The Hapoel Haifa Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dario Župarić in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hapoel Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Itay Ben-Hemo has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Régis N'do falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 96% of the Hapoel Haifa income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hapoel Haifa
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Willy Agada takes the honours
Marked 7.57 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Hapoel Haifa had the best player on the pitch.
Market5 Oct 2026
Itay Buganim told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Itay Buganim has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Hapoel Haifa.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Tamir Arbel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match3 Oct 2026
Honours even between Hapoel Haifa and Hapoel Beer Sheva
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- The dugout Tomer Shechter on the point
- The dugout Sa'ar Fadida has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Willy Agada question follows Hapoel Haifa around