British Mandate Beitar Jerusalem was founded in 1936 by Shmuel Kirschstein and David Horn as a youth team. The first games were held against
Armenian and
Arab teams in
Jerusalem, though
Hapoel Jerusalem boycotted for political reasons. In 1942, a match was held at Tel Aviv's Maccabiah Stadium between Beitar and the Islamic Sports Club of Haifa. Beitar won 5–1. At the end of 1943 and early 1944, Beitar played several games against the club from Katamon, Al-Dajani, the city's leading Arab team. ;Jerusalem Cup Games of 1944 • 15 April 1944: Beitar Jerusalem 1–1 Plebis • 22 April 1944: Beitar Jerusalem 2–2 Plebis • 13 May 1944: Beitar Jerusalem 3–2 Plebis • 20 May 1944: Beitar Jerusalem 1–3 Allwain Later, Beitar Jerusalem qualified for the final, which was to be held against the team of the "Paymasters" of the British mandate. The fans of rival
Hapoel Jerusalem disrupted the game, and the "Jerusalem Cup remained in the hands of the politicians in
Tel Aviv." On 19 October 1944, several club players were among
251 persons who were deported to
Eritrea,
Kenya, and
Sudan by the British Mandate authorities. Among the deportees were David Horn and Rabinovich and some members of Beitar Jerusalem's "First team of 1936." A Beitar Jerusalem team was set up in
Gilgil, where many deportees played in city-of-origin-based teams. A plan was made to dig a tunnel from the centre of a football pitch in the detention camp in
Kenya. Two of the deportees were murdered by Sudanese guards for an alleged "escape attempt". Six succeeded in reaching Europe. All living deportees reached
Israel in July 1948. When a joint team of Beitar Jerusalem and
Beitar Tel Aviv visited
Lebanon and
Syria, they played against Homenetmen, an Armenian team, which ended in 0–0, and the French Army team, in which Beitar lost 2–5. Both games were held in
Beirut. Another game, planned in
Aleppo, was cancelled because of a diplomatic incident as Arab delegates in the hotel protested seeing an "Eretz Yisrael" flag, now the Israeli flag, in an Arab country. The British ambassador intervened, suggesting that the
Union Jack be raised instead of the "Eretz Yisrael" flag, but the head of delegation Hayyim Levin opposed. Due to the impasse, the game was canceled. Simon Alfasi, Shimon Stern, Yisrael Yehezqel, and goalkeeper Yosef Meyuhas were the Beitar Jerusalem players on the trip. In 1946, Beitar Jerusalem qualified for the 2nd round of the Cup Games against
Maccabi Tel Aviv. The scores were a 3–3 and a loss 3–2 in game 2. Simon Alfasi scored all five goals for the club, three in the first and two in the second. On 8 August 1947, all Beitar clubs were banned by the British mandate authorities. The club name was changed to "Nordiah Jerusalem" before a local league was set up in the Jerusalem district in November 1947. On 15 November 1947, Beitar as "Nordiah Jerusalem" won the first derby, 3–1 over
Hapoel Jerusalem, and on 29 November 1947, a second win was achieved, 8–1 over Degel Zion when one player Simon Alfasi scored six goals in a game, the record for any Beitar Jerusalem's player that stands until today. The club led the league on 29 November 1947, on the same evening when
UN GA Resolution 181 was proclaimed, and on 30 November 1947, the games were stopped abruptly: on that day, the
1948 Arab–Israeli War broke out. During the war, Beitar Jerusalem player Asher Benjamin was killed by the British when he entered a British camp in Jerusalem.
State of Israel After
independence in 1948, Beitar, again by its original name, played since the 1949–50 season in a "Special League" of "Jerusalem's district", ending in 5th place while achieving a win of 8–0 over
Hapoel Ramla on 17 December 1949, the highest league win of Beitar Jerusalem in any league the club has not played. In the 1951–52 season, the club integrated into
Liga Bet southern part, then the second tier. In
1953–54 the club won the southern division of Liga Bet, and were promoted to the top league, which had just been renamed
Liga Leumit. In their
first season in the top flight, they finished 11th out of 14, and were forced to participate in promotion/relegation play-offs. Although they were the highest-placed club to take part in
the play-offs, they finished at the bottom of the group, Beitar were relegated back to the second league, now renamed Liga Alef. In
1957–58 they won Liga Alef, but were not promoted, as there was no promotion or relegation that year. They won Liga Alef again in 1966–68 (a two-year season) and were promoted back to Liga Leumit. That was the best league season ever for Beitar Jerusalem, although it was winning the 2nd division "only". 104 points out of a possible 120, for a season of 60 matches, when two points were given for winning a match. The club had 32 an undefeated streak with a sequence of 19 wins starting with the 42nd match to the 60th match inclusive, the record of Beitar Jerusalem in any league, scoring 161 league goals. 225,000 spectators saw the club's matches in that season. The prize that the club management gave to the players was a trip to the United States of America. After finishing thirteenth in
1968–69, Beitar finished fifth in
1969–70, their best performance to date.
