Maccabi Netanya F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Maccabi Netanya


fullname = Maccabi Netanya Football Club
מועדון כדורגל מכבי נתניה
nickname = "The Diamonds"
founded = 1934
ground = Sar-Tov Stadium, Netanya
capacity = 7,500
chairman = flagicon|Germany Daniel Jammer| (דניאל יאמר)
manager = flagicon|Germany Lothar Matthäus
league = Ligat ha'Al
season = 2007-08
position = 2nd place
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Maccabi Netanya F.C. ( _he. מועדון כדורגל מכבי נתניה, "Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Netanya") is an Israeli football club, playing in the city of Netanya.

The team, which plays (as of 2008) in Israel's Ligat ha'Al, is one of the most glorified clubs in Israel, with a rich history, particularly in the 1970's and 1980's.

History

The club was established in the year 1934 in the Israeli city of Netanya. Maccabi Netanya has a history of 48 seasons in the Israeli Premier League, since the establishment of Israel.

Maccabi Netanya started playing in uniforms of green and white stripes. In 1975 the team started playing in uniforms with the colours black and yellow.

During Netanya's bright days, in the 1970's and the beginning of the 1980's, the league was called "Netanya and another 15", showing the supremacy of the club. In those days, most of the players on the Israeli national football team were from Maccabi Netanya.

In 1978 the group won The Treble: the National Cup, the Israeli Championship, and were the head of the house in the Intertoto home stage.

But in the mid-1990s the group started to lose its prestige and moved from first league to second league for a number of years.

During the 2003/04 season, the team again moved down to the second league, but the following year Maccabi Netanya returned to the first league, where it remains.

In 2006, Maccabi Netanya was bought by the Jewish-German business man named Daniel Jammer. After buying the team, Jammer brought many new players to the team, both Israelis and foreigners.

Rivalry

There is a strong rivalry between Netanya and Beitar Nes Tubruk. Originally, there were hopes of the two clubs uniting so as not to split allegiances of kids in the city. The merger never came to fruition and since, the two clubs have been at each others throats both claiming that the other has forced a child not to switch clubs, which is illegal in Israel. Netanya has invested heavily in its youth system as of late and results have been seen on the field. When two Tubruk players came to shake hands with Netanya players after a derby match in Liga Leumit l'Noar, they were subsequently left out of the team for the club's next league match.

Things have gotten so bad that the war of words has extended into the court room as the clubs battle over the rights to many youth talents who are under the age of fifteen and would like to switch clubs [Harvard reference
last=Porath
first=Avinoam
authorlink=
title=מלחמת עולם על היהלומים
newspaper=Yediot Aharonot
volume=Sport
issue=24431
date=January 31, 2007
year=2007
month=January
page=6
url= ] .

Players

Current squad

"As of July, 2008"(players in Bold have caps in national team)

Out on loan

Foreigners 2008/2009

* Thierry Tazemeta
* Luis Marín
* Bevan Fransman
* Flagicon|France Georges Ba
* Daniel Humberto

Honours

*Old Liga Leumit/Ligat ha'Al (5):
**1970/71, 1973/74, 1977/78, 1979/80, 1982/83
*State Cup (1):
**1978
* Toto Cup (Leumit-second division) (1):
**2005

*UEFA Intertoto Cup (top of the group) (3):
**1977/78, 1979/80, 1982/83

Notable Players

* Oded Machnes
* Gad Machnes
* Mordechai Spiegler
* Tal Banin
* Isaac Wisocer
* David Lavi
* Ha'im Bar
* Shraga Bar
* Albert Gazal
* Moshe Gariani
* David Pizanti
* Podi Halfon
* Liran Strauber
* Guy Zarfati
* Kobi Hassan
* Kobi Baladev
* Michael Kadosh
* Shay Holtzman
* Klemi Saban
* Baruch Hassan
* Ori Uzan
* Ravid Gazal
* Avi Peretz
* Dani Et'zioni
* Yigal Menahem
* Shalom Tikva
* Avi Tikva
* Beni Lam
* Shlomo Shirazi
* Victor Sarusi
* Reuven Atar
* Albert Nakash
* Shay Biruk
* Amir Shelach
* Itzik Zohar
* Roni Levi
* Avishai Jano
* Dedi Ben Dayan
* Ofer Talker
* Israel Zviti
* flagicon|Chile Sebastian Rozental
* flagicon|Argentina Nicolas Tauber
* flagicon|USA Leonard Krupnik
* László Ze
* István Hamar
* Jarosław Araszkiewicz
* Marius Bundea
* Adrian Pitu
* Daniel Dumitrescu
* Viorel Tănase
* Adrian De-Geman
* Okocha
* Imoro Lukman
* Ibrahim Abdul Razak
* Ishmael Addo
* Toni Toklomety
* Mazuwa Nsumbu
* Jeff Tutuana
* Alain Masudi
* Papi Kimoto
* Peter Cargill
* Ruslan Liubarskyi
* Luis Marin
* flagicon|Serbia Slobodan Drapić
* Vladimir Kužul
* Martin Fěşko
* Stefan Věrnaiş
* Drako Raik Sudar
* Juşko Bilić
* Christian Berera
* flagicon|Germany Talas Shot
* Moussa Sanogo
* Georges Ba

European record

References

External links

* [http://www.fcmn.co.il/ Official website] he icon
* [http://www.kufsa.co.il/ Kufsa] he icon