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Israel

Shirt badge/Association crest

Nickname(s)

The Blue and White

Association

IFA

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Dror Kashtan (2006-)

Captain

Yossi Benayoun

Most caps

Arik Benado (95)

Top scorer

Mordechai Spiegler (32)

Home stadium

Ramat Gan Stadium

FIFA code

ISR

First colours

Second colours

FIFA ranking

Current

Highest

20 (April, August 2008)

Lowest

71 (September 1993)

First international

Egypt 7 - 1 Palestine/Eretz Israel

(Cairo, Egypt; March 16, 1934)

Biggest win

Israel 9 - 0 Chinese Taipei

(Wellington, New Zealand; March 23, 1988)

Biggest defeat

Egypt 7 - 1 Palestine/Eretz Israel

(Cairo, Egypt; March 16, 1934)

World Cup

Appearances

1 (first in 1970)

Best result

Round 1, 1970

European Championship

Appearances

0 (first in -)

Best result

Asian Championship

Appearances

4 (first in 1956)

Best result

Winners, 1964

File:Israel 1970.jpg

Israeli team in 1970 FIFA World Cup

The Israeli National Football Team (Template:Lang-he) is the national football team of Israel and is controlled by the Israel Football Association.

The Israel Football Association (IFA) was founded under the name Palestine Football Association (PFA) in 1928, 20 years before the establishment of the state of Israel at the end of the British Mandate of Palestine. The PFA was accepted as a full member of FIFA in 1929. The PFA first dealt with local leagues, but later also managed the national team that was created to participate in the World Cup qualifications (participating in 1934 and 1938 as the Palestine/Eretz Yisrael national team).

Israel has taken part in three different continents: Asia, Europe and Oceania in the Football World Cup qualifiers, before settling in Europe as a member of UEFA in 1994.

The Israeli side qualified for their only FIFA World Cup to date in 1970.

History

Before independence

Palestine played its first official game in 1934 in the world cup qualifiers losing 1-7 to Egypt. The team's first goal ever was scored by Avraham Nudelmann. Upon creation of the State of Israel in 1948, IFA became the official association of the new state. The Israel national team's first game as an independent state was on September 26, 1948, against the USA (result: 1-3 to the USA).

Asian history

Israel initially competed in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), although due to their ongoing geopolitical situation many Asian nations often refused to compete against Israel. Both this, and their geographical proximity to Europe, meant that they mainly competed in European (UEFA) or Oceanian (OFC) World Cup qualifying tournaments. In 1964 Israel hosted and won the Asian Nations Cup. In 1968 Israel went to their first Olympic Games and lost to Bulgaria in the quarter-finals. In 1970 Israel qualified for their first and only World Cup, via Oceania, but only got two points after draws with Sweden and finalist Italy and a loss to Uruguay.

In 1976, Israel went to their second Olympic Games and lost in the quarter-finals again, this time against Brazil. In 1972 and 1977 they attempted World Cup qualification as part of Asia, which both times ended in failure.

Years in exile

In 1974, Israel had left the AFC as their position within it became untenable. During the 1980s they played their majority of matches against European teams, and competed in the European leg of qualification for the 1982 World Cup. For the next two tournaments they entered the Oceania Football Confederation's qualification groups and in 1989, Israel made it to the playoffs of WC Italy 1990 to play against Colombia, who qualified from the South American group, but lost (1-0, 0-0).

European history

In 1991 Israeli clubs began participating in European club competitions and Israel returned to the European leg of World Cup qualifying in 1992, notably winning 3-2 in Paris against France in 1993. In 1994, Israel received full UEFA membership, twenty years since they had left Asia. Within Europe, Israel have been a relatively minor nation, though with some successes. In 1999, Israel made it to the playoffs of Euro 2000, but was beaten by Denmark.

