Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C.

Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל הפועל ניר רמת השרון) is an Israeli football club based in Ramat HaSharon. Founded in 1957, the club is currently competing in Liga Leumit, and plays its home matches at Grundman Stadium.

Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon

Full name	Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon Football Club
Founded	1957; 66 years ago (1957)
Ground	Grundman Stadium, Ramat HaSharon
Capacity	4,300
Chairman	Ramat HaSharon Municipality
Manager	Almog Abayev
League	Liga Leumit
2022–23	Liga Leumit, 11th of 16
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded in 1957 as Hapoel Ramat HaSharon, the club was promoted to Liga Artzit (The second division back then) in 1984. In the 1984–85 season they narrowly missed out on promotion to Liga Leumit (then the top division), after losing 1–0 to Hapoel Jerusalem on the final day of the season; had they won, they would have been promoted in Jerusalem's place. The following season they were relegated to Liga Alef, and two seasons later to Liga Bet.

In 1996 the club returned to Liga Alef and in summer 1997 merged with Maccabi Nir Ramat HaSharon, a club which was named after Nir Itzhaki, by his brother and the club's chairmen, Meir Itzhaki, after Maccabi was refused funding by the local council.^[1] The merged club took the name Hapoel Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon.

In 1999–2000 they finished second in their division. Due to Beitar Tel Aviv and Shimshon Tel Aviv merging, the club was promoted to Liga Artzit (now the third tier) to fill the vacancy. In 2002–03 they narrowly avoided relegation, finishing one place above the relegation zone. The following season they won the league to earn promotion back to the second division. In the same season they also won the Liga Artzit Toto Cup.

The club escaped relegation in 2004–05 after Maccabi Ahi Nazareth had two points deducted. The following season they finished third from bottom again, but avoided the drop.

In the 2009–10 season the club made one of its biggest achievements in the club's history when the team reached the semi-final of the Israel State Cup.

In the 2010–11 season the club won the Toto Cup Leumit and got promoted to the Israeli Premier League for the first time in the history of the club after they finished as champions of Liga Leumit. In June 2013, the club changed its name from Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon to Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon and changed its logo.

In the 2012–13 season, the club achieved its best placing to date, when they finished sixth in the Israeli Premier League. However, in the following season, the club finished second bottom and relegated to Liga Leumit.

Current squad

As of 22 June 2023

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF   ISR Itamar Guri 4 DF   ISR Shon Edri 5 DF   ISR David Tiram 6 MF   ISR Shahaf Mor 7 DF   ISR Ben Hadadi 8 MF   ISR Roi Har 10 FW   ISR Roy Melika 11 FW   ISR Netanel Askias 12 DF   ISR Yarin Hassan 14 DF   ISR Itay Ben Hemo 15 FW   NGA Peter Onyekachi

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF   ISR Or Ostvind 17 FW   ISR Amit Yeverbaum 18 MF   ISR Ben Reichert 19 MF   ISR Gal Matouk 22 FW   COD Kule Mbombo 24 DF   ISR Alon Ginat 25 MF   ISR Tamir Stoller 27 FW   ISR Shay Balahssan 55 GK   ISR Ido Sharon 70 MF   ISR Dor Kochav 77 MF   ISR Niv Livnat

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Second tier	1	2010–11
Third tier	1	2003–04
Fourth tier	2	1966–68, 1978–79

Cups

Honour	No.	Years
Toto Cup (second division)	1	2010–11
Toto Cup (third division)	1	2003–04

Managers

•   Tzvika Tzemah (July 1, 2004 – July 30, 2008)
•   Eran Kulik (2010)
•   Guy Levy (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
•   Meni Koretski (interim) (2011)
•   Yehoshua Feigenbaum (Dec 5, 2011 – May 13, 2012)
•   Nissan Yehezkel (May 14, 2012 – Sept 4, 2012)
•   Benny Tabak (Sept 4, 2012 – June 30, 2013)
•   Rafi Cohen (born 1965) (July 1, 2013 – Oct 7, 2013)
•   Haim Shabo (Oct 8, 2013 – Jun 8,2015)
•   Lior Zada (Jun 8, 2015–2016)
•   Meni Koretski (2016)
•   Haim Shabo (2016-2018)
•   Oren Rotem (2018)
•   Eli Cohen (2018-2019)
•   Noam Shoham (2019-)

References

1. HCJ: A Local Council Can Choose to Fund Only One Football Team Amat Shmiel Daklo, 25 November 1996, Globes (in Hebrew)

External links

• [ Official website] (in Hebrew)