1970s In the
1971–72 Liga they finished as runners-up to
Maccabi Tel Aviv. In 1974, during a match against
Hapoel Petah Tikva, Beitar fans invaded the pitch and attacked Petah Tikva players and fans. This caused the first of several "radius" penalties, in which the club was forced to play matches in other cities behind closed doors. Beitar were also due to be relegated, but were saved by the intervention of Knesset members
Ehud Olmert and
Yossi Sarid, who forced the suspension of the relegation threat and called for an investigation of
Israel Football Association corruption. In 1974–75 the club reached the
State Cup final for the first time, but lost 3–1 to
Hapoel Kfar Saba. In the same season they finished second bottom of
the league, and were due to be relegated to
Liga Alef. However, an IFA decision to expand the league from 16 to 18 clubs saw them reprieved. The
next season they finished runners-up in the league to
Hapoel Be'er Sheva and reached the
State Cup final again, this time beating Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 to claim their first piece of major silverware, on 16 June 1976, 55,000 or 60,000 spectators saw the game in an overcrowded Ramat Gan Stadium.
Danny Noyman and
Uri Malmilian scored for Beitar Jerusalem. On 11 September 1976, the club won the
Israeli Super Cup for the first time after beating
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 3–2.
Uri Malmilian scored two goals, and David Yishai scored another goal for Beitar Jerusalem. The club finished as runners-up in
1977–78. In
1978–79, the club ended as runners-up: they also reached the cup final, winning 2–1 against Maccabi Tel Aviv, on 6 June 1979.
Danny Noyman and Yossi Avrahami scored for Beitar Jerusalem to win the State Cup for the 2nd time. Despite the run of success towards the end of the 1970s, the club was dependent mainly on
Uri Malmilian's ability. Early in the season, he suffered an awful injury, crippling him with the need for three operations until 1981, and missing most of the games until the summer of 1981. Beitar finished bottom of the division in
1979–80, and were relegated to Liga Artzit. However, they made an immediate return to the top division after
finishing as runners-up to Beitar Tel Aviv in their first season back in the second tier.
1980s The
1981–82 started with a sports disaster for the club. On 12 September 1981, referee Avraham Klein gave a win to
Maccabi Tel Aviv in a series of a wrong decisions: cancelling a goal of Beitar Jerusalem's player Yaron Adiv when he and Beitar's players celebrated the goal, then allowing seconds after Maccabi player
Moti Ivanir to score a goal from an offside position. A crowd of 8,000 Beitar Jerusalem's fans went crazy. The
Israeli Football Association quickly decided to punish Beitar Jerusalem and discussed the so-called "football game" for six weeks before stating to leave the outcome as 2–1 win to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and filing a reprimand about Avraham Klein. Also, the next game of Beitar Jerusalem is remembered: on 19 September 1981, a player of
Hapoel Be'er Sheva,
Shalom Avitan hit his teammate Eli Vaitzman on his face, and the Hapoel Be'er Sheva coach entered the pitch and took Shalom Avitan by his hand out of the pitch, preventing a red card by the referee. Beitar Jerusalem won 2–0. Later, with
Eli Ohana in his first season, Beitar Jerusalem improved its standing, ending the season in 6th place, above
Maccabi Tel Aviv, who, to the delight of Beitar fans, ended that season in 8th place. The season of
1982–83 is remembered as the "Crazy Season". A bad start of two draws and two losses caused the firing of the coach Eliahu Ofer without stopping his salary payments, and he said "They will ask me to come back". After changing of seven Management members and five coaches, Eliahu Ofer was asked to come back and he came back to be a coach in mid-season, the club was in 16th and last place for two weeks but recovered: from the 18th game to 29th game inclusive, 12 no-lose sequence of games, Beitar ended the season in the 8th place. This is a place to explain that traditionally as a
Beitar movement branch, the club was managed by
Heruth and later
Likud parties members. Party members were appointed by party apparatus to the party representative football club managers to give them managing training before venturing out into the political arena. This arrangement lasted until 1999. Some of the managers are ever remembered for good reasons who held Beitar well, such as
Reuven Rivlin and his Brother Eliezer Rivlin, but Yossi Zharzhervski left the club after his well remembered brawl with
Uri Malmilian when Zharzhevski told Malmilian in the midst of the troubles of 1982–83 season: "I will burn your legs". As a fan said, "Within 3 days Zharzhevski will not be in Beitar", and the fan was proved right. Uri Malmilian was referred by Beitar fans as a saint and was given full support. On the third day Zharzhevski resigned. In
1983–84 Beitar went into the penultimate game of the season needing a win or draw to win the title. However, they lost 1–3 to Hapoel Tel Aviv, allowing Maccabi Haifa to win the league, despite Beitar winning the last game 3–2 against
Shimshon Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa won 1–0 over
Maccabi Ramat Amidar and became champions. In
1984–85 Beitar finished again as runner-up, and won the State Cup for the third time, winning 1–0 over
Maccabi Haifa on 4 June 1985.
