Maccabi Umm al-Fahm F.C.

Maccabi Umm al-Fahm
Founded	1972; 52 years ago; 2020; 4 years ago as Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm
Ground	HaShalom Stadium, Umm al-Fahm
Capacity	5,800
Chairman	Ihab Mahameed
Manager	Wassim Abbas
League	Liga Alef North
2023–24	Liga Alef North, 12th of 16
Home colours	Away colours

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.

History

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]

Honours

Liga Alef North
- Champions 2010–11
Liga Bet North B
- Champions 2008–09
Liga Gimel Shomron
- 2004–05

References

^ Maccabi Umm al-Fahm wants to recover Michael Weissermann, Doublepass, 23.5.2014 (in Hebrew)
^ Technical win for Migdal HaEmek, Khalaila and Ohayon eligible to play Kobi Portal, Doublepass, 27.4.2015 (in Hebrew)
^ https://sport1.maariv.co.il/israeli-soccer/Article-772978/

External links

Maccabi Umm al-Fahm Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

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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] ttps://sport1.maariv.co.il/israeli-soccer/Article-772978/

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North	F.C. Kiryat Yam F.C. Tira Hapoel Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hapoel Beit She'an Hapoel Bnei Musmus Hapoel Bnei Zalafa Hapoel Bu'eine Hapoel Kafr Kanna Hapoel Ironi Arraba Hapoel Migdal HaEmek Ihud Bnei Shefa-'Amr Ironi Nesher Maccabi Akhi Nazareth Maccabi Ata Bialik Maccabi Nujeidat Tzeirei Kafr Kanna Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm
South	F.C. Dimona F.C. Jerusalem F.C. Holon Yermiyahu Hapoel Ashdod Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden Hapoel Herzliya Hapoel Lod Hapoel Marmorek Maccabi Kiryat Malakhi Ironi Modi'in Maccabi Ironi Ashdod Maccabi Sha'arayim Maccabi Yavne Nordia Jerusalem Sektzia Ness Ziona Shimshon Kafr Qasim Shimshon Tel Aviv
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See also: Liga Artzit