1969–70 Liga Leumit

The 1969–70 Liga Leumit season saw Maccabi Tel Aviv win the title on goal difference from city rivals, Hapoel, and qualify for the 1971 Asian Club Championship. Maccabi Jaffa and Hapoel Be'er Sheva were relegated to Liga Alef. Moshe Romano of Shimshon Tel Aviv was the league's top scorer with 15 goals.

Liga Leumit
Season1969–70
ChampionsMaccabi Tel Aviv
11th title
RelegatedMaccabi Jaffa
Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Top goalscorerMoshe Romano (15)

Starting from this season the first tiebreaker in case teams were equal on points was set to be goal difference.[1][2]

Final table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Maccabi Tel Aviv 30 15 9 6 51 21 +30 39 Qualified for 1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament
2 Hapoel Tel Aviv 30 13 13 4 48 24 +24 39
3 Maccabi Haifa 30 10 13 7 29 24 +5 33
4 Shimshon Tel Aviv 30 10 11 9 35 27 +8 31
5 Beitar Jerusalem 30 10 10 10 29 29 0 30
6 Hapoel Jerusalem 30 10 10 10 35 37 −2 30
7 Hapoel Petah Tikva 30 8 14 8 25 28 −3 30
8 Hakoah Ramat Gan 30 6 17 7 21 26 −5 29
9 Beitar Tel Aviv 30 8 13 9 28 34 −6 29
10 Hapoel Haifa 30 7 14 9 19 18 +1 28
11 Maccabi Netanya 30 7 14 9 29 30 −1 28
12 Maccabi Petah Tikva 30 7 14 9 32 37 −5 28
13 Hapoel Kfar Saba 30 7 14 9 27 32 −5 28
14 Bnei Yehuda 30 6 15 9 24 28 −4 27
15 Maccabi Jaffa 30 7 12 11 17 29 −12 26 Relegated to Liga Alef
16 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 30 10 5 15 24 49 −25 25
Source: rsssf.com

Results
Home \ Away BEI BTA BnY HAR HBS HHA HJE HKS HPT HTA MHA MJA MNE MPT MTA STA
Beitar Jerusalem — 0–2 2–0 2–0 1–0 0–2 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–3 2–3 0–0
Beitar Tel Aviv 0–0 — 1–1 2–0 3–0 0–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 3–2 0–0 0–1
Bnei Yehuda 1–1 1–1 — 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–0 1–1 3–0 0–0 0–1 0–0
Hakoah Ramat Gan 0–1 3–1 2–2 — 0–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 3–1 0–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2–0 3–0 0–1 2–0 — 1–0 2–1 0–2 1–2 0–4 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–2 0–3 2–0
Hapoel Haifa 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 — 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–1 0–1 5–0 0–0 2–2
Hapoel Jerusalem 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 — 4–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 3–2 4–1 2–1 0–0
Hapoel Kfar Saba 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 3–0 0–0 4–0 — 1–1 0–2 0–3 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–3 2–2 — 1–1 0–2 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–2
Hapoel Tel Aviv 2–0 2–2 0–1 0–0 8–0 0–0 4–0 0–0 1–1 — 5–1 0–0 1–4 2–1 2–1 1–1
Maccabi Haifa 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–0 0–1 0–0 2–3 — 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0
Maccabi Jaffa 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 0–2 0–3 — 3–2 1–1 3–1 2–1
Maccabi Netanya 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 1–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 — 2–2 1–1 0–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 6–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 — 1–0 0–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–1 7–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 0–1 5–0 1–1 6–0 0–0 2–2 — 3–2
Shimshon Tel Aviv 3–2 0–0 1–2 4–0 3–2 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–2 0–0 5–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 —
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
  1. Goal Difference Instead of Ratio Ma'ariv, 17 June 1969, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  2. First Professional League in Israel Starts Yesha'ayahu Porat, 3 October 1969, Ma'ariv, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
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