Liga Leumit 1993-94
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The 1993–94 Liga Leumit
Liga Leumit
Liga Leumit is the second tier in the Israeli football league system below the Premier League.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the league. At the end of each season, the lowest-placed team are relegated to Liga Alef while the highest-placed team from Liga Alef are promoted in their place...

season began on 28 August 1993 and ended on 4 June 1994, with Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Maccabi Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football team from the city of Haifa, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club has won 12 championships, 5 State Cups and 4 Toto Cups...

 winning their fifth title.

That season saw one of the best teams in history of Israeli football
Football in Israel
Football is the most popular sport in Israel. Football as an organised sport first developed in the United Kingdom who controlled Israel during the days of the British Mandate. Israel will be hosting the UEFA U-21 Championship in 2013....

, according to many pundits, when Maccabi Haifa managed to win the league without suffering a single loss, breaking many Israeli records in the process.

In that season (as well as in the previous season) it was decided that three teams will be promoted from Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit was the third tier of Israeli football after the Premier League and Liga Leumit, and was run by the Israel Football Association.-Structure:...

 and one relegated from Liga Leumit
Liga Leumit
Liga Leumit is the second tier in the Israeli football league system below the Premier League.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the league. At the end of each season, the lowest-placed team are relegated to Liga Alef while the highest-placed team from Liga Alef are promoted in their place...

. The fourth place in Liga Artzit would play against before last (13th) place in Liga Leumit in a Playoff to see which team is to play in the premier league.

The three teams from Liga Artzit that were promoted at the end of the previous season: Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Ironi Ashdod
Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C.
Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C. , commonly known as Ironi Ashdod, was an Israeli football club based in Ashdod. In 1999, it merged with local rivals Hapoel Ashdod to create F.C. Ashdod.-History:...

 and Hapoel Kfar Saba. The team relegated was Beitar Tel Aviv.

Final table

Pos Club Pld W D L GF GA ± Pts Comments
1 Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Maccabi Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football team from the city of Haifa, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club has won 12 championships, 5 State Cups and 4 Toto Cups...

 (C)
39
28
11
0
97
27
+70
95
UEFA Champions League Qualifying Round
2 Maccabi Tel Aviv
39
27
7
5
80
36
+44
88
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying Round1
3 Hapoel Be'er Sheva
39
18
11
10
54
38
+16
65
Intertoto Cup Group Stage1
4 Beitar Jerusalem
39
19
7
13
75
66
+9
64
5 Hapoel Tel Aviv
39
16
6
17
61
59
+2
54
6 Maccabi Netanya
39
13
10
16
64
71
-7
49
7 Hapoel Petah Tikva
39
12
12
15
53
56
-3
48
8 Maccabi Petah Tikva
39
11
14
14
37
46
-9
47
9 Bnei Yehuda
39
13
8
18
55
67
-12
47
10 Tzafririm Holon
Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C.
Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C. is an Israeli football club based in the city of Holon. The club was founded in 1985 by a merger of Hapoel Holon and Tzafririm Holon.-Hapoel Holon:...

39
11
12
16
43
68
-25
45
11 Maccabi Herzliya
39
10
11
18
41
53
-12
41
12 Maccabi Ironi Ashdod
Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C.
Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C. , commonly known as Ironi Ashdod, was an Israeli football club based in Ashdod. In 1999, it merged with local rivals Hapoel Ashdod to create F.C. Ashdod.-History:...

39
9
11
19
53
57
-4
38
13 Hapoel Haifa (P)
39
7
13
19
39
80
-41
34
Playoff
14 Hapoel Kfar Saba (R)
39
7
11
21
36
64
-28
32
Relegation to
Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit was the third tier of Israeli football after the Premier League and Liga Leumit, and was run by the Israel Football Association.-Structure:...



Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; ± = Goal difference; Pts = Points
C = Champions; R = Relegated; P = Playoff


1. Since Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Israeli State Cup
Israel State Cup
The State Cup , is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israeli Football Association.The State Cup was first held in 1927–28 as the Palestine Cup...

, then the 3rd-positioned team awarded with entry to the 1994–1995 Intertoto Cup.

Promotion-relegation play-off

A promotion-relegation play-off between the 13th-placed team in Liga Leumit, Hapoel Haifa, and the 4th team in Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit was the third tier of Israeli football after the Premier League and Liga Leumit, and was run by the Israel Football Association.-Structure:...

, Shimshon Tel Aviv.
Hapoel Haifa won 3–1 on aggregate and remained in Liga Leumit.

Top scorers

PosNatPlayerTeamGoals
1   Alon Mizrahi
Alon Mizrahi
Alon Mizrahi is an Israeli former football player in a striker position. He is the most prolific scorer in Israeli football history. Today he acts as the manager of Hapoel Yehud in Liga Gimel....

Maccabi Haifa 28
2   Itzik Zohar
Itzik Zohar
Itzik Zohar is a former Israeli international footballer and television sports personality. Born in Bat Yam, Israel to a family of North African extraction, he holds the distinction of scoring the first two goals for Israel in its first world cup qualifier in the UEFA confederation on October 28,...

Maccabi Tel Aviv 22
3   Motti Kakoun
Motti Kakoun
Motti Kakoun is an Israeli footballer, who plays for Hapoel Mahane Yehuda F.C..-Football career:During his career, Kakoun played mainly for Hapoel Petah Tikva FC...

Hapoel Petah Tikva 21
4   Nikolay Kodritski Bnei Yehuda 20
5   Vladimir Greshnev Beitar Jerusalem 19
6   Amir Turgeman
Amir Turgeman
Amir Turgeman is a former Israeli international football player. He currently plays for Amidar/Ramat Gan. While playing for Ironi Ashdod during the 1994/95 season, Turgeman scored seventeen league goals and shared the golden boot award with Ashdod native and Maccabi Haifa striker, Haim...

Maccabi Ironi Ashdod 17
7   Amir Avigdor Hapoel Be'er Sheva 16
8   Eli Ohana
Eli Ohana
Eli Ohana is a former Israeli football player and later a manager. He is currently the manager of the Israel U21 team. He is considered to be one of the greatest Israeli players ever.-Early life and playing career:...

Beitar Jerusalem 16
9   Ronen Harazi
Ronen Harazi
-Beitar:During his time at Beitar, Harazi attracted interest from English side Sunderland. The club was ready to place a £400,000 bid for Harazi, but the player failed a medical examination and the deal was terminated.-Loan to Haifa:...

Beitar Jerusalem 15
10   Roman Filipchuk Maccabi Netanya 13
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