2021–22_Israeli_Premier_League

2021–22 Israeli Premier League

Football league season

The 2021–22 Israeli Premier League, also known as Ligat Tel Aviv Stock Exchange^[8] for sponsorship reasons, was the 23rd season since its introduction in 1999 and the 80th season of top-tier football in Israel.

Quick Facts Season, Dates ...

Israeli Premier League
Season	2021–22
Dates	28 August 2021 – 22 May 2022
Champions	Maccabi Haifa
Relegated	Maccabi Petah Tikva Hapoel Nof HaGalil
Matches played	240
Goals scored	593 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Omer Atzili (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Maccabi Haifa 6–0 F.C. Ashdod (7 February 2022 (2022-02-07))^[1]
Biggest away win	Bnei Sakhnin 0–6 Maccabi Haifa (25 December 2021 (2021-12-25))^[2]
Highest scoring	Hapoel Nof HaGalil 2–6 Ironi Kiryat Shmona (8 January 2022 (2022-01-08))^[3]
Longest winning run	10 — Maccabi Haifa^{[lower-alpha 1]}^[4]
Longest unbeaten run	16 — Hapoel Be'er Sheva^{[lower-alpha 2]}^[5] Maccabi Haifa^{[lower-alpha 3]}^[4]
Longest winless run	13 — Maccabi Petah Tikva^{[lower-alpha 4]}^[6]
Longest losing run	6 — Hapoel Nof HaGalil^{[lower-alpha 5]}^[7] Maccabi Petah Tikva^{[lower-alpha 5]}^[6]
← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 22 May 2022 (2022-05-22).

Teams

A total of fourteen teams were competing in the league, including twelve sides from the 2020–21 season and two promoted teams from the 2020–21 Liga Leumit.

Hapoel Nof HaGalil and Hapoel Jerusalem were promoted from the 2020–21 Liga Leumit. Hapoel Nof HaGalil and Hapoel Jerusalem returned to the top flight after an absence of 15 and 21 years respectively.

Hapoel Kfar Saba and Bnei Yehuda were relegated to the 2021–22 Liga Leumit after finishing the 2020–21 Israeli Premier League in the bottom two places.

Members of the 2021–22 season

Locations of the 2020–22 Israeli Premier League teams

Stadiums and locations

More information Team, Location ...

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	13,610
Hapoel Haifa	Haifa	Sammy Ofer Stadium	30,942
Hapoel Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Teddy Stadium	31,733
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	Nof HaGalil	Green Stadium	5,200
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Bloomfield Stadium	29,400
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Kiryat Shmona	Kiryat Shmona Stadium	5,300
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

More information Beitar Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv ...

Beitar Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem	Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Hapoel Nof HaGalil
Teddy Stadium	Bloomfield Stadium	Kiryat Shmona Stadium	Green Stadium

Maccabi Netanya Hapoel Hadera	Hapoel Haifa Maccabi Haifa	Maccabi Petah Tikva
Netanya Stadium	Sammy Ofer Stadium	HaMoshava Stadium

F.C. Ashdod	Bnei Sakhnin	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Yud-Alef Stadium	Doha Stadium	Turner Stadium

Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Kobi Refua	End of contract	30 May 2021	Pre-season	Amir Nussbaum^[9]	31 May 2021
Beitar Jerusalem	Yossi Mizrahi	Caretaking spell over	2 June 2021	Pre-season	Erwin Koeman^[10]	2 June 2021
Maccabi Netanya	Raymond Atteveld	Sacked	29 September 2021	14	Benyamin Lam	4 October 2021
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Patrick van Leeuwen		26 October 2021	12	Barak Yitzhaki (Temporary)	26 October 2021
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Amir Nussbaum		8 November 2021	14	Slobodan Drapić	9 November 2021
Beitar Jerusalem	Erwin Koeman	Left	1 December 2021	11	Yossi Mizrahi	10 December 2021
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Barak Yitzhaki	Caretaking spell over	9 December 2021	4	Mladen Krstajić	9 December 2021
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Nir Klinger	Sacked	19 December 2021	7	Kobi Refua	19 December 2021
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Guy Luzon	Left	28 December 2021	14	Nir Klinger	29 December 2021
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	Yaron Hochenboim	Sacked	5 January 2022	13	Shay Barda	5 January 2022
Bnei Sakhnin	Sharon Mimer	Sacked	18 January 2022	6	Haim Silvas	19 January 2022
Beitar Jerusalem	Yossi Mizrahi	Left	26 January 2022	11	Gal Cohen (Temporary)	26 January 2022
Beitar Jerusalem	Gal Cohen	Caretaking spell over	3 February 2022	11	Yossi Abukasis	3 February 2022
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Ronny Levy	Sacked	1 March 2022	2	Elyaniv Barda	1 March 2022

Foreign players

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team, while only five could have been registered to a game.^[11]

More information Club, Player 1 ...

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Non-visa player
Beitar Jerusalem	Josua Mejías	Richmond Boakye	Kamso Mara	Gleofilo Vlijter
Bnei Sakhnin	Ari Moura	Ante Puljić	Odah Marshall	Ibrahima Conté	Fahad Bayo	Fabian Sporkslede	Gaëtan Varenne Abdallah Jaber
F.C. Ashdod	Montari Kamaheni	Lawrence Ofori	Nenad Cvetković	Timothy Awany	Dimitrios Diamantakos	Martin Atemengue	Kenny Saief
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Danilo Asprilla	Eugene Ansah	Davide Petrucci	Hélder Lopes	André Martins	Gustavo Marmentini	Mariano Bareiro Nikita Rukavytsya
Hapoel Hadera	Jonathan Cissé	Ivaylo Markov	Steven Alfred	Muhammed Usman
Hapoel Haifa	Saikou Touray	Alen Ožbolt	Matija Ljujić	Izuchuckwu Anthony
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Morgan Ferrier	Džiugas Bartkus	Július Szöke
Hapoel Jerusalem	Yao Eloge Koffi	Ondřej Bačo	Eduardo Guerrero	Adebayo Adeleye	William Agada	Bright Enobakhare	Awaka Eshata
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	Guti	David Tweh	John Ogu	Stefan Marinovic	Luwagga Kizito	Ernest Mabouka
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Marko Janković	Farley Rosa	Mohamed Kalil Traoré	Ernestas Šetkus	Siyanda Xulu	Ange-Freddy Plumain	Bohdan Sarnavskyi
Maccabi Haifa	Mickaël Alphonse	José Rodriguez	Godsway Donyoh	Ali Mohamed	Bogdan Planić	Tjaronn Chery	Josh Cohen Mavis Tchibota Ryan Strain
Maccabi Netanya	Plamen Galabov	Boris Enow	Patrick Twumasi	Zlatan Šehović	Igor Zlatanović	Parfait Guiagon
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Marcus Diniz	Adi Mehremić	James Adeniyi	Ion Nicolaescu	Lameck Banda		Nico Olsak Marco Wolff Daniel Joulani
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Stipe Perica	Brandley Kuwas	Josué Sá	Enric Saborit	Đorđe Jovanović	André Geraldes	Daniel Tenenbaum

In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Regular season

Regular season table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maccabi Haifa	26	18	5	3	62	19	+43	59	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	26	16	7	3	39	17	+22	55
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	16	5	5	48	31	+17	53
4	Bnei Sakhnin	26	12	6	8	28	29	−1	42
5	Maccabi Netanya	26	10	10	6	34	27	+7	40
6	Hapoel Tel Aviv	26	10	8	8	36	31	+5	38
7	Hapoel Hadera	26	9	9	8	22	28	−6	36	Transfer to the Relegation round
8	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	26	9	6	11	29	32	−3	33
9	Hapoel Haifa	26	8	6	12	33	37	−4	30
10	F.C. Ashdod	26	8	3	15	28	44	−16	27
11	Hapoel Jerusalem	26	5	8	13	19	35	−16	23
12	Beitar Jerusalem	26	5	7	14	23	36	−13	22
13	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	5	6	15	27	37	−10	21
14	Hapoel Nof HaGalil	26	4	8	14	20	45	−25	20

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.

