Elitzur Maccabi Barak Netanya is a professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team based in Netanya

Netanya

Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

, Israel

Israel

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. The team qualified for the first Israeli league in 1985 under the name "Elitzur Netanya". In 2009 they won Liga Leumit

Liga Leumit (basketball)

Liga Leumit is the second tier of league basketball competition in Israel, below the Israeli Basketball Super League.-League system:The league contains 14 clubs that compete in a home-and-away round-robin. At the end of the season, the top eight clubs advance to the play-offs. The first round is...

 with 33 wins and only 1 defeat (a record)

The club had a rich history in the 80's when they played 5 successful years in the first league and managed to have a decent campaign in the European Cup Winners' Cup

Saporta Cup

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 in 1988 with an away victory over Real Madrid

Real Madrid Baloncesto

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Current roster

Honours

• Domestic Championship:
  • Runners-up (1): 1985–86

• Domestic Cup
  Israeli Basketball State Cup
  The Israeli Basketball State Cup is the second most important basketball competition in Israel, after Ligat HaAl. The tournament began in the 1955-56 season, and is run by the Israel Basketball Association....
  
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  • Runners-up (2): 1987–88, 2010–11

• Liga Leumit
  Liga Leumit (basketball)
  Liga Leumit is the second tier of league basketball competition in Israel, below the Israeli Basketball Super League.-League system:The league contains 14 clubs that compete in a home-and-away round-robin. At the end of the season, the top eight clubs advance to the play-offs. The first round is...
  
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  • Champions (1): 2008–09
  • Regular season champions (2): 2007–08, 2008–09

• Association Cup:
  • Champions (1): 2009

External links

• Official website
• Profile on Eurobasket
• Club's ultras website