1989–90 Liga Leumit

Liga Leumit
Season	1989–90
Champions	Bnei Yehuda ; 1st title
Relegated	Hapoel Ramat Gan ; Shimshon Tel Aviv
Top goalscorer	Uri Malmilian (16)
	← 1988–89 1990–91 →

The 1989–90 Liga Leumit season saw Bnei Yehuda won their first, and to date only title, whilst Hapoel Ramat Gan and Shimshon Tel Aviv were relegated to Liga Artzit. Uri Malmilian of Maccabi Tel Aviv was the league's top scorer with 16 goals.

After the first two rounds of matches (22 matches) the league split into two groups of six clubs; a Championship group and a Relegation group, with clubs playing the others in their group twice more.

Regular season

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bnei Yehuda	22	10	9	3	31	18	+13	39	Qualification for the championship round
2	Maccabi Haifa	22	10	6	6	27	16	+11	36
3	Hapoel Petah Tikva	22	9	8	5	20	14	+6	35
4	Beitar Tel Aviv	22	9	7	6	27	26	+1	34
5	Hapoel Kfar Saba	22	9	5	8	25	21	+4	32
6	Maccabi Tel Aviv	22	8	6	8	26	27	−1	30
7	Maccabi Netanya	22	7	7	8	20	20	0	28	Qualification for the relegation round
8	Hapoel Jerusalem	22	6	7	9	18	26	−8	25
9	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	22	5	9	8	22	28	−6	24
10	Shimshon Tel Aviv	22	5	9	8	19	25	−6	24
11	Beitar Jerusalem	22	7	3	12	13	19	−6	24
12	Hapoel Ramat Gan	22	5	8	9	16	24	−8	23

Source: EU-Football.info

Results

Home \ Away	BEI	BTA	BnY	HBS	HJE	HKS	HPT	HRG	MHA	MNE	MTA	STA
Beitar Jerusalem	—	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
Beitar Tel Aviv	1–0	—	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–3	3–1
Bnei Yehuda	1–1	2–2	—	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–0	3–0	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–2
Hapoel Jerusalem	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	—	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–1	2–0	3–1
Hapoel Kfar Saba	1–0	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	—	1–2	0–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–3	0–1	0–0	0–0
Maccabi Haifa	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	—	0–2	3–0	1–0
Maccabi Netanya	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	2–0	0–0	—	1–1	1–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	3–3	0–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	—	0–2
Shimshon Tel Aviv	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	—

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

Playoffs

Top playoff

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bnei Yehuda (C)	32	17	11	4	48	24	+24	62	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
2	Hapoel Petah Tikva	32	16	10	6	40	21	+19	58
3	Maccabi Haifa	32	14	8	10	40	29	+11	50	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	32	14	6	12	48	44	+4	48
5	Beitar Tel Aviv	32	10	8	14	35	46	−11	38
6	Hapoel Kfar Saba	32	10	6	16	28	41	−13	36

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BTA	BnY	HKS	HPT	MHA	MTA
Beitar Tel Aviv	—	0–3	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–3
Bnei Yehuda	1–0	—	1–0	0–0	3–0	4–3
Hapoel Kfar Saba	2–1	0–2	—	0–3	0–2	0–3
Hapoel Petah Tikva	3–1	0–1	2–0	—	2–1	2–1
Maccabi Haifa	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	—	3–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	1–0	5–1	1–4	2–0	—

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

Bottom playoff

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Maccabi Netanya	32	9	12	11	31	31	0	39
8	Hapoel Jerusalem	32	9	12	11	29	35	−6	39
9	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	32	8	14	10	29	33	−4	38
10	Beitar Jerusalem	32	10	8	14	20	25	−5	38
11	Hapoel Ramat Gan (R)	32	8	12	12	24	34	−10	36	Relegated to Liga Artzit
12	Shimshon Tel Aviv (R)	32	7	13	12	23	32	−9	34	Relegated to Liga Artzit

Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BEI	HBS	HJE	HRG	MNE	STA
Beitar Jerusalem	—	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–1	—	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	1–1	2–0	—	1–1	1–1	1–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–0	0–0	2–3	—	1–0	1–1
Maccabi Netanya	2–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	—	3–0
Shimshon Tel Aviv	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	—

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

References

Israel - List of Final Tables RSSSF

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Domestic leagues	Liga Leumit Liga Artzit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel
Domestic cups	State Cup Super Cup Toto Cup Leumit Artzit Lilian Cup
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v t e 1989–90 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '89 '90 England Faroe Islands '89 '90 Finland '89 '90 France East Germany West Germany Georgia Greece Hungary Iceland '89 '90 Israel Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '89 '90 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '89 '90 Spain Sweden '89 '90 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
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League cups	England Greece Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '89 '90
Supercups	East Germany West Germany
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Baltic League
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