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Basketball team

Hapoel Eilat

Club · Israel · Liga Leumit

«The Sharks»

183 Matches
98 wins
85 losses
15655–15384 Points
+271 Difference
85.5 Average per match
Form W 28 Apr · Home Maccabi Haifa B.C. · 96:83 L 9 Sep · Home Bnei Herzliya · 98:101 L 14 Sep · Away Maccabi Rishon LeZion · 85:87 W 27 Sep · Home Maccabi Ashdod B.C. · 75:55 L 30 Sep · Away Hapoel Holon · 85:87 W 12 Oct · Away Maccabi Rishon LeZion · 89:80

Twice Hapoel Eilat reached the final of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and twice it went home with silver. In 1997–98 Maccabi Tel Aviv stood in the way; in 2014–15, seventeen years on, it was Hapoel Jerusalem. Between those two nights sits a gap the club never quite closed, and by then the team had already been rebuilt once from nothing.

That climb ran through the second tier, where Eilat took the Liga Artzit title in 1991 on the way up, and through the Association Cup, won in 2011 as the top flight remained out of reach. A domestic cup final followed in 2013–14, lost again to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and two League Cup finals, in 2015 and 2021, added to the pile of runner-up medals without ever turning one into a trophy.

The rivalry that defined the club longest was local, against Maccabi Eilat, and it ran until August 2024, when the two sides merged into a single team, initially named Hapoel Ironi Eilat before being rebranded as Ironi Eilat.

The league title and the State Cup both stayed out of reach.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
12 Oct Super League Maccabi Rishon LeZion A 89:80 W
30 Sep League Cup Hapoel Holon A 85:87 L
27 Sep League Cup Maccabi Ashdod B.C. H 75:55 W
14 Sep League Cup Maccabi Rishon LeZion A 85:87 L
9 Sep League Cup Bnei Herzliya H 98:101 L
28 Apr Liga Leumit Maccabi Haifa B.C. H 96:83 W

Standing

Liga Leumit
# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Hapoel Eilat 30 29 1 2826:2342 0
2 Maccabi Rehovot 30 24 6 2646:2330 0
3 Ironi Nahariya 30 23 7 2622:2350 0
4 Hapoel Haifa 30 22 8 2580:2481 0
5 Maccabi Ashdod B.C. 30 20 10 2796:2539 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 183
183 Matches
98 wins
85 losses
15655–15384 Points
+271 Difference
85.5 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 183
98wins: 98 · 53% 85losses: 85 · 46%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
28 Apr · Home Maccabi Haifa B.C. · 96:83
9 Sep · Home Bnei Herzliya · 98:101
14 Sep · Away Maccabi Rishon LeZion · 85:87
27 Sep · Home Maccabi Ashdod B.C. · 75:55
30 Sep · Away Hapoel Holon · 85:87
12 Oct · Away Maccabi Rishon LeZion · 89:80
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 183 88 95
Scored 15655 7614 8041
Conceded 15384 7283 8101
Average per match 85.5 86.5 84.6
Conceded per game 84.1 82.8 85.3
Difference +271 +331 −60

Fixtures of Hapoel Eilat

Honours of Hapoel Eilat

  • Association Cup 2011 1
  • Liga Artzit 1991 1
  • Israeli Basketball Premier League 1998, 2015 2
  • League Cup 2015, 2021 2
  • Israel State Cup 2014 1