2009–10 Israeli Premier League

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.

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
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

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 of the UEFA Europa League, and the third-placed team would play in the second qualifying 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 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

F.C. Ashdod

Bnei Sakhnin

M. Ahi Nazareth

Hapoel Ra'anana

Hapoel Haifa

Maccabi Haifa

Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Maccabi Netanya

Beitar Jerusalem

Hapoel Acre

Hapoel Ramat Gan

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Bnei Yehuda

Maccabi Petah Tikva

Hapoel Petah Tikva

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Location of teams in the 2009–10 Israeli Premier League

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	08,500
Bnei Yehuda	Bloomfield Stadium	15,700
F.C. Ashdod	Yud-Alef Stadium	07,800
Hapoel Acre	Green Stadium	0004,000^[A]
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Vasermil Stadium	13,000
Hapoel Haifa	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium	14,002
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Petah Tikva Municipal Stadium	06,800
Hapoel Ra'anana	Levita Stadium	0005,800^[A]
Hapoel Ramat Gan	Winter Stadium	0008,000^[A]
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Bloomfield Stadium	15,700
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	Ilut Stadium	04,932
Maccabi Haifa	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium	14,002
Maccabi Netanya	Sar-Tov Stadium	07,500
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Petah Tikva Municipal Stadium	06,800
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	Reuven Atar	Sacked	21 July 2009[1]	3rd (08–09)	Itzhak Shum	21 July 2009[1]	Pre-Season
Maccabi Netanya	Nati Azaria	Stepped down to assistant position	29 September 2009[2]	16th	Reuven Atar	29 September 2009[2]	16th
Bnei Sakhnin	Eran Kulik	Sacked	19 October 2009[3]	14th	Marco Balbul	21 October 2009[4]	14th
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Marco Balbul	Resigned	21 October 2009[4]	3rd	Nir Levine	21 October 2009	3rd
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Ronny Levy	Resigned	21 November 2009[5]	9th	Freddy David	22 November 2009[6]	9th
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Danny Nir'on	Resigned	21 November 2009[7]	14th	Shavit Elimelech	22 November 2009[8]	15th
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	Eli Mahpud	Sacked	8 December 2009[9]	16th	John Gregory	8 December 2009[9]	16th
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Shavit Elimelech	Stepped down to assistant position	16 December 2009[10]	15th	Eli Mahpud	16 December 2009[10]	15th
Beitar Jerusalem	Itzhak Shum	Sacked	20 February 2010[11]	7th	David Amsalem	20 February 2010[11]	7th
Hapoel Ra'anana	Eli Cohen	Sacked	28 February 2010[12]	16th	Ami Vazana	28 February 2010[12]	16th
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Guy Azouri	Resigned	28 February 2010[13]	8th	Vico Haddad	3 March 2010[14]	8th
Beitar Jerusalem	David Amsalem	Stepped down to assistant position	18 March 2010[15]	5th	Shimon Edri	18 March 2010[15]	5th
Hapoel Ra'anana	Ami Vazana	End of contract	28 March 2010[16]	16th	Tzvika Tzemah	31 March 2010[17]	16th
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	John Gregory	End of contract	20 May 2010[18]	16th	Shimon Edri	30 June 2010[19]	Post-Season
F.C. Ashdod	Yossi Mizrahi	Resigned	20 May 2010[18]	6th	John Gregory	20 May 2010[18]	Post-Season

Regular season

Regular season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Maccabi Haifa	30	25	2	3	64	12	+52	77	Qualification for the championship round
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	45[lower-alpha 1]
6	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	30	11	10	9	32	31	+1	43[lower-alpha 1]
7	Bnei Sakhnin	30	11	8	11	28	29	−1	41	Qualification for the middle round
8	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	30	10	10	10	44	50	−6	40
9	Maccabi Netanya	30	9	9	12	41	40	+1	36
10	Maccabi Petah Tikva	30	8	11	11	37	43	−6	35
11	Hapoel Ramat Gan	30	8	9	13	26	46	−20	33	Qualification for the relegation round
12	Hapoel Haifa	30	8	8	14	39	45	−6	32
13	Hapoel Petah Tikva	30	6	13	11	23	41	−18	31
14	Hapoel Acre	30	4	13	13	32	46	−14	25
15	Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	30	6	6	18	27	67	−40	24
16	Hapoel Ra'anana	30	4	8	18	27	57	−30	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.
Notes:

