Maccabi Haifa F.C. (women)
Maccabi Haifa Women’s Football Club was a Haifa-based Israeli team founded in 1998 by Maccabi Haifa to help start a women’s league after Israel formed a women’s national team. They played in the top division and the Israeli Women’s Cup, winning two league titles and three cups, and they competed in the 2002–03 UEFA Women’s Cup.
The team was coached by Isar Ravitz at first, with Avraham Abukarat taking over later. They won Israel’s first two cups (1998–99 and 1999–2000) and the first informal league in 1998. In 2001–02 they won the league again, losing only one league game and beating Hapoel Tel Aviv 5–0 in the cup final. Their league title earned them a spot in the UEFA Cup, where they did not win any group matches.
In 2002–03 they won the northern group of the Israeli league but lost the championship playoff to Maccabi Holon, and they also lost the cup final 2–3 to Holon. Financial problems and lack of support from national football bodies led the club to stop operating in late 2003 and to fold in November 2004, with players released.
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