F.C. Kafr Qasim

F.C. Kafr Qasim (Arabic: بالعربية - النادي الرياضي كفر قاسم صهيب او نادي الوحدة كفر قاسم صهيب, Hebrew: מועדון ספורט כפר קאסם, Moadon Sport Kafr Qasim, lit. Kafr Qasim Sport Club; or in short Hebrew: מ.ס. כפר קאסם, Mem Samekh Kafr Qasim, lit. S.C. Kafr Qasim) is an Israeli football club based in Kafr Qasim. The club currently plays in Liga Leumit, they play home matches at the Lod Municipal Stadium in Lod.

F.C. Kafr Qasim
Full nameMoadon Sport Kafr Qasim
Founded2002
GroundHaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva
Capacity11,500
ChairmanTareq Sarsour
ManagerSliman Azbarga
LeagueLiga Leumit
2020–21Liga Leumit, 12th

History

The club was formed in 2002 by a merger of two city rivals from Kafr Qasim, Hapoel Kafr Qasim and Maccabi Kafr Qasim. In the new club's first season, they won the 2002–03 Liga Bet South A division, and were promoted to Liga Alef,[1] where they spent three seasons, up until relegation in the 2005–06 season.

In the 2012–13 season, the club finished runners-up in Liga Bet South A division and qualified to the promotion play-offs.[2] After four successful promotion play-offs matches against F.C. Bnei Jaffa Ortodoxim, Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden, F.C. Shikun HaMizrah and Hapoel Arad, the club won promotion to Liga Alef, exactly ten years after they did so in the previous time.[3]

Kafr Qasim finished the 2013–14 season in Liga Alef South in the sixth place, four points short of the promotion play-offs.

In the two consecutive seasons 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 in Liga Alef FC. Kafr Qasim reached the Final game of the Promotion playoffs to the Liga Leumit against 14th Place sides from Liga Leumit, but failed to win promotion in both cases.

They were promoted to the second division Liga Leumit in 2019 automatically from 1st place of Liga Alef South.

Stadium

During the second decade of the twentieth century the club played in different stadiums like Lod Municipal Stadium and Winter Stadium.

These days, Kfar Qassem Football Stadium undergoing renovations and will contain 8,000 seats.

Current squad
As to 1 February 2022
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ISR Tzlil Hatuka
2 DF  ISR Yazan Nassar
3 DF  ISR Yogev Lerman
4 DF  CIV Doueugui Mala
5 MF  ISR Phililp Manneh
6 DF  ISR Ramz Taha
7 MF  ISR Maharan Radi
8 MF  GHA Gideon Akaouwa
9 FW  ISR Hisham Layous
10 FW  ISR Samah Mar'ab
11 FW  ISR Mohammed Khatib
12 MF  ISR Ben Khawaz
15 MF  ISR Itay Swisa
16 DF  SRB Nikola Ćirković
17 MF  ISR Madi Khatib
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  ISR Hassan Alaa A-Din
20 MF  ISR Ahmad Taha
21 MF  ISR Hamed Badir
22 GK  ISR Yonatan Ozer
23 DF  ISR Dror Nir
24 FW  ISR Moti Malka
26 DF  ISR Sahar Dabah
30 FW  ISR Mohammed Kalibat
36 MF  ISR Elad Shahaf
42 MF  ISR Muhammed Sarsour
66 MF  ISR Roy Dayan
70 DF  ISR Omri Amer
77 FW  ISR Amran El Krenawy
96 DF  ISR Khalil Farij

Honours

League
Honour No. Years
Third tier 1 2018–19
Fourth tier 2 1966–681, 1977–781
Fifth tier 1 2002–03

1Achieved by Hapoel Kafr Qasim

References
  1. Kafr Qasim: Every team will remember our crowd Goler1, 7.9.2013 (in Hebrew)
  2. Liga Bet South A 2012/2013 The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)
  3. Kafr Qasim after 10 years is back in Liga Alef Doublepass, 12.5.2013 (in Hebrew)
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