Turner Stadium

The story

Toto Turner Stadium is the football stadium of Beersheba, home of the Hapoel Be'er Sheva club from the 2015/2016 season. It was built at a cost of more than two hundred and twenty million shekels, holds 16,126 seats and around it are about 2,600 parking places, and it is named after Yaakov Terner, a former mayor of Beersheba. It replaced Vasermil Stadium, and besides the matches of Hapoel Be'er Sheva it sometimes also hosts international matches of the Israel national team. The club itself was founded in 1949, and its colors are red and white. Until 1959 it played its home matches in a stadium that was in the Old City, afterwards at Vasermil, and from 2015/2016 here. Its first titles came in the 1970s: a championship in 1974/1975 and a second championship in 1975/1976. The owner since 2007 is the businesswoman Alona Barkat. In the 2015/2016 season the club won the third championship in its history, forty years after the second, after a run of twenty-nine matches without a defeat; it decided the title with a 3–1 victory over Bnei Sakhnin in this stadium. After it came the championships of 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. In the Champions League qualifiers of that period the club passed Sheriff Tiraspol and Olympiacos and was eliminated against Celtic. In the final of the State Cup of 2025 it beat Beitar Jerusalem 2–0. And in the 2025/2026 season it won the sixth championship in its history, after a 4–2 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv one round before the end of the season. In all: six championships and four State Cups. Because of the Swords of Iron War the club held its home matches in Bulgaria.

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