Agudat Sport Holon (), ''A.S. Holon'', lit. ''Holon Sports Association'' (or in short ''Aleph Samekh Holon'', lit. ''A.S. Holon'') is an Israeli

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club which representing Jesse Cohen neighborhood in

Holon Holon (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. In , it had a population of , making it the List of cities in Israel, tenth most populous city in Isra ...

. The club currently plays in

Liga Bet Liga Bet () 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 Independence. However, the financial ...

South A division.

History

The club was founded in 1971 as Agudat Sport Lazarus Holon. The club started a progress after they won

Liga Gimel Liga Gimel (, lit. ''League C'') is, since 2009, the fifth and bottom division of Israeli football league system, Israeli Football League. From Liga Alef and downwards, including Liga Gimel, each league is separated by region. History Liga Gimel ...

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division in the 1976–77 season and finished runners-up in

South A division in the 1977–78 season. Thus, they achieved two successive promotions and reached

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, the third tier of Israeli football. In 1980, the club changed their name to Maccabi Lazarus Holon and became the new Maccabi club of the city, after the club which was known as Maccabi Holon folded during the summer.Striker for playing ground
Maariv, 6.8.1980, Historical Jewish Press In the 1981–82 season, the club was suspended from the league and demoted to Liga Bet, due to riot in their eighteenth match against

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, which abandoned in the 44th minute.South division
Davar, 7.3.1982, Historical Jewish Press The club made an immediate return to Liga Alef, after they won Liga Bet South B division in 1982–83. During that season, while playing in Liga Bet, the club made a big upset in the

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, after they eliminated the Israeli reigning champions at the time,

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by a result of 2–0.The 'Cinderella' from Liga Bet (Lazarus) stunned the champions from Kfar Saba
Davar, 6.2.1983, Historical Jewish Press Upon their return to Liga Alef, Maccabi Lazarus Holon played seventeen consecutive seasons in Liga Alef South division, until they folded after the 1999–2000 season. The closest they came to promotion to the second tier (which was

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at the time) was at the 1984–85 season, when they finished runners-up and qualified for the Promotion play-offs, where they lost to the North division runners-up, Hapoel Acre and remained in Liga Alef. In 2001, a successor club, Agudat Sport Holon, which are still commonly known and referred as 'Lazarus', was founded and started at Liga Gimel

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division. The club won Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division in the 2004–05 season and promoted to Liga Bet. However, they were relegated back to Liga Gimel in the following season, after they finished bottom in Liga Bet South A division with only one win out of thirty matches. In the 2013–14 season The club finished runners-up in Liga Gimel Tel Aviv division and were promoted to Liga Bet as the second best South runners-up,Liga Gimel: Minimum threshold
Doublepass, 25.5.2014 after two spots were vacated in that league, following the closures of Ironi Bat Yam (played in Liga Alef) and

Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov () was an Israeli football club based in Be'er Ya'akov. History The club was founded in 2005 after the previous club of the town, Hapoel Be'er Ya'akov, which has played in the past in Liga Alef, was dissolved. In their fir ...

Honours

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¹As Maccabi Lazarus Holon
²As A.S. Lazarus Holon

External links

Agudat Sport Holon Mor
The Israel Football Association

References

{{Liga Bet

Sport in Holon