The Hapoel Kiryat Shmona Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aviv Avraham
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Kiryat Shmona lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Both of them Fabricio Rojas's — 8.65
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.65, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Rüfət Abdullazadə
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Fabricio Rojas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Liel Deri at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liel Deri is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match10 Oct 2026
Fabricio Rojas the difference as Hapoel Kiryat Shmona beat Hapoel Beer Sheva
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Fabricio Rojas. 2‑0 against Hapoel Beer Sheva, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market12 Oct 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona promote Guy Dabbur from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Guy Dabbur has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona promote Matan Melikson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matan Melikson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match10 Oct 2026
Fabricio Rojas at the heart of a fast Hapoel Kiryat Shmona start
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Fabricio Rojas in the middle of it, and Hapoel Beer Sheva unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Ofir Benbenisty gets it from the manager
- The dugout When it matters, Liel Deri plays