1955–56 Maccabi Netanya F.C. season

Maccabi Netanya
1955–56 season
Stadium	Sar-Tov Stadium
Liga Alef (1955) ; Liga Leumit (1956)	4th ; 8th
Top goalscorer	League: Itzhak Caspi (18); All: Itzhak Caspi (20)
	← 1954–55 1956–57 →

The 1955–56 Maccabi Netanya season was the club's 22nd season since its establishment in 1934, and 8th since the establishment of the State of Israel.

At the start of the season, the league which started during the previous season was completed, with the club finishing 4th. The new league season, with the top division being renamed Liga Leumit, began on 3 December 1955 and was completed on 3 June 1956, with the club finishing 8th.^[1]

In addition, during the break between the completion of the 1954–55 league and the beginning of the 1955–56 league, the club participated in the Netanya 25th anniversary cup, along with Beitar Tel Aviv, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Hapoel Ramat Gan. In the competition, which was played as a round-robin tournament, the club finished third.^[2]

Match Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

International friendly matches

During the season Maccabi Netanya played two international friendly matches, losing both matches.

2 February 1956	Maccabi Netanya	0–2	FK Sarajevo	Netanya
		Davar (in Hebrew)	13' Pašić 69' Jusufbegović	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Frizner

25 June 1956	Maccabi Netanya	1–5	First Vienna	Netanya
	Hosias 8'		22' Manasse 32' Pichler 40' Buzek 79', 85' (pen.) Walzhofer	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 4,000

1954–55 Liga Alef

The league began on 6 February 1955, and by the time the previous season ended, only 20 rounds of matches were completed, with the final 6 rounds being played during September and October 1955.^[3]

Final table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
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

Matches

3 September 1955 21	Maccabi Netanya	1–0	Maccabi Rehovot	Netanya
	I. Caspi 25'	Report (p. 8)		Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen

10 September 1955 22	Maccabi Netanya	3–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Netanya
	Segal 50' I. Caspi 81', 85'	Report (p. 8)	35' Rosenbaum 60' Yehudayoff	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Rosenbaum

24 September 1955 23	Maccabi Petah Tikva	0–1	Maccabi Netanya	Petah Tikva
		Report (p. 8)	42' Y. Spiegel	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Scheindling

1 October 1955 24	Hapoel Kfar Saba	0–1	Maccabi Netanya	Kfar Saba
		Report (p. 8)	66' M. Cohen	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Rosenbaum

8 October 1955 25	Maccabi Netanya	5–1	Hapoel Ramat Gan	Netanya
	I. Caspi 47', 68' M. Cohen 50', 70' Yehezkel 82'	Report (p. 8)	52' Fritzner	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Werner

15 October 1955 26	Beitar Jerusalem	1–4	Maccabi Netanya	Jerusalem
	Elfasi 86' (pen.)	Report (p. 8)	4', 69', 80', 87' (pen.) I. Caspi	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen

Results by match

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Result	L	L	D	L	L	W	D	W	D	D	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W
Position	9	11	13	14	13	13	12	10	10	8	10	8	7	7	7	8	8	7	7	7	7	6	5	4	4	4

Updated to match(es) played on 15 October 1955. Source: 2 Dear Points
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

1955–56 Liga Leumit

Final table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
6	Hapoel Haifa	22	9	4	9	32	39	0.82	22
7	Beitar Tel Aviv	22	10	0	12	42	44	0.95	20
8	Maccabi Netanya	22	9	2	11	31	44	0.70	20
9	Hapoel Ramat Gan	22	9	0	13	28	42	0.67	18
10	Maccabi Jaffa	22	6	5	11	39	48	0.81	17	Promotion/relegation play-offs

Matches

3 December 1955 1	Maccabi Netanya	3–3	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Netanya
	H. Meller 35' I. Caspi 36' 63' Statzki		3' Ratz 20' Tenenbaum 26' Tobiash	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Rosenbaum

10 December 1955 2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–0	Maccabi Netanya	Tel Aviv
	Yehudayoff 54', 60'			Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Fried

17 December 1955 3	Maccabi Rehovot	3–1	Maccabi Netanya	Rehovot
	Mansur 37', 59' G. Cohen 60'		84' Lemel	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Sher

24 December 1955 4	Maccabi Netanya	1–3	Hapoel Petah Tikva	Netanya
	H. Meller 81'		68' Kofman 70' Stelmach 75' Markus	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Klein

31 December 1955 5	Hapoel Haifa	3–2	Maccabi Netanya	Haifa
	Nestenfober 27', 65' Ginzburg 35'		2', 64' Lemel	Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Hechtberg

7 January 1956 6	Maccabi Netanya	0–0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Netanya
				Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Referee: Sher

14 January 1956 7	Maccabi Netanya	2–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Netanya
	Hosias 73' Statzki 78'		22' Studinski	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Referee: Hoze

21 January 1956 8	Maccabi Netanya	2–0	Maccabi Jaffa	Netanya
	Sudek 44' (pen.) Shrager 61'			Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Werner

