F.C. Kafr Qasim

Full name

Moadon Sport Kafr Qasim

Founded

2002

Ground

HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva

Capacity

11,500

Chairman

Tareq Sarsour

Manager

Adham Hadiya

League

Liga Leumit

2022–23

Liga Leumit, 13th of 16

Home colours

Away colours

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.

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 8 February 2024


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ISR	Shalev Sharabi
2	DF	ISR	Noam Cohen
3	DF	ISR	Ilay Shifki
4	DF	ISR	Fadi Najar
6	MF	BRA	Pedro Sass
7	MF	ISR	Asil Kna'ani
8	DF	ISR	Omri Amer
9	FW	ISR	Guy Dahan
10	FW	PLE	Fadi Zidan
11	FW	ISR	Roy Doga
14	DF	ISR	Liran Rigan
18	MF	ISR	Roy Dayan
20	MF	ISR	Ahmad Taha
22	FW	ISR	Ido Elmshily


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	MF	ISR	Shay Golan
26	MF	ISR	Aviv Negbi
27	MF	ISR	Ihab Abu Alsheikh
30	MF	ISR	Mohammed Amer
34	FW	ISR	Sayed Abu Farchi
40	DF	ISR	Tzlil Nehemia
42	MF	ISR	Muhammed Sarsour
70	FW	ISR	Nir Abergil
78	GK	ISR	Maor Erlich
88	MF	CIV	Alfa Mamadou Diané
90	MF	ISR	Adham Swaed
92	FW	ISR	Omar Younes
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

External links

References

^ Kafr Qasim: Every team will remember our crowd Goler1, 7.9.2013 (in Hebrew)
^ Liga Bet South A 2012/2013 Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine The Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)
^ Kafr Qasim after 10 years is back in Liga Alef Doublepass, 12.5.2013 (in Hebrew)

Liga Leumit

Clubs

Stadiums

Seasons

1937–1955	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941–42 1943–44 1946–47 1947–48 1949–1950 1951–52 1953–54 1954–55
Liga Alef (1955–1976)	1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76
Liga Artzit (1976–1999)	1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99
Liga Leumit (1999–)	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24