What is the level of football in Israel?

The overall level of Israeli football is relatively in the middle level.

Football has no national boundaries, and it is also a sport that Israelis love very much. Although the overall strength is average, in August of 20 17, FIFA ranked Israel 70th, but Israel also has a very popular league and a very large fan base. Since 1934, the number of players in the Israeli national team has exceeded 49 1. But for this country, besides religion and politics, Israeli football has also experienced many twists and turns.

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The Israel Football Association was established as early as August 1928 during the British trusteeship period, and was accepted as a member of the International Football Association in June 1929. 1954, Israel joined the Asian Football Federation (AFC). At that time, some Muslim countries began to refuse to play with Israel for various reasons because geopolitics spread to the stadium.

Later, in the 1958 World Cup Asian, African and Latin American World Cup qualifiers, because Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia and Sudan all refused to participate, Israel finally won the World Cup seat without a game. FIFA then ruled that the promotion process was too embarrassing to prove the strength of the team, and then decided to choose one of the eliminated teams to play against Israel, and the winner won the right to participate in the World Cup. Belgium and Uruguay were originally chosen, but they all refused. The final Welsh team beat Israel 2-0, and Israel finally missed the World Cup.