2009–10 Israeli Premier League

Israeli Premier League
Season 2009–10
Champions Hapoel Tel Aviv
2nd Premier League title
13th Israeli title overall
Relegated Hapoel Ra'anana
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth
Champions League Hapoel Tel Aviv (second qualifying round)
Europa League Maccabi Haifa (third qualifying round)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (second qualifying round)
Bnei Yehuda (first qualifying round)
Matches played 276
Goals scored 718 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer Shlomi Arbeitman (28)
Biggest home win Hapoel Tel Aviv 7–1 Hapoel Petah Tikva
Biggest away win Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 0–7 Hapoel Ramat Gan
Highest scoring Hapoel Tel Aviv 7–1 Hapoel Petah Tikva
Hapoel Tel Aviv 5–3 Hapoel Acre

The 2009–10 Israeli Premier League was the 11th season since its introduction in 1999 and the 68th season of top-tier football in Israel. It began on 22 August 2009 and ended on 15 May 2010 with the last matches of the playoff round.

On 15 May 2010, Hapoel Tel Aviv won the title in the last play-off round after Maccabi Haifa failed to win against Bnei Yehuda and they won their game against Beitar Jerusalem in a late goal at the 90+2' minute of extra time.

Changes from 2008–09 season

Structural changes

The league size has been increased from twelve to sixteen teams. Further, the competition has been split into two stages, a conventional season and playoffs.

The participating clubs were first play a conventional round-robin schedule for a total of 30 matches.

The top six teams were first had to play in the Top playoff. Points earned during the regular season were halved with an odd number of points being rounded up. The round was played on a round-robin schedule. The winner after this round would win the Israeli championship and would participate in the second qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League. The runners-up would play in the third qualifying round round of the UEFA Europa League, and the third-placed team would play in the second qualifying round round of the UEFA Europa League.

If the Israel State Cup winner finishes in the top three places than the fourth-placed would play in the first qualifying round round of the UEFA Europa League.

In addition, clubs ranked seventh through tenth in the regular season would engage in a placement round, while the bottom six teams played out two relegation spots and one relegation play-off.

Team changes

Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona were directly relegated to the 2009–10 Liga Leumit after finishing the 2008–09 season in last place.

Due to the increase in the number of teams, five teams were directly promoted from the 2008–09 Liga Leumit. These were champions Hapoel Haifa, runners-up Hapoel Acre, third-placed Hapoel Be'er Sheva, fourth-placed Hapoel Ramat Gan and fifth-placed Hapoel Ra'anana.

Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan as 11th-placed team of the Premier League and Maccabi Ahi Nazareth as sixth-placed team of Liga Leumit competed in a two-legged playoff for another spot. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth won both matches by an aggregated score of 4–2 and were promoted to the Premier League. In turn, Hakoah Ramat Gan were relegated to Liga Leumit.

Overview

Stadia and locations

Club Stadium Capacity
Beitar Jerusalem Teddy Stadium 21,600
Bnei Sakhnin Doha Stadium 8,500
Bnei Yehuda Bloomfield Stadium 15,700
F.C. Ashdod Yud-Alef Stadium 7,420
Hapoel Acre Green Stadium 4,000[A]
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Vasermil Stadium 13,000
Hapoel Haifa Kiryat Eliezer Stadium 14,002
Hapoel Petah Tikva Petah Tikva Municipal Stadium 6,768
Hapoel Ra'anana Levita Stadium 5,500[A]
Hapoel Ramat Gan Winter Stadium 8,000[A]
Hapoel Tel Aviv Bloomfield Stadium 15,700
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Ilut Stadium 4,932
Maccabi Haifa Kiryat Eliezer Stadium 14,002
Maccabi Netanya Sar-Tov Stadium 7,500
Maccabi Petah Tikva Petah Tikva Municipal Stadium 6,768
Maccabi Tel Aviv Bloomfield Stadium 15,700

^ ^ ^ The club played their home games at a neutral venue because their own ground did not meet Premier League requirements.

