Reuven Atar

Reuven Atar
Personal information

Full name	Reuven Atar
Date of birth	(1969-01-03) January 3, 1969
Place of birth	Tirat Carmel, Israel
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1994	Maccabi Haifa	198	(49)
1994–1997	Hapoel Haifa	69	(37)
1997	Beitar Jerusalem	1	(0)
1998–1999	Hapoel Petah Tikva	27	(5)
1999	Hapoel Haifa	5	(2)
2000	Beitar Jerusalem	16	(5)
2000–2002	Maccabi Haifa	66	(6)
2002–2003	Maccabi Netanya	21	(9)
National team^‡
1989–1997	Israel	33	(3)
Teams managed
2003–2004	Maccabi Netanya (assistant)
2004–2006	Maccabi Netanya
2006	Maccabi Herzliya
2007–2008	Maccabi Netanya
2008–2009	Beitar Jerusalem
2009–2012	Maccabi Netanya
2012	Maccabi Haifa
2013	Maccabi Netanya
2014–2015	Hapoel Haifa
2015-2016	Maccabi Netanya
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 2007. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 2007

Reuven Atar (Hebrew: ראובן עטר‎‎; born January 3, 1969) is a retired Israeli football player who was mostly known for his career in Maccabi Haifa and now he works as a manager, in this position he is mostly known for his work with Maccabi Netanya.

Early years

Atar is a first-generation Israeli of Moroccan immigrants who settled in Tirat Carmel. During his adolescence, he played football for the Maccabi Haifa youth club. For many, he is one of the greatest players to ever don the Haifa colors.

His Professional Career

After playing eight seasons for Maccabi Haifa and winning three titles for the club (The Toto Cup, and the Israeli Cup twice – one of which as both a Cup and a championship title at the same year), he joined the local rival team – Hapoel Haifa for four seasons, before being signed off to Beitar Jerusalem. At Beitar he played only one match before being injured, which rendered him unable to play during the rest of the season.

In the next season, Atar moved to Hapoel Petah Tikva for a single season, before moving back to Hapoel Haifa and a few months later back to Beitar Jerusalem, where he became one of the most popular players. In 2000 he returned to Maccabi Haifa, winning two championships. Atar left Haifa for Maccabi Netanya before the 2002/03 season, the last team in his professional career as a player.

Coaching career

During the season in Netanya, Atar was injured and decided to retire from his career as a player. He quickly signed as assistant coach in Netanya, first alongside Gili Landau and later on Eli Cohen. At the end of the 2003/04 season, Cohen has left the club, and Atar was chosen as the club's head-coach. Even though the M.C Netanya was relegated at the end of that season to the second league in Israel, "Liga Leumit", Atar remained in his position and helped the club return to the Premier League after only one season. In 2006, Atar was sent home by Netanya's new manager, Eyal Berkovich, and proceeded to move and coach Maccabi Herzliya, from which he was fired after only 8 league games^[1] before returning to Netanya, later guiding the club to the second place in the Israeli Premier League, and the UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds.

Atar was later dismissed from Netanya, after team's owner Daniel Jammer signed Lothar Matthäus.

In September 2008, he signed for Beitar replacing Shum. Later that year he won the Israeli Cup, but was dismissed and replaced by Shum.

On September 29, 2009, Atar returned once again to Maccabi Netanya, making it his 3rd stint as the manager of the club. On May 7, 2011 he broke Netanya's undefeated streak from 1971 as he managed the team for 16 straight games without losing a single game.^[2]

On April 23, 2012 he signed a two years contract for his home club of Maccabi Haifa.^[3] In November 13 he was sacked from Haifa.^[4]

On March 19, 2013 he returned to Maccabi Netanya for his 4th stint as the manager of the club.^[5]

In the start of the 2014-15 season he worked as the manager of Hapoel Haifa. He was fired after 4 months on the job.

On November 6, 2015 Atar returned to Maccabi Netanya for his 5th stint as the manager of the club.

Honours

Player

Maccabi Haifa

Winner

Israeli Premier League : 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2000–01, 2001–02
State Cup : 1991, 1993
Toto Cup: (2):1993–94, 2001–02

Runner-up

State Cup (3): 1987, 1989, 2002

Hapoel Haifa

Runner-up

Israeli Premier League (2) : 1994–95, 1995–96

Manager

Maccabi Netanya

Toto Cup (Leumit): Winner (1): 2004–05
Israeli Second Division : Runner-up (1): 2004–05
Israeli Premier League: Runner-up (2): 2006–07, 2007–08

Beitar Jerusalem

State Cup : Winner (1): 2009

career statistics

Club

^[6]

