2023–24 Israeli Premier League

The 2023–24 Israeli Premier League, also known as Ligat ONE ZERO^[1] for sponsorship reasons, was the 25th season since the introduction of the Israeli Premier League in 1999 and the 82nd season of top-tier football in Israel.

Israeli Premier League

Season	2023–24
Dates	26 August 2023 – 25 May 2024
Champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Relegated	Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Tel Aviv
UEFA Champions League	Maccabi Tel Aviv
UEFA Europa League (via State Cup)	Maccabi Petah Tikva
UEFA Conference League	Maccabi Haifa Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Matches played	227
Goals scored	571 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dean David (20 goals) / Eran Zahavi (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Maccabi Haifa 5–0 Maccabi Petah Tikva (14 January 2024 (2024-01-14))
Biggest away win	Hapoel Tel Aviv 0–5 Maccabi Tel Aviv (26 September 2023 (2023-09-26)) F.C. Ashdod 0–5 Maccabi Haifa (25 February 2024 (2024-02-25))
Highest scoring	Beitar Jerusalem 4–4 Hapoel Be'er Sheva (23 December 2023 (2023-12-23))
Longest winning run	10 ‍–‍ Maccabi Tel Aviv[lower-roman 1]
Longest unbeaten run	16 ‍–‍ Maccabi Haifa[lower-roman 2]
Longest winless run	10 — Hapoel Tel Aviv[lower-roman 3]
Longest losing run	5 — 4 Teams
Highest attendance	29,842 Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (11 May 2024 (2024-05-11))
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 17 May 2024.

Teams

The league consisted of fourteen teams; twelve sides from the previous season and two promoted teams from the 2022–23 Liga Leumit (Maccabi Petah Tikva and Hapoel Petah Tikva). Maccabi Petah Tikva returned to the top flight after a single season, while Hapoel Petah Tikva returned after 9 seasons (for the first time since the 2014–15 season). They replaced the 2022–23 Israeli Premier League bottom two teams, Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Sektzia Ness Ziona.

Ashdod

Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Hapoel Hadera

Hapoel Haifa
Maccabi Haifa

Hapoel Jerusalem
Beitar Jerusalem

Maccabi Netanya

Bnei Sakhnin

Hapoel Tel Aviv
Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Bnei Reineh

Hapoel Petah Tikva
Maccabi Petah Tikva

Locations of the 2023–24 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[lower-roman 4]	13,610
Hapoel Haifa	Haifa	Sammy Ofer Stadium	30,942
Hapoel Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Teddy Stadium	31,733
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Petah Tikva	HaMoshava Stadium	11,500
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Bloomfield Stadium	29,400
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Reineh	Green Stadium[lower-roman 4]	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 Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv	Maccabi Bnei Reineh
Teddy Stadium	Bloomfield Stadium	Green Stadium
Maccabi Netanya Hapoel Hadera	Hapoel Haifa Maccabi Haifa	Maccabi Petah Tikva Hapoel 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

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Beitar Jerusalem	Barak Abramov	Barak Yitzhaki	Ofir Kriaf	Umbro	Geshem Holdings
Bnei Sakhnin	Mohammed Abu Younes	Slobodan Drapić	Maroun Gantous	Le Coq Sportif	White - Sakhnin Dairy
F.C. Ashdod	Rafi Niddam	Eli Levy	Tom Ben Zaken	Nike	Radio Jerusalem
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Alona Barkat	Elyaniv Barda	Miguel Vítor	Umbro	Victory
Hapoel Hadera	Yakir Schwartz	Haim Silvas	Menashe Zalka	Umbro	BTB
Hapoel Haifa	Yoav Katz	Ronny Levy	Dor Malul	Diadora	Leos
Hapoel Jerusalem	Yotam Karmon	Ziv Arie	Ofek Bitton	Legea	Alon Ventures
Hapoel Tel Aviv	David Mincberg	Salim Tuama	Dan Einbinder	Adidas	Hcsra Insurance
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Almog Portman	Benyamin Lam	Ram Levy	Lotto	Mivne Group
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Saeed Basoul	Sharon Mimer	Eyad Hutba	Zeus Sport	Boneh Renih
Maccabi Haifa	Ya'akov Shahar	Messay Dego	Lior Refaelov	Adidas	Volvo
Maccabi Netanya	Eyal Segal	Marco Balbul	Aviv Avraham	Lotto
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Avraham Luzon	Ran Kojok	Mohammed Hindy	Kelme	Jucky
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Jack Angelides	Robbie Keane	Sheran Yeini	Fila	Israel Canada

