1960–61 Liga Leumit

Liga Leumit
Season	1960–61
Champions	Hapoel Petah Tikva; 4th title
Relegated	Beitar Tel Aviv
Top goalscorer	Zecharia Ratzabi ; Shlomo Levi (15)
	← 1959–60 1961–62 →

The 1960–61 Liga Leumit season saw Hapoel Petah Tikva crowned champions for the third successive season. Hapoel's Zecharia Ratzabi and Hapoel Haifa's Shlomo Levi were the joint top scorers with 15 goals each.

Beitar Tel Aviv were relegated to Liga Alef.

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Hapoel Petah Tikva	22	16	4	2	48	15	+33	36
2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	22	14	2	6	38	20	+18	30
3	Hapoel Haifa	22	12	5	5	44	25	+19	29
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	22	12	2	8	34	29	+5	26
5	Maccabi Haifa	22	11	3	8	40	33	+7	25
6	Maccabi Jaffa	22	10	3	9	27	28	−1	23
7	Hapoel Jerusalem	22	9	3	10	29	26	+3	21
8	Shimshon Tel Aviv	22	6	8	8	18	29	−11	20
9	Maccabi Petah Tikva	22	6	4	12	23	31	−8	16
10	Maccabi Netanya	22	6	2	14	19	33	−14	14
11	Bnei Yehuda	22	4	5	13	20	38	−18	13
12	Beitar Tel Aviv	22	5	1	16	17	50	−33	11	Relegated to Liga Alef

Home \ Away	BTA	BnY	HHA	HJE	HPT	HTA	MHA	MJA	MNE	MPT	MTA	STA
Beitar Tel Aviv	—	3–0	2–1	0–3	0–3	0–6	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–4	0–3	1–3
Bnei Yehuda	3–0	—	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	3–5	0–1
Hapoel Haifa	2–0	0–1	—	2–1	1–2	2–1	4–1	4–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	5–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	2–1	1–1	0–0	—	0–2	0–4	2–1	0–1	5–0	2–1	2–3	0–1
Hapoel Petah Tikva	5–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	—	4–0	0–2	3–2	2–0	4–2	2–0	2–2
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–1	3–0	2–5	1–0	0–2	—	3–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	0–0
Maccabi Haifa	3–0	5–3	3–3	0–3	1–0	1–0	—	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	4–1
Maccabi Jaffa	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	—	1–0	2–1	0–3	3–0
Maccabi Netanya	2–0	0–1	2–3	0–1	0–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	—	2–1	3–0	0–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–5	1–2	1–0	—	0–0	3–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	4–3	0–1	—	1–0
Shimshon Tel Aviv	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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v t e 1960–61 in Israeli football
Domestic leagues	Liga Leumit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel
Domestic cups	State Cup 1960–61 1961–62
Related to national team	Results 1960 AFC Asian Cup 1962 World Cup qualification
Club seasons
Liga Leumit	Beitar Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Jaffa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Tel Aviv Shimshon Tel Aviv

v t e 1960–61 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania '60 '61 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '60 '61 England Faroe Islands '60 '61 Finland '60 '61 France East Germany '60 West Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary Iceland '60 '61 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland '60 '61 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '60 '61 Spain Sweden '60 '61 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania '60 '61 Austria Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '60 '61 Finland '60 '61 France East Germany '60 West Germany Greece Iceland '60 '61 Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '60 '61 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '61 Spain Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Scotland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Cup Winners' Cup (Final) Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Final) Balkans Cup Mitropa Cup