| Full name | Ironi Tiberias Football Club | ||
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| Nickname | Tiberians | ||
| Founded | 2006 | ||
| Ground | Municipal Stadium,Tiberias | ||
| Capacity | 4,500 | ||
| Owner | Dorot Group | ||
| Chairman | Arie Kalmanzon & Mickey Bitan | ||
| Manager | Eliran Hudeda | ||
| League | Israeli Premier League | ||
| 2023–24 | Liga Leumit, 2nd of 16 | ||
Ironi Tiberias (Hebrew:עירוני טבריה) is an Israeli professionalfootball club based inTiberias. The club is not connected toHapoel Tiberias, a former club which spent several seasons in the top division of Israeli football in the 1960s and the 1980s, making its last appearance in the top flight in 1989.
Football was played inTiberias before theIsraeli Declaration of Independence. The first club in the city,Maccabi Tiberias, was formed in 1925[1] and was playing football as early as 1927.[2] A year later, Maccabi Tiberias competed in thefirst ever edition of theIsrael State Cup.
The best known club from Tiberias wasHapoel Tiberias, which played in the top division of the Israeli football in the 1960s, from1961–62 to1964–65, and again in1988–89.
A third club operating in Tiberias during these years was Beitar Tiberias, although it mainly played in the lower levels of theIsraeli league, its best performance being reachingLiga Bet, the third tier in the late 1960s and the 1970s.
By the late 1990s, both Maccabi and Hapoel had folded, and the only active club was Beitar Tiberias. In 2001 the club was merged withHapoel Mo'atza Ezorit Galil Tahton to form Hapoel Galil Tahton/Tiberias.[3] in 2007 the club changed its name to Ironi Tiberias.
In2006–07 the club finished 2nd inLiga Bet North B and was promoted through play-offs. After several seasons inLiga Alef North, the club qualified for the promotion play-off at the end of the2010–11 season, falling in the first round toHapoel Asi Gilboa. In thefollowing season, the club finished 2nd inLiga Alef, but didn't take part in the promotion play-offs, which involved only the league winner,Hapoel Asi Gilboa.
The club finished 2nd once again in2013–14 and qualified for the promotion play-offs, and after beatingMaccabi Daliyat al-Karmel,Hapoel Migdal HaEmek andHapoel Azor, facedHapoel Katamon Jerusalem in the decisive promotion/relegation play-offs. Tiberias won 5–1 on aggregate (3–0, 2–1) and was promoted toLiga Leumit. However, the club's spell in Liga Leumit lasted only one season, as they finished second bottom in the2014–15 season and were relegated back to Liga Alef.
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| Honour | No. | Years |
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| Fourth tier | 1 | 1966–681 |
| Fifth tier | 1 | 1996–971 |
1As Beitar Tiberias
