Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan
Basketball team in Ramat Gan
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Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan (Hebrew: מכבי עירוני רמת גן, formerly Ironi Ramat Gan) is a professional basketball club based in Ramat Gan in the Tel Aviv District. The team currently plays in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the top division of Israeli basketball. It plays at the Shalom Zisman Municipal sports Arena, which has a seating capacity for 1,400.
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| Leagues | Israeli Basketball Premier League | ||
| Founded | 1946 | ||
| Arena | Zisman Arena | ||
| Capacity | 1,400[1] | ||
| Location | Ramat Gan | ||
| Team colors | White, Blue | ||
| President | Hen Shniderman | ||
| Head coach | Elad Hasin | ||
| Ownership | Municipality of Ramat Gan | ||
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History
Maccabi Ramat Gan basketball club was formed in 1946. Since 1968, it has been permanent in the first league.
In 1972, it lost in the cup final to Maccabi Tel Aviv, 108–99, with Ramat Gan's star, Belgium-born Kamil Dirks, scoring a still-unbroken cup final record of 43 points.
In the seasons 1971–72 and 1972–73, it finished second in the league. The same happened in the 1982–83 season.
The club also took its first steps in the European Cup in the 1973–74 season. A notable game was its victory over Sinudyne Bologna. With one of the club's founders, Samuel Jacobson, as the coach and stars such as Larry Gordon and Bob Griffin, Ramat Gan gained a surprising victory in the result 114–94.
Its all-time leading scorer, Doron Jamchi, made his first steps in the club in 1978; he left to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1985 after incredible years, with him being the league leading scorer for several seasons. Jamchi Is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the Israeli Premier League.
In 1987–88, led by head coach Effi Birnbaum, the club lost again to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the cup final at 107–85.
In December 1989 Ramat Gan won the Israeli Basketball League Cup title after winning Hapoel Tel Aviv 83:80 at the final game with Milton Wagner scoring 30 pts.
In the 1996–97 season, after increasing pressure from the city mayor, Maccabi Ramat Gan merged with another team, Beitar Ramat Gan, and is now called Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan.
In 2001–02, it finished the season only second to Maccabi Tel Aviv, the champion.
In 2009–10, the team dropped to Liga Leumit after losing the relegation playoff in the Super League.
After a 13 years absence, Ramat Gan returned to the first league at the end of the 2022–2023 season, led by its former captain, now coach, Shmulik Brener .
Ramat Gan Return was a big success, it finished the 2023–24 season in the 3rd place and score its place in the BCL for the 2024–25 season.
Players
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Yonatan Atias | Bryce Washington | Wesley Harris |
| PF | Justin Lewis | Isaiah Eisendorf | Yonatan Abouloff |
| SF | Drew Crawford | Lior Carreira | Roy Paretsky |
| SG | Joaquin Szuchman | Justin Allen | Eilay Gabal |
| PG | Ahmad Caver | Gil Beni | Ariel Berkowitz |
- The Israeli league rule requires every team to have at least one Israeli on the court at any time.
- There should be maximum 5 foreigners on a 12-men game sheet.
Notable players
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Doron Jamchi- Haim Starkman
- Shmulik Brener
- Ben Altit
- Dror Cohen
- Nir Cohen
- Itzik Ohanon
- Mike Carter
- Erez Markovich
Ruan Stik
Tunji Awojobi
Nuni Omot
Danny Lewis- Bob Griffin
- Mark Brisker
- Joe Dawson
- Sean Labanowski
- Isaac Rosefelt
- Chris Watson
- David Bernsley
- Harold Keeling
- Milt Wagner
- Rodney Alexander
- Erick Barkley
- Earl Williams
- J.J Eubanks
- James Gulley
- Andy Hill
