# 2024–25 Israeli Premier League

The 2024–25 Israeli Premier League, also known as Ligat TOTO Winner for sponsorship reasons is the 26th season since the introduction of the Israeli Premier League in 1999 and the 83rd season of top-tier football in Israel.

## Teams

The league consisted of fourteen teams; twelve sides from the previous season and two promoted teams from the 2023–24 Liga Leumit (Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Ironi Tiberias). Ironi Kiryat Shmona returned to the top flight after a single season, Ironi Tiberias was promoted for the first time in its history. They replaced the 2023–24 Israeli Premier League bottom two teams, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petah Tikva who were relegated to the 2024–25 Liga Leumit.

### Stadiums and locations

| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| Beitar Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Teddy Stadium | 31,733 |
| Bnei Sakhnin | Sakhnin | Acre Municipal Stadium | 5,000 |
| F.C. Ashdod | Ashdod | Yud-Alef Stadium | 7,800 |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Be'er Sheva | Turner Stadium | 16,126 |
| Hapoel Hadera | Hadera | Netanya Stadium | 13,610 |
| Hapoel Haifa | Haifa | Sammy Ofer Stadium | 30,942 |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Teddy Stadium | 31,733 |
| Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Kiryat Shmona | Netanya Stadium | 13,610 |
| Ironi Tiberias | Tiberias | Green Stadium | 5,200 |
| Maccabi Bnei Reineh | Reineh | Green Stadium | 5,200 |
| Maccabi Haifa | Haifa | Sammy Ofer Stadium | 30,942 |
| Maccabi Netanya | Netanya | Netanya Stadium | 13,610 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | Petah Tikva | HaMoshava Stadium | 11,500 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv | Bloomfield Stadium | 29,400 |
| Beitar Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem | Hapoel Haifa Maccabi Haifa | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem | Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa | Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv |
| Maccabi Netanya Hapoel Hadera Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Maccabi Petah Tikva | Bnei Sakhnin |
| Netanya Stadium, Netanya | HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva | Acre Municipal Stadium, Acre |
| F.C. Ashdod | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Ironi Tiberias Maccabi Bnei Reineh |
| Yud-Alef Stadium, Ashdod | Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva | Green Stadium, Nof HaGalil |

### Personnel and sponsorship

| Team | President | Manager | Captain | Kitmaker | Shirt sponsor |
| Beitar Jerusalem | Barak Abramov | Barak Yitzhaki | Yarden Shua | Umbro | Geshem Holdings |
| Bnei Sakhnin | Mohammed Abu Younes | Slobodan Drapić | Maroun Gantous | Le Coq Sportif | Walid Automotive |
| F.C. Ashdod | Rafi Niddam | Klemi Saban | Tom Ben Zaken | Nike | Blue Home Projects |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Alona Barkat | Ran Kojok | Miguel Vítor | Umbro | Victory |
| Hapoel Hadera | Yakir Schwartz | Asaf Nimni | Menashe Zalka | Umbro | BTB |
| Hapoel Haifa | Yoav Katz | Ronny Levy | Dor Malul | Diadora | Leos Madia |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | Yotam Karmon | Ziv Arie | Ofek Bitton | Legea | Allon ventures |
| Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Izzy Sheratzky | Shay Barda | Ayid Habshi | Diadora | Ituran |
| Ironi Tiberias | Arie Kalmanzon and Mickey Bitan | Eliran Hudeda | Daniel Tenenbaum | Le Coq Sportif | Yochelman Group |
| Maccabi Bnei Reineh | Saeed Basoul | Sharon Mimer | Eyad Hutba | Zeus Sport | Boneh Renih |
| Maccabi Haifa | Ya'akov Shahar | Barak Bakhar | Lior Refaelov | Adidas | Volvo |
| Maccabi Netanya | Eyal Segal | Yossi Abukasis | Karem Jaber | Lotto | |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | Avraham Luzon | Tamir Luzon (caretaker) | Yarden Cohen | Kelme | |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Mitchell Goldhar | Žarko Lazetić | Eran Zahavi | Fila | Pelephone |

#### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Maccabi Haifa | Messay Dego | End of contract | 29 May 2024 | Pre-season | Barak Bakhar | 29 May 2024 |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Elyaniv Barda | End of contract | 31 May 2024 | Pre-season | Ran Kojok | 2 June 2024 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | Ran Kojok | End of contract | 2 June 2024 | Pre-season | Dan Roman | 3 June 2024 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Robbie Keane | Mutual consent | 7 June 2024 | Pre-season | Žarko Lazetić | 24 June 2024 |
| Maccabi Netanya | Marco Balbul | Sacked | 29 October 2024 | 13th | Yossi Abukasis | 29 October 2024 |
| Hapoel Hadera | Haim Silvas | Sacked | 2 November 2024 | 14th | Asaf Nimni | 2 November 2024 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | Dan Roman | Sacked | 7 December 2024 | 11th | Tamir Luzon | 7 December 2024 |

## Foreign players

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team. In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Non-visa player |
| Beitar Jerusalem | Miguel Silva | Ismaila Soro | Mayron George | Jean Marcelin | Patrick Twumasi | | Grigori Morozov |
| Bnei Sakhnin | Constantinos Soteriou | Stéphane Oméonga | Chinemerem Godwin | | | | Abed Yassin Hadi Rabah |
| F.C. Ashdod | Timothy Awany | Montari Kamaheni | Martin Ndzie | Ebenezer Mamatah | | | Jordan Sebban |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Hélder Lopes | André Biyogo Poko | Déinner Quiñones | Artur Shushenachev | Kings Kangwa | | Yoni Stoyanov |
| Hapoel Hadera | Mamadou Mbodj | James Adeniyi | Ibrahim Sangaré | Godsway Donyoh | | | Nikola Đurković |
| Hapoel Haifa | Fernand Mayembo | Dmitry Antilevsky | Dramane Salou | | | | |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | Eloge Yao | Cédric Franck Don | Jelle Duin | Ibeh Ransom Jidechukwu | Marko Alchevski | | |
| Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Sekou Tidiany Bangoura | Cristian Martínez | | | | | |
| Ironi Tiberias | Franco Mazurek | Stanislav Bilenkyi | Ondřej Bačo | | | | Daniel Tenenbaum |
| Maccabi Bnei Reineh | Nemanja Ljubisavljević | Sambinha | Muhammed Usman Edu | Ezekiel Henty | | | Omar Nahfaoui Abdallah Jaber |
| Maccabi Haifa | Abdoulaye Seck | Vital Nsimba | Pedrão | Xander Severina | Matías Nahuel | Ricardinho | Ali Mohamed Erik Shuranov Tomás Sultani Oleksandr Syrota |
| Maccabi Netanya | Ibrahim Tanko | Heriberto Tavares | Freddy Vargas | | | | |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | Andreas Karo | Daniel Joulani | Saliou Guindo | | | | Marco Wolff |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Henry Addo | Tyrese Asante | Issouf Sissokho | Nemanja Stojić | Weslley Patati | Simon Sluga | Joris van Overeem |

## Regular season
### Regular season table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 26 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 52 | 18 | +34 | 58 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 2 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 56 | 27 | +29 | 57 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | Maccabi Haifa | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 54 | 32 | +22 | 47 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | Beitar Jerusalem | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 48 | 34 | +14 | 46 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Hapoel Haifa | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 39 | 31 | +8 | 41 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 6 | Maccabi Netanya | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 39 | 37 | +2 | 37 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 7 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 28 | 38 | −10 | 34 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 8 | Maccabi Bnei Reineh | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 31 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 9 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 32 | 35 | −3 | 30 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 10 | Ironi Tiberias | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 36 | −16 | 27 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 11 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 44 | −22 | 24 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 12 | Bnei Sakhnin | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 37 | −18 | 23 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 13 | F.C. Ashdod | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 35 | 48 | −13 | 22 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 14 | Hapoel Hadera | 26 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 42 | −19 | 20 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
* ↑ Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.
* ↑ Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.
* ↑ Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.

### Regular season results

| Home \ Away | HBS | MTA | MHA | BEI | HHA | MNE | IKS | MBR | HJE | ITI | MPT | BnS | ASH | HAH |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | — | 2–2 | 3–3 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 2–2 |
| Maccabi Haifa | 0–2 | 0–3 | — | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 |
| Beitar Jerusalem | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Hapoel Haifa | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 3–2 | — | 1–3 | 4–3 | 1–3 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Maccabi Netanya | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–3 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| Maccabi Bnei Reineh | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 4–3 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–2 |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 4–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Ironi Tiberias | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | — | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2–5 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | — | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Bnei Sakhnin | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | — | 2–2 | 0–1 |
| F.C. Ashdod | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–5 | — | 1–1 |
| Hapoel Hadera | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | — |
* ↑ No-points cancelled game.
* ↑ Originally 1–1, later changed.
* ↑ Originally 1–1, later changed.

