Bnei Yehud ( he, בני יהוד) is an Israeli

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club based in Yehud. The club is currently in

Liga Gimel Liga Gimel ( he, ליגה ג', lit. ''League C'') is the fifth and bottom division of Israeli Football League, a position it has held since 2009. From Liga Alef and downwards to this, each league is separated by region as well. History Liga Gimel ...

Tel Aviv division.

History

The club was founded in 2007 as Bnei Shefi Yehud, a successor club to Maccabi Yehud, which was founded in

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and dissolved at the end of the 2006–07 season. A year later, in 2008, Hapoel Yehud was re-founded as Hapoel Ironi Yehud, and both clubs competed at the 2008–09 season in Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division. In 2009, Bnei Shefi Yehud merged with Hapoel Ironi Yehud, and the merged club became known as Hapoel Bnei Yehud, officially as Bnei Yehud. In the 2011–12 season, Bnei Yehud finished runners-up in Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division and were eventually promoted to Liga Bet, after a vacancy was created in Liga Bet South B division, as

F.C. Kiryat Gat F.C. Hapoel Kiryat Gat ( he, מ.ס. קריית גת) was an Israeli football team based in the southern city of Kiryat Gat. the club's best achievement was the fifth place in the fourth division, Liga Bet. Currently, only the Women's section is ...

joined a merger with

Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Kiryat Gat F.C. ( he, מכבי קריית גת) was an Israeli football team based in the southern city of Kiryat Gat. The club's best achievement has been promotion to the Premier League as Liga Leumit runners-up in 2001, after beating ...

.Merger in Kiryat Gat, Bnei Yehud on the way to Liga Bet
Doublepass, 16.6.2012 However. the club's spell in Liga Bet lasted only one season, as they finished at the bottom of the South B division in the 2012–13 season, winning only two games, and relegated back to

External links

Hapoel Bnei Yehud

Bnei Yehud
The Israel Football Association

References

{{Liga Gimel Yehud Yehud Association football clubs established in 2009 2009 establishments in Israel