1987–88 Liga Leumit

The 1987–88 Liga Leumit season saw the league experiment with a split-league system. After the first two rounds (26 matches), the league split, with the top eight clubs forming a Championship group and the bottom six forming a Relegation group. Within the groups, the clubs played each other once more.

Liga Leumit
Season1987–88
ChampionsHapoel Tel Aviv
10th title
RelegatedHapoel Lod
Maccabi Petah Tikva
Top goalscorerZahi Armeli (25)

Hapoel Tel Aviv won the title whilst Hapoel Lod and Maccabi Petah Tikva were relegated to Liga Artzit. Zahi Armeli of Maccabi Haifa was the league's top scorer with 25 goals.

The following season the league continued to use the split league system, but had six clubs in the Championship group and eight in the Relegation group.

Final table

Championship group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Hapoel Tel Aviv (C) 33 19 9 5 43 23 +20 66
2 Maccabi Netanya 33 16 12 5 56 35 +21 60
3 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 33 13 13 7 33 22 +11 52
4 Shimshon Tel Aviv 33 13 11 9 35 33 +2 50 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
5 Hapoel Petah Tikva 33 12 10 11 47 41 +6 46
6 Hapoel Kfar Saba 33 11 12 10 33 31 +2 45
7 Beitar Tel Aviv 33 9 13 11 38 40 2 40
8 Tzafririm Holon 33 9 13 11 32 34 2 40
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion.

Relegation group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
9 Maccabi Haifa 31 13 8 10 56 33 +23 47
10 Bnei Yehuda 31 11 11 9 28 23 +5 44
11 Beitar Jerusalem 31 10 9 12 38 42 4 39 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup
12 Maccabi Tel Aviv 31 8 12 11 43 43 0 36
13 Hapoel Lod (R) 31 3 9 19 17 69 52 18 Relegated to Liga Artzit
14 Maccabi Petah Tikva (R) 31 3 8 20 19 49 30 17
Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated.

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