beitar Kafr Kanna Beitar Nahariya F.C. Tzeirei Kafr Kanna Hapoel Bnei Maghar Hapoel Bu'eine Hapoel Ihud Bnei Sumei Hapoel Kaukab Hapoel Shefa-'Amr Ironi Bnei Kabul Maccabi Bnei Nahf Maccabi Ironi Acre

North B	F.C. Daburiyya F.C. Haifa Robi Shapira F.C. Pardes Hanna-Karkur F.C. Tzeirei Tur'an Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel Hapoel Ramot Menashe Megiddo Hapoel Sandala Gilboa 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 Beitar Petah Tikva Beitar Ramat Gan F.C. Bnei Jaffa Ortodoxim F.C. Ironi Or Yehuda F.C. Roei Heshbon Tel Aviv F.C. Tira F.C. Tzeiri Tayibe Hapoel Kafr Qasim Shouaa Hapoel Kiryat Ono Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda Hapoel Pardesiya Hapoel Ramat Yisrael Hapoel Tzafririm Holon Ironi Beit Dagan Maccabi Ironi Kfar Yona

South B	Beitar Giv'at Ze'ev Beitar Ironi Ma'ale Adumim Beitar Yavne Bnei Yeechalal Rehovot F.C. Be'er Sheva F.C. Dimona F.C. Holon Yaniv Hapoel Merhavim Hapoel Rahat Ironi Beit Shemesh Ironi Modi'in Maccabi Be'er Sheva Maccabi Ironi Netivot Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi Maccabi Segev Shalom 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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