Pharma in Italy, Reina in Israel: the precedent set by the sensational immigrant
Maccabi Bnei Reina set an Israeli record with three consecutive promotions on the way to a historic performance in the Premier League.
The only precedent in the top five leagues, the parallel to Hoffenheim and the European record (which should not be an example)
Tomer Yitzhak
06/05/2022
Friday, 06 May 2022, 17:53
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On May 18, 2018, Pharma set a precedent.
Three years after the dissolution that relegated it to the fourth division, the team from northern Italy managed to return to Serie A. Three promotions within three years, to the top division - something no other team in Italy has done.
Nor in England, Spain, Germany or France.
Today (Friday), May 6, 2022, Maccabi Bnei Reina set the Israeli precedent.
Three consecutive promotions - from the second division to the first division, from there to the national league and now to the Premier League.
History after history after history, for a club that was actually established six years ago when it was acquired by businessman Said Basul.
Circumstances are completely different, of course, and Reina's sensational scenario, which hurt the skies of Israeli football out of nowhere, is more similar to that of German Hoffenheim from the moment Detmar Hope acquired it (in 2000 in the fifth division and eight years later in the Bundesliga - there were no three consecutive promotions). , But the result is the same.
history.
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Less than a year and a half ago, this group, which represents a local council near Nazareth with less than 20,000 residents, still belonged to the Second Division.
It was only in September 2020, after the Corona season, that the Supreme Court of the Football Association was required to decide between Reina and Nesher and ruled that instead of an aliyah game between the two, Reina who finished in second place is the one who is entitled to take Asi Gilboa's place.
There is an increase.
A few months in the first division were enough for the new club to jump another grade, with a controversial 1-2 over Hapoel as a star in the Northern District's dramatic final round.
The winning goal was registered in the name of Gal Barel, although to this day it is not clear whether his shot at all crossed the line.
Even the mass brawl on the lawn at the end did not change the title: there is another rise.
And here, the story repeated itself in the National League as well.
Reina did not linger even for a moment.
What they did in the previous decade Hapoel Kfar Saba, Hapoel Ashkelon, Hapoel Hadera and Nes Ziona section (from the first division to the Premier League within two years), and in 1993/94 both Hapoel Beit She'an and Hapoel Rishon Lezion (from the first division, the national road to the national that was So the senior league) - the new Cinderella of Israeli football managed to perfect.
Not two, but three league promotions in a row.
In the role of Dietmar Hope?
Said Basul with Adam Hadia (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
So in the top European football countries there were no more cases of three consecutive promotions up to the first division other than Parma, but there were some agile rises.
multi.
Leipzig, for example, jumped from the fifth division in Germany to the Bundesliga within seven years and improved Hoffenheim's achievement.
The French Earl-Avignon completed four promotions in five years in 2010 (and has since managed to dive back into the fourth division), and in England they have seen Bournemouth rise from disintegration and rise from the fourth division to the Premier League within five years.
But again, there was no sequence here.
If we expand the canvas and look outside the big leagues as well, the European record belongs to the Slovenian Zabrech.
In 2009 this team still played in the sixth league, finished as champions and then continued the tradition in all subsequent seasons, until in 2013 it qualified for the senior league - five consecutive promotions.
Three years later the league was relegated and immediately ceased operations due to financial difficulties, before it was re-established at the bottom of the league pyramid and began to make its way up again (currently in the third league).
Immediately behind her stands another Slovenian representative, only much more glorious.
Olympia Ljubljana was also re-established in 2005 after being disbanded and then promoted four times in a row - from the fifth league to the first.
In 2016 it celebrated its first championship in the new era and two years later added another.
In Ukraine there is Minay, which was established in 2015 and completed in 2020 a fourth consecutive promotion and joined the senior league.
A similar story was in Romania, when Hermannstadt was founded in 2015, started its way into the fourth division in the province of Sibiu and celebrated three consecutive promotions, when in 2018 it also reached the cup final in parallel with its promotion to the first division.
Last season it went down and is now close to going up again.
Now it's Maccabi Bnei Reina's turn to write the Israeli script.
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