# 1980–81 Liga Leumit

The 1980–81 Liga Leumit season saw Hapoel Tel Aviv win the title, and Hapoel Haifa, Maccabi Ramat Amidar, Hapoel Ramat Gan were relegated. Herzl Fitusi of Maccabi Petah Tikva was the league's top scorer with 22 goals.

## Final table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Hapoel Tel Aviv (C) | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 50 | 30 | +20 | 38 | Qualification for the Intertoto Cup |
| 2 | Bnei Yehuda | 30 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 38 | 27 | +11 | 35 | |
| 3 | Maccabi Jaffa | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 43 | 35 | +8 | 34 | |
| 4 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 49 | 39 | +10 | 33 | |
| 5 | Shimshon Tel Aviv | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 33 | |
| 6 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 30 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 25 | 18 | +7 | 32 | |
| 7 | Hapoel Yehud | 30 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 24 | 18 | +6 | 32 | |
| 8 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 30 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 32 | |
| 9 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 30 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 30 | 25 | +5 | 31 | |
| 10 | Maccabi Netanya | 30 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 31 | 30 | +1 | 30 | Qualification for the Intertoto Cup |
| 11 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 30 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 32 | −2 | 30 | |
| 12 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 30 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 25 | 29 | −4 | 29 | |
| 13 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 28 | |
| 14 | Hapoel Haifa (R) | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 30 | 44 | −14 | 26 | Relegated to Liga Artzit |
| 15 | Maccabi Ramat Amidar (R) | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 21 | 30 | −9 | 25 | Relegated to Liga Artzit |
| 16 | Hapoel Ramat Gan (R) | 30 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 58 | −43 | 12 | Relegated to Liga Artzit |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BnY | HBS | HHA | HJE | HKS | HPT | HRG | HRL | HTA | HYE | MJA | MNE | MPT | MRA | MTA | STA |
| Bnei Yehuda | — | 1–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 3–2 | — | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 5–3 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 0–0 |
| Hapoel Haifa | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| Hapoel Kfar Saba | 3–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Hapoel Petah Tikva | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Hapoel Ramat Gan | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 |
| Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–3 | 6–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| Hapoel Yehud | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 |
| Maccabi Jaffa | 0–0 | 2–0 | 6–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Maccabi Netanya | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 4–0 | — | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Maccabi Ramat Amidar | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | — | 0–0 |
| Shimshon Tel Aviv | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | — |