Hapoel Petah Tikva's return to the Premier League after eight seasons in the National League is causing the blue fans to open their pockets in a big way.
Just ten days from the end of the season, Hapoel Petah Tikva fans broke their all-time fundraising record yesterday, raising NIS 2.3 million for the team's budget next season, including NIS 350,000 just yesterday. This is a record sum for the Blue Association, with the previous record, last season, being NIS 2.1 million.
The club set an initial goal of raising NIS 3 million, but Petah Tikva believes that they will be able to raise NIS 2 million this season. A significant part of the fundraising of fans this summer came after joining the "Silver" track at the Blue Association, at a cost of NIS 000,700, when the places in the money stand for the team's games next season ended, after <> subscribers were purchased for this stand.
Fans of the team. The hand is still tilted, photo: Oren Aharoni
In the coming days, the club will allow fans to "give up" their place in the Silver Stand in favor of the Eastern Stand, to which Hapoel Petah Tikva fans will move next season, in order to allow more fans to purchase a subscription to the Silver Stand.
So far, 967 members have joined the Blue Association for next season, with the club expecting at least 1,500 members to eventually join and establish Hapoel Petah Tikva's status as the largest fan group in Israeli football. In order to encourage fans to join the association early in the summer, the club will give a special gift box to every member who joins the Blue until June 10.
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Regarding preparations for next season, coach Ofer Teslapapa, who is expected to officially sign for another season in the coming days, together with the head of scouting and player development at the club, Ohad Efrat, have already begun preparations for next season, with Matan Gaucher, Ran Vaturi, Idan Vered, Raz Stein and Bar Nawi all under contract for another season.
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