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Bnei Sakhnin	Kobi Refua[2]	End of contract	20 May 2023	Pre-season	Slobodan Drapić[3]	20 May 2023
Ashdod	Ran Ben Shimon[4]	Mutual agreement			Eli Levy[4]
Maccabi Haifa	Barak Bakhar[5]	Signed by Red Star Belgrade			Messay Dego[6]
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Haim Silvas[7]	Mutual agreement			Michael Valkanis[8]	3 June 2023
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Aitor Karanka[9]	Sacked	25 June 2023		Robbie Keane[10]	26 June 2023
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Michael Valkanis	Signed by Ajax	30 October 2023	7th	Borja Lema	30 October 2023
Maccabi Netanya	Ran Kojok	Sacked	23 December 2023	11th	Guy Tzarfati	24 December 2023
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Benyamin Lam		2 January 2024	10th	Ran Kojok	5 January 2024
Hapoel Hadera	Nissim Avitan		16 January 2024	13th	Haim Silvas	17 January 2024
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Borja Lema		27 January 2024	7th	Salim Tuama (Temporary)	27 January 2024
Beitar Jerusalem	Yossi Abukasis	Left	31 January 2024	8th	Gal Cohen (Temporary)	1 February 2024
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Salim Tuama (Temporary)	Caretaking spell over	6 February 2024	8th	Yossi Abukasis	6 February 2024
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Ofer Tesselpepe	Sacked	11 February 2024	14th	Benyamin Lam	12 February 2024
Beitar Jerusalem	Gal Cohen (Temporary)	Caretaking spell over	18 February 2024	11th	Barak Yitzhaki	19 February 2024
Maccabi Netanya	Guy Tzarfati	Sacked	1 April 2024	11th	Marco Balbul	1 April 2024
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Yossi Abukasis		28 April 2024	13th	Salim Tuama (Temporary)	28 April 2024

Foreign players

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team, while only five could have been registered to a game.^[11]
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	Plamen Galabov	Ismaila Soro	Nika Khorkheli	Mayron George	Fred Friday	Grigori Morozov
Bnei Sakhnin	Konstantinos Sotiriou	Stéphane Oméonga	Adrian Păun	Claudio Spinelli			Alaa Aldeen Hassan Abed Yassin
F.C. Ashdod	Timothy Awany	Clark Robertson	Montari Kamaheni	Martin Ndzie	Ebenezer Mamatah	Jordan Botaka	Jordan Sebban
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Hélder Lopes	André Biyogo Poko	Antonio Sefer	Imran Oulad Omar	Déinner Quiñones	Artur Shushenachev	Mariano Bareiro Yoni Stoyanov Máximo Levi
Hapoel Hadera	Mamadou Mbodj	Philip Ipole	Josip Tomašević	Samy Bourard	Godsway Donyoh	James Adeniyi	Nikola Đurković
Hapoel Haifa	Fernand Mayembo	Denis Polyakov	Mohammed Kamara	Felipe Santos	Dmitry Antilevsky	Jalo Korka	George Diba
Hapoel Petah Tikva	Nico Antonitsch	Jean Quiñónez	Djimy Alexis	Dennis Adeniran	Gilbert Koomson	Fortune Bassey	Matan Peleg
Hapoel Jerusalem	Adebayo Adeleye	Yao Eloge Koffi	Capita	Cédric Franck Don	Kévin Soni	Jelle Duin
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Emilijus Zubas	Bryan Passi	Alen Ožbolt	Bubacarr Tambedou			Mavis Tchibota David Cuperman Matthew Frank
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Nemanja Ljubisavljević	Sambinha	Muhammed Usman Edu	Freddy Vargas	Freddy Góndolaa	Márk Koszta	Abdallah Jaber Omar Nahfaoui
Maccabi Haifa	Pierre Cornud	Frantzdy Pierrot	Abdoulaye Seck	Show	Lorenco Šimić		Ali Mohamed Erik Shuranov Daniel Sundgren Kenny Saief Daniil Lesovoy
Maccabi Netanya	Saba Khvadagiani	Nassim Ouammou	Boris Enow	Igor Zlatanović	Ibrahim Tanko	Stanislav Bilenkyi
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Andreas Karo	Moïse Adiléhou	Ibraheem Jabaar	Luka Štor	Saliou Guindo	Marco Wolff
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Enric Saborit	Derrick Luckassen	Felício Milson	Kiko Bondoso	Orlando Mosquera	Henry Addo	Joris van Overeem Daniel Tenenbaum

Regular season

Regular season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	19	5	2	55	20	+35	62[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Maccabi Haifa	26	17	6	3	55	18	+37	55[lower-alpha 2]
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	26	15	4	7	45	19	+26	49
4	Hapoel Haifa	26	14	5	7	38	32	+6	47
5	Maccabi Bnei Reineh	26	8	10	8	27	26	+1	34
6	Bnei Sakhnin	26	7	13	6	26	31	−5	33[lower-alpha 3]
7	Hapoel Jerusalem	26	8	7	11	28	33	−5	31	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	8	6	12	31	48	−17	30
9	Maccabi Netanya	26	8	4	14	29	41	−12	28
10	Hapoel Hadera	26	8	4	14	21	38	−17	28
11	Hapoel Tel Aviv	26	6	9	11	29	37	−8	26[lower-alpha 4]
12	Beitar Jerusalem	26	8	6	12	34	34	0	25[lower-alpha 5]
13	F.C. Ashdod	26	5	7	14	20	42	−22	22
14	Hapoel Petah Tikva	26	3	10	13	20	39	−19	19

