Reuven Atar
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Reuven Atar | ||
| Date of birth | January 3, 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Tirat Carmel, Israel | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1994 | Maccabi Haifa | 198 | (49) |
| 1994–1997 | Hapoel Haifa | 69 | (37) |
| 1997 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 27 | (5) |
| 1999 | Hapoel Haifa | 5 | (2) |
| 2000 | Beitar Jerusalem | 16 | (5) |
| 2000–2002 | Maccabi Haifa | 66 | (6) |
| 2002–2003 | Maccabi Netanya | 21 | (9) |
| National team | |||
| 1989–1997 | Israel | 33 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2003–2004 | Maccabi Netanya (assistant) | ||
| 2004–2006 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2006 | Maccabi Herzliya | ||
| 2007–2008 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2008–2009 | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| 2009–2012 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2012 | Maccabi Haifa | ||
| 2013 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2014–2015 | Hapoel Haifa | ||
| 2015-2016 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2017- | Hapoel Afula | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Reuven Atar (Hebrew: ראובן עטר; born January 3, 1969) is a retired Israeli football player who was mostly known for his career in Maccabi Haifa and now he works as a manager, in this position he is mostly known for his work with Maccabi Netanya.
Atar is a first-generation Israeli of Moroccan immigrants who settled in Tirat Carmel. During his adolescence, he played football for the Maccabi Haifa youth club. For many, he is one of the greatest players to ever don the Haifa colors.
After playing eight seasons for Maccabi Haifa and winning three titles for the club (The Toto Cup, and the Israeli Cup twice – one of which as both a Cup and a championship title at the same year), he joined the local rival team – Hapoel Haifa for four seasons, before being signed off to Beitar Jerusalem. At Beitar he played only one match before being injured, which rendered him unable to play during the rest of the season.
In the next season, Atar moved to Hapoel Petah Tikva for a single season, before moving back to Hapoel Haifa and a few months later back to Beitar Jerusalem, where he became one of the most popular players. In 2000 he returned to Maccabi Haifa, winning two championships. Atar left Haifa for Maccabi Netanya before the 2002/03 season, the last team in his professional career as a player.
During the season in Netanya, Atar was injured and decided to retire from his career as a player. He quickly signed as assistant coach in Netanya, first alongside Gili Landau and later on Eli Cohen. At the end of the 2003/04 season, Cohen has left the club, and Atar was chosen as the club's head-coach. Even though the M.C Netanya was relegated at the end of that season to the second league in Israel, "Liga Leumit", Atar remained in his position and helped the club return to the Premier League after only one season. In 2006, Atar was sent home by Netanya's new manager, Eyal Berkovich, and proceeded to move and coach Maccabi Herzliya, from which he was fired after only 8 league games before returning to Netanya, later guiding the club to the second place in the Israeli Premier League, and the UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds.
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