in the season of 2006–2007 the team finished in the second bottom place and relegated to the fifth division. during the years, the club merged with the clubs tzeirei jaffa, hatzrot jaffa and bnei jaffa and in 2008 became s.c. bnei jaffa. following that, the club no longer played in maccabi jaffa's stadium, and no longer played with maccabi jaffa's logo.