## Championship round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 26 games)
Rounds :
| 27th | 28th | 29th | 30th | 31st | 32nd | 33rd | 34th | 35th | 36th |
| 1 – 6 2 – 5 3 – 4 | 1 – 2 5 – 3 6 – 4 | 2 – 6 3 – 1 4 – 5 | 1 – 4 2 – 3 6 – 5 | 3 – 6 4 – 2 5 – 1 | 6 – 1 5 – 2 4 – 3 | 2 – 1 3 – 5 4 – 6 | 6 – 2 1 – 3 5 – 4 | 3 – 2 4 – 1 5 – 6 | 6 – 3 2 – 4 1 – 5 |

### Championship round table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | HBS | MTA | MHA | BEI | HHA | MNE |
| 1 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 27 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 54 | 18 | +36 | 61 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round | — | Mar 31 | | Apr 14 | | 2–0 |
| 2 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 27 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 59 | 27 | +32 | 60 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round | May 5 | — | Apr 14 | | 3–0 | Apr 5 |
| 3 | Maccabi Haifa | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 57 | 35 | +22 | 48 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round | Apr 7 | | — | 3–3 | May 3 | Apr 20 |
| 4 | Beitar Jerusalem | 27 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 51 | 37 | +14 | 47 | | | Apr 21 | Apr 28 | — | Apr 6 | May 4 |
| 5 | Hapoel Haifa | 27 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 34 | +5 | 41 | | Apr 19 | Apr 26 | Mar 29 | | — | |
| 6 | Maccabi Netanya | 27 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 39 | 39 | 0 | 37 | | Apr 27 | | | Mar 30 | Apr 14 | — |
* ↑ Hapoel Be'er Sheva had 2 points deducted following riot in Bnei Sakhnin match.
* ↑ Maccabi Haifa had 1 point deducted following riot in Maccabi Tel Aviv match.

## Relegation round
### Relegation round table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Relegation | IKS | HJE | MBR | ITI | MPT | ASH | BnS | HAH |
| 7 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 27 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 30 | 39 | −9 | 37 | | | | Mar 29 | Apr 19 | 2–1 | | May 3 | |
| 8 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 33 | | Apr 5 | | | May 3 | Apr 26 | | 4–1 | |
| 9 | Maccabi Bnei Reineh | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 28 | 36 | −8 | 32 | | | Apr 19 | | | Apr 5 | 1–1 | | May 3 |
| 10 | Ironi Tiberias | 27 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 37 | −16 | 28 | | | | Apr 26 | | | Apr 6 | | 1–1 |
| 11 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 27 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 23 | 46 | −23 | 24 | | | | | | | May 3 | Apr 19 | Mar 29 |
| 12 | F.C. Ashdod | 27 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 23 | | | Mar 29 | | | | | | Apr 19 |
| 13 | Bnei Sakhnin | 27 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 41 | −21 | 23 | Relegation to Liga Leumit | | | | Mar 29 | | Apr 26 | | |
| 14 | Hapoel Hadera | 27 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 43 | −19 | 21 | Relegation to Liga Leumit | Apr 26 | | | | | | Apr 5 | |
* ↑ Bnei Sakhnin had 1 point deducted following riot in Hapoel Be'er Sheva match.

## Season statistics
### Top scorers

    As of 11 March 2025
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Guy Melamed | Hapoel Haifa/Maccabi Haifa | 18 |
| 2 | Dia Saba | Maccabi Haifa | 15 |
| 3 | Dean David | Maccabi Haifa | 13 |
| 3 | Igor Zlatanović | Maccabi Netanya | 13 |
| 4 | Dor Turgeman | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 5 | Alon Turgeman | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 10 |
| 5 | Kings Kangwa | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 10 |

### Top Assist

    As of 11 March 2025
| Rank | Player | Club | Assist |
| 1 | Dia Saba | Maccabi Haifa | 12 |
| 2 | Dor Micha | Beitar Jerusalem | 10 |
| 3 | Mohammed Kna'an | F.C. Ashdod | 8 |
| 3 | Freddy Vargas | Maccabi Netanya | 8 |
| 4 | Dolev Haziza | Maccabi Haifa | 7 |
| 4 | Yarden Shua | Beitar Jerusalem | 7 |
| 4 | Kings Kangwa | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 7 |
| 5 | Maxim Plakuschenko | Maccabi Netanya | 6 |
| 5 | Gabi Kanichowsky | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6 |
| 5 | Osher Davida | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6 |
| 5 | Dan Biton | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 6 |