Maccabi Ra'anana () is a professional

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club that is based in

Ra'anana Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. The club plays in the Israeli National League, the second-tier division league of Israel.

History

Maccabi Ra'anana was founded in 1980. The team won the Israeli 2nd Division championship of the 1995–96 season. The club then competed in Israel's top-level

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, for the first time, in the following 1996–97 season. Maccabi Ra'anana competed in the European-wide secondary level

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, in the 1999–00 season. They also finished as the runner-up of the Israeli Super League in the 1999–00 season. After that, the team subsequently competed in one of the two top-level European-wide competitions at that time, the

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, in the following 2000–01 season. In the 2001–02 season, they competed in the Pan-European third level competition, the FIBA Korac Cup. In 2002, due to financial problems, the club merged with

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, which was then re-named to

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. In 2011, the merger of the two clubs ended, and from that point, the club again competed under its original Maccabi Ra'anana name. Maccabi Ra'anana won the Israeli Basketball Association Cup (Israel's 2nd Division Cup), in the 2011–12 season. In 2022, Maccabi Ra'anana made a preseason tour through the United States, facing three

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(NBA) teams: the

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and the

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, losing all three games.

Titles and honors

Domestic competitions

: Runners-up (1): (1999–00) * Israeli 2nd Division : Champions (1): (1995–96) *Israeli 2nd Division Cup : Winners (1): (2011–12)

Players

Current roster

Notable former players

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.
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Games against NBA teams

References

External links

Eurobasket.com Team Profile
{{Israeli Basketball National League Basketball teams established in 1980 Basketball teams in Israel