The Hapoel Kfar Saba Post
Match19 Dec 2026
18 matches without a win for Hapoel Kfar Saba
The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Hapoel Kfar Saba are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hapoel Kfar Saba taken apart
0‑3 to Hapoel Raanana, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match19 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Hapoel Kfar Saba
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Hapoel Kfar Saba can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Gilbert Bandama runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Hapoel Kfar Saba beat the market to Yuval Shalev from Beitar Jerusalem
Beitar Jerusalem will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yuval Shalev has pre-agreed a move to Hapoel Kfar Saba, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Achraf Lazaar 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Hapoel Kfar Saba dressing room in a hurry
- Squad Nir Abada out for 14 days
- Squad Achraf Lazaar knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The manager makes an example of Tom Shelah