Israeli football clubs in international competitions

Israeli football clubs have competed in international football tournaments since 1967, when Hapoel Tel Aviv played in the inaugural Asian Champion Club Tournament. Two Israeli clubs, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv, competed in all four editions of the Asian Champion Club Tournament before it was discontinued after the 1972 edition was cancelled. The Israel Football Association was expelled from the AFC in 1974, with Israeli clubs not being invited to take part in the competition when it was revived as the Asian Club Championship (now the AFC Champions League) in 1985.

Between 1976 and 1994, Israeli clubs took part in the Intertoto Cup, which was the only international club competition available until 1990 due to the Israeli FA not being affiliated to any confederation.

Israel was admitted to UEFA in 1991 and Israeli clubs participated European football tournaments since 1992, when Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petah Tikva played in the Champions League and the Cup Winners' Cup (respectively). Since 1992, Israeli clubs have taken part in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Full Asian record
Season Club Round Date Opponent Score Venue
1967 Hapoel Tel Aviv Final 19 December 1967 Malaysia Selangor FA 2–1 Bangkok, Thailand
1969 Maccabi Tel Aviv Group Stage 15 January 1969 Japan Toyo Kogyo 3–2 Bangkok, Thailand
19 January 1969 Hong Kong Kowloon Motor Bus 5–0
22 January 1969 Malaysia Perak FA 1–1
26 January 1969 Iran Persepolis 0–0
Semi-final 28 January 1969 India Mysore State 6–1
Final 30 January 1969 South Korea Yangzee FC 1–0
1970 Hapoel Tel Aviv Group Stage 2 April 1970 Thailand Royal Thai Police FC 5–0 Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Iran
4 April 1970 India West Bengal 3–1
6 April 1970 Indonesia PSMS Medan 3–1
Semi-final 8 April 1970 Lebanon Homenetmen w/o
Final 10 April 1970 Iran Taj Tehran 1–2 (a.e.t.)
1971 Maccabi Tel Aviv Preliminary Round 22 March 1971 Malaysia Perak FA 1–0 National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Stage 25 March 1971 Iraq Aliyat Al-Shorta w/o
27 March 1971 India FC Punjab Police 4–1
29 March 1971 Thailand Bangkok Bank FC 4–1
Semi-final 31 March 1971 South Korea ROK Army 2–0
Final 2 April 1971 Iraq Aliyat Al-Shorta w/o

Performance table
Club APP. P W D L GF GA
Hapoel Tel Aviv 25401145
Maccabi Tel Aviv 210820276
Total 41512214111

Intertoto Cup (1976–1994)
Main article: Intertoto Cup

Israeli teams first appeared in the Intertoto Cup in 1976, with Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Beitar Jerusalem, champions and runners-up in the previous season, debuting. In 1979, due to the cost of travelling to Europe, only one team, Maccabi Netanya was entered into the competition,[1][2][3] and between 1980 and 1992 the two Israeli entrants played in one group to reduce travelling expenses.[4] In 1993 and 1994, as the format of the competition was changed to allow participating teams to play only two away matches, Israeli teams were allocated to two different groups.

