Maccabi Umm al-Fahm F.C.

Maccabi Umm al-Fahm F.C. (Hebrew: מכבי אום אל פאחם) are a football club, from the north Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. The club currently plays in Liga Bet North B division, the fourth tier of Israeli football. Home matches are played at the HaShalom Stadium.

Maccabi Umm al-Fahm
Founded1972; 52 years ago (1972)
2020; 4 years ago (2020) as Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm
GroundHaShalom Stadium, Umm al-Fahm
Capacity5,800
ChairmanIhab Mahameed
ManagerMohammed Abbas
LeagueLiga Alef North
2023–24Liga Alef North, 12th of 16

History

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The club was founded in 1972, and played in the lower divisions of Israeli football. In the 2010–11 season the club won Liga Alef North division, and was promoted to Liga Leumit, the second tier of Israeli football, where they played three seasons.

In the 2013–14 season, the club was relegated to Liga Alef after finished bottom of Liga Leumit, and set negative record of being the first club in the history of professional football in Israel, which have finished a season with a negative number of points (−4, after 5 points deducted), and without any win, drawing one game, and losing all the other 36 games.[1]

The 2014–15 season was similarly poor, as the club dropped further to Liga Bet, after finished the season with 0 points, following a deduction of 1 point for fielding ineligible player,[2] and completed a second successive season without win, drawing one game, and losing all the other 29 games.

In the middle of the 2016/2017 season, Israel Football Association ruled that the team would be relegated to Liga Gimel at the end of the season, according to a FIFA ruling due to non-payment of a debt to one of its foreign players who played for it during the time the team played in the Liga Leumit. [3]

In 2020 the club folded and re-founded as "Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm" in Liga Gimel Jezreel.

Current squad

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As to 20 September 2024
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   ISR Daniel Benesh
3 DF   ISR Dani Ayham Odeh
4 DF   ISR Fadi Armeli
5 DF   ISR Mohammed Abbas
6 MF   ISR Mohammed Mahamid
7 MF   ISR Mohammed Shadeeda
8 MF   ISR Mohammed Mahamid II
9 FW   ISR Mohameed Awadeh
10 FW   ISR Ali El-Khatib
11 FW   ISR Qasem Helf
12 MF   ISR Souhel Armeli
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF   ISR Anis Mahamid
15 MF   ISR Atef Musa
17 DF   ISR Ali Dahla
19 FW   ISR Daniel Choscha
20 DF   ISR Tomer Lebanon
23 MF   ISR Mohammed Saadi
24 MF   ISR Lion Edri
30 MF   ISR Orel Duman
70 GK   ISR Tomer Cohen
71 MF   ISR Mohammed Jabareen

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ Maccabi Umm al-Fahm wants to recover Michael Weissermann, Doublepass, 23.5.2014 (in Hebrew)
  2. ^ Technical win for Migdal HaEmek, Khalaila and Ohayon eligible to play Kobi Portal, Doublepass, 27.4.2015 (in Hebrew)
  3. ^ "אום אל פאחם הורדה לליגה ג'. היו"ר: "נערער"". 15 December 2016.
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