1987–88 Liga Leumit

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.

Liga Leumit
Season1987–88
ChampionsHapoel Tel Aviv
10th title
RelegatedHapoel Lod
Maccabi Petah Tikva
Top goalscorerZahi Armeli (25)

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:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

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:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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
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 1–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva — — 3–0 — — 0–5
Maccabi Tel Aviv — 1–2 3–1 — — —
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
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