1954–55 Beitar Tel Aviv F.C. season

Beitar Tel Aviv
1954–55 season
Manager	Haim Reich
Stadium	Basa Stadium, Tel Aviv
Liga Alef	not completed
State Cup	not completed
Top goalscorer	League: Nisim Elmaliah (25); All: Nisim Elmaliah (31)
	← 1953–54 1955–56 →

The 1954–55 Beitar Tel Aviv season was the club's 22nd season since its establishment, in 1934, and 7th since the establishment of the State of Israel.

During the season, the club competed in Liga Alef (top division) and the State Cup. In addition, the club played in the privately organized Shapira Cup, a four-club league competition.

Review and events

At the beginning of the season, top Beitar teams, Beitar Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem competed for the Lifa Livyatan Memorial Cup, named after a late Beitar journalist. In the first match, played on 28 August 1954, the teams tied 3–3,^[1] and the match was replayed on 12 October 1954, Beitar Tel Aviv winning 5–2.^[2]
During December 1954 and January 1955, as no league matches were played due to a dispute between Hapoel, Maccabi and Beitar factions in the IFA, Hapoel Tel Aviv organized a league competition for the top Tel Aviv teams, Hapoel, Maccabi, Beitar and Maccabi Jaffa. The competition was played as a double round-robin tournament, with the top placed team winning the cup, named after former Hapoel Tel Aviv treasurer, Yosef Shapira. The club won two matches and lost four, finishing third.^[3]
The club played one international friendly match during the season, against AC Omonia, on 31 May 1955, winning 4–2.^[4]

Match results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Liga Alef

League matches began on 6 February 1955, and by the time the season, only 20 rounds of matches were completed, delaying the end of the league season to the next season.^[5]

League table (as of 2 July 1955)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
2	Hapoel Petah Tikva	20	13	4	3	38	15	2.533	30
3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	20	9	8	3	37	17	2.176	26
4	Beitar Tel Aviv	20	9	5	6	48	36	1.333	23
5	Maccabi Petah Tikva	20	8	6	6	27	24	1.125	22
6	Maccabi Haifa	20	8	5	7	36	29	1.241	21

Updated to match(es) played on 2 July 1955. Source: Hadshot HaSport, 3 July 1955 (in Hebrew)

Matches

5 February 1955 1	Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–3	Beitar Tel Aviv	Givataim
		Report (p. 8)	20' Elmaliah 23' Gleit 47' Huli	Stadium: HaMakhtesh Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Werner

12 February 1955 2	Beitar Tel Aviv	2–1	Maccabi Netanya	Tel Aviv
	Huli 48' (pen.) Elmaliah 57'	Report (p. 8)	21' Statzki	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Markovich

19 February 1955 3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Rabinovich 12' Israeli 18' Studinski 85'	Report (p. 8)	46' Huli	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Klein

26 February 1955 4	Beitar Tel Aviv	4–0	Beitar Jerusalem	Tel Aviv
	Osherov 61', 83' Elmaliah 61', 75'	Report (p. 8)		Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ben-Rubi

5 March 1955 5	Beitar Tel Aviv	0–2	Maccabi Haifa	Tel Aviv
		Report	37' Daniel 62' Held	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Frisner

12 March 1955 6	Hapoel Petah Tikva	4–0	Beitar Tel Aviv	Petah Tikva
	Chirik 4', 49' Stelmach 84' Kofman 87'	Report (p. 8)		Stadium: Hapoel Ground, Petah Tikva Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Fried

19 March 1955 7	Hapoel Hadera	2–5	Beitar Tel Aviv	Hadera
	Gali 44' Salomon 75'	Report (p. 8)	29' Huli 45' (o.g.) Weinberg 64', 84' Elmaliah 77' Bar-Zion	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Klein

2 April 1955 8	Beitar Tel Aviv	6–1	Hapoel Balfouria	Tel Aviv
	Huli 8', 21', 24' Elmaliah 55', 57', 90'		89' Gordon	Stadium: Basa Stadium

9 April 1955 9	Beitar Tel Aviv	4–2	Hapoel Haifa	Tel Aviv
	Emaliah 20' Huli 59', 70' Gleit 62'	Report (p. 8)	68' Kramer 87' (pen.) Martin	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen

13 April 1955 10	Maccabi Rehovot	2–7	Beitar Tel Aviv	Rehovot
	Shrager 25' Kofman 82'	Report (p. 4)	23' (pen.), 55' (pen.), 74', 89' Huli 52', 62' (pen.) Elmaliah 70' Bar-Zion	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Fried

