Maccabi Kafr Kanna ( he, מכבי כפר כנא) was an Israeli football club based in
Kafr Kanna. The club played its home matches at the Azmi Nassar Stadium, named after
Azmi Nassar
Azmi Nassar ( ar, عزمي نصار, he, עזמי נסאר; 3 October 1957 – 26 March 2007) was a Palestinian football manager and served as manager of the Palestinian national football team.
Professional career Palestinian National Team
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History
The club was founded in 1970 and started in
Liga Dalet, then the fifth and lowest tier of
Israeli football
Football ( he, כַּדוּרֶגֶל, ''Kaduregel'') is the most popular sport in Israel. Football as an organised sport, first developed in the United Kingdom, who controlled Mandatory Palestine during the days of the British Mandate.
The ...
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Hadshot HaSport, 30.9.1970, archive.football.co.il The club played in the lower tiers of Israeli football until they started a progress in the 1990s, after they won Liga Bet North A division in the 1994–95 season and won
Liga Alef North division in the
1995–96 season. thus, they achieved two successive promotions and reached
Liga Artzit, then the second division. They were relegated back to the third tier at the end of the
1998–99 season, and narrowly missed a second straight relegation when finishing third from bottom in
1999–2000. The
following season the club returned to the second tier (now named
Liga Leumit) when they finished as runners-up in Liga Artzit, and would have won the title had it not been for two points being deducted for player violence and a violation of the budget rules. In the same season, they also won the Liga Artzit
Toto Cup.
In
2002–03 Kafr Kanna were relegated back to Liga Artzit, where they have remained until their relegation to Liga Alef in the end of the
2008–09 season.
In
2013–14, the club finished 15th in Liga Alef North, and relegated to Liga Bet. The club dissolved at the summer of 2014 and did not enter Liga Bet for the
2014–15 season. Instead, a new club,
F.C. Tzeirei Kafr Kanna
F.C. Tzeirei Kafr Kanna ( he, מועדון ספורט צעירי כפר כנא) is an Israeli football club based in Kafr Kanna. The club is currently in Liga Alef North division.
History
The club was founded in the summer of 2014, after Maccab ...
, was founded in the town. However, according to their founder, Tarik Abbas, they are not related to Maccabi Kafr Kanna.
"There is a big potential in Kafr Kanna and there is a place for three teams"
Itzhak Solomon, Goler1, 15.9.2014
Cup performance
The club's best achievement in the Israel State Cup
The Israel State Cup ( he, גביע המדינה, ''Gvia HaMedina''), is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israel Football Association (IFA).
The State Cup was first held in 1928 as the People's Cup. Because it involve ...
came in 2002–03, when progressed to the quarter-finals, where they were hammered 0–7 by Maccabi Haifa.
External links
Maccabi Kafr Kanna
Israel Football Association
References
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Association football clubs established in 1970
1970 establishments in Israel
Association football clubs disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in Israel
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Arab-Israeli football clubs