Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C.

The club was founded in 2000 by a merger of Hapoel Kiryat Shmona of Liga Alef and Maccabi Kiryat Shmona of Liga Bet, and took Hapoel Kiryat Shmona's place in Liga Alef, as well as playing at Hapoel's stadium. The merger was initiated by businessman Izzy Sheratzky owner of Ituran Location and Control, who are the official sponsors of the team.[3]

In the new club's first season they won the North Division of Liga Alef and were promoted to Liga Artzit. In 2002–03 they finished as runners-up to Hakoah Ramat Gan and were promoted to Liga Leumit. In their first season at the second level they narrowly missed out on promotion, only finishing below runners-up Hapoel Nazareth Illit on goal difference. They finished third again in 2005–06, but won the league in 2006–07 to earn a promotion to the Israeli Premier League, the first time a club from the town had played in the top division. In the same season they also won the Liga Leumit Toto Cup.

The club's first season in the Premier League saw them finish third and qualify for the UEFA Cup. In their first season in Europe, home matches had to be played at the Kiryat Eliezer Stadium in Haifa. After knocking out FK Mogren, they lost to Litex Lovech in the second qualifying round.

In 2008–09, the club finished bottom of the Premier League and were relegated to Liga Leumit. However, the following season they won the division and were promoted back to the Premier League.

On 15 December 2009, Ironi Kiryat Shmona won the 2009–10 Toto Cup Leumit.

On 19 January 2011, Ironi Kiryat Shmona won the 2010–11 Toto Cup Al, a year after winning the Leumit version of the cup, it was their first major title. In addition, Ironi Kiryat Shmona became the first team to win both first and second Toto Cup trophy in a back-to-back year.

On 24 January 2012, Ironi Kiryat Shmona defended their Toto Cup Al by beating Hapoel Tel Aviv in the 2011–12 Toto Cup Al finals.

On 2 April 2012, Ironi Kiryat Shmona won the Israeli Premier League and became the 14th Israeli champions. They won the league after finishing their match against the runner-up Hapoel Tel Aviv. in a goalless draw, having five more rounds left for that season. Their championship was the first to be won by a team outside the three major cities (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa) for almost 30 years.

On 20 May 2012, The club changed its badge due to UEFA sponsorship rules which forbids the use of a sponsor name in both the kit and team badge. The new badge includes a number of footballs including a big one which used in the former badge, the Lion of Judah statue from the Battle of Tel Hai and a gold star to mark the only team championship.[4]

In 2020, the club were on the verge of relegation to the Liga Leumit, trailing three points behind the 12th placed team (safe from relegation) with one match to go, but managed to stay in the Israeli Premier league and finished 12th thanks to goal difference.

In the start of the 2022-23 season, Menahem Koretzky was assigned as the team's manager. On 21 December 2022, Koretzky left the club and instead of him Nir Berkovic was appointed as manager. On the 11th of February, 2023, Berković was sacked and a few days later Slobodan Drapić was assigned as manager. After a long struggle in the Israeli Premier league, On 6 May 2023, the club eventually relegated from the Israeli Premier league to the Liga Leumit after 13 years in the Israeli Premier league. On the 16th of May Shay Barda was appointed as manager.

As of 3 August 2023

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ISR Matan Zalmanovic 2 DF  ISR Noam Cohen 5 DF  ISR Ayid Habshi 6 DF  ISR Ofir Benbenisti 7 MF  ISR Yair Mordechai 8 FW  NGA Evo Ememe 10 FW  ISR Guy Ben Lulu 11 FW  ISR Mohamed Khatib 12 DF  ISR Alaa Jafar 14 DF  ISR Dudu Twito 15 MF  ISR Ariel Sheratzky 16 FW  PAN Alfredo Stephens

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  ISR Or Hasin 19 MF  ISR Avihay Wodaje 21 FW  ISR Roei Zikri 22 GK  ISR Assaf Tzur 25 DF  ISR Ziv Leigh 29 MF  ISR Roy Harel 32 DF  ISR Shay Ben David 87 FW  ISR Mohamad Abu Rumi 88 FW  BRA Gian 91 FW  ISR Bilal Shahin 99 FW  ISR David Dego

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ISR Yuval Levin (at Hapoel Nof HaGalil until 30 June 2023) — MF  ISR Hussam Mer'i (at Abiriei HaZafon Kisra-Sumeil until 30 June 2022) — MF  ISR Yazan Mer'i (at Beitar Mateh Binyamin until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ISR Snir Abergel (at Hapoel Ironi Safed until 30 June 2022) — FW  ISR Tal Vigdorovich (at Hapoel Bu'eine until 30 June 2022) — DF  ISR Ziv Morgan (at CFR Cluj)

• Luis Alberto Gutiérrez
• Yves Yuvuladio
• Ezechiel N'Douassel
• Ahmed Abed
• Shimon Abuhatzira
• Danny Amos
• Barak Badash
• Barak Bakhar
• Benny Ben Zaken
• Shavit Elimelech
• Elad Gabai
• Guy Haimov
• Roi Kahat
• Adrian Rochet
• Abbas Suan
• Guy Tzarfati
• Shir Tzedek
• Eitan Tibi
• Sean Weissman
• Radu Gînsari
• Levi García
• Kenny Saief
• Yuval Spungin (born 1987), Israeli footballer
• Nicolás Valansi (born 1979), Argentine-Israeli footballer

• Benny Tabak (July 2001 – May 2)
• Ran Ben Shimon (July 2006 – April 8)
• Eli Cohen (16 December 2008 – 16 April 2009)
• Ran Ben Shimon (16 April 2009 – 13 May 2012)
• Gili Landau (13 May 2012 – 3 October 2012)
• Barak Bakhar (3 October 2012 – 14 May 2015)
• Salah Hasarma (May 2015 – February 2016)
• Shlomi Dora (February 2016 – May 2016)
• Motti Ivanir (May 2016–October 2016)
• Benny Ben Zaken (October 2016–November 2016)
• Tomer Kashtan (November 2016– May 2017)
• Haim Silvas (May 2017-December 2018)
• Tomer Kashtan (December 2018-May 2019)
• Shimon Edri (May 2019)
• Messay Dego (May 2019-October 2019)

• Israeli Premier League
  • Winners 2011–12
• Israel State Cup
  • Winners 2013–14
• Toto Cup
  • Winners 2010-11, 2011-12
• Israel Super Cup
  • Winners 2015

• Club website (in Hebrew) (archived 1 March 2008)
• Kriyat Shmona in UEFA