3. Before the start of the season, Maccabi Acre moved to Kiryat Ata and were renamed Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata.
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Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata and Hapoel Jerusalem were relegated to Liga Artzit.
The city's main football club, Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata, plays in Liga Leumit, the second tier of Israeli football.
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Archeological surveys at Khirbet Sharta in the northeast part of the city revealed traces of habitation dating to the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Mamluk eras.
Abergil previously played in Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata, Hapoel Herzliya and Ironi Tiberias.
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Adam Vayer (born 1987), Israeli footballer currently playing for Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata