2017–18_Toto_Cup_Al

2017–18 Toto Cup Al

2017–18 Toto Cup Al

Football tournament season

The 2017–18 Toto Cup Al was the 33rd season of the third-important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the 12th tournament involving Israeli Premier League clubs only.

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The competition is held in two stages. First, fourteen Premier League teams were divided into three groups, five teams in groups A and B and four teams in group C, the teams playing against each other once. The best three teams from groups A and B and the best two teams from group C will advance to the quarter-finals, which will be played over two-legged ties. The semi-finals and the final are then played as one-legged matches in a neutral venue.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva was the defending champion.[1]

In the final, held on 14 December 2017, Maccabi Tel Aviv had beaten Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1–0.[2]

Group stage

Groups were allocated according to geographic distribution of the clubs, with the northern clubs allocated to Group A, In Group B allocated the two teams from Tel Aviv, one team from Petah Tikva, one from Netanya and one more team from Ra'anana. The southern clubs allocated to Group C (including Beitar Jerusalem).

The matches started July 29.

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Group A

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Updated to match(es) played on 13 August 2017. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Group B

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Updated to match(es) played on 27 September 2017. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Group C

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Updated to match(es) played on 12 August 2017. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Knockout stage

All times are in Israel Standard Time

Quarter-finals

7 October 2017 Maccabi Petah Tikva1–2 Hapoel Be'er Sheva Petah Tikva
21:00 Brik 38' Report 50'Sahar
85' Radi		 Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Tzvika Levi
24 October 2017 Maccabi Haifa 2–2 (a.e.t.)
(4–3 p)		Hapoel AcreHaifa
21:00 Caio 21'
Lavi 99'		 Report 69' Onyekachi
109' El Krenawy		 Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Idan Leiba
Penalties
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Kahat soccer ball with check mark		 soccer ball with red X Azubel
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soccer ball with check mark El Krenawy
soccer ball with check mark Eliyahu
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25 October 2017 Hapoel Kiryat Shmona w/o
[note 1]		Beitar JerusalemKiryat Shmona
21:00 Gozlan 67' Report Stadium: Municipal Stadium
Referee: Yigal Fried
26 October 2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–0Bnei YehudaNetanya
19:00 Atar 42'
Blackman 78' (pen.)
Rikan 79'		 Report Stadium: Netanya Stadium
Referee: Ro'i Reinschreiber

Semi-finals

29 November 2017 Hapoel Kiryat Shmona0–2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Petah Tikva
20:30 17' Schoenfeld
53' Yitzhaki		 Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium
Referee: Gal Leibovichs
30 November 2017 Maccabi Haifa0–1 Hapoel Be'er Sheva Netanya
21:00 72' Ohana Stadium: Netanya Stadium
Referee: Daniel Bar Natan

Final

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Hapoel Kiryat Shmona originally won the match 1–0. However, at the beginning of the second half Beitar had substituted in a sixth foreign player, when a maximum of five foreign players was allowed, and played with six foreign players until the 65th minute.[3] The game was awarded to Hapoel Kiryat Shmona with a score of 3–0.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Hapoel Beersheba Rolls to Toto Cup Triumph Allon Sinai, 29 December 2016, Jerusalem Post
  2. [2]
    Maccabi Tel Aviv Captures Toto Cup Over Beersheba Allon Sinai, 15 December 2017, Jerusalem Post
  3. [3]
    Beitar Fielded 6 Foreigners Illegally Ofir Sa'ar & Shlomo Weiss, 25 October 2017, Walla! (in Hebrew)
  4. [4]
    Decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal, File 99248 IFA, 1 November 2017 (in Hebrew)
  5. [5]
    Technical Loss and Fine to Beitar for Fielding Six Foreigners Moshe Scheinmann, 1 November 2017, Ynet (in Hebrew)
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