Yossi Benayoun

**Yossi Shai Benayoun** (; born 5 May 1980) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Israel and England and captained the Israel national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Hapoel Be'er Sheva||1997–98|25|15|0|0|0|0|0|0|–|25|15|||
|rowspan="5"|Maccabi Haifa||1998–99|29|16|3|2|3|2|7|2|–|42|22||
||1999–2000|36|19|4|3|5|2|0|0|–|45|24||||
||2000–01|37|13|3|2|2|0|4|0|–|46|15||||
||2001–02|28|7|4|1|2|1|0|0|–|34|9||||
|rowspan="4"|Racing de Santander||2002–03|31|4|0|0|–|–|–|31|4||||
||2003–04|35|7|2|0|–|1|0|–|38|7|||||
||2004–05|35|9|0|0|–|0|0|–|35|9|||||
|rowspan="3"|West Ham United||2005–06|34|5|6|0|0|0|–|–|40|5|||
||2006–07|29|3|1|0|0|0|2|0|–|32|3||||
|rowspan="4"|Liverpool||2007–08|30|4|3|3|3|1|11|3|–|47|11||
||2008–09|32|8|1|0|0|0|9|1|–|42|9||||
||2009–10|30|6|2|0|1|0|12|3|–|45|9||||
|rowspan="4"|Chelsea||2010–11|7|1|0|0|1|0|1|0|1|0|10|1|
||2011–12|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|||
||2012–13|6|0|2|0|0|0|5|0|0|0|13|0|||
|Arsenal (loan)||2011–12|19|4|0|0|3|1|3|1|0|0|25|6||
|West Ham United (loan)||2012–13|6|0|–|–|–|–|6|0||||||
|Queens Park Rangers||2013–14|16|3|1|0|0|0|–|–|17|3||||
|rowspan="3"|Maccabi Haifa||2014–15|26|5|4|0|1|0|0|0|–|31|5||
||2015–16|29|6|5|1|5|2|0|0|–|39|9||||
|Maccabi Tel Aviv||2016–17|27|1|4|1|5|1|11|2|–|47|5|||
|Beitar Jerusalem|2017–18|14|3|0|0|3|1|4|1|–|21|5||||
|rowspan="3"|Maccabi Petah Tikva|2017–18|10|4|0|0|0|0|0|0|–|10|4|||
|2018–19|12|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|–|12|3|||||
|Beitar Jerusalem|2018–19|15|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|–|15|0||||

### International

- _Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Benayoun goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center"|1|5 September 1999|Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus||style="text-align:center"|2–2|style="text-align:center"|2–3|UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying|||||
|style="text-align:center"|2|rowspan="3"|8 September 1999|rowspan="3"|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel|rowspan="3"||style="text-align:center"|1–0|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"|8–0|rowspan="3"|UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying|
|style="text-align:center"|3|style="text-align:center"|4–0|||||||||||
|style="text-align:center"|4|style="text-align:center"|6–0|||||||||||
|style="text-align:center"|5|15 November 2000|Estadio Primeiro de Maio, Braga, Portugal||style="text-align:center"|1–2|style="text-align:center"|1–2|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|6|5 September 2002|Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg||style="text-align:center"|5–0|style="text-align:center"|5–0|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|7|8 September 2004|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|1–1|style="text-align:center"|2–1|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|style="text-align:center"|8|rowspan="2"|9 October 2004|rowspan="2"|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel|rowspan="2"||style="text-align:center"|1–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2–2|rowspan="2"|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|style="text-align:center"|9|style="text-align:center"|2–2|||||||||||
|style="text-align:center"|10|9 February 2005|Teddy Kollek Stadium, Jerusalem, Israel||style="text-align:center"|2–2|style="text-align:center"|3–3|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|11|8 October 2005|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|2–1|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|style="text-align:center"|12|15 August 2006|Arena Petrol, Celje, Slovenia||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–1|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|13|6 September 2006|Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen, Netherlands||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|4–1|UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying|||||
|style="text-align:center"|14|15 November 2006|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|2–3|style="text-align:center"|3–4|UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying|||||
|style="text-align:center"|15|26 March 2008|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–0|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|16|6 September 2008|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|1–2|style="text-align:center"|2–2|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|style="text-align:center"|17|11 October 2008|Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|3–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|style="text-align:center"|18|15 October 2008|Skonto Stadium, Riga, Latvia||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|style="text-align:center"|19|11 February 2009|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–0|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|20|3 March 2010|Dan Păltinişanu, Timișoara, Romania||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|2–0|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|21|rowspan="3"|2 September 2010|rowspan="3"|Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel|rowspan="3"||style="text-align:center"|1–0|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"|3–1|rowspan="3"|UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying|
|style="text-align:center"|22|style="text-align:center"|2–1|||||||||||
|style="text-align:center"|23|style="text-align:center"|3–1|||||||||||
|style="text-align:center"|24|4 June 2011|Skonto Stadium, Riga, Latvia||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|2–1|UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying|||||

