The Netanya Stadium, commonly known as The Diamond Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Netanya, Israel. It is used as the permanent home ground of Maccabi Netanya, and it has been used as the temporary homeground of Hapoel Hadera. The stadium also serves the Israel national football team for some select home matches, as well as the main home ground of the Israel national under-19 football team as of 2021.
Netanya Stadium
Netanya Stadium. The almost exclusively friendly matches stadium of the Israel national football team
The initial entrance
View of the east stand
Netanya is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is 30 km (18.6 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km (34.8 mi) south of Haifa, between the Poleg stream and the Wingate Institute in the south and the Avihayil stream in the north. Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, a prominent Jewish American merchant and philanthropist in the early 20th century who was the co-owner of Macy's department store.
Netanya
Netanya in 1936
The fountain in the Independence Square. In 2012 it was moved to the west and an interactive electronic fountain was erected in its place
Netanya: diamond polishing factory 1945