In 2006 World Cup qualifying, Israel finished third in European zone Group Four behind France and Switzerland despite being unbeaten in their 10 matches after four wins and six draws, and failed to qualify for the finals. Coach Avraham Grant announced his resignation on 26 October 2005. After the end of his contract he was succeeded by Dror Kashtan. In UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying, Israel finished fourth in group E, behind Croatia, Russia and England. The 3-4 home loss to Croatia was the first loss after 13 consecutive official games and 9 home games without a loss. Although Israel failed to qualify, Israel advanced in the world ranking, what led Israel to pot 2 at the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification draw. The continued presence of the Israeli Football Association in UEFA was a precedent cited by Australia to justify its transfer from Oceania to the Asian Football Federation.

Competition history

FIFA World Cup record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1930	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1934	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1938	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1962	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Round One	13th	3	0	2	1	1	3
1974	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010

Asian Nations Cup record

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
AFC Asian Cup
1956	Second place	3	2	0	1	5	4
1960	Second place	3	2	0	1	6	4
1964	Champions	3	3	0	0	5	1
1968	Third place	4	2	0	2	11	5

Israel did not compete in a regional competition between the years 1968 and 1996

European Championship record

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
European Championship
1996	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-

FIFA 2010 World Cup Qualification

Template:2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 2

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score¹	Competition	Israel scorers
26 March 2008	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Chile	1-0	F	Yossi Benayoun
20 August 2008	Finland (A)	Finland		F
6 September 2008	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Switzerland		WCQ
10 September 2008	Zimbru Stadium, Chisinau (A)	Moldova		WCQ
11 October 2008	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg (A)	Luxembourg		WCQ
15 October 2008	Skonto Stadions, Riga (A)	Latvia		WCQ
28 March 2009	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Greece		WCQ
1 April 2009	Greece (A)	Greece		WCQ
5 September 2009	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Latvia		WCQ
9 September 2009	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Luxembourg		WCQ
10 October 2009	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan (H)	Moldova		WCQ
14 October 2009	Stade de Suisse, Berne (A)	Switzerland		WCQ

Key

¹ = Israeli score shown first
H = Home match
A = Away match
F = Friendly
WCQ = World Cup Qualifier

Current squad

Players in the 23-man squad for the friendly match against Finland on August 20 2008

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Dudu Aouate	17 October 1977 (age 30)	34	0	Deportivo
22	1GK	Nir Davidovich	17 December 1976 (age 31)	46	0	Maccabi Haifa
33	1GK	Liran Strauber	20 August 1974 (age 33)	6	0	Maccabi Netanya

3	2DF	Tal Ben Haim	31 March 1982 (age 26)	40	0	Manchester City
5	2DF	Avi Strool	18 September 1980 (age 27)	5	0	K.S.C. Lokeren
22	2DF	Dekel Keinan	15 September 1984 (age 24)	3	0	Maccabi Haifa
12	2DF	Shmuel Kozokin	24 July 1987 (age 21)	0	0	Beitar Jerusalem
21	2DF	Klemi Saban	17 February 1980 (age 28)	13	0	Maccabi Netanya
14	2DF	Yoav Ziv	16 March 1981 (age 28)	14	0	Beitar Jerusalem
19	2DF	Dedi Ben Dayan	22 November 1978 (age 29)	13	0	Maccabi Netanya\|- class="nat-fs-player"	18	2DF	Yuval Spungin	3 April 1987 (age 21)	8	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv

19	3MF	Gal Alberman	17 April 1983 (age 25)	18	1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
20	3MF	Tamir Cohen	4 March 1984 (age 24)	6	0	Bolton Wanderers
11	3MF	Moshe Ohayon	25 May 1983 (age 25)	6	0	Beitar Jerusalem
25	3MF	Biram Kiyal	18 May 1988 (age 20)	0	0	Maccabi Haifa
15	3MF	Yossi Benayoun	5 May 1980 (age 28)	63	15	Liverpool
8	3MF	Aviram Baruchyan	20 March 1985 (age 23)	5	1	Beitar Jerusalem
10	3MF	Maor Buzaglo	14 January 1988 (age 20)	2	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv

