Beitar Dov Netanya () was an Israeli football club based in Shikun Vatikim in

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate ...

, after it was relocated from nearby

Beit Lid Beit Lid ( ar, بيت ليد) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northeastern West Bank, located a 10 kilometers southeast of Tulkarm and west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had ...

. The club was named after

Dov Gruner Dov Béla Gruner ( he, דב בלה גרונר; 1912–1947) was a Hungarian-born Zionist activist in Mandatory Palestine and a member of the pre-state Jewish underground Irgun. On April 16, 1947, Gruner was executed by the British Mandatory ...

.R. Spiegel to Even Yehuda and "Mishu" returns to Netanya
Herut, 28 July 1964, Historical Jewish Press

History

The club was founded in 1957 as Beitar Beit Lid in Beit Lid, a

Ma'abara Ma'abarot ( he, מַעְבָּרוֹת) were immigrant and refugee absorption camps established in Israel in the 1950s, constituting one of the largest public projects planned by the state to implement its sociospatial and housing policies. T ...

(temporary immigrant camp) near Netanya and played in

Liga Gimel Liga Gimel ( he, ליגה ג', lit. ''League C'') is the fifth and bottom division of Israeli Football League, a position it has held since 2009. From Liga Alef and downwards to this, each league is separated by region as well. History Liga Gime ...

for two seasons, finishing second in its first season and winning its division in its second season. The club played for four seasons in Liga Bet before dropping back to Liga Gimel. However, the club won its division in the following season, bouncing back to Liga Bet. During the summer break the club moved to Netanya and was renamed Beitar Dov Vatikim Netanya. After a season, the club dropped the word "Vatikim" (seniors) from its name. The club played in third tier

Liga Bet Liga Bet ( he, ליגה ב', lit. ''League B'') 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 ...

until the end of the 1975–76 season, when

Liga Artzit Liga Artzit ( he, ליגה ארצית, 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 ...

was introduced as the new second division, demoting Liga Bet to fourth tier. At the end of the next season, the club finished 13th and relegated to

, where it played until 1979. The club was bought by the

Kfar Yona Kfar Yona ( he, כְּפַר יוֹנָה, lit=Yona's Village) is a city in the Sharon subdistrict in the Central District of Israel. It is about 7 km east of Netanya. With a jurisdiction of 11,017 dunams (~11 km²). in it had a popula ...

local council and moved to Kfar Yona, where it played under the name Beitar Kfar Yona. The club won the Sharon division of

in 1985–86 and was promoted to

, where it played until it was relegated at the end of the 1997–98 season. After another season in Liga Gimel the club folded.

Honours

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¹ As Beitar Beit Lid ¹ As Beitar Kfar Yona

References

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Association football clubs established in 1959 Association football clubs disestablished in 1979 Sport in Netanya