Maccabi Ra'anana

Maccabi Ra'anana is a professional basketball club that is based in Ra'anana, Israel. The club plays in the Israeli National League, the second-tier division league of Israel.[1]

Maccabi Ra'anana
LeaguesIsraeli National League
Founded1980 (1980)
ArenaMetro West
Capacity1,850
LocationRa'anana
Head coachOfer Berkovich
Team captainGuy Lavie

History

Maccabi Ra'anana was founded in 1980. The team won the Israeli 2nd Division championship of the 1995–96 season. The club then competed in Israel's top-level Israeli Super League, for the first time, in the following 1996–97 season.

Maccabi Ra'anana competed in the European-wide secondary level FIBA Saporta Cup, in the 1999–00 season. They also finished as the runner-up of the Israeli Super League in the 1999–00 season. After that, the team subsequently competed in one of the two top-level European-wide competitions at that time, the FIBA SuproLeague, in the following 2000–01 season. In the 2001–02 season, they competed in the Pan-European third level competition, the FIBA Korac Cup.

In 2002, due to financial problems, the club merged with Hapoel Herzliya, which was then re-named to Bnei Hasharon. In 2011, the merger of the two clubs ended, and from that point, the club again competed under its original Maccabi Ra'anana name. Maccabi Ra'anana won the Israeli Basketball Association Cup (Israel's 2nd Division Cup), in the 2011–12 season.

Titles and honors
Uriel Trocki

Domestic competitions
Runners-up (1): (1999–00)
Champions (1): (1995–96)
  • Israeli 2nd Division Cup
Winners (1): (2011–12)

Players

Current roster
Maccabi Ra'anana roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
G/F 4 Kravits, Yair 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (1999-03-03)3 March 1999
G 5 Pemberton, Jake 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (1996-01-12)12 January 1996
G 6 Clamage, Ryan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 23 – (1998-01-01)1 January 1998
PG 7 Geva, Itay 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 19 – (2001-06-22)22 June 2001
F/C 9 Porat, Tomer 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 21 – (1999-03-29)29 March 1999
PG 10 Lavie, Guy (C) 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 28 – (1992-02-27)27 February 1992
F 11 Melamed, Yahel 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 20 – (2001-01-05)5 January 2001
PG 13 Jackson, Antino 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 25 – (1996-01-31)31 January 1996
G 14 Melnik, Gilad 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 19 – (2001-03-01)1 March 2001
F/C 15 Wideman, Tyler 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 25 – (1995-11-18)18 November 1995
G 23 Gopher, Ofek 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 19 – (2001-06-07)7 June 2001
G — Einhorn, Yarin 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 25 – (1995-08-12)12 August 1995
Head coach

Ofer Berkovich

Assistant coach(es)

Adiel Shtivi

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: February 14, 2020

References
  1. "Basketball News, Scores, Stats, Analysis, Standings - eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC.
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