Club	Season	League			Cup			Toto Cup			Europe			Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists
Maccabi Haifa	1986–87	4	1
Maccabi Haifa	1987–88	16	2
Maccabi Haifa	1988–89	27	8
Maccabi Haifa	1989–90	23	2
Maccabi Haifa	1990–91	30	15
Maccabi Haifa	1991–92	28	13
Maccabi Haifa	1992–93	31	10
Maccabi Haifa	1993–94	37	8
Hapoel Haifa	1994–95	19	5
Hapoel Haifa	1995–96	27	21
Hapoel Haifa	1996–97	6	1
Maccabi Haifa	1996–97	18	6
Hapoel Haifa	1997–98	11	5
Beitar Jerusalem	1997–98	1	0
Hapoel Petach Tikva	1998–99	27	5
Hapoel Haifa	1999-00	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	2	1
Beitar Jerusalem	1999-00	16	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	5	2
Maccabi Haifa	1999-00	13	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	2	3
Maccabi Haifa	2000–01	35	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	37	4	1
Maccabi Haifa	2001–02	18	1	1	1	0	0	3	1	1	1	0	0	23	2	2
Maccabi Netanya	2002–03	21	9	6	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	24	11	6
Career		423	113

International

Israel national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1989	2	0
1990	3	0
1991	0	0
1992	1	0
1993	12	1
1994	6	0
1995	3	1
1996	5	1
1997	1	0
Total	33	3

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	13 October 1993	Parc des Princes, Paris, France	France	2–3	Win	1994 FIFA World Cup 2004 qualifying
2.	20 September 1995	Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Israel	Uruguay	3–1	Win	Friendly
3.	21 February 1996	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa, Israel	Lithuania	4–2	Win	Friendly

Managerial stats

^[7]

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Maccabi Netanya		February 21, 2004	May 14, 2006	7001940000000000000♠94	7001380000000000000♠38	7001230000000000000♠23	7001330000000000000♠33	7001404300000000000♠40.43
Maccabi Herzliya		July 21, 2006	November 7, 2006	7001130000000000000♠13	7000200000000000000♠2	7000500000000000000♠5	7000600000000000000♠6	7001153800000000000♠15.38
Maccabi Netanya		January 3, 2007	June 1, 2008	7001660000000000000♠66	7001320000000000000♠32	7001210000000000000♠21	7001130000000000000♠13	7001484800000099999♠48.48
Beitar Jerusalem		September 3, 2008	May 26, 2009	7001450000000000000♠45	7001230000000000000♠23	7000800000000000000♠8	7001140000000000000♠14	7001511100000000000♠51.11
Maccabi Netanya		September 29, 2009	May 12, 2012	7002112000000000000♠112	7001470000000000000♠47	7001270000000000000♠27	7001380000000000000♠38	7001419600000000000♠41.96
Maccabi Haifa		July 1, 2012	November 13, 2012	7001130000000000000♠13	7000300000000000000♠3	7000600000000000000♠6	7000400000000000000♠4	7001230800000099999♠23.08
Maccabi Netanya		March 19, 2013	May 18, 2013	7000600000000000000♠6	7000200000000000000♠2	7000200000000000000♠2	7000200000000000000♠2	7001333300000000000♠33.33
Hapoel Haifa		May 12, 2014	February 16, 2015	7001300000000000000♠30	7001100000000000000♠10	7000500000000000000♠5	7001150000000000000♠15	7001333300000000000♠33.33
Maccabi Netanya		November 6, 2015	January 10, 2016	7000900000000000000♠9	5000000000000000000♠0	7000400000000000000♠4	7000500000000000000♠5	05000000000000000000♠0.00
Total				7002388000000000000♠388	7002157000000000000♠157	7002101000000000000♠101	7002130000000000000♠130	7001404600000000000♠40.46

References

External links

Reuven Atar at National-Football-Teams.com

Reuven Atar – Managerial positions

Maccabi Haifa F.C. – managers

Schwartz (1946–47)
Taurentauer (1950–52)
Schlefenberg (1952–54)
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Kisch (1956–57)
Koch (1957–59)
Farkash (1959–61)
Forbes (1961–62)
Kisch (1962)
Schlefenberg (1962–63)
Spasov (1963–65)
Halibner (1965)
Menchel (1965–69)
Smeilowicz (1969–70)
Hardy (1970–72)
Menchel (1972–74)
Weinberg (1974–75)
Shinar (1975–77)
Sasson (1977)
Fuchs (1977)
Hardy (1977–78)
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Spiegler (1979)
Hardy (1979–82)
Mansell (1982–83)
Scharf (1983–87)
Kashtan (1987–88)
Levkovic (1988–90)
Scharf (1990–92)
Spiegel (1993–98)
Brailovsky (1998)
Uhrin (1998–99)
Cohen (1999–2000)
R. Levy (2000)
Grant (2000–02)
Shum (2002–03)
R. Levy (2003–08)
E. Levy (2008–12)
Atar (2012)
Benado (2012–14)
Stanojević (2014)
Balbul (2014–15)
R. Levy (2015–16)
Meulensteen (2016–)

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