2024–25 Israeli Premier League

Israeli Premier League
Season2024–25
Dates24 August 2024 – 24 May 2025
ChampionsMaccabi Tel Aviv (26th title)
RelegatedMaccabi Petah Tikva
Hapoel Hadera
UEFA Champions LeagueMaccabi Tel Aviv
UEFA Europa LeagueHapoel Be'er Sheva
UEFA Conference LeagueMaccabi Haifa
Beitar Jerusalem
Matches played240
Goals scored668 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorerGuy Melamed (21)
Biggest home winBeitar Jerusalem 5–0 Maccabi Petah Tikva (4 December 2024)
Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–0 Beitar Jerusalem (24 May 2025)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 5–0 Hapoel Haifa (24 May 2025)
Biggest away winMaccabi Netanya 1–6 Maccabi Tel Aviv (12 May 2025)
Highest scoringF.C. Ashdod 3–5 Bnei Sakhnin (31 December 2024)
Longest winning runHapoel Be'er Sheva (6)
Longest unbeaten runHapoel Be'er Sheva (17)
Longest winless runHapoel Hadera (12)
Longest losing runIroni Kiryat Shmona (6)
All statistics correct as of 25 May 2025.

The 2024–25 Israeli Premier League, also known as Ligat TOTO Winner[1] for sponsorship reasons is the 26th season since the introduction of the Israeli Premier League in 1999 and the 83rd season of top-tier football in Israel.

Teams

The league consisted of fourteen teams; twelve sides from the previous season and two promoted teams from the 2023–24 Liga Leumit (Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Ironi Tiberias). Ironi Kiryat Shmona returned to the top flight after a single season, Ironi Tiberias was promoted for the first time in its history. They replaced the 2023–24 Israeli Premier League bottom two teams, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petah Tikva who were relegated to the 2024–25 Liga Leumit.

Locations of the 2024–25 Israeli Premier League teams

Stadiums and locations

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Beitar Jerusalem Jerusalem Teddy Stadium 31,733
Bnei Sakhnin Sakhnin Doha Stadium 8,500
F.C. Ashdod Ashdod Yud-Alef Stadium 7,800
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Be'er Sheva Turner Stadium 16,126
Hapoel Hadera Hadera Netanya Stadium[i] 13,610
Hapoel Haifa Haifa Sammy Ofer Stadium 30,942
Hapoel Jerusalem Jerusalem Teddy Stadium 31,733
Ironi Kiryat Shmona Kiryat Shmona Netanya Stadium[2] 13,610
Ironi Tiberias Tiberias Green Stadium[i] 5,200
Maccabi Bnei Reineh Reineh Green Stadium[i] 5,200
Maccabi Haifa Haifa Sammy Ofer Stadium 30,942
Maccabi Netanya Netanya Netanya Stadium 13,610
Maccabi Petah Tikva Petah Tikva HaMoshava Stadium 11,500
Maccabi Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Bloomfield Stadium 29,400


Beitar Jerusalem
Hapoel Jerusalem 		Hapoel Haifa
Maccabi Haifa 		Maccabi Tel Aviv
Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv
Maccabi Netanya
Hapoel Hadera
Ironi Kiryat Shmona 		Maccabi Petah Tikva Bnei Sakhnin
Netanya Stadium, Netanya HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva Acre Municipal Stadium, Acre
F.C. Ashdod Hapoel Be'er Sheva Ironi Tiberias
Maccabi Bnei Reineh
Yud-Alef Stadium, Ashdod Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva Green Stadium, Nof HaGalil