Eli Ohana scored, after which coach David Shveizer left. In
1985–86, in the summer of 1985,
Dror Kashtan took over as manager. Almost immediately the club won the
Lilian Cup on 10 September 1985 for the first and only time, after winning all four of its games by combined scores of 14–2. Asher Sason scored six goals, at least one goal in each game. Beitar Jerusalem finished the league in the 4th place. In another 45 minutes game, and won its first and only title out of
Israel. Days later Beitar lost 1–3 to
PAOK in
UEFA Cup tournament in
Greece. The next game with
PAOK ended in 3–3 draw. Moshe Dadash was forced to leave by
Israel Football Association over his juristic problems exposed in 2001 concerning the training pitch in
Bayit Vegan. The real trouble was exposed by an Israeli court in 2005. Later the season ended in a fiasco, both on the pitch and financially, Guttman became sick and left after 22 league games, and Nissim Bakhar the winner of two titles in 1976 returned, and brought quiet to the team until the season ended. In the later years
Eli Guttman and players were accused by fans and media in cheating Gad Zeevi and capitalizing over his expense, concerning the real prices and salaries of some players, especially
Branko Savić and Milan Stoyanoski. Gad Zeevi got into troubles with Israeli police over
Bezeq shares, and found Beitar Jerusalem "Financially Unworthy" and left Beitar, applying to a court to declare Beitar's bankruptcy. After the club's bankruptcy was declared by a court, 'Ami Fulman was appointed as an interim director by the court until club debts could be settled. 'Ami Fulman and his assistant got a salary of 1 million
NIS together and the club was given a budget of 5 million
NIS. The previous season players were convinced to get only 25% of their contracted salaries, those agreeing joining the Creditors Arrangement. The club started to search for players and new owner(s) and fans took active part in it, filling the courtroom in every discussion about the club, and some opened a bank account for donations. Its number was known to few only 54,000 NIS were collected. Beitar Jerusalem was not allowed to play the first three games; the games were postponed instead of forfeited by Beitar. The club started to play only from the 4th game onward, losing the 4th, 5th, 6th games, playing to a draw in the next three games and winning for the 1st time vs.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion. Meanwhile, new buyers were approved by the court: Meir Panijel and brothers Meir Levi and Shaul Levi, aided by Sasson Shem Tov. The fans felt that they had done their best to help their team. Until the 29th league game, inclusive, out of 33, Beitar was in 12th and last place, with only five wins and ten draws, 25 points. The 30th game was won, and also the 31st game was won. The 32nd game was a draw 3–3 against
Maccabi Kiryat Gat F.C. a rival in the bottom of the league. Beitar Jerusalem promoted jumped to 10th place. The last game was a draw 1–1 vs. the new champion
Maccabi Haifa. Beitar ended the season with 7 league wins, 12 draws, 14 losses, 33 points, 39 goals for, 49 goals against, and kept the 10th place and avoided relegation.