Regular season results

More information Home \ Away, MHA ...

Home \ Away	MHA	HBS	MTA	BnS	MNE	HTA	HAH	IKS	HHA	ASH	HJE	BEI	MPT	HNG
Maccabi Haifa	—	1–2	3–2	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	5–1	6–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–2	—	2–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	1–0	—	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1
Bnei Sakhnin	0–6	0–0	3–1	—	1–3	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0
Maccabi Netanya	1–1	1–1	4–2	1–0	—	1–1	0–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–3
Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–3	1–1	2–3	0–3	2–2	—	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–2
Hapoel Hadera	0–0	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–3	—	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–4	0–0
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	2–1	1–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	—	2–2	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0
Hapoel Haifa	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–1	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	—	2–1	1–2	5–1	2–2	3–1
F.C. Ashdod	2–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–3	1–4	1–2	0–2	1–3	—	1–0	2–0	3–4	3–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	1–4	0–1	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	—	0–3	1–0	3–1
Beitar Jerusalem	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–0^{[lower-alpha 6]}	—	2–1	0–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva	0–4	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–3	—	4–0
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	0–4	0–2	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–6	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	—

Source: "Ligat Ha'Al – Matches".
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

Matches 9–18
Matches 1–16
Matches 6–21
Matches 8–20
Matches 12–17
The match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Jerusalem originally ended 1–1. However, Beitar was awarded a 3–0 victory after Hapoel ineligibly fielded 6 foreign players during the match (a team is allowed to field at most 5 foreign players in a match).

Results by round

More information Team ╲ Round, Maccabi Haifa ...

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
Maccabi Haifa	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	W	D	W
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	D	D	D	W	W
Maccabi Tel Aviv	L	D	W	L	W	L	L	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Bnei Sakhnin	W	L	D	D	L	W	L	W	D	W	W	L	W	D	L	L	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	W
Maccabi Netanya	D	L	D	L	W	W	L	D	L	W	L	L	D	W	W	D	D	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	D
Hapoel Tel Aviv	W	W	D	L	D	W	W	L	D	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	L	D	W	D
Hapoel Hadera	D	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	D	D	D	W	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	L	L
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	D	L	L	W	D	L	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	D	L	L	L	W	D	D	L	W
Hapoel Haifa	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	L	D	W	W	L	D	L	L	L	L
F.C. Ashdod	L	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	L
Hapoel Jerusalem	D	L	D	D	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	D	D	W	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	L	W
Beitar Jerusalem	L	W	D	L	D	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	W	L	D	L	L
Maccabi Petah Tikva	D	D	D	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	D	W	W	L	D	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	L	D	L

Source: soccerway
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Championship round

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

More information Rounds, 27th ...

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

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MHA	HBS	MTA	MNE	HTA	BnS
1	Maccabi Haifa (C)	36	24	6	6	79	27	+52	78	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round	—	2–0	1–3	4–0	3–0	1–0
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	36	20	10	6	53	30	+23	70	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round	1–0	—	1–0	4–1	2–2	3–1
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	36	20	9	7	63	38	+25	69		1–1	1–1	—	2–1	5–0	0–0
4	Maccabi Netanya	36	13	13	10	47	41	+6	52		3–0	3–0	1–1	—	0–0	3–0
5	Hapoel Tel Aviv	36	13	11	12	44	47	−3	50		0–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	—	2–1
6	Bnei Sakhnin	36	13	10	13	33	43	−10	49		0–3^[12]	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	—

Results by round

The table lists the results of teams in each round.

