HaMoshava Stadium

Hapoel Petach Tikva Maccabi Petach Tikva

The HaMoshava Stadium (Hebrew אצטדיון המושבה, approximately colony Stadium ) is a football stadium in Petah Tikva.

Since its opening in December 2011, it is the home of the Israeli Fußballerstligisten Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Petah Tikva who previously played in the Petach Tikva - -Municipal Stadium. At the opening of the stadium had a capacity of 12,000 seats, in further stages of the capacity to be expanded to 16000-20000 places.

For the architecture of the stadium, the Israeli architectural firm GAB (Goldschmidt Arditty Ben Nayin ) is responsible. The company is also responsible for the renovation of Netanya Stadium. The construction costs, are estimated at 36 million euros.

The fans of Hapoel Petah Tikva in 2010 had a petition set up so that the stadium should be named after the former player and coach Stlmach Nahum, who died in 1999, named. The followers of Maccabi Petah Tikva demanded the stadium after Shmuel Ben Dror to call the former captain of Maccabi and captain of the Israeli national team. This rejected the mayor of the city.