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| Full name | Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Hapoel The Reds The Red Devils | |||
| Short name | HTA | |||
| Founded | 1923 | |||
| Ground | Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel | |||
| Capacity | 29,400 | |||
| Owner | Edmond M. Safra | |||
| Manager | Messay Dego | |||
| League | Liga Leumit | |||
| 2023–24 | Israeli Premier League, 8th of 14 | |||
| Website | https://www.htafc.co.il | |||
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Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל הפועל תל אביב, Moadon Kaduregel Hapoel Tel Aviv) is an Israeli professional football club based in Tel Aviv that competes in the 2nd division Liga Leumit. The club's traditional home ground is Bloomfield Stadium. To date, the club has won 13 championships and 16 State Cups. In 1967, Hapoel Tel Aviv became the first club to win the Asian Champion Club Tournament.
Since 1995, the club has competed in European club competitions, and has the highest rank among all Israeli clubs, with some outstanding achievements, such as wins against Chelsea, Milan, Hamburg, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, Rangers, and Celtic. It is also one of only three Israeli teams to have qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stage, and one of the two that are ordinary members of the European Club Association.
The club name, "Hapoel", translates to "The Worker", and combined with its red Hammer and sickle badge represents the club ties to Marxism, socialism, Labor Zionism, and the working class. For seven decades, the club was owned by the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union centre.