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment Table
Beitar Jerusalem Israel Reuven Atar Sacked 21 July 2009[1] 3rd (08–09) Israel Itzhak Shum 21 July 2009[1] Pre-Season
Maccabi Netanya Israel Nati Azaria Stepped down to
assistant position
29 September 2009[2] 16th Israel Reuven Atar 29 September 2009[2] 16th
Bnei Sakhnin Israel Eran Kulik Sacked 19 October 2009[3] 14th Israel Marco Balbul 21 October 2009[4] 14th
Maccabi Tel Aviv Israel Marco Balbul Resigned 21 October 2009[4] 3rd Israel Nir Levine 21 October 2009 3rd
Maccabi Petah Tikva Israel Ronny Levy Resigned 21 November 2009[5] 9th Israel Freddy David 22 November 2009[6] 9th
Hapoel Petah Tikva Israel Danny Nir'on Resigned 21 November 2009[7] 14th Israel Shavit Elimelech 22 November 2009[8] 15th
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Israel Eli Mahpud Sacked 8 December 2009[9] 16th England John Gregory 8 December 2009[9] 16th
Hapoel Petah Tikva Israel Shavit Elimelech Stepped down to
assistant position
16 December 2009[10] 15th Israel Eli Mahpud 16 December 2009[10] 15th
Beitar Jerusalem Israel Itzhak Shum Sacked 20 February 2010[11] 7th Israel David Amsalem 20 February 2010[11] 7th
Hapoel Ra'anana Israel Eli Cohen Sacked 28 February 2010[12] 16th Israel Ami Vazana 28 February 2010[12] 16th
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Israel Guy Azouri Resigned 28 February 2010[13] 8th Israel Viko Hadad 3 March 2010[14] 8th
Beitar Jerusalem Israel David Amsalem Stepped down to
assistant position
18 March 2010[15] 5th Israel Shimon Edri 18 March 2010[15] 5th
Hapoel Ra'anana Israel Ami Vazana End of contract 28 March 2010[16] 16th Israel Tzvika Tzemah 31 March 2010[17] 16th
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth England John Gregory End of contract 20 May 2010[18] 16th Israel Shimon Edri 30 June 2010[19] Post-Season
F.C. Ashdod Israel Yossi Mizrahi Resigned 20 May 2010[18] 6th England John Gregory 20 May 2010[18] Post-Season

Regular season

Regular season table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Maccabi Haifa 30 25 2 3 64 12+52 77 Top Playoff
2 Hapoel Tel Aviv 30 21 8 1 79 25+54 71
3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 30 15 7 8 47 33+14 52
4 Beitar Jerusalem 30 13 7 10 46 34+12 46
5 Bnei Yehuda 30 12 9 9 37 30+7 0451
6 F.C. Ashdod 30 11 10 9 32 31+1 0431
7 Bnei Sakhnin 30 11 8 11 28 291 41 Middle Playoff
8 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 30 10 10 10 44 506 40
9 Maccabi Netanya 30 9 9 12 41 40+1 36
10 Maccabi Petah Tikva 30 8 11 11 37 436 35
11 Hapoel Ramat Gan 30 8 9 13 26 4620 33 Bottom Playoff
12 Hapoel Haifa 30 8 8 14 39 456 32
13 Hapoel Petah Tikva 30 6 13 11 23 4118 31
14 Hapoel Acre 30 4 13 13 32 4614 25
15 Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 30 6 6 18 27 6740 24
16 Hapoel Ra'anana 30 4 8 18 27 5730 20

Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
1F.C. Ashdod received a technical loss of 3–0 to Bnei Yehuda for fielding an ineligible player. The original game finished in a 1–1 draw.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Regular season results

