Beitar The Betar Movement ( he, תנועת בית"ר), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during World War II. After ...

Avraham Be'er Sheva ( he, בית"ר אברהם באר שבע) was an Israeli football club based in

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

History

The club was founded in 1956 and started in Liga Gimel. After three seasons at the bottom tier, the club won their regional division and were promoted to

Liga Bet Liga Bet ( he, ליגה ב', lit. ''League B'') is the fourth tier of the Israeli football league system. It is divided into four regional divisions. History League football started in Israel in 1949–50, a year after the Israeli Declaration of ...

.
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Hadshot HaSport, 24 June 1966, archive.football.co.il In the 1965–66 season, they won Liga Bet South B division and were promoted to

Liga Alef Liga Alef ( he, ליגה א', , League A) is the third tier of the Israeli football league system. It is divided into two regional divisions, north and south. History League football began in Israel in 1949–50, a year after the Israeli Declar ...

, then the second tier of Israeli football. The club were relegated back to Liga Bet in 1969–70 after finishing second from bottom of the South Division. Beitar were promoted back to Liga Alef, now the third tier, at the end of the 1978–79 season, remaining in Liga Alef until the 1986–87 season, when they were relegated back to Liga Bet. In 1991 the club had returned to Liga Alef, and were promoted to

Liga Artzit Liga Artzit ( he, ליגה ארצית, lit. ''Country League'') is the defunct third division of Israeli Football League, beneath its highest division Premier League and the second division Liga Leumit. Before being cancelled in 2009, it was run b ...

(then the second tier) in 1998. In their first season at the second level they finished fourth. In the 2000–01 season the club finished third, missing out on promotion to the

Israeli Premier League The Israeli Premier League ( he, ליגת העל, ''Ligat Ha`Al'', ), is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Israeli Football League – the state's league of Israel. The league is contested b ...

by a single point (they had a better goal difference than runners-up Maccabi Kiryat Gat). Although they finished fourth the following season, Beitar finished bottom of Liga Leumit (which had become the second division in 1999) in 2002–03, without winning an away match all season, and were due to be relegated to Liga Artzit. However, the club folded in the summer, with Hapoel Marmorek promoted from

to take their place. The club's stadium was named after

Michael Reisser Michael "Mikha" Reisser (, 26 April 1946 – 27 October 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1981 and his death in 1988. Biography Born in Tel Aviv towards the end of the Mandate era, Rei ...

, a Likud MK who died following a car accident in 1988.

S.C. Be'er Sheva

In 2006, a successor club, F.C. Be'er Sheva ( he, מועדון ספורט באר שבע), ''Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva'', lit. ''Be'er Sheva Sport Club'' (or in short he, מ.ס. באר שבע ''Mem Samekh Be'er Sheva'', lit. ''F.C. Be'er Sheva'') was founded, after the Israel Football Association allowed it only three years after the original club folded because of financial collapse. In their first season, F.C. Be'er Sheva finished runners-up in Liga Gimel Central-South divisionLiga Gimel Central\South
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and were promoted to

, where they play since in the South B division.

Honours

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External links

Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva
The Israel Football Association

References

{{Football in Israel

Be'er Sheva Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

Sport in Beersheba

Association football clubs established in 1956 Association football clubs disestablished in 2003 Association football clubs established in 2006 1956 establishments in Israel 2003 disestablishments in Israel 2006 establishments in Israel Organizations based in Beersheba