Maccabi Be'er Sheva F.C. (women)

Maccabi Be'er Sheva (Hebrew: מכבי באר שבע - לי) is an Israeli women's football club from Be'er Sheva competing in the Israeli women's league and the Israeli Women's Cup.

The club was established in 2004[1] and first competed in Ligat Nashim in 2004–05, which then consisted of one tier only.

However, during the season break, three of the five second division clubs folded, and, in order to ensure its first division status, the club bought out Bnot Kiryat Gat, and remained in the first division, which once again became the only tier of the league.

[2] The club kept its first division status until the end of 2013–14 season, twice reaching 4th, its best placing, during this period (in 2010–11 and 2011–12.

[4] In the Israeli Women's Cup, the club reached the cup final in 2010, overcoming local rivals Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Bnot Sakhnin, before losing in the final itself 0–5 to Maccabi Holon[5] The club reached the cup semi-finals twice more, in 2006–07 and 2010–11, in both times losing to Maccabi Holon.