More information Team ╲ Round, Maccabi Haifa ...

Team ╲ Round	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
Team ╲ Round
Maccabi Haifa	W	W	D	W	L	W	L	L	W	W
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	W	L	D	W	D	L	W	L	D	W
Maccabi Tel Aviv	D	D	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	W
Maccabi Netanya	L	D	D	L	W	W	L	W	D	L
Hapoel Tel Aviv	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	W	D	L
Bnei Sakhnin	D	L	D	L	D	W	D	L	L	L

Source: "Ligat Ha'Al – Matches".
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Relegation round

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

More information Rounds, 27th ...

Rounds
27th	28th	29th	30th	31st	32nd	33rd
7 – 11 8 – 13 9 – 12 10 – 14	11 – 14 12 – 10 13 – 9 7 – 8	8 – 11 9 – 7 10 – 13 14 – 12	11 – 12 13 – 14 7 – 10 8 – 9	9 – 11 10 – 8 14 – 7 12 – 13	11 – 13 7 – 12 8 – 14 9 – 10	10 – 11 14 – 9 12 – 8 13 – 7

Relegation round table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation	IKS	HAH	ASH	BEI	HHA	HJE	MPT	HNG
7	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	33	14	8	11	48	39	+9	50						4–0	2–1	1–1	2–0
8	Hapoel Hadera	33	11	9	13	34	43	−9	42		1–4		2–3	1–2		3–1
9	F.C. Ashdod	33	12	3	18	37	52	−15	39		1–3					0–1	1–0	2–0
10	Beitar Jerusalem	33	9	10	14	35	43	−8	37		3–3		1–0				2–2
11	Hapoel Haifa	33	9	8	16	36	47	−11	35			1–0	1–2	1–1		0–2
12	Hapoel Jerusalem	33	8	9	16	25	41	−16	33					0–1			1–0	0–0
13	Maccabi Petah Tikva (R)	33	6	9	18	34	49	−15	27	Relegation to Liga Leumit		4–3			0–0			0–4
14	Hapoel Nof HaGalil (R)	33	6	9	18	25	53	−28	27	Relegation to Liga Leumit		0–2		0–2	1–0

Results by round

More information Team ╲ Round, Ironi Kiryat Shmona ...

The table lists the results of teams in each round
Team ╲ Round	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Team ╲ Round
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	D	W	W	W	W	W	D
Hapoel Hadera	W	L	L	L	W	L	L
F.C. Ashdod	W	L	W	W	L	W	L
Beitar Jerusalem	D	W	W	W	D	W	D
Hapoel Haifa	D	D	W	L	L	L	L
Hapoel Jerusalem	L	D	L	L	W	W	W
Maccabi Petah Tikva	D	D	L	W	D	L	W
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	L	D	L	W	L	L	W

Source: "Ligat Ha'Al – Relegation Round – Matches".
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Season statistics

Top scorers

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Omer Atzili	Maccabi Haifa	20
2	Dean David	Maccabi Haifa	15
	Itamar Shviro	Ironi Kiryat Shmona
	Stipe Perica	Maccabi Tel Aviv
5	Igor Zlatanović	Maccabi Netanya	12
6	Alen Ožbolt	Hapoel Haifa	11
6	Alon Turgeman	Hapoel Haifa	11
8	Nikita Rukavytsya	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	10
8	Ramzi Safouri	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	10
10	Guy Melamed	Bnei Sakhnin	9
	Dolev Haziza	Maccabi Haifa
	Tjaronn Chery	Maccabi Haifa
	Đorđe Jovanović	Maccabi Tel Aviv

Source, as of 17 May 2022:^[14]

Hat-tricks

More information Player, For ...

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Alen Ožbolt	Hapoel Haifa	Beitar Jerusalem	5–1 (H)	29 January 2022	20
Omer Atzili⁴	Maccabi Haifa	F.C. Ashdod	6–0 (H)	7 February 2022	21

Notes

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