1954–55 Liga Alef

The 1954–55 Liga Alef season was the last in which it was the Israel's top football league, as the following season it was replaced by Liga Leumit^[1] and became the country's second tier. It consisted of 14 clubs, the 12 from the top division in the previous season and two promoted clubs (Hapoel Hadera and Beitar Jerusalem). It used two points for a win and one for a draw.

The title was won by Hapoel Petah Tikva, the club's first championship, whilst Hapoel Hadera and Hapoel Balfouria (who had finished bottom the previous season) were relegated automatically. Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Kfar Saba took part in the promotion/relegation play-offs with the top two clubs from Liga Bet, in which Kfar Saba retained their place in the top division, but Beitar were relegated.

Final table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Gr	Pts	Notes
1	Hapoel Petah Tikva	26	18	4	4	68	23	2.96	40	Champions
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	17	4	5	84	28	3.00	38
3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	26	12	9	5	49	23	2.13	33
4	Maccabi Netanya	26	13	7	6	54	43	1.26	33
5	Beitar Tel Aviv	26	12	5	9	64	47	1.36	29
6	Maccabi Haifa	26	11	6	9	54	41	1.32	28
7	Maccabi Petah Tikva	26	10	7	9	37	41	0.90	27
8	Maccabi Rehovot	26	11	4	11	49	48	1.02	26
9	Hapoel Haifa	26	9	6	11	40	55	0.73	24
10	Hapoel Ramat Gan	26	10	3	13	35	41	0.85	23
11	Beitar Jerusalem	26	8	5	13	37	59	0.63	21	Promotion/relegation play-offs
12	Hapoel Kfar Saba	26	6	6	14	38	46	0.83	18	Promotion/relegation play-offs
13	Hapoel Hadera	26	7	2	17	36	53	0.68	16	Relegated to Liga Alef
14	Hapoel Balfouria	26	3	2	21	32	129	0.25	8	Relegated to Liga Alef

Results

Home ╲ Away	Beitar Jerusalem !BEI	Beitar Tel Aviv !BTA	Hapoel Balfouria !HBF	Hapoel Hadera !HHD	Hapoel Haifa !HHA	Hapoel Kfar Saba !HKS	Hapoel Petah Tikva !HPT	Hapoel Ramat Gan !HRG	Hapoel Tel Aviv !HTA	Maccabi Haifa !MHA	Maccabi Netanya !MNE	Maccabi Petah Tikva !MPT	Maccabi Rehovot !MRV	Maccabi Tel Aviv !MTA
Beitar Jerusalem !Beitar Jerusalem		3–3	6–1	4–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–4	1–1	4–3	1–4
Beitar Tel Aviv !Beitar Tel Aviv	4–0		6–1	4–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–2	2–1	3–0	2–5	0–3
Hapoel Balfouria !Hapoel Balfouria	4–2	1–8		3–1	2–1	4–4	1–5	1–3	0–2	0–6	2–4	0–3	0–1	2–9
Hapoel Hadera !Hapoel Hadera	2–0	2–5	5–1		0–1	3–1	0–3	2–0	0–1	1–3	0–1	2–0	4–2	1–2
Hapoel Haifa !Hapoel Haifa	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–2		3–1	3–9	2–0	0–4	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–2
Hapoel Kfar Saba !Hapoel Kfar Saba	0–1	1–3	6–1	4–1	1–2		0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva !Hapoel Petah Tikva	2–0	4–0	13–2	3–1	3–1	1–1		0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–1
Hapoel Ramat Gan !Hapoel Ramat Gan	3–1	0–3	6–0	2–0	2–2	4–3	0–1		1–0	0–1	0–3	5–0	0–0	1–4
Hapoel Tel Aviv !Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–1	1–1	8–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–0		1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2
Maccabi Haifa !Maccabi Haifa	5–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	4–1	2–1	1–3	1–3	0–3		6–2	0–1	4–0	1–3
Maccabi Netanya !Maccabi Netanya	3–2	3–1	6–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–3	5–1	3–2	4–4		2–2	1–0	2–2
Maccabi Petah Tikva !Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–0	4–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	5–4	0–1	1–0	1–4	3–3	0–1		0–2	2–1
Maccabi Rehovot !Maccabi Rehovot	4–0	2–7	6–1	4–2	2–3	4–0	1–3	1–0	1–4	3–2	0–1	1–0		2–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv !Maccabi Tel Aviv	6–0	3–1	12–0	1–0	6–0	2–1	2–1	6–0	1–2	1–2	6–1	2–2	2–1

Updated to games played on 15 October 1955.
Source: 2 Dear Points
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Promotion-relegation play-off

A promotion-relegation play-off between the 12th and 11th-placed teams in Liga Alef, Hapoel Kfar Saba and Beitar Jerusalem, and the winners of the regional divisions of Liga Bet, Maccabi Jaffa and Hapoel Kiryat Haim. Each team played the other three once.

