Maccabi Rishon LeZion ( he, מכבי ראשון לציון) is a

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team from the city of

Rishon LeZion Rishon LeZion ( he, רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן , ''lit.'' First to Zion, Arabic: راشون لتسيون) is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan ar ...

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. competes in the Ligat Winner Big. The team's colors are

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, and it hosts its home games in the new 1500-seat

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in Rishon LeZion. Maccabi have won 16 championships and 10 Israeli cups. After some bad years in the 1990s, the team returned to success: between 2003 and 2007 it won three championships and four cups. The team's biggest achievement in the European Cups was on its first appearance there in 1983 when it reached the Cup Winner's Cup semifinal, losing to the

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. Their biggest rival is Hapoel Rishon LeZion, another great Rishon LeZion team. The derby games between them have been very tense throughout the last two decades.

Titles

*Israel Champions (16): 1959, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2020, 2021 *Israel Cup Holder (10): 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013

Squad

Updated on 11 January 2020 * Coach: * Fitnnes Trainer: Yoram Menachem * Administration Manager: Yankul Ruiter * Chair Man: Yossi Geva

European record

Notable former players

* Milorad Krivokapić * Andrey Starykh *

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Renato Vugrinec Renato Vugrinec (born 9 June 1975) is a Slovenian-Macedonian retired handball player. Before switching his national team alliagance, Vugrinec was a long time member of Slovenia men's national handball team and represented the country on several i ...

* Robert Markotić (2016–2017) *

Ivan Karačić Ivan Karačić (born 26 May 1985, Mostar) is a Bosnian handball player for Maccabi Rishon LeZion and the Bosnian national team. Ivan made his debut for the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 16, 2004, in a friendly match against ...

* David Rašić

References

Handball clubs established in 1950 Israeli handball clubs

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