Israeli Premier League 2010/12

[Gate11]

Hi Guyz, after i got to know most of you and showed you the israeli supporters i thought, why shouldnt i show u were i come from? hows the israeli soccer works?

i will try to keep this thred alive with updates bout the israeli teams at the champions league and at the europa league, to get u guyz more involed and intrested, and get some of the passion israelis has to soccer

(took some of the details from wikipedia in order to fix my bad grammar :P )

The Israeli Premier League (Hebrew: Ligat HaAl, lit. Super League) is an Israeli professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Israeli football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Liga Leumit. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 37 matches each, totalling 296 matches in the season. Most games are played on Saturdays, with a few games played on Sundays and Mondays. It is sponsored by Toto Winner and therefore officially known as Ligat Winner.



The Big Four

The "Big Four" is a nickname in the Israeli association football for the four biggest football clubs in Israel.
The "Big Four" consists of Beitar Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in addition they are also the only teams who won an Israeli Premier League title.
The "Big Four" won 110 trophies including 49 league championships, 48 State Cups, 10 Toto Cups and 3 Asian Champion Club Tournament Cups.

Maccabi Tel-Aviv - the biggest team in israel has won 19 League titles, 22 Cup titles, and 2! Asian champions league titles ( when israel played in Asia in the 70's)
Last year -

Hapoel Tel-Aviv - The Biggest rival of Maccabi, has won 13 league titles, 14 cup titles and 1 Asian champions league title. ( when israel played in Asia in the 70's)


Maccabi Haifa - has won 12 League Titles, all of them since 1984
Last year -


Beitar Jerusalem - has won 6 League Titles, 7 cups

The most important thing about the israeli league is the europe competitions. since 1992 israel is part of Uefa, which means israeli teams play in the strongest soccer competitions in the world with the best teams in the world (Barcelona, Manchester and more): The Champions League of europe, and the Europa League.

heres some AMAZING games of israeli teams in europe -

Maccabi Haifa wins Manchester United 3-0!!!!!!!!!!!! in the champions league in 2003 -


Hapoel Tel Aviv wins Chelsea!!! 2-0 in the Uefa cup in 2002 -


Maccabi Tel-Aviv wins Ajax 2-1 in the champions league in 2005 -
(found with english commentry )



tomarrow its the Europa League 2nd round drawing, Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Bney-Yehuda from israel will take part of it.
heres a promo i made today about it -



anywayz, i will try to stay in this forum and update u guyz, i hope this thread will get ppl attention in here to get where im coming from
i would love to get you guyz comments

[MotorJohn]

Nice thread, definitely can shed some light on your league. Tell you the truth and it's wierd seeing Maccabi tel-aviv is the biggest, I had heard of Haifa and hapoel, but not so much Maccabi tel-aviv. Now I know haha.

[Gate11]

Thats because Haifa and Hapoel had big success while the europe competitions and in our league while Maccabi had realy bad years lately, since 2003 we havnt won the League Title, we were in the champions league in 2005 and won the national cup in 2005, and since then were only 2nd/3rd.
although the next year were the favourites, we got the strongest team with the biggest budget (45 Milion$ which is huge budget for our league).

[MotorJohn]

Well i'll be rooting you guys on.

[Sergio121]

please do.

[Rob]

this is really cool.thanks gate11!

[Gate11]

Best Goals of the year (2010/11)


a small taste from the hottest game in israel ( and probably one of the hottest in whole europe )
the Tel-Aviv Derby from the last month -

[Pox]

That derby looks like a fun match up.

[MotorJohn]

please do.

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[littleyebbie]

Love this. Thanks!

[MotorJohn]

Hapoel Beer is the team that played last years CL right? or was that Hapoel Tel-aviv

[Gate11]

Hapoel Beer is the team that played last years CL right? or was that Hapoel Tel-aviv

Hapoel Tel-Aviv played (eww i hate them so much )
they won Benfica 3-0

[Gate11]

couple of changes to the league format anounced today, from this year after 30 games the league will split into 2 groups, the championship group and the regelation group, in this group each team will play 7 games ( 37 total) and 3 teams will relegated and 1 club will be promoted from the second league, which means from 2012/13 the league will have only 14 teams in order to make the league smaller but stronger.


the Europa League and Championsleague qualifying draws were today -

Champion League
Maccabi Haifa vs Borac Banja Luka (Bosnia champions)
the games will be played in the 13th july and 20th july
first game at Haifa, second at Bosnia

Europa League
Maccabi Tel-Aviv vs Khazar Lankaran ( Azerbaijan 2nd place)
first game at Azerbaijan, second at Tel-Aviv
the games will be played in 14th july and 21th july


Bney-Yehuda vs Sant Julia (Andorra 2nd place)
first game at Andorra, second at Tel-Aviv
the games will be played in 14th july and 21th july


the israeli teams has to win this round and another one in order to get to the playoffs, this round the israeli teams are big favourites and should win in high results.
from the next round, israeli teams can get teams like Atletico Madrid, PSg (which played against Maccabi last year) and some more from the top of europe.

[Gate11]

Israeli Premier League 2011/12: The Big Four Promo

[Question Mark]

This is great stuff, you got it all down and in order. Before this the only thing I knew of Isreal for (soccer-wise) was the win over France back in 1993 that shocked the WORLD.