1987–88 Liga Leumit

Liga Leumit
Season	1987–88
Champions	Hapoel Tel Aviv ; 10th title
Relegated	Hapoel Lod ; Maccabi Petah Tikva
Top goalscorer	Zahi Armeli (25)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 Liga Leumit season saw the league experiment with a split-league system. After the first two rounds (26 matches), the league split, with the top eight clubs forming a Championship group and the bottom six forming a Relegation group. Within the groups, the clubs played each other once more.

Hapoel Tel Aviv won the title whilst Hapoel Lod and Maccabi Petah Tikva were relegated to Liga Artzit. Zahi Armeli of Maccabi Haifa was the league's top scorer with 25 goals.

The following season the league continued to use the split league system, but had six clubs in the Championship group and eight in the Relegation group.

Regular season

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv	26	14	7	5	30	18	+12	49	Qualification for the championship round
2	Maccabi Netanya	26	13	8	5	42	28	+14	47
3	Shimshon Tel Aviv	26	10	11	5	31	21	+10	41
4	Hapoel Kfar Saba	26	10	10	6	29	25	+4	40
5	Hapoel Petah Tikva	26	10	8	8	37	33	+4	38
6	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	26	9	11	6	21	17	+4	38
7	Beitar Tel Aviv	26	8	12	6	31	23	+8	36
8	Tzafririm Holon	26	7	12	7	25	23	+2	33
9	Maccabi Haifa	26	8	8	10	32	29	+3	32	Qualification for the relegation round
10	Bnei Yehuda	26	7	11	8	21	18	+3	32
11	Beitar Jerusalem	26	8	8	10	32	36	−4	32
12	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	6	11	9	33	29	+4	29
13	Hapoel Lod	26	3	9	14	16	56	−40	18
14	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	2	8	16	15	39	−24	14

Source: EU-Football.info

Results

Home \ Away	BEI	BTA	BnY	HBS	HKS	HLD	HPT	HTA	MHA	MNE	MPT	MTA	STA	TZH
Beitar Jerusalem	—	0–4	1–1	2–1	2–1	4–3	0–0	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	3–3	1–1	0–1
Beitar Tel Aviv	2–1	—	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1
Bnei Yehuda	0–1	0–0	—	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–0	1–1	0–0	—	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	2–0
Hapoel Kfar Saba	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	—	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–2
Hapoel Lod	1–0	0–4	0–0	0–0	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–6	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Hapoel Petah Tikva	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	4–0	—	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	5–2	2–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	—	1–5	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1
Maccabi Haifa	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–2	—	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Maccabi Netanya	1–3	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	4–1	4–2	1–0	3–0	—	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–1
Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–2	1–1	0–3	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	—	0–0	0–2	0–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	3–0	5–1	4–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	—	2–1	0–1
Shimshon Tel Aviv	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	—	0–0
Tzafririm Holon	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	—

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

Playoffs

Top playoff

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv (C)	33	19	9	5	43	23	+20	66
2	Maccabi Netanya	33	16	12	5	56	35	+21	60
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	33	13	13	7	33	22	+11	52
4	Shimshon Tel Aviv	33	13	11	9	35	33	+2	50	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
5	Hapoel Petah Tikva	33	12	10	11	47	41	+6	46
6	Hapoel Kfar Saba	33	11	12	10	33	31	+2	45
7	Beitar Tel Aviv	33	9	13	11	38	40	−2	40
8	Tzafririm Holon	33	9	13	11	32	34	−2	40

Source: EU-Football.info
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BTA	HBS	HKS	HPT	HTA	MNE	STA	TZH
Beitar Tel Aviv	—	—	—	1–5	0–2	—	1–2	—
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–1	—	0–0	—	—	1–1	—	—
Hapoel Kfar Saba	1–2	—	—	2–0	—	1–1	—	0–1
Hapoel Petah Tikva	—	1–2	—	—	1–1	—	2–0	—
Hapoel Tel Aviv	—	2–1	1–0	—	—	1–1	—	4–2
Maccabi Netanya	2–2	—	—	2–1	—	—	3–0	4–1
Shimshon Tel Aviv	—	0–4	1–0	—	0–2	—	—	1–0
Tzafririm Holon	3–0	0–2	—	0–0	—	—	—	—

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

Bottom playoff

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9	Maccabi Haifa	31	13	8	10	56	33	+23	47
10	Bnei Yehuda	31	11	11	9	28	23	+5	44
11	Beitar Jerusalem	31	10	9	12	38	42	−4	39	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
12	Maccabi Tel Aviv	31	8	12	11	43	43	0	36
13	Hapoel Lod (R)	31	3	9	19	17	69	−52	18	Relegated to Liga Artzit
14	Maccabi Petah Tikva (R)	31	3	8	20	19	49	−30	17	Relegated to Liga Artzit

Source: EU-Football.info
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BEI	BnY	HLD	MHA	MPT	MTA
Beitar Jerusalem	—	—	—	2–4	2–0	1–1
Bnei Yehuda	1–0	—	2–0	—	1–0	—
Hapoel Lod	0–1	—	—	0–4	—	—
Maccabi Haifa	—	4–1	—	—	2–1	10–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva	—	—	3–0	—	—	0–5
Maccabi Tel Aviv	—	1–2	3–1	—	—	—

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

References

Israel - List of Final Tables RSSSF