Manor Hassan scored 11 league goals in his only season as a club player. Beitar scored 15 goals in 3 State Cup games, including an away win 7–2 over
F.C. Ashdod but lost 0–1 to
Maccabi Haifa in the semi-final, on 7 May 2002. The club ended the season of 2002–03 in the 9th place, and was certificated by
Israel Football Association as the Honest Team of the Season, in the merit of 0
red cards and 71
yellow cards of club players, the least numbers in the whole of the Israeli leagues. The prize was a DVD recorder given to the club with the certificate about the achievement. The news for the club ahead of 2003–2004 season, came from
Maccabi Tel Aviv, the champion of 2002–03 season. On 13 August 2003, three senior club members declared in a press conference:
Avi Nimni and
Tal Banin were being ousted from the club, accused of dividing the team ("Making Camps of separate players"). Meir Panijel saw the opportunity to take
Avi Nimni; the problem was his large contract. Meir Panijel offered 3 Million NIS. After months of negotiations, en elaborate deal was made. Nimni got 4,200,000 NIS for 2 seasons, part of it paid by
Maccabi Tel Aviv. Nimni joined with Beitar Jerusalem in mid season, scoring eight league goals as Beitar ended the season in 9th place. A
Futsal team of Beitar Jerusalem led by former football goalkeeper
Shlomi Maman won the 2004 championship. although a planned playoff never held, because of a financial crisis of the league. Beitar jerusalem was in 1st place then, and any mention of it was vanished from the Israeli media at once. Many years later it became clear the Beitar Jerusalem was declared as a champion. Avi Nimni continued to play with the club during 2004–05 season, adding 12 more league goals, his charisma helping the team to 4th place. By the end of the season Avi Nimni aggregate score was 20 league goals in 50 league games. and
Bayit Vegan During the summer of 2005 it was proven that Meir Panijel had financial problems. The only worthy thing that remained out of his ownership of the club was the value of the training court in
Bayit Vegan. After spending 60 million NIS in about four years he looked for his way out. The contract of
Avi Nimni was a huge burden. Nimni was returned to
Maccabi Tel Aviv by its fans that threw away all three persons that expelled him two years earlier. Panijel got relief for Beitar Jerusalem finances, and 1 year short of Nimni's contract termination with the club, both separated in good ways. The help to Beitar was unexpected after the 2005–2006 season started. On 18 August 2005, the club was bought by Russian-born billionaire
Arcadi Gaydamak for 35,500,000 NIS without buying the training facility in
Bayit Vegan. Meir Panijel continues to lease the training facility to the club for a yearly fee.
Arcadi Gaydamak angered some Beitar fans when he donated $400,000 to
Bnei Sakhnin in a diplomatic gesture. However, under Gaydamak, the club soon established itself as having the largest budget in Israeli football. Several new players were signed such as
Jérôme Leroy,
Fabrice Fernandes,
David Aganzo and the club eventually signed manager
Luis Fernández. Beitar finished 3rd in the league and qualified for the
UEFA Cup in
2005–06.
Osvaldo Ardiles was appointed manager at the start of the
2006–07 season, but was sacked after disappointing results in the UEFA Cup. His replacement,
Yossi Mizrahi, led the club to its 5th championship. On 7 May 2007, three games before the season's end, the club received the title offer via a TV news broadcast;
Maccabi Tel Aviv had been punished by with the removal of two league points due to a financial fraud involving the contracts of two of its players. This increased the margin of Beitar Jerusalem from 8 to 10 points with three games, worth nine points together, left to play. Afterwards there was a fan celebration ahead of the evening of game on 6 May 2007, a win against
Hapoel Petah Tikva 2–0, because of a rumor that the championship was secured, which was false then. On 8 May 2007, the club player
Milovan Mirošević told the press: "It is weird to win the championship without a game." Beitar Jerusalem did the best to win its next game over
Hapoel Tel Aviv and won 2–1, to prove to be entitled for the championship on the pitch. In the summer of 2007,
Itzhak Shum came to be the club manager. In
2007–08 the club won its first championship and State Cup. Double, winning the championship title on 17 May 2008 by nine points and beating Hapoel Tel Aviv 5–4 on penalties in the cup final after a 0–0 draw, on 13 May 2008 for winning the State cup for the sixth time. The following season,
2008–09 season started when
Itzhak Shum as club manager, but bad start to the league and disqualification to
UEFA Champions League, Shum was sacked without stopping his wages payments.
