Beitar The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionism, Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements tha ...

Avraham Be'er Sheva () was an Israeli football club based in

Be'er Sheva Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most po ...

History

The club was founded in 1956 and started in

Liga Gimel Liga Gimel (, lit. ''League C'') is, since 2009, the fifth and bottom division of Israeli football league system, Israeli Football League. From Liga Alef and downwards, including Liga Gimel, each league is separated by region. History Liga Gimel ...

. After three seasons at the bottom tier, the club won their regional division and were promoted to

Liga Bet Liga Bet () 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 Independence. However, the financial ...

.
Sneh returned and the Negev city Beitars succeeded making the big jump (Page 5)
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

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, 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 (, 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 by the Israel Football A ...

(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

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by a single point (they had a better goal difference than runners-up

Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Kiryat Gat F.C. () 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 Hapoel Beit She'an on the f ...

). 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, 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 (), ''Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva'', lit. ''Be'er Sheva Sport Club'' (or in short ''Mem Samekh Be'er Sheva'', lit. ''F.C. Be'er Sheva'') was founded, after the

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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

Central-South divisionLiga Gimel Central\South
go4score, 6 September 2007, The

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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

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