Hapoel Rehovot was a handball team from the city of Rehovot, Israel.

הפועל רחובות
Hapoel Rehovot
Full nameHapoel Rehovot
Founded1955
Dissolved2002
Presidentmenachem frishler
Head coachyehuda sandler
Leaguetop league
Club colours   

Hapoel was the biggest handball club in Israel until the mid-1980s; they won 13 championships and 5 Israeli cups. They also competed 9 times in the European Cup, but never managed to pass the second round. The last time the club competed in a European competition was in the 1995-96 EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

After some bad years in the late 1990s, the team was dissolved in 2002.[1]

Titles

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  • Israel Champions (13):[2] 1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984
  • Israel Cup Holder (5): 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985

References

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  1. ^ "ערוץ חדשות » רחובות: כדוריד: הפועל ומכבי רחובות המיתולוגיות זכו לכבוד בגמר היובל". www.08news.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  2. ^ "איגוד הכדוריד בישראל | האתר הרשמי". Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2012-05-31.