Year Founded: 1936

Stadium: Bloomfield Stadium (14,170)

Head Coach: Yossi Abuksis, a former standout player in the Israeli league began his coaching career as an assistant for Bnei Yehuda in 2007. In 2011/12 he was given his first opportunity to be the club’s head coach and he held that position again near the end of 2013/14 but couldn’t save the team from relegation. Last season his guided the Orange back to Israel’s top flight division and began this year as it’s head coach once again.

Players who left: Oz Rali, Nes Zamir, Kostotius Abisevicius, Dor Davidi, Bar Aharoni

Players arrived: Almog Bozaglo, Raz Meir, Itamar Israeli, Maor Kandil, Dan Mori, Jude Nworuh, Theirry Mousse

Key player: Pedro Galvan

Even at 30 years of age, the Argentinian midfielder is still playing at his best and is the barometer for the club from the “Schuna”. He is considered to be one of the all time great foreign players to have plied his trade in Israel and has scored four goals while picking up one assist so far this season.

How has their year been to date:

The Orange opened the year with a terrific away win at Maccabi Haifa but then lost two matches in a row sending them down the table. They enter tonight’s game after having drawn their last two matches in league play against Bnei Sakhnin and Hapoel Beer Sheva.