Beitar Jerusalem FC
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| Full name | Beitar Jerusalem Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) |
The Menorah The Flag of the State Lions from the Capital |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Ground | Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem |
| Capacity | 31,733 |
| Owner | Eli Tabib |
| Chairman | Moshe Damayo |
| Manager | Sharon Mimer |
| League | Israeli Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Israeli Premier League, 3rd |
Beitar Jerusalem Football club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים; Moadon Kaduregel Beitar Yerushalayim) is an Israeli professional football club from Jerusalem, Israel. Founded in 1936 and plays in the Israeli Premier League. Beitar were the 1986–87, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1997–98 and 2006–07, 2007–08 champions of the Israeli Premier League and the winners of Israeli Cup (1976, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1989, 2008, 2009), and Israeli Supercup (1976, 1986).
The club is based at the Teddy Stadium in the Malha neighborhood, and plays in black and yellow.
Beitar Jerusalem was founded in 1936 by David Horn (born 1916) as a youth team. The first games were held against Armenian and Arab teams in Jerusalem, while Hapoel Jerusalem stayed away because of political hate against Beitar Jerusalem. The club was dismantled in 1938 after one of its managers was arrested by the British Mandate authorities and another was shot and injured in another incident. Beitar's troubles were linked to its close connections with the Irgun underground with which David Horn and the club's players were associated. In 1942, the club was reestablished, this time as a club for adults rather than just a youth team, and Shmuel Kirshtein joined the management. Politics again became a problem, with British soldiers and policemen often attending Beitar games to spy and identify the faces of the players.
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