Home ╲ Away BEI BnY BnSFCAHACHBSHHAHPTHRGHRAHTAMANMHAMNEMPTMTA
Beitar Jerusalem 10 10 20 11 11 31 30 10 31 00 50 03 31 12 01
Bnei Yehuda 00 21 23 21 22 20 11 12 21 01 20 02 21 20 01
Bnei Sakhnin 00 20 10 10 11 03 20 31 11 12 11 21 03 34 00
F.C. Ashdod 20 032 00 10 52 10 21 00 00 04 21 01 30 11 31
Hapoel Acre 03 11 00 11 13 22 00 10 11 11 01 03 11 22 23
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 32 00 10 10 32 23 20 10 21 13 22 13 20 01 13
Hapoel Haifa 32 03 01 01 24 00 12 11 31 12 22 01 00 20 31
Hapoel Petah Tikva 00 11 00 11 11 10 22 00 21 11 30 04 21 11 02
Hapoel Ramat Gan 00 02 10 11 11 22 32 00 10 03 23 05 10 03 14
Hapoel Ra'anana 13 03 01 11 01 22 21 21 01 14 11 13 11 31 03
Hapoel Tel Aviv 43 40 10 22 53 41 20 71 31 50 40 12 33 11 10
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 01 22 02 10 10 14 13 12 01 21 04 05 13 12 33
Maccabi Haifa 21 20 10 10 21 41 00 30 31 30 00 41 20 20 10
Maccabi Netanya 30 11 12 01 10 22 12 10 23 11 03 50 10 22 10
Maccabi Petah Tikva 13 01 12 11 23 30 22 00 11 23 00 10 01 03 21
Maccabi Tel Aviv 43 00 31 20 11 11 10 10 31 20 24 01 10 22 11

Source: Israel Football Association
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
2F.C. Ashdod received a technical lose of 3–0 to Bnei Yehuda for fielding an ineligible player, The original game was finished in a 1–1 draw.[20]
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 30 games):

Rounds
31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th
1 – 6
2 – 5
3 – 4
1 – 2
5 – 3
6 – 4
2 – 6
3 – 1
4 – 5
1 – 4
2 – 3
6 – 5
3 – 6
4 – 2
5 – 1
7 – 10
8 – 9
7 – 8
10 – 9
8 – 10
9 – 7


11 – 16
12 – 15
13 – 14
11 – 12
15 – 13
16 – 14
12 – 16
13 – 11
14 – 15
11 – 14
12 – 13
16 – 15
13 – 16
14 – 12
15 – 11

Top Playoff

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff. Thus, Maccabi Haifa started with 39 points, Hapoel Tel Aviv with 36, Maccabi Tel Aviv with 26, Beitar Jerusalem with 23, Bnei Yehuda with 23 and F.C. Ashdod started with 22.

Top Playoff table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Hapoel Tel Aviv (C) 35 25 9 1 87 26+61 49 2010–11 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 Maccabi Haifa 35 28 3 4 72 16+56 49 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 35 17 9 9 52 35+17 34 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
4 Bnei Yehuda 35 14 11 10 43 34+9 31 2010–11 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round 1
5 Beitar Jerusalem 35 14 7 14 50 44+6 26
6 F.C. Ashdod 35 11 10 14 36 459 22

Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
1As Hapoel Tel Aviv won both League and 2009–10 Israel State Cup, the State Cup finalists Bnei Yehuda received the final Europa League spot.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Top Playoff results

Home ╲ Away BEI BnY FCAHTAMHAMTA
Beitar Jerusalem 02 12
Bnei Yehuda 11 00
F.C. Ashdod 12 23
Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 40 00
Maccabi Haifa 21 31 01
Maccabi Tel Aviv 30 20 02

Source: Israel Football Association
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Middle Playoff

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff. Thus, Bnei Sakhnin started with 21 points, Hapoel Be'er Sheva with 20, Maccabi Netanya with 18 and Maccabi Petah Tikva started with 18.

Middle Playoff table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
7 Bnei Sakhnin 33 13 8 12 31 310 27
8 Maccabi Petah Tikva 33 10 11 12 44 473 24
9 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 33 11 10 12 49 556 23
10 Maccabi Netanya 33 10 9 14 44 473 21

Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Middle Playoff results

Home ╲ Away BnS HBS MNEMPT
Bnei Sakhnin 10 20
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 40 14
Maccabi Netanya 20
Maccabi Petah Tikva 31

Source: Israel Football Association
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Bottom Playoff

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff. Thus, Hapoel Ramat Gan started with 17 points, Hapoel Haifa with 16, Hapoel Petah Tikva with 16, Hapoel Acre with 13, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth with 12 and Hapoel Ra'anana started with 10.

