2024–25 Israeli Premier League

The 2024–25 Israeli Premier League, also known as Ligat TOTO Winner^[1] for sponsorship reasons is the 26th season since the introduction of the Israeli Premier League in 1999 and the 83rd season of top-tier football in Israel.

Israeli Premier League

Season	2024–25
Dates	24 August 2024 – 24 May 2025
Champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv (26th title)
Relegated	Maccabi Petah Tikva Hapoel Hadera
UEFA Champions League	Maccabi Tel Aviv
UEFA Europa League	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
UEFA Conference League	Maccabi Haifa Beitar Jerusalem
Matches played	240
Goals scored	668 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer	Guy Melamed (21)
Biggest home win	Beitar Jerusalem 5–0 Maccabi Petah Tikva (4 December 2024) Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–0 Beitar Jerusalem (24 May 2025) Hapoel Be'er Sheva 5–0 Hapoel Haifa (24 May 2025)
Biggest away win	Maccabi Netanya 1–6 Maccabi Tel Aviv (12 May 2025)
Highest scoring	F.C. Ashdod 3–5 Bnei Sakhnin (31 December 2024)
Longest winning run	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (6)
Longest unbeaten run	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (17)
Longest winless run	Hapoel Hadera (12)
Longest losing run	Ironi Kiryat Shmona (6)
← 2023–24 2025–2026 → All statistics correct as of 25 May 2025.

Teams

The league consisted of fourteen teams; twelve sides from the previous season and two promoted teams from the 2023–24 Liga Leumit (Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Ironi Tiberias). Ironi Kiryat Shmona returned to the top flight after a single season, Ironi Tiberias was promoted for the first time in its history. They replaced the 2023–24 Israeli Premier League bottom two teams, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petah Tikva who were relegated to the 2024–25 Liga Leumit.

Ironi Tiberias

F.C. Ashdod

Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Hapoel Hadera

Hapoel Haifa
Maccabi Haifa

Hapoel Jerusalem
Beitar Jerusalem

Ironi Kiryat Shmona

Maccabi Netanya

Bnei Sakhnin

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Bnei Reineh

Maccabi Petah Tikva

Locations of the 2024–25 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[i]	13,610
Hapoel Haifa	Haifa	Sammy Ofer Stadium	30,942
Hapoel Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Teddy Stadium	31,733
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Kiryat Shmona	Netanya Stadium[2]	13,610
Ironi Tiberias	Tiberias	Green Stadium[i]	5,200
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Reineh	Green Stadium[i]	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 Haifa Maccabi Haifa	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem	Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv
Maccabi Netanya Hapoel Hadera Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Bnei Sakhnin
Netanya Stadium, Netanya	HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva	Acre Municipal Stadium, Acre
F.C. Ashdod	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Ironi Tiberias Maccabi Bnei Reineh
Yud-Alef Stadium, Ashdod	Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva	Green Stadium, Nof HaGalil

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Beitar Jerusalem	Barak Abramov	Barak Yitzhaki	Yarden Shua	Umbro	Geshem Holdings
Bnei Sakhnin	Mohammed Abu Younes	Slobodan Drapić	Maroun Gantous	Le Coq Sportif	Walid Automotive
F.C. Ashdod	Rafi Niddam	Klemi Saban	Tom Ben Zaken	Nike	Blue Home Projects
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Alona Barkat	Ran Kojok	Miguel Vítor	Umbro	Victory
Hapoel Hadera	Yakir Schwartz	Asaf Nimni	Menashe Zalka	Umbro	BTB
Hapoel Haifa	Yoav Katz	Ronny Levy	Dor Malul	Diadora	Leos Madia
Hapoel Jerusalem	Yotam Karmon	Ziv Arie	Ofek Bitton	Legea	Allon ventures
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Izzy Sheratzky	Shay Barda	Ayid Habshi	Diadora	Ituran
Ironi Tiberias	Arie Kalmanzon and Mickey Bitan	Eliran Hudeda	Daniel Tenenbaum	Le Coq Sportif	Yochelman Group
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Saeed Basoul	Sharon Mimer	Eyad Hutba	Zeus Sport	Boneh Renih
Maccabi Haifa	Ya'akov Shahar	Itay Mordechai (caretaker)	Lior Refaelov	Adidas	Volvo
Maccabi Netanya	Eyal Segal	Yossi Abukasis	Karem Jaber	Lotto
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Avraham Luzon	Noam Shoham	Yarden Cohen	Kelme
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Mitchell Goldhar	Žarko Lazetić	Eran Zahavi	Fila	Pelephone

