The team stayed in the first level of Israeli football and played in the Israeli Premier League again in the 2010–11 season.
When Higgins joined Herzliya, he became the first Australian in Israeli football.
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The city's main football club, Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata, plays in Liga Leumit, the second tier of Israeli football.