Personnel and sponsorship

Team President Manager Captain Kitmaker Shirt sponsor
Beitar Jerusalem Barak Abramov Barak Yitzhaki Yarden Shua Umbro Geshem Holdings
Bnei Sakhnin Mohammed Abu Younes Slobodan Drapić Maroun Gantous Le Coq Sportif Walid Automotive
F.C. Ashdod Rafi Niddam Klemi Saban Tom Ben Zaken Nike Blue Home Projects
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Alona Barkat Ran Kojok Miguel Vítor Umbro Victory
Hapoel Hadera Yakir Schwartz Asaf Nimni Menashe Zalka Umbro BTB
Hapoel Haifa Yoav Katz Ronny Levy Dor Malul Diadora Leos Madia
Hapoel Jerusalem Yotam Karmon Ziv Arie Ofek Bitton Legea Allon ventures
Ironi Kiryat Shmona Izzy Sheratzky Shay Barda Ayid Habshi Diadora Ituran
Ironi Tiberias Arie Kalmanzon and Mickey Bitan Eliran Hudeda Daniel Tenenbaum Le Coq Sportif Yochelman Group
Maccabi Bnei Reineh Saeed Basoul Sharon Mimer Eyad Hutba Zeus Sport Boneh Renih
Maccabi Haifa Ya'akov Shahar Itay Mordechai (caretaker) Lior Refaelov Adidas Volvo
Maccabi Netanya Eyal Segal Yossi Abukasis Karem Jaber Lotto
Maccabi Petah Tikva Avraham Luzon Noam Shoham Yarden Cohen Kelme
Maccabi Tel Aviv Mitchell Goldhar Žarko Lazetić Eran Zahavi Fila Pelephone

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Maccabi Haifa Messay Dego End of contract 29 May 2024 Pre-season Barak Bakhar 29 May 2024
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Elyaniv Barda 31 May 2024 Ran Kojok 2 June 2024
Maccabi Petah Tikva Ran Kojok 2 June 2024 Dan Roman 3 June 2024
Maccabi Tel Aviv Robbie Keane Mutual consent 7 June 2024 Žarko Lazetić 24 June 2024
Maccabi Netanya Marco Balbul[3] Sacked 29 October 2024 13th Yossi Abukasis[4] 29 October 2024
Hapoel Hadera Haim Silvas[5] 2 November 2024 14th Asaf Nimni[5] 2 November 2024
Maccabi Petah Tikva Dan Roman 7 December 2024 11th Tamir Luzon 7 December 2024

Foreign players

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team.[6]
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Non-visa player
Beitar Jerusalem Miguel Silva Ismaila Soro Mayron George Jean Marcelin Patrick Twumasi Grigori Morozov
Bnei Sakhnin Constantinos Soteriou Stéphane Oméonga Chinemerem Godwin Abed Yassin
Hadi Rabah
F.C. Ashdod Timothy Awany Montari Kamaheni Martin Ndzie Ebenezer Mamatah Jordan Sebban
Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hélder Lopes André Biyogo Poko Déinner Quiñones Artur Shushenachev Kings Kangwa Yoni Stoyanov
Hapoel Hadera Mamadou Mbodj James Adeniyi Ibrahim Sangaré Godsway Donyoh Nikola Đurković
Hapoel Haifa Fernand Mayembo Dmitry Antilevsky Dramane Salou Thiemoko Diarra Aboubacar Doumbia Javon East
Hapoel Jerusalem Eloge Yao Cédric Franck Don Jelle Duin Ibeh Ransom Jidechukwu Marko Alchevski
Ironi Kiryat Shmona Sekou Tidiany Bangoura Cristian Martínez
Ironi Tiberias Franco Mazurek Stanislav Bilenkyi Ondřej Bačo Daniel Tenenbaum
Maccabi Bnei Reineh Nemanja Ljubisavljević Sambinha Muhammed Usman Edu Ezekiel Henty Omar Nahfaoui
Abdallah Jaber
Maccabi Haifa Abdoulaye Seck Vital Nsimba Pedrão Xander Severina Matías Nahuel Ricardinho Ali Mohamed
Erik Shuranov
Tomás Sultani
Oleksandr Syrota
Maccabi Netanya Ibrahim Tanko Heriberto Tavares Freddy Vargas
Maccabi Petah Tikva Andreas Karo Daniel Joulani Saliou Guindo Marco Wolff
Maccabi Tel Aviv Henry Addo Tyrese Asante Issouf Sissokho Nemanja Stojić Weslley Patati Simon Sluga Joris van Overeem

Regular season

Regular season table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 26 18 6 2 52 18 +34 58[a] Qualification for the Championship round
2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 26 17 6 3 56 27 +29 57
3 Maccabi Haifa 26 14 6 6 54 32 +22 47[b]
4 Beitar Jerusalem 26 13 7 6 48 34 +14 46
5 Hapoel Haifa 26 12 5 9 39 31 +8 41
6 Maccabi Netanya 26 11 4 11 39 37 +2 37
7 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 26 10 4 12 28 38 −10 34 Qualification for the Relegation round
8 Maccabi Bnei Reineh 26 9 4 13 27 35 −8 31
9 Hapoel Jerusalem 26 7 9 10 32 35 −3 30
10 Ironi Tiberias 26 6 9 11 20 36 −16 27
11 Maccabi Petah Tikva 26 6 6 14 22 44 −22 24
12 Bnei Sakhnin 26 6 6 14 19 37 −18 23[c]
13 F.C. Ashdod 26 5 7 14 35 48 −13 22
14 Hapoel Hadera 26 3 11 12 23 42 −19 20
Source: Soccerway, One
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.
Notes:
  1. ^ Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.[7]
  2. ^ Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.[8]
  3. ^ Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.[7]

Regular season results

Home \ Away HBS MTA MHA BEI HHA MNE IKS MBR HJE ITI MPT BnS ASH HAH
Hapoel Be'er Sheva — 2–2 3–3 4–1 3–0 1–0 5–1 1–1 3–1 4–0 1–0 0–0[a] 3–1 2–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–0 — 2–0 1–1 2–0 4–1 0–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 3–2 3–1 5–1 2–2
Maccabi Haifa 0–2 0–3[b] — 1–3 1–1 2–1 4–1 2–0 3–3 4–0 1–0 3–0 1–2 4–2
Beitar Jerusalem 1–1 3–1 3–2 — 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–4 1–1 1–1 5–0 1–0 3–2 0–0
Hapoel Haifa 0–1 1–1 1–4 3–2 — 1–3 4–3 1–3 4–0 1–0 5–1 2–1 2–1 3–0
Maccabi Netanya 1–2 1–2 0–2 3–0 0–3 — 2–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–2 4–0 2–2 2–1
Ironi Kiryat Shmona 0–1 1–2 0–4 0–3 2–1 0–1 — 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–2 1–1
Maccabi Bnei Reineh 1–0 1–2 2–2 0–2 0–2 4–3 1–0 — 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–4 1–2
Hapoel Jerusalem 0–2 2–3 0–0 3–3 1–0 2–3 0–0 0–1 — 4–0 4–1 1–0 1–0 1–1
Ironi Tiberias 0–2 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–3 3–1 1–0 0–2 — 1–2 1–0 2–1 1–1
Maccabi Petah Tikva 2–5 0–3 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 — 1–1 2–2 0–0
Bnei Sakhnin 0–0 0–4 0–3[c] 2–1 0–2 1–0 0–1 2–0 0–2 0–0 2–0 — 2–2 0–1
F.C. Ashdod 0–2 0–2 1–3 2–3 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–5 — 1–1
Hapoel Hadera 1–2 2–3 1–3 0–4 0–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–3 —
Source: "Ligat Ha'Al – Matches".
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ No-points cancelled game.[7]
  2. ^ Originally 1–1, later changed.[8]
  3. ^ Originally 1–1, later changed.[9]

Championship round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 26 games)

Rounds
27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th
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 		6 – 1
5 – 2
4 – 3 		2 – 1
3 – 5
4 – 6 		6 – 2
1 – 3
5 – 4 		3 – 2
4 – 1
5 – 6 		6 – 3
2 – 4
1 – 5

Championship round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MTA HBS MHA BEI HHA MNE
1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (C) 36 24 8 4 86 36 +50 80 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round — 1–1 1–1 5–0 3–0 4–1
2 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 36 24 8 4 75 28 +47 78[a] Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[b] 1–3 — 4–1 3–1 5–0 2–0
3 Maccabi Haifa 36 18 8 10 68 54 +14 61[c] Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round 0–3 0–3 — 3–3 1–5 1–0
4 Beitar Jerusalem 36 15 9 12 58 54 +4 53[d] 3–1 1–1 1–2 — 0–1 0–3
5 Hapoel Haifa 36 15 7 14 51 50 +1 52 1–3 1–2 0–2 1–0 — 1–1
6 Maccabi Netanya 36 13 6 17 51 58 −7 45 1–6 2–1 2–3 0–1 2–2 —
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(C) Champions
Notes:
  1. ^ Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.[7]
  2. ^ Hapoel Be'er Sheva qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the 2024–25 Israel State Cup winners; the second Conference League spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.
  3. ^ Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.[8]
  4. ^ Beitar Jerusalem had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Haifa match.

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation HJE MBR IKS BnS ASH ITI MPT HAH
7 Hapoel Jerusalem 33 11 11 11 47 42 +5 44 2–0 4–1 3–1 0–0
8 Maccabi Bnei Reineh 33 12 5 16 36 43 −7 41 2–1 1–1 0–2 1–2
9 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 33 11 4 18 32 52 −20 37 0–3 0–1 0–2 2–1
10 Bnei Sakhnin 33 10 7 16 26 44 −18 36[a] 0–1 0–0 2–1
11 F.C. Ashdod 33 8 11 14 48 55 −7 35 1–1 4–2 4–1
12 Ironi Tiberias 33 8 11 14 28 45 −17 35 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–1
13 Maccabi Petah Tikva (R) 33 8 9 16 31 50 −19 33 Relegation to
Liga Leumit 		1–2 1–1 4–1
14 Hapoel Hadera (R) 33 5 12 16 31 57 −26 27 2–4 1–0 0–1
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.[7]

Season statistics

Top scorers

[10]

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Guy Melamed Hapoel Haifa \ Maccabi Haifa 21
2 Dia Saba Maccabi Haifa 16
3 Dor Turgeman Maccabi Tel Aviv 15
4 Dean David Maccabi Haifa 14
Mohammed Kna'an F.C. Ashdod
Kings Kangwa Hapoel Be'er Sheva
7 Igor Zlatanović Maccabi Netanya 13
Alon Turgeman Hapoel Be'er Sheva
9 Weslley Patati Maccabi Tel Aviv 12
Eran Zahavi Maccabi Tel Aviv

Notes

  1. ^ a b c The team play their home games at a neutral venue because their own ground does not meet league requirements.

See also

References

  1. ^ Lipkin, Gidi (3 July 2024). "Toto Winner - the sponsor of the Premier League in football". One (in Hebrew). Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  2. ^ Temporarily, Due the Gaza war the team play their home games at a neutral venue
  3. ^ Psheatski, Motti (29 October 2024). "אחרי חצי שנה בלבד: בלבול פוטר מנתניה". Sports Channel (in Hebrew). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  4. ^ Psheatski, Motti (29 October 2024). "רשמי: יוסי אבוקסיס מונה למאמן מכבי נתניה". Sports Channel (in Hebrew). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  5. ^ a b Goldsthein, Igal (2 November 2024). "חיים סילבס פוטר מחדרה, אסף נימני יחליפו". Sports Channel (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Starting from the season: teams will be able to allowed six foreigners play". Sport 5 sports (in Hebrew). 21 July 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e Zenziper, Nadav; Mogilevsky, Shay (15 October 2024). "Sakhnin's point deduction was canceled following the Turner riot, Be'er Sheva's appeal was rejected". Ynet sport (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  8. ^ a b c Ben Dor, Doron (5 February 2025). "Official: The plea agreement between Maccabi Haifa and the association". One (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 5 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  9. ^ Zenziper, Nadav (29 January 2025). "Maccabi Haifa got a technical victory 3:0 over Sakhnin, who illegally entered a player". Ynet sport (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 29 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Winner League stats". football.co.il. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
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