Hapoel Bnei Zalafa F.C.

Hapoel Bnei Zalafa F.C.
Full name	Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Football Club
Founded	2010
Ground	HaShalom Stadium
Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Majeed Al-Saadi
Manager	Ahmad Saba'a
League	Liga Alef North
2023–24	Liga Alef North, 7th of 16
Home colours	Away colours

Hapoel Bnei Zalafa (Hebrew: הפועל בני זלפה) is an Arab-Israeli football club based in Zalafa. The club currently plays in Liga Alef North.

History

The club was founded in 2010 and registered to play in Liga Gimel, where it was placed in the Jezreel division, where it played for five seasons, until it was promoted just before the beginning of the 2015–16 season, as F.C. Givat Olga and Hapoel Hadera merged, leaving an available spot in Liga Bet, which was given to the club as the third best runners-up in Liga Gimel (as the two best runners-up, Maccabi Bnei Nahf and Ahi Bir al-Maksur were already promoted during the summer break).^[1] The club finished 4th in its first season in Liga Bet and qualified to the promotion play-offs, losing to Hapoel Umm al-Fahm in the divisional finals on penalties.^[2]

References

^ Bnei Zalafa in Liga Bet Guy Goldfarb, 12 September 2015, One (in Hebrew)
^ Liga Be: Bu'eine vs. U.E. Fahm, Tira vs. F.C. B.S. Michael Weisserman and Eli Shmueli, 2 May 2016, DoublePass (in Hebrew)

External links

Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Archived 2016-10-15 at the Wayback Machine The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

[1] Bnei Zalafa in Liga Bet Guy Goldfarb, 12 September 2015, One (in Hebrew)

[2] Liga Be: Bu'eine vs. U.E. Fahm, Tira vs. F.C. B.S. Michael Weisserman and Eli Shmueli, 2 May 2016, DoublePass (in Hebrew)

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v t e Liga Alef
North	F.C. Kiryat Yam F.C. Tira Hapoel Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hapoel Beit She'an Hapoel Bnei Musmus Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Hapoel Bu'eine Hapoel Kafr Kanna Hapoel Ironi Arraba Hapoel Migdal HaEmek Ihud Bnei Shefa-'Amr Ironi Nesher Maccabi Akhi Nazareth Maccabi Ata Bialik Maccabi Nujeidat Tzeirei Kafr Kanna Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm
South	F.C. Dimona F.C. Jerusalem F.C. Holon Yermiyahu Hapoel Ashdod Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden Hapoel Herzliya Hapoel Lod Hapoel Marmorek Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi Ironi Modi'in Maccabi Ironi Ashdod Maccabi Sha'arayim Maccabi Yavne Nordia Jerusalem Sektzia Ness Ziona Shimshon Kafr Qasim Shimshon Tel Aviv
Seasons (third level)	1938 1940 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 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 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
See also: Liga Artzit