Maccabi Be'er Sheva () is an Israeli

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club from

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 ...

competing in the Israeli women's league and the

Israeli Women's Cup The Israeli Women's Cup (, ''Gvia HaMedina Nashim'') is the annual knock-out tournament of women's football teams in Israel. It is equivalent to the men's Israel State Cup, and organized by the Israel Football Association (IFA). Its first season ...

History

The club was established in 2004Maccabi Lee Be'er Sheva Women's Club
Maccabi Israel and first competed in

Ligat Nashim Ligat Nashim (, lit. ''Women's League'') is the Israeli Women's association football, women's football league. It has been run by the Israel Football Association since 1998. Format The league is divided into two divisions, with the top divisio ...

in 2004–05, which then consisted of one tier only. The club came close to relegation from the first division at the end of the 2006–07 season, in which the club finished second from bottom. However, during the season break, three of the five second division clubs folded, and, in order to ensure its first division status, the club bought out Bnot Kiryat Gat, and remained in the first division, which once again became the only tier of the league.The Bad Business: Corruption in Football (Ma'ariv Research)
Eyal Levi, 7 October 2009, nrg.co.il The club kept its first division status until the end of 2013–14 season, twice reaching 4th, its best placing, during this period (in

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and 2011–12. In

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the club finished bottom of the first division and dropped to the second division.Finished: Maccabi Be'er Sheva Dropped to the Second Division
Shai Mugilevski, 24 April 2014, Eyoya However, the club bounced back as it won the second division the following season and was promoted back to the top division.Maccabi Be'er Sheva Returned to the First Division
Shai Muguilevski, 12 May 2014, Eyoya In the

, the club reached the cup final in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, overcoming local rivals

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Be'er Sheva'') is an Israeli professional association football, football club from the city of Beersheba, Be'er Sheva, that competes in the Israeli Premier League. The club was estab ...

and Bnot Sakhnin, before losing in the final itself 0–5 to Maccabi HolonFor the 8th Time in a Row: Holon Won the Women's Cup
Limor Spiegel, 24 May 2010, ynet.co.il The club reached the cup semi-finals twice more, in 2006–07 and

, in both times losing to Maccabi Holon.

Titles

Shniya (1): ** 2014–15 ''Runners-up'': *''

(1)'' **

References

External links

Maccabi Be'er Sheva Lee
Israeli Football Association {{Football in Israel Women's football clubs in Israel Association football clubs established in 2004