## Honours

**Maccabi Haifa**
- Israeli Premier League: 2000–01, 2001–02
- Israel State Cup: 2015–16

**West Ham United**
- FA Cup runner-up: 2005–06

**Chelsea**
- UEFA Europa League: 2012–13

**Individual**
- Israeli Footballer of the Year: 2000–01

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Yossi Benayoun
יוסי שי בניון
- **image**: Benayoun Haifa (2a).jpg
- **caption**: Benayoun playing for Maccabi Haifa F.C., Maccabi Haifa in 2015
- **full name**: Yossi Shai Benayoun
- **birth place**: Dimona, Israel
- **height**: 1.73 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1989–1992
- **youthclubs1**: Hapoel Dimona F.C., Hapoel Dimona
- **youthyears2**: 1992–1995
- **youthclubs2**: Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C., Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- **youthyears3**: 1995–1996
- **youthclubs3**: Ajax Youth Academy, Ajax
- **youthyears4**: 1996–1997
- **youthclubs4**: Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C., Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- **years1**: 1997–1998
- **clubs1**: Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C., Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- **caps1**: 25
- **goals1**: 15
- **years2**: 1998–2002
- **clubs2**: Maccabi Haifa F.C., Maccabi Haifa
- **caps2**: 130
- **goals2**: 55
- **years3**: 2002–2005
- **clubs3**: Racing de Santander, Racing Santander
- **caps3**: 101
- **goals3**: 20
- **years4**: 2005–2007
- **clubs4**: West Ham United F.C., West Ham United
- **caps4**: 63
- **goals4**: 8
- **years5**: 2007–2010
- **clubs5**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **caps5**: 92
- **goals5**: 18
- **years6**: 2010–2013
- **clubs6**: Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **caps6**: 14
- **goals6**: 1
- **years7**: 2011–2012
- **clubs7**: → Arsenal F.C., Arsenal (loan)
- **caps7**: 19
- **goals7**: 4
- **years8**: 2012
- **clubs8**: → West Ham United F.C., West Ham United (loan)
- **caps8**: 6
- **goals8**: 0
- **years9**: 2013–2014
- **clubs9**: Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers
- **caps9**: 16
- **goals9**: 3
- **years10**: 2014–2016
- **clubs10**: Maccabi Haifa F.C., Maccabi Haifa
- **caps10**: 55
- **goals10**: 11
- **years11**: 2016–2017
- **clubs11**: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv
- **caps11**: 27
- **goals11**: 1
- **years12**: 2017–2018
- **clubs12**: Beitar Jerusalem F.C., Beitar Jerusalem
- **caps12**: 14
- **goals12**: 3
- **years13**: 2018–2019
- **clubs13**: Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C., Maccabi Petah Tikva
- **caps13**: 22
- **goals13**: 7
- **years14**: 2019
- **clubs14**: Beitar Jerusalem F.C., Beitar Jerusalem
- **caps14**: 15
- **goals14**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 599
- **totalgoals**: 146
- **nationalyears1**: 1995
- **nationalteam1**: Israel national under-16 football team, Israel U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 30
- **nationalgoals1**: 6
- **nationalyears2**: 1996–1997
- **nationalteam2**: Israel national under-18 football team, Israel U18
- **nationalcaps2**: 8
- **nationalgoals2**: 12
- **nationalyears3**: 1998–2001
- **nationalteam3**: Israel national under-21 football team, Israel U21
- **nationalcaps3**: 11
- **nationalgoals3**: 5
- **nationalyears4**: 1998–2017
- **nationalteam4**: Israel national football team, Israel
- **nationalcaps4**: 102
- **nationalgoals4**: 24