Hapoel Rehovot Explained

Clubname:	הפועל רחובות Hapoel Rehovot
Fullname:	Hapoel Rehovot
Founded:	1955
Dissolved:	2002
Chairman:	menachem frishler
Manager:	yehuda sandler
League:	top league
Colour1:	red
Colour2:	red-white

Hapoel Rehovot was a handball team from the city of Rehovot, Israel.

Hapoel was the biggest handball club in Israel until the mid-1980s; they won 13 championships and 5 Israeli cups. They also competed 9 times in the European Cup, but never managed to pass the second round. The last time the club competed in a European competition was in the 1995-96 EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

After some bad years in the late 1990s, the team was dissolved in 2002.^[1]

Titles

• Israel Champions (13):^[2] 1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984
• Israel Cup Holder (5): 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985

Notes and References

1. Web site: ערוץ חדשות » רחובות: כדוריד: הפועל ומכבי רחובות המיתולוגיות זכו לכבוד בגמר היובל . www.08news.com . 2 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20120716140831/http://www.08news.com/33024/%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9B%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%99-%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA/ . 16 July 2012 . dead.
2. Web site: איגוד הכדוריד בישראל | האתר הרשמי. 2012-05-31. 2018-04-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20180429222847/http://www.handballisr.co.il/data.asp?id=52. dead.