User:NYC2TLV/Maccabi Haifa F.C. season 2007–08

Maccabi Haifa
2007–08 season
Chairman	Ya'akov Shahar
Manager	Elisha Levy
Top goalscorer	League: ; Renato (7); All: ; Renato (13)
Highest home attendance	vs (?)
Lowest home attendance	vs (?)
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2007–08 season was Maccabi Haifa's 50th season in Ligat ha'Al, and their 26th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.

Liga Al (Premier League)

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
18 August 2007	F.C. Ashdod	H	0 – 1		9,000

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
4	Bnei Sakhnin	33	15	10	8	35	29	+6	55
5	Maccabi Haifa	33	13	8	12	38	27	+11	47
6	Maccabi Tel Aviv	33	11	8	14	43	43	0	41

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

State Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
14 February 2009	Round 9	Hapoel Ramat Gan	A	1 – 0 (aet)	Katan 113'
12 March 2009	Round of 16	Hapoel Tel Aviv	A	1 – 1 (2 – 1p)	Katan 81'	12,500
22 April 2009	Quarter-final	Maccabi Ah"i Nazareth	A	4 – 0	Fanteni (2) 30', 87', Katan 45', Harazi 82'	4,000
13 May 2009	Semi-final	Maccabi Netanya	N	1 – 1 (5 – 4p)	Meshumar 65'	36,000
26 May 2009	Final	Beitar Jerusalem	N	1 – 2	Kayal 88'	40,000

Toto Cup

Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Group position
9 August 2008	Beitar Jerusalem	H	1 – 1	Fanteni 31'	1st
17 August 2008	Maccabi Netanya	H	1 – 1	Boccoli 5'	1st
23 August 2008	Bnei Yehuda	A	3 – 1	Kayal 6', Rafaelov 16', Fanteni 21'	1st
5 November 2008	Beitar Jerusalem	A	2 – 0	Ghadir 59', Arbeitman 89'	1st
29 October 2008	Maccabi Netanya	A	4 – 1	Ghadir 20', Osei 43', Arbeitman (2) 53', 82'	1st
12 November 2008	Bnei Yehuda	H	1 – 1	Ghadir 12'	1st

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Maccabi Haifa	6	3	3	0	12	5	+7	12
Bnei Yehuda	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	10
Maccabi Netanya	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7
Beitar Jerusalem	6	1	1	4	6	9	−3	4

Knockout stage

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
5 January 2009	Quarter-final First leg	Hapoel Tel Aviv	A	0 – 2
11 March 2009	Quarter-final Second leg	Hapoel Tel Aviv	H	2 – 0 (3 – 4p)	Boccoli 22', Keinan 55'

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Second round

Haifa was drawn against Romanian club, Gloria Bistriţa in the second round of the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

In the return leg, Haifa played very well and controlled the match.^[1] After taking a 1–0 lead, the referee called a penalty kick against the Greens. Nir Davidovich stopped the penalty kick.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Leg
19 September 2007	Gloria Bistriţa	H	1 – 0			1st
14 July 2007	Gloria Bistriţa	A	1 – 0	Hemed 70'		2nd

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		State Cup		Toto Cup		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Gad Amos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
GK	Nir Davidovich	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
GK	Yahav Yulzeri	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Diego Crosa	29	0	2	0	4	0	35	0
DF	Ronny Gafney	0	0	0	0	5	0	5	0
DF	Alon Harazi	22	0	1	0	10	1	33	1
DF	Dekel Keinan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Adoram Keisi	3	0	0	0	4	0	7	0
DF	Tsepo Masilela	24	1	2	0	5	0	31	1
DF	Shai Maimon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Eyal Meshumar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Łukasz Surma	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
MF	Omri Afek	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Gustavo Boccoli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	John Jairo Culma	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	René Lima	9	0	2	0	0	0	11	0
MF	Eyal Golasa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Biram Kayal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Lior Rafaelov	24	3	2	0	9	2	35	5
MF	Giovanni Rosso	28	3	1	0	4	0	33	3
MF	Renato	27	7	2	0	6	6	35	13
FW	Shlomi Arbeitman	7	0	0	0	2	0	9	0
FW	Oshri Gita	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Thembinkosi Fanteni	14	6	2	1	1	0	17	7
FW	Mohammad Ghadir	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Yaniv Katan	29	5	2	1	6	1	40	7
FW	Ransford Osei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

References

^ Harush, Moshe (2007-07-14). "מכבי חיפה הודחה בפנדלים מהאינטרטוטו" [Maccabi Haifa Eliminated From Intertoto On Penalties]. Ha'aretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 October 2009.

2007-08 Maccabi Haifa

[HaaretzIntertoto-1] Harush, Moshe (2007-07-14). "מכבי חיפה הודחה בפנדלים מהאינטרטוטו" [Maccabi Haifa Eliminated From Intertoto On Penalties]. Ha'aretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 October 2009.

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