Season Club Group Rank Opponents W D L GF GA
1976 Beitar Jerusalem 1 3rd Switzerland Young Boys, Sweden Malmö FF, Austria Admira Vienna 2221213
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2 3rd West Germany Hertha Berlin, Belgium Standard Liège, Denmark Køge 132813
1977 Maccabi Jaffa 1 4th Sweden Halmstad, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vojvodina, Netherlands Amsterdam 213915
Maccabi Tel Aviv 2 4th West Germany Duisburg, Belgium Standard Liège, Netherlands Twente 1141015
1978 Maccabi Tel Aviv 5 3rd Sweden Malmö FF, Switzerland FC Zürich, Austria Admira Vienna 2041010
Maccabi Netanya 8 1st Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sloboda Tuzla, Sweden Elfsborg, Norway Lillestrøm 330168
1979 Maccabi Netanya 1 3rd West Germany Werder Bremen, Belgium Standard Liège, Austria Rapid Vienna 123810
1980 Maccabi Netanya 3 1st Denmark KB, Belgium Royal Antwerp 321116
Maccabi Tel Aviv 4th 114814
1981 Maccabi Netanya 1 3rd Austria Wiener SK, Belgium R.F.C. de Liège 222118
Hapoel Tel Aviv 4th 024616
1982 Hapoel Tel Aviv 5 2nd Austria Admira Vienna, Sweden Norrköping 4021210
Hapoel Kfar Saba 4th 114818
1983 Maccabi Netanya 4 1st Denmark AGF, Switzerland FC Lucerne 5011710
Shimshon Tel Aviv 4th 114510
1984 Maccabi Netanya 8 1st Austria Admira Vienna, Switzerland FC Wettingen 4111313
Beitar Jerusalem 4th 015614
1985 Maccabi Haifa 8 1st West Germany Arminia Bielefeld, Austria Sturm Graz 4111312
Beitar Jerusalem 4th 114512
1986 Maccabi Haifa 8 2nd Denmark Lyngby, Austria Grazer AK 222710
Hapoel Tel Aviv 3rd 123912
1987 Beitar Jerusalem 8 3rd Denmark Brøndby, West Germany VfL Bochum 213311
Bnei Yehuda 4th 015416
1988 Beitar Jerusalem 7 3rd Denmark Ikast FS, Austria Sturm Graz 123816
Shimshon Tel Aviv 4th 024316
1989 Hapoel Petah Tikva 8 3rd Czechoslovakia Sparta Prague, Poland Wisła Kraków 213911
Beitar Jerusalem 4th 114713
1990 Maccabi Haifa 3 2nd Poland Lech Poznań, Hungary BFC Siófok 321145
Bnei Yehuda 4th 015518
1991 Maccabi Haifa 10 3rd Sweden Örebro, Germany Saarbrücken 204617
Hapoel Petah Tikva 4th 015817
1992 Maccabi Petah Tikva 9 3rd Czech Republic Slavia Prague, Germany Bayer Leverkusen 132711
Maccabi Netanya 4th 024413
1993 Maccabi Tel Aviv 5 5th Czech Republic Slavia Prague, Germany Lokomotive Leipzieg, Denmark Aalborg, Sweden Häcken 01329
Beitar Jerusalem 8 5th Germany Dynamo Dresden, Switzerland FC Aarau, Austria Wiener SK, Greece Iraklis 1908 02236
1994 Maccabi Netanya 1 3rd Sweden Halmstad, Bulgaria Lokomotiv Sofia, Czech Republic Sparta Prague, Denmark Silkeborg 12155
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2 2nd Switzerland Young Boys, Romania Electroputere Craiova, Germany Karlsruhe, Sweden Häcken 21195

Performance table
ClubAPP.PWDLGFGA
Maccabi Netanya 8461914138574
Beitar Jerusalem 740710234485
Maccabi Haifa 42411584044
Maccabi Tel Aviv 42243153048
Hapoel Tel Aviv 3185492738
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2103431718
Hapoel Petah Tikva 2122281728
Shimshon Tel Aviv 212138826
Bnei Yehuda 2120210934
Maccabi Jaffa 16213915
Hapoel Kfar Saba 16114818
Maccabi Petah Tikva 16132711
Total372145652106301439

Full European record

Israeli clubs have participated in UEFA tournaments since 1992–93. Maccabi Haifa three times, Maccabi Tel Aviv twice and Hapoel Tel Aviv had managed to qualify to the Champions League group stage. The same clubs, along with Maccabi Petah Tikva and Ironi Kiryat Shmona qualified to the UEFA Cup/Europa League group stage. The furthest any club reached in a European tournament was the quarter-finals, reached by Maccabi Haifa in 1998–99 and by Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2001–02.

