Maccabi Hadera Football Club (

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: מועדון כדורגל מכבי חדרה) was an Israeli

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club based at

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. The club was merged in 2006 with the rest of

football club to form Ironi Sport Hadera F.C.

History

The sports club was initially founded in 1914. During the British Mandate of Palestine the team played both friendly matches against local teams and army units' teams and matches in EIFA competitions. The team played in the 1929 Palestine Cup, falling in the first round to Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem in the first round. In

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the team reached the semi-final, a phase the team reached again only in

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when they became the first club to reach the semi-final of the

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while playing in the third tier of Israeli football. The team joined the

1946–47 Liga Bet The 1946–47 Liga Bet season was the second tier season of league football in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. The league covered wider areas as North and Southstate of Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

the club competed in the second and third tiers, achieving its best position in 1975–76. A season later the team was relegated to the third tier, and never returned to the second tier, although they came close after losing the promotion play-offs in 1982–83 and in 1986–87. In the 2003–04 season, the club won Liga Alef North division (then the fourth tier) and were promoted to

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. However, their budget was not approved by the

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and as a result, demoted back to Liga Alef and eventually folded. However, in 2006, Maccabi Hadera joined forces with four other clubs, Hapoel Hadera, Hapoel Givat Olga, Hapoel Beit Eliezer and Hapoel Nahliel, as all the football clubs from Hadera merged into one club called Hapoel Ironi Eran Hadera.About
Hapoel Eran Hadera

Honours

*Third tier (3): **

1955–56 Liga Bet The 1955–56 Liga Bet season was the first in which Liga Bet was the third tier of Israeli football due to the formation of Liga Leumit. Maccabi Hadera (North Division champions) and Maccabi Sha'arayim (South Division champions) qualified for ...

North **

1973–74 Liga Bet The 1973–74 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Beit She'an, Maccabi Hadera, Beitar Jaffa and Hapoel Ashkelon win their regional divisions and qualify with the second-placed clubs, Beitar Tiberias, Hapoel Mahane Yehuda, Hapoel Kfar Shalem and Maccab ...

North B **

1986–87 Liga Alef The 1986–87 Liga Alef season saw Maccabi Hadera (champions of the North Division) and Hapoel Bat Yam (champions of the South Division) win their regional divisions, and qualify for promotion play-offs against the 11th and 12th placed clubs in L ...

North *Fourth tier (2): **

1998–99 Liga Bet The 1998–99 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Hurfeish (champions of the North A division), Maccabi Hadera (champions of the North B division), Hapoel Kiryat Ono (champions of the South A division) and A.S. Ramat Eliyahu (champions of the South B di ...

North B **

2003–04 Liga Alef The 2003–04 Liga Alef season saw Maccabi Hadera (champions of the North Division) and Maccabi Be'er Sheva (champions of the South Division) winning the title and promotion to 2004–05. However as Maccabi Hadera folded during the following su ...

North

References

*100 Years of Football 1906–2006, Elisha Shohat (Israel), 2006
50 Years of Sports and More in Hadera, Efraim Frank (Israel), 2004, pp. 144–158
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