Bnot Sakhnin F.C.

Bnot Sakhnin (Hebrew: בנות סכנין‎, Arabic: بنات سخنين‎‎) is an Arab-Israeli women's football club from Sakhnin competing in the Israeli First League and the Israeli Women's Cup.

History[]

The club was established in 1999 as a youth club, and in 2002 joined the senior league.,^[1] reaching their best placing, 4th, in 2009–10. The club twice, in 2013 and 2014 finished second bottom of the first division and had to play a promotion/relegation play-off match against the second division’s runners-up, twice winning and retaining its first division status.

In the cup, the club’s best achievement is reaching the semi-finals in 2010, losing 1–2 to , and in 2012, losing 0–5 to ASA Tel Aviv University.

Youth teams[]

The club operates a u-19 and u-16 teams, which had won several titles, the u-19 team won the state championship and the u-19 state cup in ,^[2] as well as regional league titles in 2009 and 2011, while the u-16 team won the state championship and the u-16 state cup in and .

References[]

External links[]

• F.C. Ramat HaSharon Israeli Football Association (in Hebrew)
• Forerunners: Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin – From Excluded Citizens to Beneficial Citizens Ye’ela Lahav-Raz, Israeli Sociology 14(2), 2013, pp. 267–287 (in Hebrew)
• Game of Freedom – Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin in Football Ye’ela Lahav-Raz and Shlomi Reznik, Wingate Academic College (in Hebrew)
• Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Football Stadium: Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin Ye’ela Lahav-Raz, December 2008, Hebrew University (in Hebrew)