16 April 1955 11	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Yehudayoff 50'	Report (p. 8)	53' Huli	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Frizner

23 April 1955 12	Maccabi Petah Tikva	4–2	Beitar Tel Aviv	Petah Tikva
	Spiegel 8' Rabinson 24' Turkenitz 63' (pen.) Carmeli 68'	Report (p. 8)	12' Bar-Zion 17' HaMeiri	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Parnas

30 April 1955 13	Beitar Tel Aviv	1–1	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Tel Aviv
	Y. Gambash 58'	Report (p. 8)	86' Tobiash	Stadium: Maccabi Jaffa Ground Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Sher

14 May 1955 14	Beitar Tel Aviv	1–1	Hapoel Ramat Gan	Tel Aviv
	Elmaliah 24'	Report (p. 8)	12' Radler	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Sher

21 May 1955 15	Maccabi Netanya	3–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Netanya
	Meller 12', 26' I. Caspi 22'	Report (p. 8)	80' Elmaliah	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Scheindling

4 June 1955 16	Beitar Tel Aviv	3–0 (w/o) (abandoned)	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
		Report (p. 8)	5' Glazer 36' (pen.) Turika	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Sher

11 June 1955 17	Beitar Jerusalem	3–3	Beitar Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
	Hasson 8' Yehezkel 12' Elfasi 38'	Report (p. 8)	61' (pen.), 80', 85' Elmaliah	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Metzler

18 June 1955 18	Maccabi Haifa	1–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Haifa
	Hardy 23'	Report	52' Kasuto	Stadium: Kiryat Haim Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Dudkevich

26 June 1955 19	Beitar Tel Aviv	2–1	Hapoel Petah Tikva	Tel Aviv
	Elmaliah 14' Huli 52'	Report (p. 8)	53' Stelmach	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Werner

2 July 1955 20	Beitar Tel Aviv	4–1	Hapoel Hadera	Tel Aviv
	Elmaliah 70' (pen.), 76', 85', 90'	Report (p. 8)	65' Salomon	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Scheindling

Results by match

Match	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Result	W	W	L	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	D	D	L	L	D	D	W	W
Position	1	3	5	4	4	6	5	4	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4

Updated to match(es) played on 3 July 1955. Source: 2 Dear Points
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

State Cup

26 March 1955 Round 3	Maccabi Rehovot	1–2	Beitar Tel Aviv	Rehovot
	Litvak 39'		18' Huli 20' Elmaliah	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen

28 May 1955 Round 4	Hapoel Jaffa	1–2	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Kindel 26'		7' Elmaliah 35' Huli	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: M. Klein

Shapira Cup

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv (W)	6	5	1	12	7	1.714	10
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	16	8	2.000	8
3	Beitar Tel Aviv	6	2	4	7	8	0.875	4
4	Maccabi Jaffa	6	1	5	5	17	0.294	2

Source: Hadshot HaSport, p. 1
(W) Winners

Results

4 December 1954 1	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Michaelov 18' Yehudayoff 75'		26' Elmaliah	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Frisner

11 December 1954 2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Schneor 2' Glazer 87'		67' Gleit	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Werner

18 December 1954 3	Beitar Tel Aviv	2–0	Maccabi Jaffa	Tel Aviv
	Huli 9', 79' (pen.)			Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Zahavi

25 December 1954 4	Beitar Tel Aviv	1–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Huli 55'		7' Rosenbaum 72' (pen.) Balut	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Rosenbaum

8 January 1955 5	Beitar Tel Aviv	2–1 abandoned	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	Huli 40' Bar-Zion 58'		38' Reznik	Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Dudkevich

15 January 1955 6	Maccabi Jaffa	1–0	Beitar Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
	M. Levi 1'			Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Levichter

References

^ Lifa Livyatan Cup and Tel Hai Matches – Without Decision Herut, 29 August 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
^ Lifa Livyatan Cup to Beitar Tel Aviv Herut 13 October 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
^ Hadshot HaSport, p. 1 (in Hebrew)
^ Beitar Tel Aviv – Omonia 4:2 Hadshot HaSport, 1 June 1955, p. 1 & 4 (in Hebrew)
^ 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)

[1] Lifa Livyatan Cup and Tel Hai Matches – Without Decision Herut, 29 August 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

[2] Lifa Livyatan Cup to Beitar Tel Aviv Herut 13 October 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

[3] Hadshot HaSport, p. 1 (in Hebrew)

[4] Beitar Tel Aviv – Omonia 4:2 Hadshot HaSport, 1 June 1955, p. 1 & 4 (in Hebrew)

[5] 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)

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