Marked for Reef Amsalem
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jeffery Nisembaum
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Acre lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hapoel Acre win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Hapoel Kfar Saba will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Hapoel Kfar Saba, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Braian Lluy 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Hapoel Acre man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Osama Khalaila was the best thing in any of them.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Levan Kutalia
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Hapoel Acre were going nowhere until he came on.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jeffery Nisembaum damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Reef Amsalem hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hapoel Acre can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Hapoel Acre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roei Shukrani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dan Dabbur has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shon Refaelov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Michel Babatunde 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ya'acov Abeba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Hapoel Acre
Mariano Buzzini arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
312 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Hapoel Acre know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohammed Khatib commits to Hapoel Acre for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Hapoel Acre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roei Shukrani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.