Maccabi Netanya F.C.
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| Full name | Maccabi Netanya Football Club מועדון כדורגל מכבי נתניה | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Diamonds | ||
| Founded | 1934 | ||
| Ground | Sar-Tov Stadium ("Hakufsa", The Box) Netanya | ||
| Capacity | 7,500 | ||
| Chairman |  Daniel Jammer | ||
| Manager |  Eli Gutman | ||
| League | Israeli Ligat Ha-al (Israeli Premier League) | ||
| 2005-06 | Premier League, 6th | ||
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Maccabi Netanya is an Israeli football club, playing in the city of Netanya.
The team, which plays (as of 2006) in the Israeli Premier League, has a rich history, especially in the 70's.
Honours
- Championships (5): 1970\1, 1973\4, 1977\8, 1979\80, 1982\83.
- National Cups (1): 1978.
- Toto Cups Second Division "Leumit"(1): 2005.
History of the club
The club was established at the year 1934 in the Israeli city of Netanya. Maccabi Netanya has an history of over 40 seasons at the Israeli prmier League.
Maccabi Netanya started playing in uniforms with green and white stripes. At the year 1975 the team started playing in uniforms with the colours black and yellow.
During Netanya's bright days, at the 70's and the beginning ot the 80's, the league was called "Netanya and another 15", showing the supremacy of the club. Those days, most of the players at the Israel national football team were players from Maccabi Netanya.
But, at the middle of the Eightees the group started to lose its prestige and began moving from the first league to the second league for many years.
At the season of 2003/04 the team moved down to the second league and after one year at the second league Maccab Netanya returned to the first league, where it'w playing till those days.
At the year 2006 Maccabi Netanya was bought by the Jewish-German buisenes man named Daniel Jammer. After buying the team, Yamer brought to the team many new players, Israelis and foreign. The Dutch Ton Caanen was appointed as coach and the former most famous Israeli player Eyal Berkovic was appointed as General Manager.
Notable Players
Many players in Israel, most of them became very famous players in the Israeli football, began their careers in Maccabi Netanya or even played there all of their career. Some of the players in this list, moved to Maccabi Netanya during their career and were very famous for it.
Some of these notable players are:
- Oded Machnes
- Gad Machnes
- Mordechai Spiegler
- Shai Biruk
- Isaac Wisocer
- David Lavi
- Ha'im Bar
- Shraga Bar
- Albert Gazal
- Moshe Gariani
- David Pizanti
- Podi Halfon
- Dani Et'zioni
- Yigal Menahem
- Beni Lam
- Shlomo Shirazi
- Victor Sarusi
Current first team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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External link
- the ultras website (in Hebrew)
- fans website (in Hebrew)
- another fans website (in Hebrew)