Israel Football Association
The Israel Football Association (IFA ) ( Hebrew: ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל ha - le- Hitachdut Kaduregel be - Yisrael ), the Football Association of Israel. He organized alongside the national team and national league competitions of the national championship down to the lowest classes. It is based in Ramat Gan.
The IFA was founded in 1928 as the Football Association of Palestine ( under British mandate ), admitted to FIFA in 1929 and joined in 1956 as Israel Football Association of Asian Football Confederation (AFC ) in the case. Many countries refused but to compete against Israel. So said one after Turkey, Indonesia and Sudan from during qualifying for the 1958 World Cup, so finally against Israel were given one last chance excreted in the European Qualifiers Welsh and could use this, so once attended by all four UK teams at the World Cup. Israel 1956 and 1960 were each second in the Asian Cup. 1964 hosted and won the Asian Cup and Israel at the Asian Cup in 1968 in Iran once again was the 3rd place be occupied.
Hapoel Tel Aviv won in 1967 and 1968 and 1971 Maccabi Tel Aviv 'Cup champions of Asia. In 1970, Israel failed to qualify for the World Cup for the only time. There they defeated Uruguay and Sweden only slightly and could the eventual runners-up Italy to wrest a 0-0. 1974 Israel was excluded from the AFC, the inclusion in the UEFA but was rejected by the states of the Eastern Bloc. The Israeli national team had to participate in the following years at the World Championships and Olympic qualifiers of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC ) and so usually compete against the countries of Australia and Oceania, or represent the oceanic association with intercontinental playoff for the World Cup qualifier, but could not participate in the local continental championships.
In 1991, the IFA was included in the UEFA denies and since qualifying for the 1994 World Cup, the world championship qualifications in the European groups and takes part in the 1994 European Championship qualifiers, but could still qualify for a tournament since then. In the 1992/93 season for the first time took part in Israeli clubs in the UEFA Champions League and the Europa Cup Winners' Cup. 2002 was able to qualify an Israeli champion for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League with Maccabi Haifa for the first time. But the home games had the GSP stadium in Nicosia, Cyprus be discharged because UEFA international football games banned in Israel. There they met, inter alia, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Nevertheless, Haifa could qualify as the third in the group for the UEFA Cup, left there but immediately against AEK Athens. Then could still 2004 Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa in 2009 again reached the group stage, but resigned respectively as last in their group. Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2010 reached the group stage and met amongst other things on the FC Schalke 04 in the UEFA five year ranking Israel is currently ranked 17th
UEFA five year ranking
Position in the UEFA five year ranking (in brackets the previous year placement). The abbreviation CL and EL countries behind the coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2014/15 season of the Champions League and the Europa League.
As of the end of the European campaign of 2012/13