Performance table
Club UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League

(includes UEFA Cup)

 UEFA Europa Conference League UEFA Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Intertoto Cup Total
Apps.PldWDLGFGAApps.PldWDLGFGAApps.PldWDLGFGAApps.PldWDLGFGAApps.PldWDLGFGAApps.PldWDLGFGA
Mac. Tel Aviv[5] 10471510164763 1494422032134130 22010643018 1421164 0000000 24165693753217215
Mac. Haifa[6] 10*47199198570 12552214198672 1125352313 3189272922 383051324 22140582855236201
Hap. Tel Aviv[7] 2145362120 1492431732135101 0000000 0000000 14004110 17110482042157131
Beitar Jerusalem[8] 5166372029 10331010134655 0000000 0000000 282151220 145718142578104
Hap. Be'er Sheva[9] 3169342724 944149214972 2*13742229 14112315 1210124 1179321730103124
Bnei Yehuda[10] 0000000 730154113029 0000000 0000000 0000000 730154113029
Mac. Netanya[11] 0000000 410235716 1201112 0000000 1210133 6143471122
Hap. Haifa[12] 1402215 28314915 0000000 0000000 3102261420 52255122440
Ir. Kiryat Shmona[13] 1622296 4141581424 0000000 0000000 0000000 42037102330
Mac. Petah Tikva[14] 0000000 2114072121 0000000 0000000 2833299 4197393030
Hap. Petah Tikva[15] 0000000 1632153 0000000 1430162 26033114 4166551316
FC Ashdod[16] 0000000 1202033 1201101 0000000 1421173 38242107
Bnei Sakhnin[17] 0000000 1420278 0000000 0000000 1420244 284041112
Hap. Ramat Gan[18] 0000000 1201101 0000000 0000000 0000000 1201101
Hap. Rishon LeZion[19] 0000000 0000000 0000000 1210133 0000000 1210133

Update: 8 September 2022, * currently in indicated competition.

Notes:

  • The total appearances column sum all club appearances by seasons and not by competitions (i.e. for a club which played in CL and EL in one season, only one appearance is calculated in the total column, while one appearance is calculated for each competition).
  • Maccabi Haifa had beaten FC Haka 4–0 in 2001–02, which was later awarded to HJK as a walkover win due to Maccabi Haifa fielding a suspended player.[20] The original score is included in the table.
  • Maccabi Tel Aviv had beaten PAOK 2–1 in 2004–05, which was later awarded to Maccabi Tel Aviv as a walkover win due to PAOK fielding a suspended player.[21] The original score is included in the table.
  • In 2013–14 UEFA Europa League Maccabi Tel Aviv were drawn to meet PAOK in the Play-off round. However, on 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing. [22] UEFA decided to replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK, who were eliminated by Metalist Kharkiv in the third qualifying round. [23] Thus, Maccabi Tel Aviv, the opponent of PAOK in the Europa League play-off round, qualified directly for the Europa League group stage without playing any match in the play-off round. The two cancelled matches are not included in the table.

References
  1. A Financial Proposal for Entering Two Teams to the Intertoto Was Prepared in Maccabi Ma'ariv, 5 December 1978, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  2. The Champions Netanya Will Represent Israel in the Intertoto Ma'ariv, 13 December 1978, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  3. Almog: We Decided Upon One in the Intertoto Since We Will Not Be Able to Tolerate a 25 Million IL Deficit Davar, 13 December 1978, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  4. The Condition to Entering 2 Teams to the Intertoto – In One Group Davar, 12 February 1980, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  5. uefa.com. "Maccabi Tel Aviv in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. uefa.com. "Maccabi Haifa in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  7. uefa.com. "Hapoel Tel Aviv in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  8. uefa.com. "Beitar Jerusalem in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  9. uefa.com. "Hapoel Be'er Sheva in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  10. uefa.com. "Bnei Yehuda in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  11. uefa.com. "Maccabi Netanya in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  12. uefa.com. "Hapoel Haifa in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  13. uefa.com. "Hapoel Kiryat Shmona in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  14. uefa.com. "Maccabi Petah Tikva in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  15. uefa.com. "Hapoel Petah Tikva in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  16. uefa.com. "FC Ashdod in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  17. uefa.com. "Bnei Sakhnin in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  18. uefa.com. "Hapoel Ramat Gan in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  19. uefa.com. "Hapoel Rishon LeZion in UEFA competitions". Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  20. Maccabi Haifa Win Over Haka Reversed; No Liverpool Game Doron Bergerfreund, 3 August 2001, HaAretz
  21. PAOK punished with 3-0 loss UEFA, 13 August 2004
  22. "Metalist disqualified from UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. 14 August 2013.
  23. "PAOK to replace Metalist in play-offs". UEFA.com. 14 August 2013.
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