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Kaduregel Groundhopping Israel, Winter stadium, Ramat Gan (2026)

15/01/2026

14.01.26 | state cup | Hapoel Tel Aviv - Maccabi Tel Aviv 4:5 in penalty shootout (1:1, 1:1) | Bloomfield stadium Tel Aviv

The hate between the arch rivals that is back on pre war levels and the league derby was canceled last minute by the police because of excessive use of pyrotechnics by Hapoel Ultras which led to subsequent anti police protests of the Hapoel Ultras that spanned over weeks and drew ire of ministers and other public figures. Attempts to curb the protest with police violence failed and added to the tensions surrounding the state cup derby.

Expectations to see some "balagan" were high but what actually happened didn't live up to it. For the first time the derby didn't have to be paused after kickoff because of smoke. There's been smoke and fireworks in the Hapoel stands and flares in the Maccabi stands but compared to any derby before it was scaled back.

The police presence around and in the stadium was insane and the controls done in a way that created Hundreds of meters of waiting lines at the entrances.

As always since 7/10 the cauldron fell into silence and applauding from all stands when names of murdered and fallen fans were read out. After all even the derby is not everything.

Support was great from both sides but the game wasn't. Maccabi converted its dominance into lead in the beginning of HT2 but Hapoels wonderkid Turiel brought his colours back only minutes later. Then a red card for Maccabi made the game more balanced. There have been few opportunities for both sides to score but in the end a penalty shootout had to conclude a winner. After Maccabi failed its 4th. attempt, Hapoel just had to put its last one in the net but the story ended otherwise. In the end Maccabi added another win and one has to look back many years to find out when the reds won a derby.

Notably: The referee was Saphir Berman, the first trans woman in professional football worldwide.

14/01/2026

08.01.26 | Premier League (Ligat Ha'Al) Women | MS Kiriat G*t - Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem 1:3 | Lod municipal stadium

Nice game. Nice weather. Nice support for Hapoel Jerusalem.

14/01/2026

13.01.26 | state cup | Bnei Yehuda - Maccabi Herzelia 3:2 after penalties (0:0, 0:0) | Tikva neighborhood stadium Tel Aviv

HaTikva is a oriental, dark skinned, working class, socioeconomic weak, densly populated, loud, chaotic, extremely rightwing neighborhood around a market in Tel Aviv that has it's own football team and its colours orange black decorate the market and many buildings. The ties between the people living in Tikva and Bnei Yehuda are tight and since the team returned to play in the neighborhood stadium it's an experience to see their games. The home crowd is rude and swearing opponents and own players is dominant though there is also support by a group calling themselves Lions Army.

Bnei Yehuda performed poorly this season so far, shattering the promotion dreams of the neighborhood while Maccabi Herzelia, that promoted to the second league is in the race for promotion. The game was bad for almost all the 120 minutes and Bnei Yehuda failed to convert having one more player after a red card (VAR intervention) in the first half into an advantage on the pitch. Only from like ten minutes to the end of FT Bnei Yehuda started to threaten the goal.

The decision was brought in the penalty shootout and given the atmosphere the Bnei Yehuda players avoided big trouble with their fans by winning the shootout 3-2.

And rain. Lot of rain.

31/05/2025

15.01.25 | state cup | Beitar Nordia Jerusalem - MS Ashdod 1:4 | Emek HaArazim Jerusalem

22.05.25 | relegation 2nd./3rd. league | Beitar Nordia Jerusalem - Hapoel Nof HaGalil 2:5 | Ramat Gan stadium

This season Nordia was the 3rd. league side to reach the round of 16. Opponent was grey MS Ashdod from the Premier league. The atmosphere in the stands of the home side was great with lot of cheering and singing and completely positive and joyful. Nordia fans are Beitar Jerusalem fans that founded a Beitar Jerusalem team of their own because of tensions with the racist and violent part of Beitar Jerusalems Fan scene. Nordia fans subsequently are against racism and violence while their cheering is as powerful as that of the big Beitar Jerusalem.

The game was fine and even until about twenty minutes to the end. Only then when the Nordia players run out of energy the class difference could be seen.