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.
Notes:

1. Maccabi Tel Aviv had 1 point deducted. but after appeal the 1 point was returned ^[12]
2. Maccabi Haifa had 2 points deducted.^[13][14]
3. Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted.^[15]
4. Hapoel Tel Aviv had 1 point deducted.^[16]
5. Beitar Jerusalem had 5 points deducted.^[17][18]

Regular season results

Home \ Away	MTA	MHA	HHA	HBS	MBR	BnS	MPT	HJE	MNE	HTA	HAH	BEI	ASH	HPT
Maccabi Tel Aviv	—	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–0
Maccabi Haifa	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–1
Hapoel Haifa	0–1	0–3	—	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–3	2–1	4–3	2–0	3–2	2–0	1–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–1	2–1	4–0	—	4–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	—	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1
Bnei Sakhnin	2–3	0–3	1–1	0–2	0–0	—	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva	1–2	3–2	0–3	1–4	1–0	5–1	—	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–3	1–2	2–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	1–2	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–2
Maccabi Netanya	1–5	2–3	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	—	2–1	1–3	0–3	1–0	4–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–5	0–0	0–1	0–4	0–0	3–3	2–0	0–0	2–0	—	1–1	0–1	3–1	4–1
Hapoel Hadera	0–3	1–5	1–2	0–2	0–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–4	1–0	—	0–3	1–1	1–0
Beitar Jerusalem	0–1	0–2	1–2	4–4	1–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–0	—	1–1	2–2
F.C. Ashdod	1–4	0–5	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	1–2	—	2–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	—

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

Championship round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 26 games)^{[citation needed]}

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	MHA	HBS	HHA	MBR	BnS
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv (C)	36	26	7	3	75	25	+50	85	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round		—	1–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	2–0
2	Maccabi Haifa	36	23	7	6	75	28	+47	74[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round		0–1	—	4–1	0–2	1–2	1–0
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	36	19	4	13	55	40	+15	61			1–0	1–4	—	2–1	2–1	2–1
4	Hapoel Haifa	36	18	5	13	48	47	+1	59			0–3	0–2	2–0	—	2–0	1–2
5	Maccabi Bnei Reineh	36	11	11	14	38	44	−6	44			2–3	1–5	1–0	0–1	—	2–2
6	Bnei Sakhnin	36	10	15	11	39	46	−7	44[lower-alpha 2]			1–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	0–2	—

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. Maccabi Haifa had 2 points deducted.^[19][20]
2. Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted.^[21]

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts			HJE	MPT	MNE	ASH	BEI	HAH	HTA	HPT
7	Hapoel Jerusalem	33	12	7	14	38	39	−1	43				2–0			3–0	2–1	2–0
8	Maccabi Petah Tikva	33	11	7	15	44	57	−13	40	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]				0–2	0–1			4–2	4–1
9	Maccabi Netanya	33	11	5	17	36	48	−12	38			1–0				0–3	1–2	0–1
10	F.C. Ashdod	33	9	10	14	29	45	−16	37			3–1		0–0					1–0
11	Beitar Jerusalem	33	11	8	14	45	40	+5	36[lower-alpha 2]				1–1		0–0		0–1
12	Hapoel Hadera	33	10	6	17	28	49	−21	36				0–4		2–2			0–1	1–1
13	Hapoel Tel Aviv (R)	33	8	10	15	35	51	−16	33[lower-alpha 3]	Relegation to Liga Leumit					0–2	1–5			1–1
14	Hapoel Petah Tikva (R)	33	4	12	17	25	51	−26	24			1–0		1–3		0–2

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.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Maccabi Petah Tikva qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2023–24 Israel State Cup.
2. Beitar Jerusalem had 5 points deducted.^[17][18]
3. Hapoel Tel Aviv had 1 point deducted.^[16]

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 25 May 2024^[22]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dean David	Maccabi Haifa	20
	Eran Zahavi	Maccabi Tel Aviv	20
3	Frantzdy Pierrot	Maccabi Haifa	18
4	Guy Melamed	Hapoel Haifa	17
5	Yarden Shua	Beitar Jerusalem	12
	Elad Madmon	Hapoel Hadera
7	Tomer Yosefi	Hapoel Haifa	11

Notes

1. Matches 3–12
2. Matches 3–18
3. Matches 21–31
4. The team play their home games at a neutral venue because their own ground does not meet league requirements.^{[citation needed]}

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