Maccabi Yavne F.C.

Maccabi "Zvi" Yavne
Full name	Maccabi "Zvi" Yavne Football Club
Founded	1962
Ground	Yavne Municipal Stadium, Yavne
Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Shuki Nagar
Manager	Uri Karagula
League	Liga Alef
2016–17	4th
Home colours	Away colours

Maccabi "Zvi" Yavne (Hebrew: מכבי יבנה‎) is an Israeli football club based in Yavne. They currently play in Liga Alef.

History

The club was founded in 1962 and played in Liga Gimel, the lowest tier of Israeli football, up until the 1971–72 season, when they started their progress and reached Liga Bet for the first time.^[1] In the 1975–76 season, they won Liga Bet South B division and were promoted to Liga Alef. Four seasons later, in the 1979–80 season, they won Liga Alef South division and were promoted to Liga Artzit, the second tier of Israeli football at the time. After 9th-place finish in their debut season in the second tier, they finished 3rd in the 1981–82 season and were promoted to Liga Leumit (then the top division) for the first time in their history. In 1985 they won the Toto Cup, beating Beitar Jerusalem 2–1 in the final. After several lower-mid table finishes, Maccabi were relegated at the end of the 1986–87 season in which they finished 14th.

Maccabi narrowly missed out a return to the top division, on goal difference, in 1989–90, when they finished third, level on points with second-placed Hapoel Tel Aviv. In the following season they were promoted, but were relegated at the end of the 1991–92 season, having finished second bottom.

After a narrow escape in the 1996–97 season, in which they finished one place and one point above the relegation zone, Maccabi were relegated to Liga Alef (then the third tier) at the end of the 1997–98 season, in which they won only one match and gained eight points throughout the entire season. Due to league restructuring, at the end of the following season, they dropped into the fourth tier.

In 2000–01 Maccabi won the South Division of Liga Alef and were promoted back to Liga Artzit. However, they finished bottom of the league in 2001–02 and were relegated back to Liga Alef. At the end of the 2011–12 season, Maccabi beat Hapoel Asi Gilboa on away goals (2–2 on aggregate) in the promotion playoff final and were promoted to Liga Leumit. In the 2015–16 season, the club finished second bottom in Liga Leumit and relegated to Liga Alef.

Current squad

As of 20 January 2018

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Ben Nizri
4	DF	Rotem Golan
5	MF	Ben Friedlender
6	DF	Yonathan Rodionov
7	FW	Sharon Gormezano
8	FW	Amit Farhi
9	MF	Lior Bertkovski
10	FW	Nevo Mizrahi
11	DF	Noam Cohen
14	MF	Amit Lugasi
15	MF	Rotem Sharon
16	MF	Adi Peretz

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Guy Even
19	DF	Or Elkabetz
20	MF	Adir Finish
21	DF	Raz Amir
22	GK	Ido Levi
25	DF	Oz Ifrah
99	FW	Sahar Shabtay
	DF	Shahaf Helman
	MF	Gadif Solomon
	MF	Dor Amsalem
	FW	Itzik Abushdid

Honours

Cups

Toto Cup
- Winners 1984–85

League

Second Division:
- Runners-up 1988–89, 1990–91
Third Division:
- Champions 1975–76, 1979–80, 2011–12
- Runners-up 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1976–77
Fourth Division:
- Champions 1970–71, 2000–01

References

↑ 12 New faces among 64 Liga Bet football teams Davar, 13 September 1971, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

External links

Maccabi Yavne Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

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[1] 12 New faces among 64 Liga Bet football teams Davar, 13 September 1971, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

Third Level Israeli football leagues seasons
North	F.C. Haifa Robi Shapira F.C. Tira Hapoel Asi Gilboa Hapoel Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hapoel Beit She'an Hapoel Herzliya Hapoel Iksal Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Kafr Kanna Hapoel Migdal HaEmek Hapoel Shefa-'Amr Hapoel Umm al-Fahm Ironi Tiberias Maccabi Daliyat al-Karmel Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata Maccabi Tzur Shalom
South	Beitar Kfar Saba F.C. Dimona F.C. Holon Yermiyahu F.C. Kafr Qasim Hakoah Ramat Gan Hapoel Azor Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden Hapoel Hod HaSharon Hapoel Kfar Shalem Hapoel Mahane Yehuda Maccabi Jaffa Kabilio Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Sha'arayim Maccabi Yavne Nordia Jerusalem Sektzia Nes Tziona
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
See also: Liga Artzit