Elisha Levy returns to Bnei Yehuda under contract until the end of next season. Two years and three days after he was unexpectedly fired from the team that was then in the Premier League and which he led for 10 months until the contract ended due to “disagreements”, the Orange announced that he returned to the club as a replacement for Uri Gutman, who ended his career on Friday immediately after the loss to Maccabi Jaffa.
Of course, Elisha Levi’s previous tenure at Bnei Yehuda was under a different management, during the owner Barak Abramov’s time. For Levy and Bnei Yehuda, it will not be an easy task to return to the Premier League, after the team won only two games in the first eight rounds and is with only 9 points – but only five difference from the second place.
As I remember, Elisha Levy’s last team was Hapoel Haifa, which he left at the end of the last season in a decision he already announced in April, but he also stood on the lines in the team’s remaining three games in the lower playoffs that season.
Elisha Levy’s last time in the national league was in the 2006/7 season, when he went up with Bnei Sakhnin to the senior league. He also had two promotions with Hapoel Beit Shan – one to the minor league and one to the senior league – and he also qualified for the senior league as the coach of Hapoel Kfar Saba, a total of three times promoted from the minor league.