2016–17 Bnei Sakhnin F.C. season

The 2016–17 Bnei Sakhnin season was the club's 27th season since its establishment in 1991, and 10th straight season in the Israeli Premier League since promoting from Liga Leumit in 2006–07.

Bnei Sakhnin F.C.

2016–17 season
Chairman	Muhammed Abu Younes
Manager	Yossi Abuksis
Israeli Premier League	5th
State Cup	Round of 16
Toto Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Yuval Avidor (7) All: Yuval Avidor (9)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

During the 2016–17 campaign the club have competed in the Israeli Premier League, State Cup, Toto Cup.

Match results

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	13	9	4	36	23	+13	48	Qualification for the Championship round
4	Beitar Jerusalem	26	10	10	6	34	27	+7	40
5	Bnei Sakhnin	26	10	9	7	26	26	0	39
6	Maccabi Haifa	26	10	8	8	30	25	+5	38
7	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	26	9	8	9	35	33	+2	35	Qualification for the Relegation round

Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (C, Q)	36	26	7	3	73	18	+55	85	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv (Q)	36	22	6	8	61	28	+33	72	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Beitar Jerusalem (Q)	36	16	12	8	53	36	+17	60
4	Maccabi Petah Tikva	36	15	11	10	42	34	+8	56
5	Bnei Sakhnin	36	13	9	14	32	46	−14	48
6	Maccabi Haifa	36	12	9	15	34	41	−7	45

Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result[1]	Scorers	Position
20 August 2016 - 18:00	Bnei Yehuda	Away	1–1	Georginho	8
27 August 2016 - 20:10	Maccabi Haifa	Home	1–0	Georginho	5
10 September 2016 - 20:15	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Away	0–3		8
18 September 2016 - 19:00	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Home	0–1		11
21 September 2016 - 21:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Home	0–3		11
24 September 2016 - 18:00	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	Away	2–2	Idan Shemesh, Georginho	13
22 October 2016 - 20:15	Hapoel Ashkelon	Away	1–0	Yuval Avidor	10
29 October 2016 - 16:00	Hapoel Haifa	Home	2–1	Yuval Avidor, Jude Nworuh	6
7 November 2016 - 21:00	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Away	1–2	Ramzi Safouri	8
19 November 2016 - 16:00	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	Home	0–1		9
28 November 2016 - 21:00	Beitar Jerusalem	Away	1–0	Ramzi Safouri	7
4 December 2016 - 19:00	Hapoel Ra'anana	Home	1–1	Abraham Paz	7
10 December 2016 - 16:00	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Away	1–1	Abraham Paz	7
17 December 2016 - 18:15	Bnei Yehuda	Home	1–1	Abraham Paz	8
26 December 2016 - 20:30	Maccabi Haifa	Away	2–1	Ramzi Safouri, Georginho	6
1 January 2017 - 20:15	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Away	0–0		7
10 January 2017 - 19:00	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Away	1–1	Abraham Paz	7
16 January 2017 - 18:30	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	Home	5–2	Yuval Avidor (3), Ali Ottman, Abraham Paz	7
22 January 2017 - 21:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Away	1–2	Georginho	7
29 January 2017 - 19:00	Hapoel Ashkelon	Home	1–0	Idan Shemesh	6
4 February 2017 - 18:00	Hapoel Haifa	Away	1–0	Idan Shemesh	6
12 February 2017 - 19:00	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Home	1–0	Idan Shemesh	5
18 February 2017 - 18:15	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	Away	1–1	Idan Shemesh	5
26 February 2017 - 21:00	Beitar Jerusalem	Home	0–2		5
4 March 2017 - 18:00	Hapoel Ra'anana	Away	1–0	Firas Mugrabi	5
11 March 2017 - 20:30	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Home	0–0		5
18 March 2017 - 18:15	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Away	0–3		5
2 April 2017 - 19:00	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Home	1–0	Nir Lax	5
8 April 2017 - 20:30	Beitar Jerusalem	Away	0–3		5
15 April 2017 - 18:00	Maccabi Haifa	Away	1–0	Yuval Avidor	5
22 April 2017 - 20:15	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Home	1–3	Yuval Avidor	5
25 April 2017 - 19:45	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Home	1–3	Ali Ottman	5
29 April 2017 - 18:00	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Away	0–1		5
6 May 2017 - 20:30	Beitar Jerusalem	Home	1–5	Idan Shemesh	5
13 May 2017 - 18:00	Maccabi Haifa	Home	1–0	Firas Mugrabi	5
20 May 2017 - 19:00	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Away	0–2		5

State Cup

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result[1]	Scorers
5 January 2017 - 19:35	8th round	Maccabi Sha'arayim	Away	3–1	Siraj Nassar (2), Yuval Avidor
25 January 2017 - 21:00	Round of 16	Beitar Jerusalem	Away	1–2	Idan Shemesh

Toto Cup

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maccabi Haifa	4	3	1	0	6	3	+3	10	Qualified to Quarter-finals
2	Hapoel Haifa	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	5
3	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	4	0	4	0	2	2	0	4
4	Bnei Sakhnin	4	0	3	1	4	5	−1	3
5	Hapoel Kfar Saba	4	0	2	2	2	5	−3	2

Updated to match(es) played on 16 August 2016. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result[1]	Scorers
31 July 2016 - 19:00	Group	Hapoel Haifa	Away	2–2	Ramzi Safouri, Yuval Avidor
2 August 2016 - 20:15	Group	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	Home	1–1	Tita Weslei
6 August 2016 - 21:00	Group	Maccabi Haifa	Away	1–2	Ramzi Safouri
16 August 2016 - 19:15	Group	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Home	0–0

Player details

List of squad players, including number of appearances by competition

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		State Cup		Toto Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Assaf Raz	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK		Mahmmoud Kanadil	39	0	33	0	2	0	4	0
2	DF		Maron Ghantus	13	0	12	0	1	0	0	0
4	DF		Sari Falah	38	0	33	0	1	0	4	0
5	DF		Abraham Paz	34	5	29	5	2	0	3	0
7	DF		Muhammed Zbidat	25	0	19	0	2	0	4	0
8	DF		Oleksandr Zhdanov	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
12	DF		Jason Gorskie	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
13	DF		Ihab Shami	6	0	4	0	0	0	2	0
18	DF		Ali Ottman	33	2	28	2	2	0	3	0
25	DF		Wanderson	42	0	36	0	2	0	4	0
88	DF		Ricardo Lucena	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
99	FW		Osama Khalaila	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF		Tambi Sagas	40	0	34	0	2	0	4	0
8	MF		Uday Shalata	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
12	MF		Nir Lax	26	1	25	1	1	0	0	0
14	MF		Ihab Ghnaim	8	0	5	0	0	0	3	0
15	MF		Khaled Khalaila	30	0	26	0	2	0	2	0
23	MF		Tita Weslei	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
23	MF		Ataa Jaber	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
26	MF		Firas Mugrabi	21	2	20	2	1	0	0	0
27	MF		Rodrigo António	15	0	14	0	0	0	1	0
31	MF		Ahmad Subeih	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
77	MF		Siraj Nassar	33	2	29	0	1	2	3	0
9	FW		Jude Nworuh	13	1	12	1	0	0	1	0
9	FW		Lassina Dao	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Ramzi Safouri	35	5	32	3	1	0	2	2
11	FW		Yuval Avidor	42	9	36	7	2	1	4	1
13	FW		Anderson Lessa	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
17	FW		Fadi Zidan	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
23	FW		Mohammed Badrana	7	0	3	0	2	0	2	0
24	FW		Idan Shemesh	27	7	25	6	2	1	0	0
52	FW		Georginho	34	5	29	5	2	0	3	0

Transfers

In

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ISR Assaf Raz (from F.C. Kafr Qasim)[2] — DF  ISR Sari Falah (from Bnei Yehuda) — DF  ISR Jason Gorskie (from Pietà Hotspurs)[3] — MF  ISR Siraj Nassar (from Hapoel Tel Aviv)[4] — MF  ISR Ramzi Safouri (on loan from Hapoel Tel Aviv)[5] — MF  BRA Rodrigo António (from Paços de Ferreira)[6] — MF  ISR Nir Lax (on loan from Hapoel Tel Aviv)[7] — FW  NGA Jude Nworuh (from Bnei Yehuda) — FW  ISR Idan Shemesh (from Maccabi Petah Tikva)[8] — MF  ISR Firas Mugrabi (from Maccabi Haifa)[9] — MF  ISR Ataa Jaber (from Maccabi Haifa)[10] — FW  CIV Lassina Dao (from Hapoel Ashkelon)[11]