Reuven Atar came to be the coach. In the last third of the season, Beitar went on a roll, eventually winning the State Cup for the 7th time, beating Maccabi Haifa 2–1 in the final on 26 May 2009. This was despite finishing the game with 10 players vs. 11;
Cristian Alvarez and
Aviram Baruchyan scored for the club. In July 2009,
Guma Aguiar invested over US$4 million and it was widely expected that he would take over ownership of the club, and indeed claimed to be so in December 2009. This was denied by the
Israel Football Association, stating that Gaydamak remains the owner due to his ongoing legal issues complicating the sale of the club.
Itzhak Shum returned to work as he was still under contract. On 26 January 2010, Beitar Jerusalem won the
Toto Cup for the second time, beating
Hapoel Ra'anana 1–0 on the strength of an
Idan Vered goal. The trophy was given along with 1,300,000 NIS. At the beginning of the tournament Fans told
Toto Tamuz: "Please win the cup called after your name" and he became the tournament star when he scored five goals out of the club total 15 goals. The club won seven games, one of them by a technical 3–0, one draw and one loss.
Itzhak Shum told the media that he fulfilled his mission: Winning all three titles with Beitar Jerusalem, namely Championship, State Cup and Toto Cup, but he was unfortunate: Many fans claimed his football is "boring" and "sickening" and he had hard times from crowds without honour. He was fired before the season ended with the club ending the league in the 5th place. The club ended the season in financial profit, made by the Toto Cup money.
2010s Uri Malmilian started the 2010–11 season as a manager. In
Toto Cup games the team started successfully. It passed the group stage without losing, ending in 1st place while setting its record score of any time in this tournament. On 9 November 2010 the club won 8–0 vs.
F.C. Ashdod, qualified to the quarter-final. In the league games the club had hard times.
Uri Malmilian asked to resign, but remained as a manager until after the 18th game. Beitar had only 19 points when he resigned, replaced by
Ronny Levy. Beitar Jerusalem lost the Toto cup quarter-final to
Maccabi Petah Tikva in penalties shootout. The club ended in 11th place. In July 2011, Beitar Jerusalem announced that a deal was made between club owner Arcadi Gaydamak and American businessmen Dan Adler and Adam Levine who were to take over the club. However, the deal fell through when Adler and Levin heard about the club debts. Both Adler and Levine were referred by Beitar fans as "Two clowns who came to make an advertising trip on the expense of Beitar Jerusalem." During June 2011,
David Amsalem was appointed as a coach, but a few days before the league start in August he suddenly resigned a day after the team won 1–0 in a
Toto Cup game. Amsalem explained that the team was not prepared for the season, and without new players he could not be responsible to the future.
Yuval Naim replaced him. An unsuccessful start caused an end to his job when the club was close to the league's bottom. Eli Cohen, the winner of 1997 championship, became club manager. He won the title "Coach of the season" because of a sequence of 8 Beitar Jerusalem's league wins during his period. Beitar finished the season in 9th place. On 17 June 2012, Gaydamak announced his decision to give up the ownership of Beitar Jerusalem, via a letter to the media, in which he specified the titles won by the club in his period, and the total sum of money that he invested in the club, by then: 378,886,000
NIS. On 20 June 2013, the team was bought by Eli Tabib. The deal was confirmed on 2 July 2013. Eli Tabib took the responsibility to pay Beitar Jerusalem FC debts, totaling 12.5 Million
NIS. The media reported that he paid most of them during August 2013. After 6 years in office, Tabib removed Itzik Korenfein from the position of Club chairman. Before the beginning of 2013/14 season, Eli Cohen II was appointed as Head Coach until December 2013. Ronny Levy replaced Cohen, but the club failed to improve in its achievements. In April 2014, Menachem Koretski become the new coach until January 2015. Koretski was replaced by Guy Levy who led the club into the fourth place in the Championship table standings. For the first time since 2007, Beitar returned to European tournaments to compete in the
European League. In June 2015
Slobodan Drapić became the new coach. During the
Europa League second qualifying round first leg at Sporting Charleroi, the game between Beitar and FC Charleroi was delayed for three minutes due to the unruly behavior of some Israeli supporters. The club suffered a heavy loss in
Charleroi (5–1) and the owner Eli Tabib announced he would leave the club. At the end of 2015–16 season, Beitar finished in the 3rd place in
IPL and qualified for the
Europa League first qualifying round.
