The Hapoel Kiryat Shmona Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Or Hasin turns Bnei Yehuda down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Nemanja Ljubisavljević 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona rebuffed over Rodriguinho
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bragantino have kept their man, and Hapoel Kiryat Shmona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gil Dabbur joins the Hapoel Kiryat Shmona first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gil Dabbur is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yaw Ackah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona ask about José María Herrera
A loan enquiry to Bragantino: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yonatan Benayoun stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yonatan Benayoun and Hapoel Kiryat Shmona agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
In brief
- Looking ahead Liel Deri goes back to face Beitar Jerusalem
- The dugout Yonatan Benayoun knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Beitar Jerusalem