Hapoel Mevaseret Zion F.C.

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion
Full name	Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Football Club; הפועל מבשרת ציון
Founded	1966
Ground	HaMigrash HaYarok, Mevaseret Zion
Capacity	200
Chairman	Doron Ben Shimon
Manager	Andrey Andonov
League	Liga Gimel Central
2015–16	8th
Home colours	Away colours

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion (Hebrew: הפועל מבשרת ציון) is an Israeli football club based in Mevaseret Zion. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Central division.

History

The club was founded in 1966 and played mostly in the lower divisions of Israeli football. Mevaseret reached Liga Bet for the first time in the 1981–82 season, in which they were punished with suspension of activity and demoted back to Liga Gimel.^[1] After several years between Liga Gimel and Liga Bet, the club reached Liga Alef for the first time in their history in 1998–99, the first out of two seasons in which the club played in the third tier of Israeli football, as following the creation of the Israeli Premier League in the following season, Liga Alef became the fourth tier, up until 2009, when Liga Artzit (then the third tier) was closed, and Liga Alef regained its status as the third tier.

Prior to the 2004–05 season, the club became Hapoel Mevaseret Zion/Abu Ghosh, following a merger with Ironi Abu Ghosh, and became the first Israeli team mixed from an Arab village and a Jewish town.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Prior to the 2007–08 season, disenchanted fans of Hapoel Jerusalem, extremely dissatisfied with the management, resolved to create a company with the aim of purchasing Hapoel Jerusalem. When it became evident that reaching such a deal was impossible, they joined forces with Hapoel Mevaseret Zion/Abu Ghosh and became known as Hapoel Katamon/Mevaseret Zion.^[5] The merged club failed to achieve promotion to Liga Artzit, after they finished runners-up in Liga Alef South division, one point behind champions, Ironi Bat Yam. The following season was less successful, as the club finished in the seventh place. The merger between Mevaseret and Katamon came apart at the end of the season. Hapoel Mevaseret Zion continued in Liga Alef, whilst Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem were registered in Liga Gimel as a new club.^[5]

In 2009–10, the season in which Liga Alef regained its status as the third tier of Israeli football, Hapoel Mevaseret Zion, now as a separate entity, finished in the bottom place and relegated to Liga Bet. In the following season, the club narrowly avoided relegation to Liga Gimel, after they finished bottom in Liga Bet South B division and earned a place in the Relegation play-offs due to the dismissal of Ironi Ramla from the league. Mevaseret beat F.C. Dimona 1–0 in the first round of Liga Bet South B Relegation play-offs and remained in Liga Bet. However, in the following season, they finished once more in the bottom place and were relegated to Liga Gimel, the fifth and lowest tier of Israeli football, where they play today.

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Fifth tier	1	1985–86^[6]

External links

Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

References

^ Who will be relegated from North B? (Page 7) Hadshot HaSport, 16.5.1982, archive.football.co.il (in Hebrew)
^ Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret union HaAretz, 3.3.2005 (in Hebrew)
^ Fighting for equality – On the football pitch and outside of it Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Daniel Ben Tal, Common Ground News, 13.6.2005 (in Hebrew)
^ Ginzburg, Yonatan (3 September 2021). "הפועל אבו גוש מבשרת ציון: יהודים ומוסלמים כאחד" [Abu Ghosh Mevaseret Zion: Jews and Muslim as One]. One (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^ ^a ^b General information Archived 2014-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
^ Promotion to Liga Bet Playoffs: Givat HaRakafot and Bat Yam Won David Lavie and Amir Eisenberg, 18 May 1986, History Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

[Who_will_be_relegated_from_North_B?_(Page_7)-1] Who will be relegated from North B? (Page 7) Hadshot HaSport, 16.5.1982, archive.football.co.il (in Hebrew)

[2] Abu Ghosh-Mevaseret union HaAretz, 3.3.2005 (in Hebrew)

[3] Fighting for equality – On the football pitch and outside of it Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Daniel Ben Tal, Common Ground News, 13.6.2005 (in Hebrew)

