Beitar Jaffa F.C.

Beitar Jaffa
Full name	Beitar Jaffa Zion Football Club; בית"ר יפו ציון
Founded	1949
Ground	Neve Golan, Tel Aviv
Chairman	Michael Damo
Manager	Michael Damo
League	Liga Gimel Tel Aviv
2015–16	6th
Home colours	Away colours

Beitar Jaffa (Hebrew: בית"ר יפו‎) is an Israeli football club based in Jaffa. The club plays in the Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division.

History

The club was founded in 1949, and played mostly in the lower divisions of Israeli football. However, they spent four seasons in the second tier of Israeli football. Beitar have played their first season in Liga Meuhedet, the temporary second tier in the 1949–50 season, where they finished eighth out of nine in the Tel Aviv division, and relegated to Liga Gimel. In the 1954–55 season, the club returned to the second tier, however, they finished second bottom in Liga Bet South division, and relegated to Liga Gimel, the third division at the time, where they played, until the 1961–62 season, in which the club finished bottom in Liga Bet South B division, and relegated to Liga Gimel.

The club returned to Liga Bet in the 1971–72 season. In the 1973–74 season the club topped Liga Bet South A division, and qualified to the promotion play-offs against the South B division winner, Hapoel Ashkelon, the two South divisional runners-up, Hapoel Kfar Shalem and Maccabi Yavne, and the bottom ranked clubs from Liga Alef South, Hapoel Ramla and Maccabi Holon. The club has won the play-offs with three wins and two draws, and was promoted to Liga Alef. The club finished the following season in Liga Alef South at the bottom place, with only 8 points, however, they were reprieved from relegation, after the Israel Football Association decided to expand Liga Leumit to 18 clubs, and Liga Alef to 17 clubs in each division for the following season, where they finished second bottom, and dropped by two levels to Liga Bet, which became the fourth tier of Israeli football, following the creation of Liga Artzit in 1976.

In the 1979–80 season, the club finished bottom in Liga Bet South A division,[1] and relegated to Liga Gimel, (the fifth tier from 1976 to 1999, and the sixth tier from 1999 to 2009). The club returned to Liga Bet in the 2001–02 season,[2] where they played until the 2005–06 season,[3] in which the club finished second bottom in Liga Bet South A division, and relegated to Liga Gimel (now as the fifth and lowest tier), where they play today.

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Third tier	1	1973–74

Cups

Honour	No.	Years
Liga Gimel divisional State Cup	1	2012–13

External links

Beitar Jaffa Zion The Israel Football Association

References

Liga Bet Ma'ariv, 27.4.80, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
Liga Bet South A Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine One (in Hebrew)
Liga Bet South A Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine One (in Hebrew)

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[Liga_Bet-1] Liga Bet Ma'ariv, 27.4.80, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

[2] Liga Bet South A Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine One (in Hebrew)

[3] Liga Bet South A Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine One (in Hebrew)

Liga Gimel
Upper Galilee	Bnei Deir Hanna Hapoel Bnei Ba'ana Hapoel Ihud Bnei Sumei Hapoel Nahariya Hapoel Nahef Hapoel Shlomi Hapoel Tarshiha Maccabi Bnei Abu Sna'an Maccabi Bnei Jadeida Abirei HaTzafon Kisra-Sumei
Lower Galilee	Ahli Tamra Beitar Kafr Kanna F.C. Kafr Yasif F.C. Salama Misgav F.C. Shefaram Hapoel Bnei Dir al-Asad Hapoel Deir Hanna Ironi Bnei Saha'ab Maccabi Basmat Tab'un Maccabi Ahva Sha'ab
Jezreel	Beitar Umm al-Fahm Bnei Umm al-Fahm Hapoel Al-Batuf Hapoel Al-Ittihad Nazareth Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel Hapoel Yafa Maccabi Ironi Barta'a Tzeirei Iksal Maccabi Ahva Fureidis Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm
Samaria	Beitar Kiryat Ata Beitar Pardes Hanna F.C. Karmel Haifa Hapoel Bnei Jasr a-Zarqa Hapoel Yokneam Hapoel Ironi Or Akiva Hapoel Kiryat Haim Hapoel Kiryat Yam Maccabi Barkai Maccabi Isfiya Maccabi Kiryat Yam Tzeirei Haifa
Sharon (Group A)	Beitar Mate Binyamin Bnei Herzliya F.C. Bnei Ra'anana F.C. Kafr Qasim Nibrass Hakoah Gil Ramat Gan Hapoel Oranit Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel
Sharon (Group B)	Beitar Tubruk Bnei Qalansawe Bnei Tira F.C. Ironi Ariel F.C. Netanya Maccabi HaSharon Netanya Maccabi Ironi Kfar Yona Tzeirei Tira
Tel Aviv (Group A)	Beitar Jaffa Elitzur Yehud Yotel HaMakhtesh Giv'atayim Hapoel Neve Golan Inter Aliyah Football Club Maccabi Hashikma Hen Maccabi Pardes Katz
Tel Aviv (Group B)	A.S. Holon Beitar Ezra Bnei Yehud Elitzur Jaffa Tel Aviv Hapoel Ramat Yisrael Maccabi Ironi Or Yehuda Maccabi Spartak Ramat Gan Shikun Vatikim Ramat Gan
Central (Group A)	Ashdod City Beitar Giv'at Ze'ev F.C. Ramla Hapoel Mazliah Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Maccabi Ramla Tzeirei Lod
Central (Group B)	Beitar Ashdod Bnei Yeechalal Rehovot F.C. Rishon LeZion Hapoel Bnei Ashdod Hapoel Brener Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda Hapoel Tirat Shalom Hapoel Ramla
South (Group A)	Bnei Yeruham F.C. Tzeirei al-Hoshla Hapoel Masos Segev Shalom Maccabi Be'er Sheva Maccabi Dimona Maccabi Ironi Hura Maccabi Yeruham Otzma Be'er Sheva
South (Group B)	F.C. Be'er Sheva Haim Levy Hapoel Bnei Kuseife Hapoel Mate Yehuda Hapoel Rahat Hapoel Sderot Ironi Beit Shemesh Maccabi Ashkelon Maccabi Kiryat Gat
Seasons (fifth level)	1958–59 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
Seasons (sixth level)	1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09