2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit

Toto Cup Leumit
Season	2008–09
Champions	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st title)
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit was the twenty-seventh season of the third most important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and fifth under the current format. It was held in two stages. First, twelve Liga Leumit teams were divided into two groups. Four teams from each group advanced to the Quarterfinals. Quarterfinals held as two-legged matches, while the Semifinals and the Final was held as one-legged matches.

The defending champions were Hapoel Petah Tikva.

On 3 February 2009, Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the 2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit making it their first Toto Cup title.

Group stage

The matches were played from August 8 to November 18, 2008.

Key to colours in group tables
Teams progressed to the Quarterfinals
Teams eliminated from the competition

Group A


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hapoel Haifa	10	7	3	0	18	4	+14	24
2	Hapoel Ramat Gan	10	5	3	2	15	6	+9	18
3	Hapoel Bnei Lod	10	4	2	4	12	13	−1	14
4	Ironi Ramat HaSharon	10	2	3	5	10	14	−4	9
5	Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	10	2	3	5	11	19	−8	9
6	Maccabi Kiryat Ata	10	2	2	6	10	20	−10	8

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away^[1]	HBL	HHA	HRG	IRH	MAN	MKA
Hapoel Bnei Lod		1–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1
Hapoel Haifa	0–0		0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	3–1	0–0		3–0	2–3	2–1
Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon	0–1	2–3	0–3		1–1	2–0
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	0–2	1–4	0–2	1–1		1–1
Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–3	4–2

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hapoel Acre	10	6	2	2	20	8	+12	20
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	10	5	3	2	12	9	+3	18
3	Maccabi Herzliya	10	3	3	4	10	12	−2	12
4	Hapoel Jerusalem	10	3	3	4	11	15	−4	12
5	Hapoel Ra'anana	10	2	4	4	12	16	−4	10
6	Hapoel Kfar Saba	10	2	3	5	8	13	−5	9

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away^[1]	HAC	HBS	HJE	HKS	HRA	MHE
Hapoel Acre		1–1	1–1	4–0	4–1	2–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–3		1–1	2–1	2–0	1–2
Hapoel Jerusalem	0–1	0–2		0–2	5–0	1–0
Hapoel Kfar Saba	2–1	0–1	0–1		0–0	0–0
Hapoel Ra'anana	1–0	0–0	6–0	3–3		0–0
Maccabi Herzliya	1–3	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–1

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Elimination Rounds

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played from November 24 to December 11, 2008 while the second legs were played on January 5 to 13, 2009.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Herzliya	3–2	Hapoel Haifa	1–0	2–2
Ironi Ramat HaSharon	3–2	Hapoel Acre	1–2	2–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	0–6	Hapoel Bnei Lod	0–4	0–2
Hapoel Ramat Gan	3–5	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–2	2–3 (aet)

Semifinals

January 20, 200917:00

Maccabi Herzliya	2 – 1	Ironi Ramat HaSharon

Winter Stadium, Ramat-Gan

January 22, 200919:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4 – 0	Hapoel Bnei Lod

Winter Stadium, Ramat-Gan

Final

February 3, 200919:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1 – 0 (aet)	Maccabi Herzliya

Winter Stadium, Ramat-Gan

External links

Official website (in Hebrew)

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2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Elimination Rounds

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

See also

External links