Hapoel Jerusalem F.C.

Coordinates: 31°45′3.8″N 35°11′26.2″E / 31.751056°N 35.190611°E / 31.751056; 35.190611

Full name

Hapoel Jerusalem Football Club
מועדון כדורגל הפועל ירושלים

Founded

1926

Ground

Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem

Capacity

34,000

Manager

Eli Mahpud

League

Liga Leumit

2014–15

9th

Home colours

Away colours

Hapoel Jerusalem Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל הפועל ירושלים, Moadon Kadouregel Hapoel Yerushalayim) is an Israeli football club in Liga Leumit. Hapoel plays at Teddy Stadium in Malha, Jerusalem.

History

Hapoel Jerusalem Club was established in 1926 and played in the inaugural season of the EIFA league, playing the league's first match against local rivals Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem.^[1]^[2] The club played in the league for its first three seasons, however, the club was restricted to playing mainly in the Jerusalem area due to travelling difficulties. The club participated occasionally in the Palestine Cup, reaching the cup final in 1943, losing to a team from the Royal Artillery 1–7.^[3]

After the establishment of Israel, the club registered to play in the makeshift second tier league, Liga Meuhedet, in the Jerusalem-Central division, which the club won. The club continued to play in the second division (Liga Bet until 1956 and Liga Alef afterwards), until it was promoted to the top division at the end of the 1956–57 season, after finishing second in promotion play-offs. Following the promotion, the club stayed in the top division for 21 seasons, achieving its best position, 3rd, in 1972–73. In 1971–72 the club reached the State Cup final, losing to Hapoel Tel Aviv 0–1. A season later, the club reached the cup final again, this time winning the cup.^[4]

The club was relegated to the second division in 1979, but bounced back the following season. The club continued to yo-yo between the two top divisions in the following seasons, playing his last season at the top division in 1999–2000. In 1998, the club reached its fourth cup final, but lost to Maccabi Haifa in extra time.

In the early 1990s, the club was transferred to businessmen Yossi Sassi and Victor Yona. The two ran the team together until falling out, leading to a long business and legal dispute^[5] which lasted until 2009, when Yona left the club.^[6] During the dispute, a group of supporters, tired of the feuding between the two businessmen, decided to establish a group, first in an attempt to purchase control of the club, and then in a bid to establish a fan-owned club, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem. The fan-based club was established in 2009 (after a short period of existence as a merged club with Hapoel Mevaseret Zion) and progressed to the Liga Leumit in 2013–14, where the two clubs met for the first time.

The club currently plays in second tier Liga Leumit, to which it promoted from Liga Alef in 2010–11.

Stadiums

Since the establishment of Israel, the club played in three stadiums, YMCA stadium, in which the club played between 1949 and 1955, when the club moved to its own Katamon Stadium, in the neighborhood of Katamon. Katamon Stadium was razed in 1982, with the intention to build a bigger modern stadium in its place, and in the meantime the club returned to play in YMCA stadium. The new stadium in Katamon was never built, and instead Teddy Stadium was built in the Malha neighborhood, to which the club moved in 1992.

Support

During the early years, support of the club came mostly from the labour organizations in Israel. City rivals Beitar were identified with the right-wing nationalist organizations. All this played out to create the Jerusalem derby. To this day the rivalry exists, though it is not nearly as heated as when both clubs played in the top division of Israeli football.

Current squad

As to 3 February 2016

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Amal Ha'ir
3	MF	Assaf Levy
5	DF	Maoz Samia
6	MF	Efraim Itzhak
7	FW	Bar Mizrahi
8	MF	Eli Deri
9	FW	Amit Ben Shushan
11	MF	Guy Cohen
13	DF	Ryan Adeleye
14	MF	Nir Mansour
15	MF	Itamar Cohen
16	DF	Or Lagrisi
17	MF	Sharon Levy
18	DF	Sagi Yosef
19	MF	Yarin Mahatbi

No.	Position	Player
20	DF	Rotem Bouskila
21	DF	Orel Horev
22	GK	Guy Salem
23	FW	Jonathan Spinola
24	FW	Mariano Nicolás Suárez
25	MF	Yossi Bitton
26	MF	Ilan Boccara
28	DF	Avraham Chekol
29	MF	Vyacheslav Samoylenko
32	GK	Lidor Cohen
43	FW	Gaëtan Varenne
77	MF	Bruno Ricardo
	MF	Mishel Russ
	MF	Assaf Levy II

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Second tier	3	1949–50, 1979–80, 1987–88
Third tier	3	2001–02, 2007–08, 2010–11

Cups

Honour	No.	Years
State Cup	1	1973

Other titles

Honour	No.	Years
Raghib al-Nashashibi Cup	1	1929^[7]

External links

Club website (Hebrew)
Hapoel Jerusalem Israel Football Association (Hebrew)

References

↑ Maccabi Hashmonai Hapoel Jerusalem 8 – 0 (2 – 0) Do'ar HaYom, 13 November 1931, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ 80 Years to the Israeli League Asher Goldberg, 17 November 2011, IFA (Hebrew)
↑ Gunners Team Won the War Cup 1943 HaBoker, 17 October 1943 (Hebrew)
↑ Jerusalem's First Cup! Pinhas Zahavi, 21 June 1973, Hadshot HaSport, p. 1 (Hebrew)
↑ So What If Constructor Victor Yona Owes 6 Million NIS to Hapoel Jerusalem and Its Creditors? No'am Sharvit, 17 August 2008, Globes (Hebrew)
↑ Victor Yona: I Hope My Resignation Will Help the Team Lee Nof, 8 October 2009, One (Hebrew)
↑ Palestine from Day to Day – Hapoel Wins Nashashibi Cup The Palestine Bulletin, 26 April 1929, Historical Jewish Press

Liga Leumit

Clubs	Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla F.C. Ashdod Hapoel Afula Hapoel Ashkelon Hapoel Bnei Lod Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem Hapoel Nazareth Illit Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Ramat HaSharon Hapoel Rishon LeZion Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Maccabi Herzliya Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Yavne

Stadia	Afula Illit Stadium Green Stadium Grundman Stadium Haberfeld Stadium HaMoshava Stadium Herzliya Municipal Stadium Ilut Stadium Lod Municipal Stadium Ness Ziona Stadium Ramla Municipal Stadium Sala Stadium Teddy Stadium Winter Stadium Yud-Alef Stadium

Seasons (second level)	1937 1939 1940 1941–42 1946–47 1949–50 1951–52 1953–54 1954–55 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

Israeli Premier League

Clubs	Beitar Jerusalem Bnei Sakhnin Bnei Yehuda Hapoel Acre Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Ra'anana Hapoel Tel Aviv Ironi Kiryat Shmona Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Tel Aviv

Stadiums	Acre Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Doha Stadium HaMoshava Stadium Ironi Stadium Levita Stadium Netanya Stadium Sammy Ofer Stadium Teddy Stadium Turner Stadium

Former clubs	F.C. Ashdod Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan Hapoel Ashkelon Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Rishon LeZion Hapoel Nazareth Illit Hapoel Tzafririm Holon Hapoel Ramat HaSharon Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Maccabi Herzliya Maccabi Kiryat Gat

Competition	Champions Foreign players Players with 100+ goals Records All-time table

Seasons	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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