Hapoel Beer Sheva is a powerhouse of Israeli football, consistently competing at the top of the Israel Premier League. Based in the southern city of Be'er Sheva, the team plays its home matches at the expansive Turner Stadium. Founded in 1949, the club's colors are red and white, reflecting its working-class, socialist-oriented "Hapoel" (Worker) roots. The club's history is marked by periods of success, but its definitive peak era began in the mid-2010s under coach Barak Bakhar,