1. F.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.

Regular season results

Home \ Away	BEI	BnY	BnS	ASH	HAC	HBS	HHA	HPT	HRG	HRA	HTA	MAN	MHA	MNE	MPT	MTA
Beitar Jerusalem		1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	5–0	0–3	3–1	1–2	0–1
Bnei Yehuda	0–0		2–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	0–1
Bnei Sakhnin	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–3	3–4	0–0
F.C. Ironi Ashdod	2–0	0–3[lower-alpha 1]	0–0		1–0	5–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–4	2–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	3–1
Hapoel Acre	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–1		1–3	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	2–2	2–3
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–2		2–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–2	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–3
Hapoel Haifa	3–2	0–3	0–1	0–1	2–4	0–0		1–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	0–0	2–0	3–1
Hapoel Petah Tikva	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2		0–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–4	2–1	1–1	0–2
Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–2	0–0		1–0	0–3	2–3	0–5	1–0	0–3	1–4
Hapoel Ra'anana	1–3	0–3	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–1		1–4	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–1	0–3
Hapoel Tel Aviv	4–3	4–0	1–0	2–2	5–3	4–1	2–0	7–1	3–1	5–0		4–0	1–2	3–3	1–1	1–0
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	0–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–4	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–4		0–5	1–3	1–2	3–3
Maccabi Haifa	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	0–0	4–1		2–0	2–0	1–0
Maccabi Netanya	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–1	0–3	5–0	1–0		2–2	1–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva	1–3	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–3	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–3		2–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	4–3	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–4	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1

Source: Israel Football Association
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. F.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]

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
07 – 10 8 – 9	7 – 8 10 – 90	08 – 10 9 – 7	0 0	0 0
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
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv (C)	35	25	9	1	87	26	+61	49	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Maccabi Haifa	35	28	3	4	72	16	+56	49	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	35	17	9	9	52	35	+17	34	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4	Bnei Yehuda	35	14	11	10	43	34	+9	31	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5	Beitar Jerusalem	35	14	7	14	50	44	+6	26
6	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	35	11	10	14	36	45	−9	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.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. As Hapoel Tel Aviv won both League and 2009–10 Israel State Cup, the State Cup finalists Bnei Yehuda received the final Europa League spot.

Top Playoff results

Home \ Away	BEI	BnY	ASH	HTA	MHA	MTA
Beitar Jerusalem		0–2		1–2
Bnei Yehuda					1–1	0–0
F.C. Ironi Ashdod	1–2	2–3
Hapoel Tel Aviv		1–0	4–0			0–0
Maccabi Haifa	2–1		3–1	0–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–0		2–0		0–2

Source: Israel Football Association
Legend: 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
7	Bnei Sakhnin	33	13	8	12	31	31	0	27
8	Maccabi Petah Tikva	33	10	11	12	44	47	−3	24
9	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	33	11	10	12	49	55	−6	23
10	Maccabi Netanya	33	10	9	14	44	47	−3	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.

Middle Playoff results

Home \ Away	BnS	HBS	MNE	MPT
Bnei Sakhnin		1–0		2–0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva			4–0	1–4
Maccabi Netanya	2–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva			3–1

Source: Israel Football Association
Legend: 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	50	−6	23
12	Hapoel Acre	35	7	14	14	38	52	−14	23
13	Hapoel Petah Tikva	35	8	14	13	28	48	−20	23
14	Hapoel Ramat Gan (O)	35	9	11	15	34	49	−15	22	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Hapoel Ra'anana (R)	35	6	10	19	33	58	−25	18	Relegation to Liga Leumit
16	Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (R)	35	7	7	21	33	81	−48	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.
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.

Bottom Playoff results

Home \ Away	HAC	HHA	HRA	HRG	MAN	HPT
Hapoel Acre		1–0			3–1
Hapoel Haifa			1–0		2–2	1–2
Hapoel Ra'anana	4–0				2–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–0	0–1	0–0
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth				0–7		3–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva	1–2		0–0	2–1

Source: Israel Football Association
Legend: 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 (in Hebrew)

Haberfeld Stadium, Rishon LeZion

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Eitan Tabrizi

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Shahar Balilti for Hapoel Petah Tikva against Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, 61st minute (22 August 2009)[21]
• Fastest goal in a match: 17 seconds – Maor Buzaglo for Maccabi Tel Aviv against Beitar Jerusalem (17 April 2010)[22]
• Widest winning margin: 7 goals – Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 0–7 Hapoel Ramat Gan (15 May 2010)[23]
• Most goals in a match: 8 goals –
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv 7–1 Hapoel Petah Tikva (21 November 2009)[24]
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv 5–3 Hapoel Acre (27 March 2010)[25]

Discipline

• First yellow card of the season: Gal Cohen for Hapoel Petah Tikva against Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, 40th minute (22 August 2009)[21]
• First red card of the season: Ismail Abdul Razak for Hapoel Acre against Maccabi Haifa, 72nd minute (22 August 2009)[26]

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals[27]
1	Shlomi Arbeitman	Maccabi Haifa	28
2	Itay Shechter	Hapoel Tel Aviv	22
3	Vladimir Dvalishvili	Maccabi Haifa	16
	Barak Yitzhaki	Beitar Jerusalem	16
5	Dimitar Makriev	F.C. Ashdod	0013^[B]
6	Pedro Galván	Bnei Yehuda	12
	Toto Tamuz	Beitar Jerusalem	12
8	Idan Shriki	F.C. Ashdod	11
	Dedi Ben Dayan	Hapoel Tel Aviv	11
	Eran Levy	Hapoel Haifa	11
	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

• 2009–10 Israel State Cup
• 2009–10 Toto Cup Al
• List of 2009–10 Israeli football summer transfers
• List of 2009–10 Israeli football winter transfers

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