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Maccabi Haifa	Messay Dego	End of contract	29 May 2024	Pre-season	Barak Bakhar	29 May 2024
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Elyaniv Barda		31 May 2024		Ran Kojok	2 June 2024
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Ran Kojok		2 June 2024		Dan Roman	3 June 2024
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Robbie Keane	Mutual consent	7 June 2024		Žarko Lazetić	24 June 2024
Maccabi Netanya	Marco Balbul[3]	Sacked	29 October 2024	13th	Yossi Abukasis[4]	29 October 2024
Hapoel Hadera	Haim Silvas[5]		2 November 2024	14th	Asaf Nimni[5]	2 November 2024
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Dan Roman		7 December 2024	11th	Tamir Luzon	7 December 2024

Foreign players

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team.^[6]
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	Ismaila Soro	Mayron George	Jean Marcelin	Patrick Twumasi		Grigori Morozov
Bnei Sakhnin	Constantinos Soteriou	Stéphane Oméonga	Chinemerem Godwin				Abed Yassin Hadi Rabah
F.C. Ashdod	Timothy Awany	Montari Kamaheni	Martin Ndzie	Ebenezer Mamatah			Jordan Sebban
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Hélder Lopes	André Biyogo Poko	Déinner Quiñones	Artur Shushenachev	Kings Kangwa		Yoni Stoyanov
Hapoel Hadera	Mamadou Mbodj	James Adeniyi	Ibrahim Sangaré	Godsway Donyoh			Nikola Đurković
Hapoel Haifa	Fernand Mayembo	Dmitry Antilevsky	Dramane Salou	Thiemoko Diarra	Aboubacar Doumbia	Javon East
Hapoel Jerusalem	Eloge Yao	Cédric Franck Don	Jelle Duin	Ibeh Ransom Jidechukwu	Marko Alchevski
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Sekou Tidiany Bangoura	Cristian Martínez
Ironi Tiberias	Franco Mazurek	Stanislav Bilenkyi	Ondřej Bačo				Daniel Tenenbaum
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	Nemanja Ljubisavljević	Sambinha	Muhammed Usman Edu	Ezekiel Henty			Omar Nahfaoui Abdallah Jaber
Maccabi Haifa	Abdoulaye Seck	Vital Nsimba	Pedrão	Xander Severina	Matías Nahuel	Ricardinho	Ali Mohamed Erik Shuranov Tomás Sultani Oleksandr Syrota
Maccabi Netanya	Ibrahim Tanko	Heriberto Tavares	Freddy Vargas
Maccabi Petah Tikva	Andreas Karo	Daniel Joulani	Saliou Guindo				Marco Wolff
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Henry Addo	Tyrese Asante	Issouf Sissokho	Nemanja Stojić	Weslley Patati	Simon Sluga	Joris van Overeem

Regular season

Regular season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	26	18	6	2	52	18	+34	58[a]	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	17	6	3	56	27	+29	57
3	Maccabi Haifa	26	14	6	6	54	32	+22	47[b]
4	Beitar Jerusalem	26	13	7	6	48	34	+14	46
5	Hapoel Haifa	26	12	5	9	39	31	+8	41
6	Maccabi Netanya	26	11	4	11	39	37	+2	37
7	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	26	10	4	12	28	38	−10	34	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Maccabi Bnei Reineh	26	9	4	13	27	35	−8	31
9	Hapoel Jerusalem	26	7	9	10	32	35	−3	30
10	Ironi Tiberias	26	6	9	11	20	36	−16	27
11	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	6	6	14	22	44	−22	24
12	Bnei Sakhnin	26	6	6	14	19	37	−18	23[c]
13	F.C. Ashdod	26	5	7	14	35	48	−13	22
14	Hapoel Hadera	26	3	11	12	23	42	−19	20

Source: Soccerway, One
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. Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.^[7]
2. Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.^[8]
3. Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.^[7]