Out

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ISR Ran Kadoch (to Hapoel Kfar Saba)[12] — DF  ISR Itzik Cohen (to Hapoel Kfar Saba) [13] — DF  PLE Ala'a Abu Saleh (to Shabab Al-Khalil)[14] — DF  ISR Shadi Khatib (to F.C. Tzeirei Kafr Kanna)[15] — DF  PLE Muamen Agbaria (to Shabab Al-Khalil) — MF  ISR Firas Mugrabi (to Maccabi Haifa)[16] — MF  BRA Diogo Kachuba (to Hapoel Kfar Saba)[17] — MF  ISR Hamad Ganayem (to Shabab Al-Khalil)[18] — FW  ISR Weaam Amasha (to Hapoel Tel Aviv)[7] — FW  ISR Shlomi Azulay (to Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona)[19] — MF  BRA Rodrigo António (to Irtysh) — FW  ISR Amir Khalaila (to Hapoel Be'er Sheva)[20] — FW  ISR Mohammed Badrana (on loan to Hapoel Rishon LeZion)[21]

See also

• List of Bnei Sakhnin F.C. seasons

References

1. Bnei Sakhnin's score written first
2. פרסום ראשון: אסף רז חתם בבני סכנין מליגת העל Doublepass system, 13 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
3. הבלם ג'ייסון גורסקי חתם לעונה בבני סכנין Doron Ben Dor, 18 August 2016 (in Hebrew)
4. מחליף למוגרבי: סיראז' נאסר חתם בסכנין Tomer Levy, 18 June 2016 (in Hebrew)
5. ספורי חתם בבני סכנין לעונה אחת, אבו סאלח יחזור? Doron Ben Dor, 11 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
6. רודריגו אנטוניו חתם על החוזה בבני סכנין Doron Ben Dor, 8 August 2016 (in Hebrew)
7. לוצ'נגה חתם בהפועל רעננה, ניר לקס בסכנין ONE system, 6 September 2016 (in Hebrew)
8. סכנין בדילמה לגבי ז'אורז'יניו, שמש חתם לעונה Doron Ben Dor, 4 September 2016 (in Hebrew)
9. רשמית: מוגרבי חתם לשלוש שנים וחצי בסכנין Doron Ben Dor, 3 January 2017 (in Hebrew)
10. עטאא ג'אבר חתם בבני סכנין לארבע שנים וחצי Doron Ben Dor, 31 January 2017 (in Hebrew)
11. דאו חתם בסכנין עד סוף העונה, אבוקסיס: "מעכשיו כל משחק הוא גמר גביע" Shlomo Weiss, 29 January 2017 (in Hebrew)
12. גיא חדידה חתם בהפועל כפ"ס, רן קדוש יצטרף Gal Barkan, 13 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
13. מאטוביץ' ואיציק כהן חתמו לעונה אחת בהפועל כפ"ס Gal Barkan, 15 June 2016 (in Hebrew)
14. אבו סאלח ישחק בעונה הבאה בליגה הפלסטינית Doron Ben Dor, 6 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
15. המגן שאדי חטיב חתם בצעירי כפר כנא Doublepass system, 31 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
16. רשמי: פיראס מוגרבי חתם במכבי חיפה לעונה אחת Doron Ben Dor, 5 June 2016 (in Hebrew)
17. רשמי: קאצ'ובה וסימוביץ' חתמו בהפועל כפ"ס Gal Barkan, 29 June 2016 (in Hebrew)
18. בדרכו של אבו סאלח: גנאים עבר לשבאב אל חליל Doron Ben Dor, 21 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
19. חיזוק לאיוניר: שלומי אזולאי חתם ל-3 שנים Shalom Elbaz, 12 July 2016 (in Hebrew)
20. הפועל באר שבע: אמיר חלאיילה חתם לארבע עונות וחצי Itzik Itzhaki, 15 January 2017 (in Hebrew)
21. מוחמד בדארנה חתם בהפועל ראשל"צ מהלאומית ONE system, 31 January 207 (in Hebrew)