Hapoel Beit Dagan F.C. Explained

Clubname:	Hapoel Beit Dagan F.C.
Fullname:	Hapoel Beit Dagan Football Club הפועל בית דגן
Founded:	1949
Dissolved:	1964
League:	Liga Gimel
Season:	1963–64
Position:	9th (Central division)

Hapoel Beit Dagan F.C. (Hebrew: הפועל בית דגן), also called Hapoel Beit Dagon, after the name of the biblical Beit Dagon,^[1] was a football club from Beit Dagan, Israel.

History

The club was established in 1949, and entered the second division,^[2] finishing ninth in the Jerusalem-South division. For the 1953–54 season, the club played in a regional Hapoel league, rather in Liga Gimel^[3] and rejoined the IFA league system for the 1954–55 season.^[4] The club remained in Liga Gimel, which became fourth division in 1956, until the end of the 1963–64 season, after which the club folded.

Notes and References

Singer. Itamar. Towards the image of Dagon, the god of the Philistines. Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 1992. 69. 3. 431–450. 24 October 2015.
http://jhpress.nli.org.il/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TAUHe&BaseHref=AHR/1949/12/07&PageLabelPrint=3&EntityId=Ar00323&ViewMode=HTML Additional Matches in Liga Meuhedet
http://jhpress.nli.org.il/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TAUHe&BaseHref=AHR/1953/10/23&PageLabelPrint=4&EntityId=Ar00411&ViewMode=HTML Leagues for Hapoel in Negev and South
http://archive.football.org.il/multimedia/PDF/Newspapers/hadashot/1955/07-17-1955.pdf Fierce and Dramatic Struggles in Gimel Leagues