MS Ashdod

MS Ashdod
Basic data
Surname	Moadon Sport Ashdod
Seat	Ashdod , Israel
founding	1999
president	Jacky Ben-Zaken
First soccer team
Head coach	Amir Turgeman
Venue	HaYud Alef Stadium
Places	7,420
league	Ligat ha'Al
2018/19	12th place
home Away

The MS Ashdod ( Hebrew מועדון ספורט אשדוד) is an Israeli football club from Ashdod . He currently plays in the top division of Israel , the Ligat ha'Al . The club colors are yellow and red.

General

The association was founded in 1999 as a merger of the two Ashdod associations Hapoel Aschdod and Maccabi Ironi Aschdod . In the first year after it was founded, the club's color was still blue. A year later, the club colors yellow (for Maccabi) and red (for Hapoel) were chosen. Initially, the club was not very successful, until they reached third place in the league in the 2004/05 season and only lost on penalties in the cup final. In the 2005/06 season, the club played in the UEFA Cup , but had to admit defeat to the Slovenian representative.

Former players

• Moshe Ohayon
• Emmanuel Pappoe
• Moshe Ohayon
• Haim Revivo
• Joško Bilić , former professional in Croatia , Israel and Belgium and works for Austria Salzburg
• Andrzej Kubica , former professional in Belgium , France , Japan , Israel and Poland and active at FK Austria Vienna and Rapid Vienna
• Jani Viander , Finnish international , professional in Finland , Belgium , England , Denmark , Israel and Cyprus , currently with AC Oulu
• Ilan Bakhar , Israeli international , professional in Spain , Portugal and Israel
• Asaf Domb , Israeli international
• Blessing Kaku , Ghanaian national player , former legionnaire in England and Belgium
• Aziz Ansah , Ghanaian national player , former legionnaire in Israel and Belgium , currently active in Ghana
• Jean Dika-Dika , Cameroonian international , former legionnaire in Austria at LASK Linz
• Ernest Etchi , Cameroonian international

Web links

• Official website ( Memento of December 30, 2013 on the Internet Archive ) (Hebrew)