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Sektzia Nes Tziona
Full name	Sektzia Nes Tziona Football Club מועדון כדורגל סקציה נס ציונה
Founded	2001
Ground	Ness Ziona Stadium, Ness Ziona (Capacity 3,000)
Chairman	Kobi Kaduri
Manager	Gidi Damti
League	Liga Artzit
2006/07	Liga Artzit, 4th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Sektzia Nes Tziona F.C. (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל סקציה נס ציונה‎, Moadon Kaduregel Sektzia Nes Tziona) are a football club from the southern Israeli city of Nes Tziona. They are currently in Liga Artzit, the third level of Israeli football, having won promotion from Liga Alef in 2005-6. Home matches are played at the Ness Ziona Stadium.

Maccabi Nes Tziona were founder members of Israel's top division (then known as the Israeli League) in 1949. Nes Tziona was by far the smallest town to have a top-flight football club, and it was perhaps expected that the team would struggle. Indeed they did, and were relegated after losing all 24 matches in the 1949-50 season, also setting a record low number of points (zero).

At some point during the 1950s or early 1960s the club changed its name to SK Nes Tziona, the SK standing for Sektzia Kaduregel (Hebrew: סקציה כדורגל, Football Section). In 1966 the club were promoted back to the top division, then called Liga Leumit. Due to the interruption caused by the Six Day War, the 1966-7 and 1967-8 seasons were combined into one 60-match competition (clubs played each other home and away twice). Although the club picked up more points than during their previous spell in the top flight, they managed only eight wins and were relegated. This was to be their last appearance in the top division.

Over the next four decades, the club slipped into the lower divisions. After finishing bottom of Liga Alef (the fourth tier) in 2000-1, they folded, and were reborn as Ironi Nes Tziona, starting again in Liga Gimel, the sixth and lowest level of Israeli football.

In 2003-4, the club won their division of Liga Gimel, and were promoted to Liga Bet. The next season, they finished as runners-up to Hapoel Arad. However, the club were promoted in place of Arad due to the latter's poor stadium. The club were renamed again in the summer of 2005, becoming Sektzia Nes Tziona (a Hebrewisation of the English word "Section"). The 2005-6 season saw a third successive promotion as the club won Liga Alef South and promotion to Liga Artzit.

• Liga Alef
  • Champions 2005-6
• Liga Gimel
  • Champions 2003-4

Liga Artzit 2007/08 v • d • e

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