The 2010–11 season marked the creation of the first professional league in the territories and saw high-profile signings for many clubs. Most notably Fadi Lafi (Hilal Al-Quds), Hernán Madrid (Wadi Al-Nes), and many

Arab citizens of Israel The Arab citizens of Israel are the largest ethnic minority in the country. They comprise a hybrid community of Israeli citizens with a heritage of Palestinian citizenship, mixed religions (Muslim, Christian or Druze), bilingual in Arabic an ...

who played for teams in the second and third tier of Israeli football. The original format of the WBPL consisted of 12 teams playing each other twice over 22 matchdays, the bottom two clubs are relegated to the second division and the team with the most points are crowned champions.

Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari ( ar, مركز شباب الأمعري) is a football club based in Am'ari, a refugee camp in Palestine, that plays in the West Bank Premier League. Their home venue is the Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium, which ha ...

won the inaugural season beating out

Hilal Al-Quds Hilal Al-Quds Club ( ar, نادي هلال القدس) is a Palestinian sports, cultural, social, scouting, artistic and youth club. It is a club that has many sports activities, one of which is football . It is considered one of the oldest clu ...

on goal differential. The 2011–12 included only 10 teams but the PFA have announced that four teams will be promoted from the First Division returning the league to its traditional 12-team format. The PFA also altered the rules on player eligibility banning the use of foreign players but letting teams have an unlimited amount of Arab Israeli citizens in their squads.

Before professionalization

* In 1977,

Silwan Silwan or Siloam ( ar, سلوان, translit=Silwan; gr, Σιλωὰμ, translit=Siloam; he, כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, translit=''Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ'') is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, on the outski ...

won a five-team league on 28 points ahead of Al-Arabi Beit Safafa, YMCA, Al-Bireh Group, and Shabab Al-Khaleel. * In 1982, Shabab Al-Khaleel won a 24-team league on 81 points five points ahead of closest challengers YMCA. * In 1984, Markaz Tulkarem won a 12-team league on 60 points one point ahead of closest challengers Hateen. * In 1985, Shabab Al-Khaleel won their second league title, the league once again featured 12 teams. Shabab Al-Khaleel finished on 60 points, six ahead of Thaqafi Tulkarm. * In 1997,

won their first league title on 64 points, the league featured 16 teams, Thaqafi Tulkarm finished as runner-up on 53 points. * In 2008–09,

Taraji Wadi Al-Nes Taraji Wadi Al-Nes Sports Club ( ar, نادي ترجي واد النيص الرياضي) or simply Taraji Wadi Al-Nes is a Palestinian football team, based in the town of Wadi Al-Nes outside of Bethlehem, that plays in the West Bank Premier Leagu ...

won a 22-team league that would determine the members of the First and Second Division. They collected 49 points from 21 games. * In 2009–10 Jabal Al-Mukaber won a 12-team league, the last before the PFA instituted a professional set-up. They collected 49 points from 22 games, 7 more than their closest challengers

Clubs

Season 2019/2020 clubs:

Past champions

The winners were: *

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*1982: Shabab Al-Khalil *1984: Markaz Tulkarem *1985: Shabab Al-Khalil (2) *1986: Shabab Al-Khalil (3) *1997:

*1999: Shabab Al-Khalil (4) *2000: Wadi Al-Nes *2006: Markaz Tulkarem (2) *2007: Wadi Al-Nes (2) * 2008–09:

* 2009–10:

Jabal Al-Mukaber Club Jabal Al Mukaber is a Palestinian football team from the city of East Jerusalem, that plays in the West Bank Premier League. In 2010, the club won the West Bank Premier League but more recently, it has been unable to play games in Jerusalem due t ...

* 2010–11:

(2) * 2011–12:

* 2012–13: Shabab Al-Dhahiriya * 2013–14:

(2) * 2014–15: Shabab Al-Dhahiriya (2) * 2015–16: Shabab Al-Khalil (5) * 2016–17:

(2) * 2017–18:

(3) * 2018–19:

(4) * 2019–20:

Markaz Balata Markaz Shabab Balata ( ar, مركز شباب بلاطة, lit=Balata Youth Center) is a professional football team based in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, Palestine, that plays in the West Bank Premier League. Founded in 1954, it won promotio ...

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

: Shabab Al-Khalil (6)

2020-21 champions

References

External links

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