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Maccabi Ironi Tamra F.C.

Israeli football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ6584454 ↗
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Maccabi Ironi Tamra F.C. (Hebrew: מכבי עירוני טמרה) is an Israeli football club based in Tamra. The club currently plays in Liga Alef North division.

History

The club was founded in 1965 and played in the lower divisions of Israeli football until the 1980s, when the club enjoyed a period of success, after they won Liga Bet North A division in the 1983–84 season, and were promoted to Liga Alef, and later, won Liga Alef North in the 1987–88 season, and made historic promotion to Liga Artzit, the second tier of Israeli football at the time.

In 1988–89, their debut season in Liga Artzit, the club finished in the 10th place out of 14. However, in the following season, they finished third bottom (14th out of 16), and dropped back to Liga Alef, after losing 0–1 after extra time to Ironi Ashdod in the Promotion-relegation play-off match.

During their spell in Liga Artzit, the club was managed by Eli Guttman, who would later become manager of Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israel national team.

The club was last relegated from Liga Alef at the end of the 2011–12 season, after second finish at last place in Liga Alef North. at the end of the 2013–14 season, they were relegated to Liga Gimel, the fifth and lowest tier of Israeli football, after losing the Liga Bet North A relegation play-offs against Hapoel Bnei Maghar and Hapoel Sakhnin.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1983, 1987, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. For this dossier, Maccabi, Ironi and Tamra is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maccabi Ironi Tamra F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.