Slobodan Drapić left the club due to his contract ended and
Ran Ben Shimon was appointed as the new manager. Beitar signed new players as:
Idan Vered,
Marcel Heister and
Erik Sabo. At the end of 2017–18 season, Beitar finished in the 3rd place in
IPL and reach the
Israeli cup final, but lost the title to
Hapoel Haifa. Beitar Jerusalem scored at least one goal in each and every one of 36 league games in 2017–18 season, continuing scoring since the last 6 league games in 2016–17 season since 22 April 2017 making a record of 42 consecutive league games that Beitar Jerusalem scored, before adding the 1st league game in the next season, by scoring in it, making a record of 43 consecutive league games that Beitar Jerusalem scored, the historical record for the Israeli football ever. Beitar scored 75 league goals in 2017–18 season, even its record score in 1993–94 season. On 13 May 2018, the club announced that it was changing its official name to
Beitar Trump Jerusalem Football Club, saying that U.S. President
Donald Trump had "displayed courage, vision and true love for the people of Israel and their capital." On Monday, 13 August 2018, Beitar Jerusalem was sold to
Moshe Hogeg, a
high-tech entrepreneur, for 26.5 million NIS, which was 18 million NIS to Eli Tabib and 8.5 million NIS for debts payments and avoiding lawsuits. During that week Israeli defender
Tal Ben Haim joined with the club. After buying the team, Hogeg said that he hoped to put it on a "new path" and that religion would no longer be a factor in the club's personnel decisions.
2020s On 7 December 2020,
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, a member of
Abu Dhabi's ruling family, announced plans to acquire a 50 percent stake in the club. The deal was brokered by Jewish-Emirati businessman
Naum Koen, chairman of the
NY Koen Group. Al Nahyan's son, Mohamed bin Hamad bin Khalifa, was to sit on the team's board of directors. As part of the deal, Sheikh Khalifa al-Nahyan was to invest roughly $92 million into the club over the next ten years and his son would join the club's board of directors.
2020–2021 Beitar Ended the league games in the 10th place. Moshe Hogeg had a "war in court" against 4 members of
La Familia which made his life hard : Cursed his daughter and Told him : "We know in which school your son learns".
2021–2022 During September 2021 Moshe Hogeg decided to sell Beitar Jerusalem after investing 120
million NIS, a thing that he repeated to mention. In November 2021 he announced that he quits putting money in beitar jerusalem as of January 2022, and appointed lawyer Yitzhaq Younger as the man in charge as a trustee. Moshe Hogeg was arrested and later released by Israeli Police during that season. Economic troubles started, along with football hardships that where harming Beitar Jerusalem from the start of that season. The team management was searching for money to pay salaries. Some players were released in mid season. All other players and workers, had to agree that their salaries will be reduced by 30% but an agreement was made that the 30% are a "loan" from the players to the club. An improved playoff in the end of the season with no losses, gained the 10th place, on the last game on May 14, 2022. After that, the troubles of Beitar Jerusalem where intensified.
Eli Ohana left his chairman role on May 31, on the end of his contract, maybe because of 2 reasons : unsuccessful relationships with Moshe Hogeg during that season, and knowing that there was no money for continuing his job. Israeli police regarded every Moshe Hogeg's properties as places of "concealing money", including Beitar Jerusalem. During July 2022, Israeli Police got earlier a permission by a court, to confiscate all Moshe Hogeg properties. Beitar Jerusalem became a hostage by law. Until August 10, there was a constant threat to relegate Beitar Jerusalem to "A league" because of debts of 42 Million
NIS, by a regulation that a club that can not pay its contracts should not play in a professional league. Israeli Police demanded money from Moshe hogeg, and the intended buyer, Baraq Avramov, withdrew from negotiations by 9 August by Noon. On that afternoon by 18:00 Moshe Hogeg addressed the media urging Baraq Avramov to save Beitar Jerusalem, blaming all about no help, and asking "Is Beitar Jerusalem a property of the Police ?". in 9 August, 23:44 A
Facebook page of Betar fans reported : Baraq Avramov is back in negotiations. A Likud
Knesset member,
Nir Barkat, A former Jerusalem's Mayor, found a donator to Beitar Jerusalem which donated 2 Million NIS. The threat of relegation was removed on August 10, 2022, when in elaborate deal was made between Moshe Hogeg and
Baraq Avramov, and Beitar Jerusalem was sold to Baraq Avramov, which was forced to pay 5 Million NIS to Israeli Police, also in order to prevent money from Moshe Hogeg. This happened in August 10, After all was approved, on August 11, 2022, about 16:00 PM, Beitar Jerusalem was allowed to start 2022–2023 season in the IPL.
