Hapoel Netanya
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Hapoel Netanya | |
Founded | 1980s |
Full Name | Hapoel Netanya |
Arena | Ben Gurion hall |
Club Colours | Black & White |
Hapoel Netanya is a handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
team from the city of Netanya
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. The team's colors are black and white, and it hosts its home games in Ben Gurion hall in the north side of the city.
The team was founded in the early 1980s and was a regular member of the first division until the late 1990s when the team collapsed.
In 2005 former player Uri Rafael decided to revive the team, and in the 2007-08 season the team won the third division and are now playing the second division in hope to return to the top division.