Bottom Playoff table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
11 Hapoel Haifa 35 10 9 16 44 506 23
12 Hapoel Acre 35 7 14 14 38 5214 23
13 Hapoel Petah Tikva 35 8 14 13 28 4820 23
14 Hapoel Ramat Gan (O) 35 9 11 15 34 4915 22 Qualification to relegation play-offs
15 Hapoel Ra'anana (R) 35 6 10 19 33 5825 18 Relegation to Liga Leumit
16 Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (R) 35 7 7 21 33 8148 16

Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Bottom Playoff results

Home ╲ Away HAC HHA HRAHRGMANHPT
Hapoel Acre 10 31
Hapoel Haifa 10 22 12
Hapoel Ra'anana 40 20
Hapoel Ramat Gan 00 01 00
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 07 30
Hapoel Petah Tikva 12 00 21

Source: Israel Football Association
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation playoff

The 14th-placed team Hapoel Ramat Gan faced the 3rd-placed Liga Leumit team Hapoel Kfar Saba. The winner Hapoel Ramat Gan earned a spot in the 2010–11 Israeli Premier League. The match took place on 22 May 2010.

22 May 2010
18:45 UTC+3
Hapoel Ramat Gan 1–0 Hapoel Kfar Saba
Hermon  84' Report (Hebrew)
Haberfeld Stadium, Rishon LeZion
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Eitan Tabrizi

Season statistics

Scoring

Discipline

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals[27]
1 Israel Shlomi Arbeitman Maccabi Haifa 28
2 Israel Itay Shechter Hapoel Tel Aviv 22
3 Georgia (country) Vladimir Dvalishvili Maccabi Haifa 16
Israel Barak Yitzhaki Beitar Jerusalem 16
5 Bulgaria Dimitar Makriev F.C. Ashdod 13[B]
6 Argentina Pedro Galván Bnei Yehuda 12
Israel Toto Tamuz Beitar Jerusalem 12
8 Israel Idan Shriki F.C. Ashdod 11
Israel Dedi Ben Dayan Hapoel Tel Aviv 11
Israel Eran Levy Hapoel Haifa 11
Israel Eran Zahavi Hapoel Tel Aviv 11
Total 718
Average per game 2.6

^B The IFA also recognize Dimitar Makrievs goal in favour of F.C. Ashdod against Bnei Yehuda game which was later annulled because F.C. Ashdod fielded an ineligible player, for that F.C. Ashdod received a technical lose of 3–0, The original game was finished in a 1–1 draw.[20]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 "Daniel Jammer meat with Reuven Atar and Nati Azaria" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  3. "Eran Kulik sacked from Bnei Sakhnin" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 19 October 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Marco Balbul left Maccabi Tel Aviv and will coach Bnei Sakhnin" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 21 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
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  9. 1 2 "Gregory appointed. Mahpud sacked" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 12 December 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  10. 1 2 "Mahpud signed for a year and a half, Elimelech will be his assistant" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 16 December 2009. Archived from the original on 19 December 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  11. 1 2 "Itzhak Shum sacked from Beitar Jerusalem, David Amsalem will replace him" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 20 February 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  12. 1 2 "Eli Cohen was sacked from Hapoel Ra'anana, Ami Vazana will replace him" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 28 February 2010. Archived from the original on 2 March 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  13. "Guy Azouri left Hapoel Be'er Sheva" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  14. "Viko Hadad will coach Hapoel Be'er Sheva until the end of the season" (in Hebrew). . Sport 5. 3 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  15. 1 2 "Shimon Edri appointed as Beitar Jerusalem new coach" (in Hebrew). . ONE. 18 March 2010. Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
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  20. 1 2 "F.C. Ashdod received a 0–3 technical lose to Bnei Yehuda". Israel Football Association. August 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
  21. 1 2 "Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 1–2 Hapoel Petah Tikva". Israel Football Association. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
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  27. "Israeli Premier League Top Scorers". Israel Football Association. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
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