Bnot Sakhnin (Hebrew: בנות סכנין, Arabic: بنات سخنين) is an Arab-Israeli women's football club from Sakhnin competing in the Israeli First League and the Israeli Women's Cup.
| Full name | Bnot Sakhnin Football Club בנות סכנין |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Ground | Doha Stadium, Sakhnin |
| Capacity | 8,500 |
| Chairman | Ataf Amar |
| Manager | Zahi Alian |
| League | Ligat Nashim |
| 2014–15 | 6th |
History
editThe club was established in 1999 as a youth club, and in 2002 joined the senior league.,[1] reaching their best placing, 4th, in 2009–10. The club twice, in 2013 and 2014 finished second bottom of the first division and had to play a promotion/relegation play-off match against the second division's runners-up, twice winning and retaining its first division status.
In the cup, the club's best achievement is reaching the semi-finals in 2010, losing 1–2 to Maccabi Be’er Sheva, and in 2012, losing 0–5 to ASA Tel Aviv University.
Youth teams
editThe club operates a u-19 and u-16 teams, which had won several titles, the u-19 team won the state championship and the u-19 state cup in 2013–14,[2] as well as regional league titles in 2009 and 2011, while the u-16 team won the state championship and the u-16 state cup in 2011–12 and 2012–13.
References
edit- ^ High-School Girls, Footballers, and from Sakhnin David Ratner, 6 November 2002, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
- ^ U-19 women: Bnot Sakhnin Won the Double Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Uri Shamir, 30 May 2014, Vole.co.il (in Hebrew)
External links
edit- F.C. Ramat HaSharon Israeli Football Association (in Hebrew)
- Forerunners: Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin – From Excluded Citizens to Beneficial Citizens Ye’ela Lahav-Raz, Israeli Sociology 14(2), 2013, pp. 267–287 (in Hebrew)
- Game of Freedom – Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin in Football Ye’ela Lahav-Raz and Shlomi Reznik, Wingate Academic College (in Hebrew)
- Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Football Stadium: Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin Ye’ela Lahav-Raz, December 2008, Hebrew University (in Hebrew)