During his visit, he announced his willingness to fund the establishment of a national squad of 18 players who would travel to games in England, in order to play in the first league.
The Football Association in Israel / Palestine was established on 14 August 1928 and was accepted as a member of FIFA a year later in 1929.
The team has not qualified for the World Cup Finals 2022, as they finished third in their group; behind Scotland and Denmark; in front of Austria, Faroe Islands and Moldova.
After Nielsen, coach Avram Grant was appointed to the team, which failed its first tournament but later managed to improve its image and return the selected game audience.
In 2006 appointed coach Dror Kashtan, who guided the national team in the Euro 2008 qualifying tournament presented a series of victories in the exterior of the groups that are rated below a home victory of Russian team score 2–1, but lost other games and finished the tournament in fourth place, with the same number of points as England.
At the end of the early tournament was decided that Kashtan will continue to guide the national team World Cup 2010 qualifying too.
Due to the rise of Israel to rank second quality in Europe, it won the lottery, and this tournament, when the main rivals were supposed to be Greece and Switzerland, along with lower-rated teams, Moldova, Latvia and Luxembourg.
Other big games are 2:1 victory over Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Rome Olympics qualifier (1960) (Yugoslavia Israel ahead so the only margin goals and won the Olympic silver medal) and victory in October 1981 Portugal 4–1 World Cup qualifier in 1982, with the striker's hat-trick.
In the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying, Israel reached the Oceania playoff game against Colombia, which lost 0–1 and finished in a draw zero out the Ramat Gan Stadium.
The highest ranking the team has held was 15th place, in November 2008; under Israeli head coach Dror Kashtan.
The lowest ranking the team has held was 71st place, in September 1993; under the guidance of Israeli head coach Shlomo Scharf.