Israeli 20th Anniversary Cup

1968 20th Anniversary Cup
Country	Israel
Champions	Hapoel Petah Tikva
Runners-up	Maccabi Haifa
Matches played	52
Goals scored	155 (2.98 per match)
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The 20th Anniversary Cup (Hebrew: גביע עשרים שנים למדינה‎, also known as the 20th Cup, Hebrew: גביע ה- 20‎) was a stand-alone cup competition played to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

The competition was played at the start of the 1968–69 season, while the national football team was involved in the 1968 Summer Olympics football tournament, and was open to Liga Leumit clubs only. The 16 clubs were divided into four groups of four clubs each, which were played in a double Round-robin tournament. The winner of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

The cup was won by Hapoel Petah Tikva, who had beaten Maccabi Haifa 4–1 in the final.

Group Phase

Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Maccabi Haifa	6	2	4	0	8	3	5	8
Maccabi Sha'arayim	6	3	1	2	10	8	2	7
Hapoel Haifa	6	1	3	2	5	8	-3	5
Hapoel Ramat Gan	6	1	2	3	4	8	-4	4

Home \ Away^[1]	HHA	HRG	MHA	MSH
Hapoel Haifa		0–3	1–1	1–0
Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–0		0–0	1–3
Maccabi Haifa	1–1	2–0		3–0
Maccabi Sha'arayim	3–2	3–0	1–1

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

Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	2	3	1	16	10	6	7
Hapoel Tel Aviv	6	2	2	2	13	15	-2	6
Beitar Jerusalem	6	2	2	2	11	13	-2	6
Bnei Yehuda	6	1	3	2	7	9	-2	5

Home \ Away^[1]	BEI	BnY	HBS	HTA
Beitar Jerusalem		2–1	1–1	1–1
Bnei Yehuda	0–2		0–0	3–2
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	7–3	1–1		4–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	3–2	2–2	4–3

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

Group C

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hapoel Jerusalem	6	5	1	0	14	3	11	11
Shimshon Tel Aviv	6	2	2	2	7	11	-4	6
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	4	2	9	12	-3	4
Maccabi Jaffa	6	0	3	3	6	10	-4	3

Home \ Away^[1]	HJE	MJF	MTA	STA
Hapoel Jerusalem		1–0	2–1	5–0
Maccabi Jaffa	0–1		3–3	2–2
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–2	1–1		2–2
Shimshon Tel Aviv	0–2	1–0	2–0

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

Group D

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hapoel Petah Tikva	6	4	1	1	11	4	7	9
Hapoel Kfar Saba	6	3	1	2	9	9	0	7
Maccabi Netanya	6	2	1	3	6	10	-4	5
Hakoah Ramat Gan	6	1	1	4	6	9	-3	3

Home \ Away^[1]	HMR	HKS	HPT	MNE
Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan		1–1	0–2	3–0
Hapoel Kfar Saba	2–1		0–2	1–0
Hapoel Petah Tikva	2–0	2–3		0–0
Maccabi Netanya	2–1	3–2	1–3

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

Knock-out Phase

Semi-finals

19 October 1968

Hapoel Jerusalem	1–2	Maccabi Haifa
Ben Rimoz 70'		Shmulevich 84', 88'

Bloomfield Stadium

Attendance: 5000

Referee: Handwerg

19 October 1968

Hapoel Petah Tikva	2–1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Sharabi 15' Hayek 33' (pen.)		Gozlan 44'

Bloomfield Stadium

Attendance: 8000

Referee: Shoshani

Final

26 October 1968

Hapoel Petah Tikva	4–1	Maccabi Haifa
Sharabi 34' Chazom 37' Hayek 40' Sa'id 60'		Gershgoren 36'

Bloomfield Stadium

Attendance: 7000

Referee: Marin

References

100 Years of Football 1906-2006, Elisha Shohat (Israel), 2006

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