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Beitar Jerusalem F.C.

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Beitar Jerusalem F.C.

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association football club in Israel

Key facts

Full name
Beitar Jerusalem Football Club
Nicknames
Beitar, The Menorah , The Lions from the Capital, The Flag of the State
Short name
BEI
Founded
1936 ; 90 years ago ( 1936 )
Ground
Teddy Stadium , Jerusalem , Israel
Capacity
31,733
Owner
Barak Abramov
Head coach
Barak Yitzhaki
League
Israeli Premier League
2024 25
Israeli Premier League , 4th of 14
Website
www .beitarfc .co .il

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Country
Israel
Headquarters
Jerusalem
Official website
www.beitarfc.co.il
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topic's main category
Category:Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
Commons category
Beitar Jerusalem FC
home venue
Teddy Stadium
inception
1936-00-00
head coach
Barak Yitzhaki
social media followers
20900
category for members of a team
Category:Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players
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Encyclopedic overview

Beitar Jerusalem Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל בית״ר ירושלים, romanized: Moadon Kaduregel Beitar Yerushalayim), commonly known as Beitar Jerusalem (Hebrew: בית״ר ירושלים, romanized: Beitar Yerushalayim) or simply Beitar (בית״ר), is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Jerusalem, that plays in the Israeli Premier League, the top tier in Israeli football. The club has traditionally worn kit colours of yellow and black and plays its home matches in Teddy Stadium. The stadium is the largest stadium in Israel, with a capacity of 31,733.

The club is one of the most popular in Israel and is among the Israeli clubs with the highest number of fans in the country. The club was founded in 1936 by Shmuel Kirschstein and David Horn, who chaired the Betar branch in Jerusalem. Several team members were also part of the outlawed Irgun and Lehi militias closely associated with the right-wing Revisionist Zionism movement. Beitar's fans have become a highly controversial political symbol in Israeli football culture, unofficially aligning with the Revisionist Zionist movement and Likud party. Beitar is the only club in the Israel Premier League to have never signed an Arab player and the fanbase is notorious for its anti-Arab racism and anti-Muslim religious bigotry. Notably, the club has previously signed four non-Arab Muslim players.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beitar Jerusalem F.C.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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