1961–62 in Israeli football

Football in Israel

Season

1961–62

Liga Leumit

Hapoel Safed
Hapoel Hadera
Hapoel Lod
Hapoel Holon

State Cup

Maccabi Haifa

← 1960–61

1962–63 →

The 1961–62 season was the 14th season of competitive football in Israel and the 36th season under the Israeli Football Association, established in 1928, during the British Mandate.

Review and Events

The national team completed their involvement in the 1962 World Cup qualification, playing Italy during October 1961. The team stunned Italy in the first match by taking a 2–0 lead in the first half of the first match, played at Ramat Gan Stadium, only to concede 4 goals in the second half,^[1] and then losing 0–6 in the second leg.^[2]
At the end of the season, Liga Alef was expanded from 14 clubs to 16 clubs, as 2 clubs relegated from the league at the end of the season and the 4 winners of Liga Bet promoted to Liga Alef. This also meant that at the end of the season the 8 relegated teams from Liga Bet were replaced by 10 promoted clubs from Liga Gimel.

Domestic leagues

Promotion and relegation

The following promotions and relegations took place at the end of the season:

Promoted to Liga Leumit

Hakoah Tel Aviv¹

Promoted to Liga Alef

Promoted to Liga Bet

Beitar Kiryat Shmona
Beitar Binyamina
Hapoel Bnei Nazareth
Hapoel Dora Netanya
Beitar Kiryat Ono
Hapoel Givatayim
ASA Jerusalem
Beitar Harari Tel Aviv
Hapoel Ofakim
Hapoel Kiryat Gat

Relegated from Liga Leumit

Maccabi Netanya

Relegated from Liga Alef

Relegated from Liga Bet

Hapoel Tel Hanan
Hapoel Beit HaShita
Hapoel Pardesiya
HaCarmel Club Haifa
Maccabi Jerusalem
Hapoel Ein Karem
Hapoel Bnei Zion
Beitar Jaffa

1. Hakoah Tel Aviv merged with Maccabi Ramat Gan to form Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan. The merged club took Hakoah Tel Aviv's place in Liga Leumit.

Domestic cups

Israel State Cup

The 1961–62 Israel State Cup started on 12 February 1961, during the previous season, and was carried over the summer break and finished with the replayed final on 7 May 1962, in which Maccabi Haifa defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–2.

On 24 March 1962, the next season's competition began, and was carried over to the next season.

National Teams

National team

1962 World Cup qualification (UEFA Group 7, final round)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	2	2	0	0	10	2	+8	4
Israel	2	0	0	2	2	10	-8	0

1961–62 matches

15 October 1961 WC Q	Israel	2–4	Italy	Ramat Gan
	Stelmach 15' Young 38'	Report	Lojacono 53' (pen.) Altafini 79' Corso 87', 90'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Takov

22 October 1961 Friendly	Israel	1–1	South Korea	Ramat Gan
	Stelmach 86'		Chung Soon-Chun 10'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Dudai

4 November 1961 WC Q	Italy	6–0	Israel	Turin
	Sivori 16', 52', 65', 88' Corso 59' Angelillo 69'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 60,799 Referee: Asensi

9 November 1961 Friendly, unofficial	England U-23	7–1	Israel	Leeds
	Byrne 15', 70' F. Hill 18', 53' Farmer 40' S. Hill 74' Harris 86'		S. Levi 8'	Stadium: Elland Road Attendance: 12,419 Referee: Ashkenazi

14 December 1961 Friendly	Israel	0–2	Yugoslavia	Ramat Gan
			Galić 36', 57'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Adami

16 May 1962 Friendly	Turkey	1–0	Israel	Istanbul
	Lefter 55' (pen.)			Stadium: Mithat Paşa Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Škorić

References

↑ QWC 1962 Israel vs. Italy 2-4 youtube.com
↑ QWC 1962 Italy vs. Israel 6-0 (04.11.1961) youtube.com

1961–62 in Israeli football

« 1960–61 1962–63 »

Domestic leagues	Liga Leumit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel

Domestic cups	State Cup 1961–62 1962–63

Related to national team	Results 1962 World Cup qualification

Club seasons

Liga Leumit	Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tiberias Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Jaffa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Tel Aviv

Seasons in Israeli football

Mandatory Palestine

1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30

1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48

Israel

1948–49 1949–50

1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60

1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90

1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000

2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.