1982–83 Liga Leumit

The 1982–83 Liga Leumit season saw Maccabi Netanya win the title, with the club's Oded Machnes finishing as the league's top scorer with 22 goals. Hapoel Ramat Gan, Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Kfar Saba (who finished bottom of the league a year after winning the title) were relegated to Liga Artzit. It was also the first season that the Three points for a win system was introduced.^[1]

Liga Leumit

Season	1982–83
Champions	Maccabi Netanya 5th title
Relegated	Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Kfar Saba
Top goalscorer	Oded Machnes (22)
← 1981–82 1983–84 →

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maccabi Netanya (C)	30	18	7	5	54	31	+23	61	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
2	Shimshon Tel Aviv	30	12	11	7	35	27	+8	47
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	30	11	13	6	33	23	+10	46
4	Hapoel Tel Aviv	30	13	7	10	33	26	+7	46
5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	30	10	11	9	27	23	+4	41
6	Maccabi Haifa	30	8	14	8	31	31	0	38
7	Hapoel Lod	30	7	15	8	33	28	+5	36
8	Beitar Jerusalem	30	7	15	8	34	33	+1	36
9	Maccabi Petah Tikva	30	8	12	10	25	30	−5	36
10	Maccabi Yavne	30	7	15	8	25	31	−6	36
11	Hapoel Yehud	30	8	12	10	18	26	−8	36
12	Bnei Yehuda	30	7	15	8	26	35	−9	36
13	Maccabi Jaffa	30	6	15	9	22	24	−2	33
14	Hapoel Ramat Gan (R)	30	6	15	9	15	21	−6	33	Relegated to Liga Artzit
15	Hapoel Jerusalem (R)	30	8	7	15	29	44	−15	31
16	Hapoel Kfar Saba (R)	30	6	12	12	33	40	−7	30

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BEI	BnY	HBS	HKS	HJE	HLD	HRG	HTA	HYE	MHA	MJA	MNE	MPT	MTA	MYV	STA
Beitar Jerusalem	—	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	3–3
Bnei Yehuda	2–0	—	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–0	1–0	—	0–0	4–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	3–1	3–0
Hapoel Kfar Saba	3–1	0–0	1–0	—	3–3	2–2	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–2
Hapoel Jerusalem	0–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	—	0–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–4	1–1	1–0
Hapoel Lod	3–3	3–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	—	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	1–4	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–2	7–1	2–3	3–2	3–1	2–1	3–0	—	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0
Hapoel Yehud	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0
Maccabi Haifa	0–0	3–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	—	0–0	3–0	2–5	0–2	1–0	0–1
Maccabi Jaffa	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–2
Maccabi Netanya	3–2	3–1	1–1	4–2	3–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	0–1	—	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–1
Maccabi Petah Tikva	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	—	2–0	0–1	1–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	5–0	—	0–0	0–0
Maccabi Yavne	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–3	1–1	4–3	0–1	2–2	—	0–0
Shimshon Tel Aviv	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

• Israel - List of final tables RSSSF

1. 3 League points for win will be awarded in Leumit and Artzit Davar, 10 August 1982, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)