Shraga Topolansky

Shraga Topolansky

Personal information
Date of birth	1950[1]
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
	Maccabi Netanya[2]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1975[4]	Maccabi Netanya	195	(12)
1975–1979	Beitar Tel Aviv[5]		(12)
1979–1980	St Kilda Hakoah[6][7]	10	(0)
1980–1981	West Adelaide[8][9]	45	(0)
1981–1984	Beitar Tel Aviv[10][11]		(9)
International career
1968–1969	Israel U19[3]
Managerial career
	Beitar Haifa
2005–2006	Ironi Or Akiva[12]
2006–2009	Maccabi Emek Hefer
2009–2011	Beitar Tubruk
2013	Beitar Hadera[13]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Shraga Topolansky (Hebrew: שרגא טופולנסקי; born 1950) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Maccabi Netanya, Beitar Tel Aviv and in the National Soccer League and the Victorian Premier League in Australia. Today he works as a manager, with Beitar Hadera being the last team he managed.^[14]

Topolansky also won five caps for his Israel national team between 1969 and 1978; however, all of them were friendly games that are not recognised by Israel Football Association as official games.^{[15][16][17][18]}

Honours

• Israeli Premier League: 1970–71, 1973–74;^[19] runner-up 1974–75
• State Cup runner-up: 1970, 1977
• Israeli Supercup: 1971, 1974
• NSL Cup runner-up: 1981
• Israeli Second Division: 1982–83

Individual

• Footballer of the Year – Israel: 1976–77

References

1. "רשת מקומונים בשרון | השבוע בנתניה".
2. Kaktus news ^{[dead link‍]}
3. "The Israel Football Association". Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
4. Teams dribblist.com ^{[dead link‍]}
5. Teams dribblist.com ^{[dead link‍]}
6. "Victorian State League 1979 Season Results".
7. Image twimg.com
8. "The Australian National League".
9. "The Australian National League".
10. Teams dribblist.com ^{[dead link‍]}
11. Teams dribblist.com ^{[dead link‍]}
12. NRG News ^{[dead link‍]}
13. "The Israel Football Association". Archived from the original on 18 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
14. "The Israel Football Association". football.org.il. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014.
15. "אל אל | 26/11/1969 ישראל - אוסטריה וינה (אוסטריה) 3:2". www.elel.co.il. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
16. "אל אל | 2/9/1975 חרונינגן (הולנד) - ישראל 1:4". www.elel.co.il. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
17. "אל אל | 31/8/1975 אמסטרדם הצעירה (עד 23) (הולנד) - ישראל 3:0". www.elel.co.il. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
18. "אל אל | 7/3/1978 ישראל האולימפית - סקובבקן (דנמרק) 1:1". www.elel.co.il. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
19. "אליפויות - היסטוריה - 1973-1974 האליפות השניה". fcmn.co.il. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012.

External links

• Shraga Topolansky at WorldFootball.net