| Country |  |
|---|---|
| Champions | Shabab Rafah |
| Runners-up | Ahli Al-Khaleel |
← 2015–16 2017–18 → | |
The 2016–17 Palestine Cup is the 2016–17 season of the top football cup in Palestine.
The Palestine Cup is the main national association football competition in Palestine. It is sanctioned by the Palestinian Football Federation. Past competitions were more expansive including clubs from all tiers of Palestinian Football. For the 2010–11 season the PFA restricted participation to just the 12 teams of the 2010–11 West Bank Premier League.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a de jure sovereign state in Western Asia claiming the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jerusalem as the designated capital, although its administrative center is currently located in Ramallah. The entirety of territory claimed by the State of Palestine has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967. Palestine has a population of 4,816,503 as of 2016, ranked 123rd in the world.
Contents
- Gaza Strip Cup
- Preliminary round 1
- Preliminary round 2
- Round of 32
- Round of 16
- Quarter-finals
- Semi-finals
- Final
- West Bank Cup
- Preliminary round 1 2
- Preliminary round 2 2
- Round of 32 2
- Round of 16 2
- Quarter-finals 2
- Semi-finals 2
- Final 2
- Palestine Cup Final
- See also
- References
There are two competitions, the Gaza Strip Cup for clubs in the Gaza Strip, [1] and the West Bank Cup for clubs in the West Bank. [2] A two-legged Palestine Cup final is played between the cup winners of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. [3]
The Gaza Strip, or simply Gaza, is a self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) and Israel on the east and north along a 51 km (32 mi) border. Gaza and the West Bank are claimed by the State of Palestine.
The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, bordered by Jordan to the east and by the Green Line separating it and Israel on the south, west and north. The West Bank also contains a significant section of the western Dead Sea shore. The West Bank was the name given to the territory that was captured by Jordan in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and subsequently annexed in 1950 until 1967 when it was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
