2017–18 Toto Cup Al

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.

2017–18 Toto Cup Al

Tournament details
Country	Israel
Teams	14
Final positions
Champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Runners-up	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	85 (2.58 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Kjartansson (4) El Krenawy
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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.

Key to colours in group tables
Teams advanced to the Quarterfinals

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		MHA	HAC	IKS	HHA	BNS
1	Maccabi Haifa	4	2	2	0	10	4	+6	8	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—	2–2	0–0
2	Hapoel Acre	4	2	1	1	5	7	−2	7				—	0–4		2–1
3	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	4	1	2	1	5	2	+3	5					—	0–1	1–1
4	Hapoel Haifa	4	1	1	2	3	6	−3	4			1–4	0–1		—
5	Bnei Sakhnin	4	0	2	2	4	8	−4	2			1–4			1–1	—

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		MTA	BNY	MPT	MCN	HRA
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4	3	1	0	7	1	+6	10	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—	2–0		0–0
2	Bnei Yehuda	4	2	0	2	4	5	−1	6				—	1–0		2–0
3	Maccabi Petah Tikva	4	2	0	2	4	6	−2	6			0–3		—	3–2
4	Maccabi Netanya	4	1	1	2	7	8	−1	4				3–1		—	2–4
5	Hapoel Ra'anana	4	1	0	3	5	7	−2	3			1–2		0–1		—

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		BEI	HBS	ASH	HAS
1	Beitar Jerusalem	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—			1–2
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6			0–3	—		3–0
3	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3			1–3	0–2	—
4	Hapoel Ashkelon	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3					0–1	—

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

Maccabi Petah Tikva v Hapoel Be'er Sheva

7 October 2017	Maccabi Petah Tikva	1–2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Petah Tikva
21:00	Brik 38'	Report	50'Sahar 85' Radi	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Tzvika Levi

Maccabi Haifa v Hapoel Acre

24 October 2017	Maccabi Haifa	2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Hapoel Acre	Haifa
21:00	Caio 21' Lavi 99'	Report	69' Onyekachi 109' El Krenawy	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Idan Leiba
	Penalties
	Awad Alberman Sallalich Kahat		Azubel Sam El Krenawy Eliyahu Zino

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona v Beitar Jerusalem

25 October 2017	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	w/o [note 1]	Beitar Jerusalem	Kiryat Shmona
21:00	Gozlan 67'	Report		Stadium: Municipal Stadium Referee: Yigal Fried

Maccabi Tel Aviv v Bnei Yehuda

26 October 2017	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–0	Bnei Yehuda	Netanya
19:00	Atar 42' Blackman 78' (pen.) Rikan 79'	Report		Stadium: Netanya Stadium Referee: Ro'i Reinschreiber

Semi-finals

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona v Maccabi Tel Aviv

29 November 2017	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	0–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Petah Tikva
20:30			17' Schoenfeld 53' Yitzhaki	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Referee: Gal Leibovichs

Maccabi Haifa v Hapoel Be'er Sheva

30 November 2017	Maccabi Haifa	0–1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Netanya
21:00			72' Ohana	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Referee: Daniel Bar Natan

Final

14 December 2017

21:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	Report	Kjartansson 83'

Netanya Stadium

Referee: Menashe Mashiah

Notes

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]