Regular season results

Home \ Away	HBS	MTA	MHA	BEI	HHA	MNE	IKS	MBR	HJE	ITI	MPT	BnS	ASH	HAH
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	—	2–2	3–3	4–1	3–0	1–0	5–1	1–1	3–1	4–0	1–0	0–0[a]	3–1	2–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	—	2–0	1–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	3–1	5–1	2–2
Maccabi Haifa	0–2	0–3[b]	—	1–3	1–1	2–1	4–1	2–0	3–3	4–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	4–2
Beitar Jerusalem	1–1	3–1	3–2	—	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–4	1–1	1–1	5–0	1–0	3–2	0–0
Hapoel Haifa	0–1	1–1	1–4	3–2	—	1–3	4–3	1–3	4–0	1–0	5–1	2–1	2–1	3–0
Maccabi Netanya	1–2	1–2	0–2	3–0	0–3	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	4–0	2–2	2–1
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	0–1	1–2	0–4	0–3	2–1	0–1	—	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–1
Maccabi Bnei Reineh	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–2	0–2	4–3	1–0	—	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–4	1–2
Hapoel Jerusalem	0–2	2–3	0–0	3–3	1–0	2–3	0–0	0–1	—	4–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
Ironi Tiberias	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–0	0–2	—	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–1
Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–5	0–3	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	—	1–1	2–2	0–0
Bnei Sakhnin	0–0	0–4	0–3[c]	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–0	—	2–2	0–1
F.C. Ashdod	0–2	0–2	1–3	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–5	—	1–1
Hapoel Hadera	1–2	2–3	1–3	0–4	0–0	2–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	—

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

1. No-points cancelled game.^[7]
2. Originally 1–1, later changed.^[8]
3. Originally 1–1, later changed.^[9]

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	HBS	MHA	BEI	HHA	MNE
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv (C)	36	24	8	4	86	36	+50	80	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round		—	1–1	1–1	5–0	3–0	4–1
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	36	24	8	4	75	28	+47	78[a]	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[b]		1–3	—	4–1	3–1	5–0	2–0
3	Maccabi Haifa	36	18	8	10	68	54	+14	61[c]	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round		0–3	0–3	—	3–3	1–5	1–0
4	Beitar Jerusalem	36	15	9	12	58	54	+4	53[d]			3–1	1–1	1–2	—	0–1	0–3
5	Hapoel Haifa	36	15	7	14	51	50	+1	52			1–3	1–2	0–2	1–0	—	1–1
6	Maccabi Netanya	36	13	6	17	51	58	−7	45			1–6	2–1	2–3	0–1	2–2	—

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. Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.^[7]
2. Hapoel Be'er Sheva qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round as the 2024–25 Israel State Cup winners; the second Conference League spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.
3. Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.^[8]
4. Beitar Jerusalem had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Haifa match.

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation		HJE	MBR	IKS	BnS	ASH	ITI	MPT	HAH
7	Hapoel Jerusalem	33	11	11	11	47	42	+5	44					2–0	4–1		3–1	0–0
8	Maccabi Bnei Reineh	33	12	5	16	36	43	−7	41			2–1				1–1		0–2	1–2
9	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	33	11	4	18	32	52	−20	37				0–3		0–1		0–2	2–1
10	Bnei Sakhnin	33	10	7	16	26	44	−18	36[a]				0–1			0–0	2–1
11	F.C. Ashdod	33	8	11	14	48	55	−7	35			1–1		4–2					4–1
12	Ironi Tiberias	33	8	11	14	28	45	−17	35				2–1			1–2		0–0	1–1
13	Maccabi Petah Tikva (R)	33	8	9	16	31	50	−19	33	Relegation to Liga Leumit					1–2	1–1			4–1
14	Hapoel Hadera (R)	33	5	12	16	31	57	−26	27			2–4		1–0	0–1

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. Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.^[7]

Season statistics

Top scorers

^[10]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Guy Melamed	Hapoel Haifa \ Maccabi Haifa	21
2	Dia Saba	Maccabi Haifa	16
3	Dor Turgeman	Maccabi Tel Aviv	15
4	Dean David	Maccabi Haifa	14
	Mohammed Kna'an	F.C. Ashdod
	Kings Kangwa	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
7	Igor Zlatanović	Maccabi Netanya	13
	Alon Turgeman	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
9	Weslley Patati	Maccabi Tel Aviv	12
	Eran Zahavi	Maccabi Tel Aviv

Notes

1. The team play their home games at a neutral venue because their own ground does not meet league requirements.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• 2024–25 Liga Leumit
• 2024–25 Liga Alef
• 2024–25 Israel State Cup