The club was founded in 1956 and started in
Liga Gimel. After three seasons at the bottom tier, the club won their regional division and were promoted to
Liga Bet. In the
1965–66 season, they won Liga Bet South B division and were promoted to
Liga Alef, then the second tier of Israeli football. The club were relegated back to Liga Bet in
1969–70 after finishing second from bottom of the South Division. Beitar were promoted back to Liga Alef, now the third tier, at the end of the
1978–79 season, remaining in Liga Alef until the
1986–87 season, when they were relegated back to Liga Bet. In 1991 the club had returned to Liga Alef, and were promoted to
Liga Artzit (then the second tier) in 1998. In their
first season at the second level they finished fourth. In the
2000–01 season the club finished third, missing out on promotion to the
Israeli Premier League by a single point (they had a better goal difference than runners-up
Maccabi Kiryat Gat). Although they finished fourth the
following season, Beitar finished bottom of Liga Leumit (which had become the second division in 1999) in
2002–03, without winning an away match all season, and were due to be relegated to Liga Artzit. However, the club folded in the summer, with
Hapoel Marmorek promoted from
Liga Alef to take their place. The club's stadium was named after
Michael Reisser, a Likud MK who died following a car accident in 1988. ==S.C. Be'er Sheva==