21	4FW	Roberto Colautti	24 May 1982 (age 26)	8	6	Borussia Mönchengladbach
31	4FW	Ben Sahar	10 August 1989 (age 18)	7	2	Portsmouth F.C.
10	4FW	Elyaniv Barda	15 December 1981 (age 26)	7	2	Racing Genk
7	4FW	Amit Ben-Shushan	23 May 1985 (age 23)	12	2	Beitar Jerusalem
12	4FW	Omer Golan	4 October 1982 (age 25)	24	3	K.S.C. Lokeren

Recent callups

The following players have all recently been called up to the Israel squad.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Ohad Cohen	10 June 1975 (age 33)	0	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva

	2DF	Shimon Gershon	6 October 1977 (age 30)	50	0	Beitar Jerusalem
	2DF	Tomer Ben-Yosef	2 September 1979 (age 28)	7	0	Beitar Jerusalem
	2DF	Arik Benado	5 December 1973 (age 34)	95	0	Beitar Jerusalem
	2DF	Eyal Meshumar	10 August 1983 (age 25)	2	0	Maccabi Haifa

	3MF	Idan Tal	13 September 1975 (age 32)	69	5	Beitar Jerusalem
	3MF	Michael Zandberg	16 April 1980 (age 28)	20	4	Beitar Jerusalem
	3MF	Yossi Shivhon	22 March 1982 (age 26)	3	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
18	3MF	Gai Assulin	9 April 1991 (age 17)	1	0	FC Barcelona

9	4FW	Barak Yitzhaki	25 September 1984 (age 23)	6	1	Beitar Jerusalem
	4FW	Toto Tamuz	1 April 1988 (age 20)	10	2	Beitar Jerusalem
	4FW	Pini Balili	18 June 1979 (age 29)	29	7	Sivasspor

Player history

Notable current and former players

Most capped players

#	Name	Caps
1	Arik Benado	95
2	Alon Harazi	90
3	Amir Shelah	85
4	Mordechai Spiegler	83
5	Nir Klinger	83
6	Eyal Berkovic	82
7	Avi Nimni	80

Top scorers

#	Name	Goals
1	Mordechai Spiegler	32
2	Yehoshua Feigenbaum	24
3	Ronen Harazi	23
4	Nahum Stelmach	22
5	Shiye Glazer	18
=	Giora Spiegel	18
7	Alon Mizrahi	17
=	Eli Ohana	17

Player records

Main article: Israel national football team records

Palestine/Eretz Yisrael managers

Manager	Palestine/Eretz Yisrael career	Played	Won	Lost	GF	GA	Win %
Shimon Ratner	1934	2	0	2	2	11	00.0%
Egon Pollack	1938	2	0	2	1	4	00.0%
Arthur Baar	1940	1	1	0	5	1	100.0%

Israel managers

Manager	Israel career	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	Win %
Egon Pollack	1948	1	0	0	0	0	1	00.0%
Lajos Hess	1949	3	1	0	2	5	12	33.3%
Vladislav Scali	1950	2	1	0	1	7	4	50.0%
Jerry Beit haLevi	1953 - 1954	5	0	0	5	1	7	00.0%
Jack Gibbons	1956	5	2	0	3	7	12	40.0%
Jerry Beit haLevi	1957	1	0	0	1	4	5	00.0%
Moshe Varon	1958	5	2	0	3	6	7	40.0%
Gyula Mándi	1959 - 1963	31	12	7	12	49	63	50.0%
George Ainsley	1963 - 1964	3	2	0	1	4	2	66.7%
Yosef Mirmovich	1964	1	0	0	0	0	4	00.0%
Gyula Mándi	1964	3	3	0	0	5	1	100.0%
Yosef Mirmovich	1964 - 1965	3	1	0	2	2	2	33.3%
Milovan Ćirić	1965 - 1968	25	8	2	15	43	45	36.0%
Emmanuel Scheffer	1968 - 1970	24	8	8	8	44	34	50.0%
Edmond Schmilovich	1970 - 1973	19	10	4	5	27	13	63.2%
David Schweitzer	1973 - 1977	36	17	11	8	67	34	62.5%
Emmanuel Scheffer	1978 - 1979	13	5	4	4	17	15	53.8%
Jack Mansell	1980 - 1981	10	2	3	5	8	12	35.0%
Yosef Mirmovich	1983 - 1986	27	8	9	10	39	36	46.3%
Miljenko Mihić	1986 - 1988	20	4	5	11	27	35	32.5%
Itzhak Schneor & Ya'akov Grundman	1988 - 1992	18	5	5	8	21	30	32.5%
Shlomo Scharf	1992 - 1999	82	31	18	33	131	118	48.2%
Richard Møller Nielsen	2000 - 2001	20	7	4	9	29	33	45.0%
Avram Grant	2002 - 2006	33	14	13	6	55	37	42.4%
Dror Kashtan	2006 -	18	10	4	4	27	17	55.5%