11 February 1956 9	Hapoel Ramat Gan	4–2	Maccabi Netanya	Givatayim
	Chronsich 17', 60' I. Kirschenberg 30' (pen.) Radler 70'		46' Shrager 72' I. Caspi	Stadium: HaMakhtesh Stadium Referee: Hillman

18 February 1956 10	Maccabi Haifa	0–2	Maccabi Netanya	Haifa
			43', 50' (pen.) I. Caspi	Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Referee: Fried

25 February 1956 11	Maccabi Netanya	1–0	Beitar Tel Aviv	Netanya
	Caspi 60'			Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Schwartz

3 March 1956 12	Hapoel Kfar Saba	0–2	Maccabi Netanya	Kfar Saba
			30' M. Cohen 32' I. Caspi	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Fried

10 March 1956 13	Maccabi Netanya	1–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Netanya
	I. Caspi 38'		5' Yehudayoff Rosenbaum	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Sher

17 March 1956 14	Maccabi Netanya	2–1	Maccabi Rehovot	Netanya
	I. Caspi 11', 50'		36' Pepinos	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium

24 March 1956 15	Hapoel Petah Tikva	6–0	Maccabi Netanya	Petah Tikva
	Nahari 6', 19', 78' Stelmach 57' Z. Ratzabi 65' Kofman 81'			Stadium: Hapoel Ground Referee: Dudkevich

31 March 1956 16	Maccabi Netanya	3–1	Hapoel Haifa	Netanya
	Shrager 5' Lemel 11' Hosias 60'		2' Ginzburg	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Werner

7 April 1956 17	Maccabi Petah Tikva	4–1	Maccabi Netanya	Petah Tikva
	Rabinson 50' Scharf 65', 73' I. Ben-Dror 79' (pen.)		6' Shrager	Stadium: Maccabi Ground

14 April 1956 18	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–0	Maccabi Netanya	Tel Aviv
	Schneor 5' Glazer 14' Merimovich 65'			Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Klein

22 April 1956 19	Maccabi Jaffa	2–3	Maccabi Netanya	Tel Aviv
	Aroyo 78' Besserglick 81' (pen.)		7', 42' Lemel 11' Statzki	Stadium: Maccabi Jaffa Ground Referee: M. Cohen

19 May 1956 20	Maccabi Netanya	0–3	Hapoel Ramat Gan	Netanya
			32' Rozin 37' R. Cohen 41' Tsalala	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Schwartz

27 May 1956 21	Maccabi Netanya	3–1	Maccabi Haifa	Netanya
	Shrager 9' Orenstein 50' Statzki 64'		88' (o.g.) H. Meller	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Sher

2 June 1956 22	Beitar Tel Aviv	2–0	Maccabi Netanya	Tel Aviv
	Arbiv 6' Huli 34'			Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dudkevich

Results by match

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Result	D	L	L	L	L	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L
Position	5	9	10	10	11	11	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8

Updated to match(es) played on 28 July 1956. Source: IFA
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Netanya 25th Anniversary Cup

In October and November, while the promotion playoffs and the State Cup were being played, two cup competitions were organized by Liga Leumit Clubs, the second edition of the Shapira Cup, and the Netanya 25th Anniversary Cup. Maccabi Netanya, Maccabi Netanya, Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Ramat Gan took part in the competition, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Netanya.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Maccabi Petah Tikva	3	2	1	0	14	5	2.800	5	Winners
2	Hapoel Ramat Gan	3	1	1	1	8	7	1.143	3
3	Maccabi Netanya	3	1	1	1	5	7	0.714	3
4	Beitar Tel Aviv	3	0	1	2	7	15	0.467	1

Source: Hadshot HaSport, p. 1

29 October 1955 1	Maccabi Netanya	0–4	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Givatayim
		Report (p. 8)	3', 37' I. Ben Dror 16' Spiegel 77' Nadel	Stadium: HaMakhtesh Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Metzler

5 November 1955 2	Maccabi Netanya	3–1	Hapoel Ramat Gan	Petah Tikva
	I. Caspi 10', 51' Orenstein , 79'	Report (p. 8)	, 9' Mordechovich	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Zahavi

12 November 1955 3	Maccabi Netanya	2–2	Beitar Tel Aviv	Netanya
	Lemel 23' Meller 40'	Report (p. 8)	22' Emaliah 65' Arbiv	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Dudkevich

References

^ Maccabi T.A. Won the Liga Leumit Championship After Beating Hapoel T.A. 3:0 (1:0) Davar, 3 June 1956, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
^ A Final Table of the Netanya Anniversary Cup Hadshot HaSport, 13 November 1955, p. 1 (in Hebrew)
^ 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)

[1] Maccabi T.A. Won the Liga Leumit Championship After Beating Hapoel T.A. 3:0 (1:0) Davar, 3 June 1956, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)

[2] A Final Table of the Netanya Anniversary Cup Hadshot HaSport, 13 November 1955, p. 1 (in Hebrew)

[3] 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)

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v t e 1955–56 in Israeli football
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
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