The Hapoel Kiryat Shmona Chronicle
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jonathan Mensah 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 Kiryat Shmona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Rüfət Abdullazadə runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renso Pérez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona lose Amit David
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Flores
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona draw a blank against Hapoel Beer Sheva
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Hapoel Beer Sheva defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Player ratings The referee tires of Yaw Ackah
- Market Ori Shnaper leaves for nothing