Results of The National Israeli/Eretz Israel Team Against Other Teams By Nation

Against	W	D	L	Pts
Cyprus	8	3	2	26
Romania	5	5	16	23
Japan	7	0	0	21
United States	6	1	2	19
New Zealand	6	1	1	19
Chinese Taipei	6	0	1	18
Australia	3	9	6	18
Greece	4	4	8	16
Luxembourg	5	0	0	15
Malta	4	2	0	14
Lithuania	4	1	0	13
Hong Kong	4	0	0	12
Ethiopia	4	0	0	12
India	4	0	0	12
France	2	5	4	11
Netherlands	3	1	5	10
Sweden	2	4	6	10
South Korea	2	4	5	10
Poland	2	4	5	10
South Vietnam	3	0	1	9
Estonia	3	0	0	9
Sri Lanka	3	0	0	9
Azerbaijan	3	0	0	9
Belarus	3	0	1	9
Russia	2	3	2	9
Austria	1	5	4	8
Yugoslavia	2	1	6	7
Belgium	2	1	5	7
Finland	2	1	2	7
Georgia	2	1	1	7
Faroe Islands	2	1	0	7
Turkey	2	0	4	6
Portugal	2	0	4	6
San Marino	2	0	0	6
Liechtenstein	2	0	0	6
North Macedonia	2	0	0	6
Andorra	2	0	0	6
Malaysia	2	0	0	6
Latvia	2	0	0	6
Switzerland	1	3	3	6
Republic of Ireland	1	3	1	6
Bulgaria	1	2	4	5
England	1	2	3	5
Moldova	1	2	0	5
Ukraine	1	2	0	5
Thailand	1	2	0	5
Germany	1	1	5	4
Iran	1	1	3	4
Hungary	1	1	2	4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	1	0	4
Iceland	1	1	0	4
Pakistan	1	1	0	4
Mexico	1	1	0	4
Denmark	1	0	7	3
Soviet Union	1	0	4	3
Norway	1	0	1	3
Myanmar	1	0	1	3
Argentina	1	0	0	3
Ghana	1	0	0	3
El Salvador	1	0	0	3
Armenia	1	0	0	3
Singapore	1	0	0	3
Uzbekistan	1	0	0	3
Lebanon	1	0	0	3
Philippines	1	0	0	3
Serbia	1	0	0	3
Indonesia	1	0	0	3
Chile	1	0	0	3
Northern Ireland	0	3	3	3
Spain	0	2	4	2
Wales	0	2	2	2
Slovenia	0	2	1	2
Croatia	0	1	4	1
Italy	0	1	4	1
Uruguay	0	1	3	1
Slovakia	0	1	2	1
Colombia	0	1	1	1
Guatemala	0	1	0	1
Scotland	0	0	4	0
Brazil	0	0	4	0
Egypt	0	0	2	0
South Africa	0	0	1	0
Czech Republic	0	0	1	0
Total	150	95	161	545

External links

The Israel Football Association (official)
Israel National Team - List of "A" Games

Notes

The Israel FA Background
Goals for / scored
Goals against / conceded
Goals for / scored
Goals against / conceded

Titles

Preceded by1960 South Korea

Asian Champions
1964 (First title)

Succeeded by1968 Iran

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Football in Israel

Domestic leagues

Men	Premier League Liga Leumit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel Noar Premier League
Women	Women's League
Other	Beach Soccer League Futsal League

Domestic cups

Men	State Cup Super Cup Toto Cup Youth State Cup
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Defunct competitions

National teams

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