Ironi Nahariya
2012/13: 2nd place
Ironi Nahariya is a professional Israeli basketball team from Nahariya. After already played two seasons in the early 1990s as first class Hapoel Ironi, the team had their most successful decade until 2010 relegation to the second division after the re-emergence in 2000 to the second division back from the first. As Israeli Vice Champion 2003 to 2004 reached the quarter-finals in FIBA Europe League and was able to repeat it, as you again reached the round of the last eight teams in this European club competition this success a year. According to financial difficulties at the end of the decade, most recently entered the city of Nahariya even on the team as a sponsor and financier.
History
After the founding in 1970 they reached in the 1991/92 season for the first time the highest Israeli Ligat ha Al league that you had to leave after two seasons and was passed after a further two seasons until third division. In 2000, back in the Bundesliga in the second highest division League Leumit and after another two years, reached the renewed rise in the Ligat ha Al, in which the play-off final series was reached immediately when Strauss Iscar for the championship. Here we had no chance against series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv. Behind the top European team Maccabi Tel Aviv it was at this time the second best Israeli basketball team and participated in the following season for the first time in a European club competition part. In the third European club competition FIBA Europe League 2003 /04 they reached the quarter-finals, where you eliminated against Ural Great Perm. The national rival Hapoel Tel Aviv reached the third place in the competition after a semi-final defeat. Thus, the total Israeli victory was prevented in European competitions since won the ULEB competitions Euro League Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem ULEB Cup. While you could not repeat the coup of 2003 with the finals in the national championship and this time was third, one reached in the following FIBA Europe League 2004 /05 once again the round of the last eight teams in which one despite home advantage, the third and decisive Play - off game against the eventual finalists BK Kiev lost. In the following two editions of this competition, the FIBA EuroCup firmierten as and later were called Euro Challenge, each one different from the first group stage. In the national championship was reached in 2006 and 2008, a fourth place. In the 2009/10 season they lost the relegation round for the league against Hapoel Holon and got out of the top division again. This led to serious liquidity problems of the team and the entry of the city of Nahariya as a financier. With considerably shortened budget barely avoiding relegation in the league Leumit could be achieved in the following two seasons with many young local players. In the 2012/13 season one was again among the top teams of the second division.
Known player
- United States / Israel David Leaf 1991/92
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Sabahudin Bilalovic 1992/93
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992 Luka Pavićević 1992-1994
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992 Velibor Radovic 1993/94
- United States Arthur Lee 2002/ 03, 2004
- Israel Sharon Shason 2002-2004
- United States Eric Campbell 2002-2005
- Israel Erez Markovich 2002-2005
- United States Stevin Smith 2003/ 04
- Israel Uri Kokia 2003/ 04, 2005-2008
- Israel Barak Peleg 2003-2008
- Serbia and Montenegro Branko Milisavljević 2005/ 06
- United States of America / Dominican Republic Jeff Greer 2006/ 07
- Israel Ido Kozikaro 2006-2008
- United States Ryan Bowen 2007
- Israel Matan Naor 2007-2009
- Israel Yogev Ohayon 2008/ 09
- United States / Israel Jeron Roberts 2010-2012