Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C. (Hebrew: הפועל באר-שבע‎) is a professional basketball club based in Be'er Sheva, Israel. The team plays in the Israeli Premier League.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Nickname"Future of the Negev"
LeaguesIsraeli Premier League
Founded1965 (1965)
ArenaConch Arena
Capacity3,000
LocationBe'er Sheva, Israel
CEOTomer Yaron
PresidentKfir Arazi
Team managerAsher Safonov
Head coachRami Hadar
Team captainSpencer Weisz
Websitehb7.co.il
Departments of Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Football Basketball Volleyball
Handball Swimming Judo

History

20th Century

The club was founded in 1965 by Eitan Wegmann.

During the eighties, the team won the Second League twice. During the nineties, the team disbanded.

21st Century

In 2002 the basketball club Hapoel Be'er Sheva rebranded and started the season in the fifth league and within three years qualified for the Second League.

During the 2006/07 season, The team stood one game away from ascending to the Israeli Basketball Premier League, but lost the final game of a 5 game series of the Liga Leumit (Israeli basketball Second League]] finals to Hapoel Holon. This series has been recalled as one of the hardest-fought series in the history of the Second League. A season later Beer-Sheva was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Second League playoffs.

In order to continue to maintain the club's youth department, called "future of the Negev", then chairman Mario Levy and his son Rami (then director), once again rebranded the team in the summer of 2008, assumed the management of the club's youth department starting from the 2008/2009 season.

The new team began to play in the fifth league, And at the end of the season the team progressed to fourth league. A season later, the team fought relegation and in the last cycle of the league remained in the league.

At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, the men's team was united with Beitar Be'er Sheva under the title of Municipal Be'er Sheva. The united team competed Liga Artzit (basketball third league].

The leadership of the club was assumed by local businessman Kfir Arazi, who joined during the summer. The team was re-branded under his ownership and competed again in the local fourth league.

In summer 2013 the heads of club Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Beitar / Municipal Be'er Sheva understood that success requires the full cooperation between clubs, paving the way for full convergence between the two clubs under the name "Hapoel Be'er Sheva." Hapoel Be'er Sheva finished the 2013/2014 season in first place in the Fourth League and at the end of the season returned to the Artzit (3rd) league.

In summer 2014 the club signed sponsorship deals with two major entities, the Bnei Shimon Regional Council and the Altshuler Shaham investment house thus assuring the financial longevity of the professional club. Kfir Arazi owns and steers the club.

On 29 March 2015 Be'er Sheva ensured the rise to the Liga Leumit after a home victory over on Hapoel Lod result 56:82.

The 2015-2016 season began well with Beer-Sheva consistently at the top of the league, aiming squarely at the premier league. However, after a series of critical injuries and some locker-room trouble the team lost its bid in the first round of playoffs and remained in the Liga Leumit (2nd league)

The 2016-2017 season began with a new coaching team, Yaniv Burger and Zach Schneider, and an almost new team which includes Jeff Allen, Jason Williams, David Shamriz, Ben Eisenhardt. The captain remains Ohad Cohen, and holding on from the previous season, Tamir Arielly.

On May 22, 2018, Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the National League title and earned promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history, they swept Maccabi Kiryat Gat 3–0 in the best-of-five series. Storm Warren was named Finals MVP.[1][2]

Arena

Conch Arena is a multi-purpose sports arena located in Be'er Sheva and has 3,000 seats.

On 25 February 2014 the arena was inaugurated, by Rubik Danilovich, the mayor of Be'er Sheva, Shmuel Frenkel, chairman of BSL, and Itzik Larry, Chairman of Wiener, before the traditional All-Star game in the Premier League.

Season by season
Season Tier League Pos State Cup League Cup
2014–15 3 Liga Artzit 1st
2015–16 2 National League 5th Round of 32
2016–17 2 National League 2nd Quarterfinalist
2017–18 2 National League 1st Quarterfinalist
2018–19 1 Premier League 7th Quarterfinalist Runner-up

Current roster
Hapoel Be'er Sheva roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
C 0 Zack, Stephen 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 27 – (1992-12-10)10 December 1992
F/C 1 Watson, Terrence  2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 33 – (1987-03-03)3 March 1987
C 2 Eisenhardt, Ben 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 29 – (1990-12-03)3 December 1990
G 3 Williams, T. J. 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 25 – (1994-08-26)26 August 1994
G 4 Ben-Hamo, Itay 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 18 – (2002-03-01)1 March 2002
G/F 7 Petrucelli, John 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 27 – (1992-10-27)27 October 1992
F 8 Simhon, Amit 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 30 – (1989-10-22)22 October 1989
G 10 Weisz, Spencer (C) 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (1995-05-31)31 May 1995
F 11 Butler, Da'Sean 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 32 – (1988-01-25)25 January 1988
PG 12 Cohen-Saban, Adi 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 26 – (1993-12-11)11 December 1993
G/F 20 Hertz, Philip 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 – (1992-07-16)16 July 1992
F 22 Suss, Amit 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 20 – (1999-09-30)30 September 1999
C 33 Altit, Ben 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 27 – (1993-04-04)4 April 1993
G 80 Kraunik, Chen 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 18 – (2001-10-20)20 October 2001
SF –– Braun, Taylor 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 28 – (1991-07-06)6 July 1991
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Offir Vaknin
  • David Elharar
Athletic trainer(s)
  • Nesovic Djordje
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: February 28, 2020

Depth chart
Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Stephen Zack Ben Altit Ben Eisenhardt
PF Da'Sean Butler Amit Suss
SF Amit Simhon Taylor Braun Philip Hertz
SG John Petrucelli Spencer Weisz Itay Ben-Hamo
PG T. J. Williams Adi Cohen-Saban Chen Kraunik
  • The Israeli league rule requires every team to have at least one Israeli on the court at any time.
  • There should be at least 7 Israelis and up to 5 foreigners on a 12-men game sheet.

Source: basket.co.il

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

References
  1. "לאומית: הדרום אדום!". safsal.co.il (in Hebrew). 22 May 2018.
  2. "Hapoel Beer Sheva lift National League title". eurobasket.com. 23 May 2018.
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