Bnot Sakhnin F.C.

Bnot Sakhnin F.C.
Full nameBnot Sakhnin Football Club
בנות סכנין
Founded1999
GroundDoha Stadium, Sakhnin
Capacity8,500
ChairmanAtaf Amar
ManagerZahi Alian
LeagueLigat Nashim
2014–156th

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.

History

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The 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

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The 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

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  1. ^ High-School Girls, Footballers, and from Sakhnin David Ratner, 6 November 2002, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
  2. ^ 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)
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