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18-557: The Mandatory Palestine Football Federation was founded in 1928 in the British Mandate of Palestine. Its national team, Mandatory Palestine national football team, participated in qualifying rounds for the 1934 Football World Cup and 1938 FIFA World Cup . In 1948 it changed its name to Israel Football Association . A Palestine Football Association representing the Palestinian Arabs was formed in 1962 and has been

36-743: A member of the Union of Arab Football Associations since that was formed in 1974. It was accepted as a member by FIFA in 1998, after the creation of the Palestinian Authority . The PFA has also been a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) since 1998, in the West Asian Football Federation . On 11 February 2011, the PFA formed the first women's league. The football division system

54-556: A time when Jews represented a minority of the country's population . In 1934 all Arabs involved in the organisation left, as they considered they were being used as a "fig leaf". The team used to play in the Maccabiah Stadium , Maccabi Ground and Palms Ground , all three located in Tel Aviv . Mandatory Palestine played five official games (four FIFA World Cup qualifiers , and one friendly ), before it officially became

72-522: Is parted into two: the West Bank and Gaza Strip . There is a men's West Bank Premier League and a men's Gaza Strip Premier League as well as a West Bank Women's League . This article about an organization in Palestine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mandatory Palestine national football team The Mandatory Palestine national football team , also known as

90-766: The Eretz Israel national football team ( Hebrew : נבחרת ארץ ישראל בכדורגל , romanized :  Nivheret Eretz Yisrael Bekhadurgel , lit.   'Land of Israel national football team'), represented the British Mandate of Palestine in international football competitions, and was managed by the Palestine Football Association ( Hebrew : התאחדות ארץ ישראלית למשחק כדור-רגל , romanized :  Hitachduth Eretz Yisraelit Lekhadur Regel , lit.   'The Land of Israel Association of Football'). The team

108-637: The Bund political party. While both clubs shared in the above aspiration to demonstrate a Jewish physical strength, they had divergent political programs - the one sharing in the Zionist aspiration of creating a Jewish state in Palestine, while the other was oriented to the Bundist program of Jewish cultural autonomy in Europe. This political opposition exacerbated their athletic rivalry between fans and players, to

126-677: The Maccabiah Games , a prominent international Jewish athletics event. The organisation comprises six confederations: Maccabi Israel, European Maccabi confederation, confederation Maccabi North America, confederation Maccabi Latin America, Maccabi South Africa, and Maccabi Australia . The movement is named after the Maccabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Makabim) who were a Jewish national liberation movement that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes . Ironically, at

144-649: The national team of Israel in 1948. Football was introduced to Palestine by the British military during its occupation of the territory in World War I . After the war, the sport's development was continued by " European Jews who had been exposed to soccer in their native countries". The Palestine Football Association was founded in August 1928 and applied for membership in FIFA . It was accepted to FIFA on 6 June 1929 as

162-681: The General Palestinian Sports Association. Mandatory Palestine played five international games before the end of the British Mandate in 1948 which resulted in Israel's independence. During those five games, the national team fielded only Jewish players. Three anthems were played before each match: the British " God Save the King ", the Jewish (and future Israeli) " Hatikvah " and the opposing team's anthem. In 1948

180-658: The Maccabi Conference in Berlin to begin group trips to British Palestine . Maccabi GB is a member of the English National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) because of its work promoting the personal and social development of young people. The Maccabi World Union was created at the 12th World Jewish Congress in Karlovy Vary , Czechoslovakia in 1921. It was then decided by

198-633: The Palestine Football Association, following an application by the Jewish Maccabi World Union . It was the first of 14 sports organisations which absorbed hundreds of leading sportsmen who immigrated in the wake of antisemitism in Europe. By FIFA rules, the association had to represent all of Palestine's population, and it made formal claims to that effect. In practice, it was dominated by Jewish players and executives, despite Palestinian Arabs forming

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216-589: The majority of the population. According to Issam Khalidi, "the Jewish leadership" of the association systematically limited Arab participation by ensuring Jewish clubs constituted its majority, imposing Hebrew for official communication, and adding the Zionist flag in its logo. Consequently, the Palestinian Arab players boycotted the national team and, in 1934, the Arab clubs left the association to form

234-538: The point that matches between the two teams were generally referred to as a "Holy War". In 1906, the first Jewish gymnastics club was formed in British Palestine . Clubs later would spring up in other cities. By 1912, all of them joined the Maccabi Federation of Israel. That same year, the first relations were established between them and their European counterparts, when a decision was taken at

252-499: The team officially became the national team of Israel . Coaches: [REDACTED] Egon Pollak and [REDACTED] Shimon Ratner Coach: [REDACTED] Egon Pollak Coach: [REDACTED] Arthur Baar Maccabi World Union Maccabi World Union is an international Jewish sports organisation spanning five continents (Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Europe) and more than 50 countries, with some 400,000 members. The Maccabi World Union organises

270-1174: The time the Maccabees were staunchly opposed to athletic competitions, part of the Hellenizing cultural tendencies which they opposed. Athletic competitions held in Jerusalem under the Seleucid rule were terminated once the Maccabees took over the city. As early as the 19th century, Jewish sports clubs were founded in Eastern and Central Europe. The first club was the Israelite Gymnastic Association Constantinople ( German : Israelitischer Turnverein Konstantinopel ) founded in 1895 in Istanbul , Turkey by Jews of German and Austrian extraction who had been rejected from participating in other social sport clubs. Two years later, haGibor

288-538: Was formed in Plovdiv , Bulgaria , and 1898 saw the founding of Bar Kochba Berlin along with Vivó és Athletikai Club in Budapest , Hungary . Other clubs that followed were named after “ Bar Kochba ” or Hebrew names such as “Hakoah” or “Hagibor” that symbolized strength and heroism. One of the basic premises behind the founding of these clubs was Jewish Nationalism, and specifically " Muscular Judaism ". The concept

306-458: Was founded in 1928 by Yosef Yekutieli , leader of the Jewish sports organisation Maccabi World Union , under the newly formed "Palestine Football Association", so-named in order to qualify for membership of FIFA (which required teams to be representative of the population of their country). It achieved FIFA membership in 1929, despite in practice being an almost exclusively Jewish organisation at

324-446: Was that Jews were not only a religious entity, but also one based on a common historical and social background, having special cultural and psychological concepts that have been preserved to this day, resulting in a strong recognition of collective belonging. At Kraków , Poland there was during the interwar period a deep animosity between the locally based Makkabi Kraków club and the rival Jewish club Jutrzenka Kraków , associated with

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