Similar story with the relegation match. Nordia bravely fought it's way through the 3rd. league playoffs that followed their best regular season ever. Now on 22.5. there was the opportunity to become the second fan team in the second league and the second Jerusalem fan team to promote to the professional leagues.

Nordia succeeded to turn a 0:1 into a 2:1 and at HT it was 2:2 in an even game. But again from about minute 70 the higher class team profited from it's better physical condition. Before about 2000 fans, about 1000 from each side, Not HaGalil secured another season in the second league.

Nordia will stay in the 3rd. league south tb
hat is going to be remarkable next season with Ironi Ashdod and FC Kfar Saba as two more fan teams with a big fan base and other interesting teams like Marmorek, Shimshon TA or Kiriat Malakhi.

בית''ר נורדיה ירושלים

18/02/2025

18.02.25 | 3rd. league (א) north | Hapoel Migdal HaEmek - MS Tira 3:0 | municipal stadium Yafi'a

Attendance: app. 120. Saw this match before Corona under different circumstances. Back then the game was played in Migdal Emek but the guests fans outsized the home fans by far and had active support. This time and due to the fixture on a workday 2pm there were less guest fans and no support.

The game was played in the Yafi'a municipal stadium a nice stadium on the border of Arab Yafi'a and Jewish Migdal Emek as a kind of coexistence thing. However there has been a honourable amount of home fans and they saw a match that delivered all they hoped for.

Since third place Tira won against Kiriat Yam last weekend and it was the first loss of Kiriat Yam this season, Migdal HaEmek fans hoped to get closer and indeed they did.

3:0 sounds like the host have been much better but Tira wasn't that bad.

The game was most of the time on second league level and the defence of the hosts did very well in HT1. A penalty got them the lead.
In HT 2 Tira was pressing for the equalizer but with their first structured attack it was again Migdal Emek that scored with a formidable shot in the triangle. A minute later Tira missed their biggest chance to equalize after a blackout of an Migal Emek defender.

A similar mistake on the other side got the hosts the 3-0 and reason to dream on.

Yafi'a is kind of a Nazareth suburb and offers a range of eating spots and a typical Arab chaos. The ground is outside town and the way there offers some really great lookouts into the Yezraeel valley and on the surrounding mountains. The view from the stands itself is also superb.

Hapoel Migdal Haemeq

11/02/2025

11.01.19 | 4th. league (ב) north division א | Hapoel Kaukab - Ahva (Hapoel) Kfar Manda 0:0 | municipal stadium Kaukab

Another lovely Arab town in the Galilee with a stadium that allows you to enjoy the view of the valleys and mountains around from the stands. Taking a walk in town isn't a mistake and as long as you're ok with alcohol free there's also places to sit and enjoy.
In terms of football Kaukab saw much better days. Only few years ago they narrowly missed the promotion to the second league and now they fight against relegation from fourth league.
The game against their neighbors (more or less) from Kfar Manda started with about 15 fans but that number grew to about 80 within the first half hour. The highlights of the game are told easily. A penalty for the hosts that the guest keeper saved spectacularly was the highlight in HT1 and indeed the only scoring opportunity. The highlights of HT2 were the floodlights being turned on and a bicycle kick of a guest player that would have gotten in the net of not saved by the goalkeeper of the home side and one fine dribbling on the line within the box that ended with a shot on the goal from a steep angle that was also saved by the keeper. Other than this nothing really happened but the people in Kaukab are nice and it was worth a visit nevertheless.

هبوعيل كوكب הפועל כאוכב
הפועל כפר מנדא هبوعيل كفر مندا רשמית

11/02/2025

09.02.25 | 5th. league (ג) - Sharon division | Bnei Ra'anana - Maccabi Kfar Yona 1:4 | North park stadium Ra'anana

The cold was a challenge for the about 15 People that saw the game from the stands and conditions got harsher when rain and wind joined.
The game started well with a early lead of the guests after three minutes and the surprising equaliser just two minutes later. From.there on the game be ame really bad and one couldn't have guessed that Kfar Yona is in the race for promotion. Except of intensifying rain nothing happend in HT 1 after the promising opening. In HT there was an extended consideration to end the game but after about half an hour it was resumed. Kfar Yona finished the story withing a few minutes in the first half of HT 2 with a goal and a penalty goal that came with a red card for the hosts.
Towards the end the rain stopped but the poor performance on the pitch went on.
Highlight were some considreating guest fans (all the fans were indeed of the guests) that shared their sunflower grains and Mango juice with those also present in this Sibiric eve in Ra'anana..