[4] Ginzburg, Yonatan (3 September 2021). "הפועל אבו גוש מבשרת ציון: יהודים ומוסלמים כאחד" [Abu Ghosh Mevaseret Zion: Jews and Muslim as One]. One (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

[General_information-5] General information Archived 2014-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem (in Hebrew)

[6] Promotion to Liga Bet Playoffs: Givat HaRakafot and Bat Yam Won David Lavie and Amir Eisenberg, 18 May 1986, History Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

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v t e Liga Gimel
Upper Galilee	Bnei Maghar Hapoel Ihud Bnei Sumei F.C. Beit Jann Hapoel Mi'ilya Hapoel Nahef Hapoel Fassuta Ihud Bnei Majd al-Krum Tzeirei Sakhnin
Lower Galilee	Beitar Kafr Kanna Beitar Kiryat Ata Bnei Kafr Yasif F.C. Kabul F.C. Kafr Yasif Hapoel Bnei Dir al-Asad Hapoel Ironi Ibli'in Maccabi Basmat Tab'un Maccabi Ihud Bnei Ibtin Tzeirei Kafr Manda
Jezreel	Beitar Umm al-Fahm Bnei Daburiyya Bnei Umm al-Fahm F.C. Kafr Kama F.C. Mash'ad Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel Hapoel Ein as-Sahala Hapoel Ramot Menashe Megido Hapoel Reineh Hapoel Tzeirei Nazareth Maccabi Ironi Barta'a Tzeirei Iksal
Samaria	Beitar Pardes Hanna F.C. Kababir F.C. Kiryat Haim F.C. Pardes Hanna-Karkur F.C. Or Akiva F.C. Karmel Haifa Hapoel Bnei Jasr a-Zarqa Hapoel Ihud Bnei Jatt Hapoel Kiryat Haim Maccabi Barkai Tzeirei Haifa Tzofey Haifa
Sharon	Beitar Kfar Saba Beitar Mate Binyamin Beitar Tubruk Bnei Jaljulia Bnei Tira F.C. Bnei Ra'anana F.C. Bnei Zemer F.C. Giv'at Shmuel F.C. Kafr Qasim Nibrass F.C. Ironi Ariel Hapoel 1928 Kfar Saba Hapoel Oranit Hapoel Pardesiya Ironi Rosh HaAyin Maccabi Ironi Kfar Yona Maccabi HaSharon Netanya Shimshon Bnei Tayibe
Tel Aviv	Agudat Sport Holon Beitar Ezra Beitar Jaffa Bnei Herzliya Bnei Yehud Dizengoff Tel Aviv Elitzur Jaffa Tel Aviv Elitzur Yehud Yotel F.C. Tel Aviv Hakoah Gil Ramat Gan Hapoel Neve Golan Hapoel Ramat Yisrael Hapoel Tzafririm Holon Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel Maccabi Hashikma Ramat Hen Maccabi Ironi Or Yehuda Maccabi Pardes Katz Maccabi Spartak Ramat Gan Maccabi Yehud-Monosson Shikun Vatikim Ramat Gan
Central	Ashdod City Beitar Gan Yavne Beitar Gedera Bnei Ramla Bnei Yeechalal Rehovot Beitar Ironi Ma'ale Adumim F.C. Be'er Ya'akov F.C. Rishon LeZion Hapoel Mevaseret Zion Hapoel Tirat Shalom Ihud Tzeirei Abu Gush Ironi Beit Shemesh Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov Maccabi Bnei Abu Gush Macccabi Kiryat Ekron Tzeirei Lod
South	Bnei Yeruham F.C. Be'er Sheva F.C. Be'er Sheva Haim Levy F.C. Meitar Hapoel Bnei Kuseife Hapoel Rahat Maccabi Ashkelon Maccabi Be'er Sheva Maccabi Ironi Hura Otzma Be'er Sheva Tzeirei Rahat
Seasons (fifth tier)	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 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Seasons (sixth tier)	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