2022–2023 After negotiations, on 17 August 2022, Beitar Jerusalem sold its NFT rights for 6 years to
Chroma-Way for 700000
Euros. Beitar had a hard league season with 13 wins 4 draws and 16 losses, ended in 8th place, and had 3 seasons records : 2 positives, the highest win and the highest score of IPL IN 2022–2023 season, 6:3 over
Maccabi Netania, when top scorer
Ion Nicolaescu scored 4 goals, highest scorer in IPL during 2022–2023, and one record was negative, conceiving 58 league goals, equal to that of
Maccabi Netania. Some days before the State Cup Final
Baraq Avramov was selected as the Team Owner of The Season 2022–2023, by the
Israeli Football Association. Beitar surprised itself and its fans by winning the Israeli State Cup for the 8th time on 23 May 2023 after win 3:0 over
Maccabi Netania, when
Ion Nicolaescu (37)
Fred Friday (76) And
Yarden Shuah (90) Scored the goals, and
Yarden Shuah was Involved in all goals. The Cup was awarded to Beitar on 24 May 2023 in President's House in Jerusalem, because a breakup of
La Familia fans caused an evacuation of Israeli president by security forces.
2023–2024 Beitar had a hard season in every tournament it participated. A loss in Israeli Super Cup deprived Beitar of any chance of winning Toto Cup also, Beitar ended in 6th place. A draw 0:0 and a loss 1:4 to
PAOK FC where the only games in a European tournament after many years of absence. The state cup became a past issue only after a loss in the 1st game. In the league Beitar started with -4 points after a penalty deprivation by
Israeli Football Association, a punishment following the events right after the end of 2022-2023 State Cup Final. Beitar was at the bottom of the table most of the season, with more losses than wins, and a penalty deprivation of one more point, but ended with a positive goals ratio. Beitar ended in the 11th place in the league table. The only achievement was a win of 5:1 vs
Hapoel Tel Aviv in
Bloomfield Stadium, on 27 April 2024, the highest ever away win of Beitar against Hapoel Tel Aviv in Bloomfield stadium in the league.
2024–2025 The league season began well. Beitar reached briefly to the 1st place not holding it more than after a game twice, but the second half was weaker, especially the playoff. On 3 January 2025
Omer Atzili rejoined to Beitar Jerusalem. Beitar ended in the 4th place. Beitar reached to the state cup final, but lost 0-2 in a dreadful appearance.
2025–2026 Beitar started the
UEFA Conference League Games vs.
FK Sutjeska Nikšić with 2 wins: 5-2, and 2-1. Next rival was
Skonto Riga. The 1st game ended by Skonto's win 3-0, In the next game, Beitar won 3-1, and did not qualified. All 4 games were held in
Europe. As an outcome of time table with
Conference League and
Toto Cup games, Beitar started Toto cup tournament as one of the "European" teams, bypassing a need for a group stage. On 19 July 2025 Beitar won 2-0 vs.
Maccabi Haifa in Sami Ofer Stadium, scorers:
Omer Atzili,
Silva Kani, and qualified to a semi final. On 18 August 2025 Beitar won 5-0, vs.
Hapoel Haifa, scorers:
Johnbosco Kalu,
Omer Atzili,
Yarin Levi,
Dor Hugi,
Ziv Ben Shimol. On 28 October 2025, Beitar Won the 2025-2026 Toto Cup after Winning 2:1 vs.
Hapoel Tel Aviv, Scoreres for Beitar:
Dor Micha,
Johnbosco Kalu. Beitar ended the game with 10 players on the pitch: After 3 substitutions in 3 times, and when
Luka Gadrani was injured in Overtime, Beitar could not send a substitute. Beitar won Toto Cup for the 4th time, by 3 wins in 3 games, aggregate score: 9-1. The final was held in Sami Ofer stadium in attendance of 24560 spectators. After winning the team travelled to the wedding of
Ilai Hajjaj, A player of Beitar which did not participate in the final game. In the league games, as of 9 November 2025, After winning 6:2 against
Maccabi Tel Aviv FC in
Bloomfield Stadium, Beitar held 10 games: 6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses, 20 points, and 3rd place in the IPL table. ==Crest and colours==