Beitar Avraham Be'er Sheva F.C.

S.C. Be'er Sheva
Full name	Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva; מועדון ספורט באר שבע
Founded	2006
Ground	Reisser Ground, Beersheba
Chairman	Yigal Sarusi
Manager	Ya'akov Turgeman
League	Liga Bet South B
2023–24	Liga Bet South B, 3rd
Home colours	Away colours

Full name	Beitar Avraham Be'er Sheva Football Club
Founded	1956
Dissolved	2003
Ground	Reisser Ground, Beersheba
2002–03	Liga Leumit, 12th (relegated)
Home colours	Away colours

Beitar Avraham Be'er Sheva (Hebrew: בית"ר אברהם באר שבע) was an Israeli football club based in Beersheba.

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.^[1] In the 1965–66 season, they won Liga Bet South B division and were promoted to Liga Alef, 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 (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 by a single point (they had a better goal difference than runners-up Maccabi Kiryat Gat).^[2] 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.^[3] However, the club folded in the summer,^[4] with Hapoel Marmorek promoted from Liga Alef 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 (Hebrew: מועדון ספורט באר שבע), Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva, lit. Be'er Sheva Sport Club (or in short Hebrew: 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.^[5]

In their first season, F.C. Be'er Sheva finished runners-up in Liga Gimel Central-South division^[6] and were promoted to Liga Bet, where they play since in the South B division.

Honours

League

Honour	No.	Years
Third tier	1	1965–66
Fourth tier	2	1958–59, 1978–79

External links

Moadon Sport Be'er Sheva The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)

References

^ Sneh returned and the Negev city Beitars succeeded making the big jump (Page 5) Hadshot HaSport, 24 June 1966, archive.football.co.il (in Hebrew)
^ Israel Second Level 2000/01 RSSSF
^ Israel Second Level 2002/03 RSSSF
^ Liga Artzit 2003/04 RSSSF
^ 10 Years to the closure of Beitar Be'er Sheva Arie Rapaport, tapuz.co.il, 7 July 2013 (in Hebrew)
^ Liga Gimel Central\South go4score, 6 September 2007, The Internet Archive (in Hebrew)

[Sneh_returned_and_the_Negev_city_Beitars_succeeded_making_the_big_jump-1] Sneh returned and the Negev city Beitars succeeded making the big jump (Page 5) Hadshot HaSport, 24 June 1966, archive.football.co.il (in Hebrew)

[2] Israel Second Level 2000/01 RSSSF

[3] Israel Second Level 2002/03 RSSSF

[4] Liga Artzit 2003/04 RSSSF

[5] 10 Years to the closure of Beitar Be'er Sheva Arie Rapaport, tapuz.co.il, 7 July 2013 (in Hebrew)

[6] Liga Gimel Central\South go4score, 6 September 2007, The Internet Archive (in Hebrew)

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v t e Liga Bet
North A	Ahi Acre Ahli Tamra Ahva Kafr Manda Beitar Nahariya Bnei Maghar F.C. Bnei M.M.B.E. HaGolan VeHaGalil F.C. Shefa'-Amr F.C. Tzeirei Tamra Hapoel Bnei Bi'ina Hapoel Ihud Bnei Sumei Hapoel Karmiel Hapoel Kaukab Ironi Bnei Kabul Maccabi Abu Sna'an Maccabi Ahva Sha'ab Maccabi Bnei Jadeida Maccabi Ihud Bnei Ibtin
North B	Beitar Haifa Bnei Qalansawe F.C. Mashhad Hapoel Bnei Ar'ara 'Ara Hapoel F.C. Sandala Gilboa Hapoel Qalansawe Hapoel Ramot Menashe Megiddo Hapoel Tirat HaCarmel Hapoel Yafa Ihud Bnei Baqa Maccabi Ahi Iksal Maccabi Ahva Fureidis Maccabi Neve Sha'anan Eldad Maccabi Tirat HaCarmel Tzeirei Haifa Tzofey Haifa
South A	Beitar Kfar Saba Beitar Petah Tikva Beitar Ramat Gan Beitar Tel Aviv Bnei Jaffa F.C. HaMakhtesh Giv'atayim Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan Hapoel 1928 Kfar Saba Hapoel Azor Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden Hapoel Hod HaSharon Hapoel Kafr Qasim Shouaa Hapoel Kiryat Ono Hapoel Mahane Yehuda Ironi Beit Dagan Maccabi Gi'vat Shmuel Maccabi Ironi Amishav Petah Tikva
South B	Beitar Yavne Beitar Ironi Ma'ale Adumim Beitar Kiryat Gat Bnei Eilat F.C. Ramla F.C. Sderot F.C. Shikun HaMizrah Hapoel Ar'arat an-Naqab Hapoel Bnei Ashdod Hapoel Gedera Hapoel Segev Shalom Hapoel Yeruham Ironi Beit Shemesh Maccabi Be'er Sheva Maccabi Ironi Netivot Maccabi Kiryat Gat Maccabi Ramla
Seasons (fourth level)	1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25