07/01/2025

03.01.25 | 4th. league (ב) south א | HaKoah Amidar Ramat Gan - Amishav Petach Tikva 2:1 | Safari stadium Ramat Gan

After a series of losses and draws and low performances and mistake festivals that brought the fan camp that anyway had to go all the way down from Premier league to the 4th. league ulon the brink of collapse but after strengthening the defence the team looks all different now and won it's second in a row and Ultrasagol and the great atmosphere is back.

You never walk alone. Since 1909.

הכח מכבי עמידר רמת גן - Hakoach Maccabi Amidar Ramat Gan F.C

07/01/2025

05.01.25 | 5th. league (ג) - Central division | Maccabi Bat Yam - FC Dizengoff TA 3:11 | Bat Yam training ground

Hard to say to what extend the referee is to blame for the trashing of Bat Yam (Maccabi that plays in red) but the 9:2 for the guests followed a clear offside that he oversaw. The six people that withstood the cold to this point couldn't believe.

06/01/2025

06.01.25 | 2nd. league (Liga Leumit) | Hapoel Petach Tikva - Hapoel Tel Aviv 0:1 | Moshava stadium Petach Tikva

It's the two powerhouses in Israel's second league, both relegated from the Premier league last season and now fan- and support wise a class of their own in the league. Hapoel Petach Tikva is fan owned since the fans purchased the club. Their ultra group The Blue Frontier is very creative and non stop supporting. The fans of Hapoel Tel Aviv who succeeded to purchase their basketball team and broke grounds with that move failed to also purchase the football team but are powerful gatekeepers when it comes to the DNA of HTA, a traditional left wing club. Their support is known far beyond the national competitions.

The game was for the most of the time poor, but the atmosphere was great with 11.000 that filled the Moshava up, had choreography and provided great support for their respective teams, with Hapoel Ultras from Tel Aviv being superb after they took the lead in HT2. Petah Tikva fans saw their team attack in the end, got tense, tried to push but the guests took the points and overtook them in the standings.

As it can be seen from the pics the supporters of both deserve to see their teams in the first league.

מועדון הכדורגל הפועל 'מבנה' פתח-תקוה Hapoel 'Mivne' Petah Tikva

Hapoel Tel Aviv FC - מועדון הכדורגל הפועל תל אביב

31/12/2024

31.12.24 | 5th. league (ג) - Mifraz division | Hapoel Dalyat El Carmel - FC Carmel Haifa 2:1 | Dalyat El Carmel

Truely a gem in Israel's 5th. and lowest leagues. The biggest Druze town in Israel is located on a mountain and offers stunning views. It's center is tourist and filled with crafts shops and restaurants and you get great authentic Druze food there. The Druze are the brothers in arms of the Jews and flags of the Druze and Israel are flown everywhere. The stadium is a stunner, from the outside covered in graffiti and from the stands with a view on the Mediterranean on foot of the Carmel mountain. There's an old lady selling food and there's an unusual high attendance, at this game about 150. On top there's occasional support.

The game was bad and one sided but due to a lack of precision and control and also bad luck the pressing home side didn't score in HT1 but the guests did with their only attack. HT2 brought the turnaround with a superb wide range shot that marked the 2:1 and was undoubtedly the highlight on the pitch.

The Druze people are very friendly and to see of Dalyat El Carmel is a clear recommendation.

10/12/2024

10.12.24 | 3rd. league (א) north | Hapoel Bu'eine - Hapoel Bnei Zalafe 1:1 | Nujedat Stadion Bu'eine Nujedat

14 o'clock game that Bu'eine played in the towns rivals stadium at best football weather. The town and stadium are located in the lovely hills of the lower Galil. Locals were friendly and only the sound of a nearby quarry and some dust when the wind came from there bothered the perfect setting. The game wasn't that good but offered some entertainment. A red card for the home team, a highly questionable penalty for the guests that led to their lead and a penalty for the home team in OT that led to sharing the points. After the game a skirmish broke out, like it happens so often when Arab teams play one another.

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