22 October 1955	Hapoel Kfar Saba	3–1	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
	Avrutski 5' Ratz 26' Glazer 33'	Report (p. 8)	7' Elfasi	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Reuven Frizner

22 October 1955	Maccabi Jaffa	4–1	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	Petah Tikva
	Aroyo 36' Miranda 78', 84' B. Cohen 79'	Report (p. 8)	34' Handler	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Aharon Werner

29 October 1955	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	3–2	Beitar Jerusalem	Petah Tikva
	Handler 14', 40' Havinski 25'	Report (p. 8)	6' Zion 29' Elfasi	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Arie Ben-Rubi

29 October 1955	Hapoel Kfar Saba	1–1	Maccabi Jaffa	Haifa
	Glazer 58'	Report (p. 8)	59' B. Cohen	Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Avraham Sher

5 November 1955	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	1–1	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Netanya
	Hayat 47'	Report (p. 8)	78' Morovich	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Reuven Frizner

5 November 1955	Maccabi Jaffa	3–0	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
	B. Cohen 34' Miranda 41' Kalev 53'	Report (p. 8)		Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Nahman Cohen

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Notes
1	Maccabi Jaffa	3	2	1	0	8	2	4.00	5	Liga Leumit
2	Hapoel Kfar Saba	3	1	2	0	5	3	1.67	4	Liga Leumit
3	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	3	1	1	1	5	7	0.71	3	Liga Alef
4	Beitar Jerusalem	3	0	0	3	3	9	0.33	0	Liga Alef

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nisim Elmaliah	Beitar Tel Aviv	30
2	Nahum Stelmach	Hapoel Petah Tikva	27
3	Yehoshua Glazer	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26
4	Simon Elfasi	Beitar Jerusalem	16
	Itzhak Caspi	Maccabi Netanya
	Avraham "Huli" Levi	Beitar Tel Aviv
	Moshe Litvak	Maccabi Rehovot
8	Boaz Kofman	Hapoel Petah Tikva	15
9	Max Cohen	Maccabi Netanya	14
	Zvi Studinski	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	Rehavia Rosenbaum	Hapoel Tel Aviv

^{Source:^[2]}

References

Israel - List of Final Tables RSSSF
In the Play-offs Davar, 23.10.55, Historical Jewish Press
In the Play-offs Davar, 30.10.55, Historical Jewish Press
Hapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Jaffa promoted to Liga Leumit Davar, 6.11.55, Historical Jewish Press

↑ League resumes in Saturday Heruth, 2.9.55, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
↑ Nisim Elmaliah – Top Scorer 2 Dear Points, Izhar Brener, Pirsumei Sport, 1955, p. 20 (Hebrew)

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1954–55 in Israeli football

« 1953–54 1955–56 »

Domestic leagues	Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel

Domestic cups	State Cup

Related to national team	Results

Club seasons

Liga Alef	Beitar Jerusalem Beitar Tel Aviv Hapoel Balfouria Hapoel Hadera Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Rehovot Maccabi Tel Aviv

1955–56 in Israeli football

« 1954–55 1956–57 »

Domestic leagues	1st Division 1954–55 Liga Alef 1955–56 Liga Leumit 2nd Division 1954–55 Liga Bet 1955–56 Liga Alef 3rd Division 1954–55 Liga Gimel 1955–56 Liga Bet 4th Division 1955–56 Liga Gimel

Domestic cups	Israel State Cup 1954–55 1956–57

Related to national team	Results 1956 Olympics qualification

Club seasons

Liga Alef/Liga Leumit	Beitar Jerusalem Beitar Tel Aviv Hapoel Balfouria Hapoel Hadera Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Jaffa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Rehovot Maccabi Tel Aviv

1954–55 in European football (UEFA)

« 1953–54 1955–56 »

Domestic leagues	Albania '54 '55 Austria Belgium Bulgaria '54 '55 Cyprus Czechoslovakia '54 '55 Denmark England Estonia '54 '55 Faroe Islands '54 '55 Finland '54 '55 France East Germany West Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary '54 '55 Iceland '54 '55 Israel Italy Latvia '54 '55 Lithuania '54 '55 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland '54 '55 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania '54 '55 Scotland Soviet Union '54 '55 Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Albania '54 Belgium Bulgaria Denmark England Faroe Islands '55 Finland '55 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '54 '55 Israel Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Northern Ireland Norway '54 '55 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania '54 '55 Scotland Soviet Union '54 '55 Spain Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia

League cups	Scotland

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