Competition: | Liga Alef |
Season: | 1954-55 |
Winners: | Hapoel Petah Tikva 1st title |
Relegated: | Beitar Jerusalem Hapoel Hadera Hapoel Balfouria |
League Topscorer: | Nisim Elmaliah (30) |
Matches: | 182 |
Total Goals: | 676 |
Prevseason: | 1953–54 |
Nextseason: | 1955–56 |
The 1954–55 Liga Alef season was the last in which it was the Israel's top football league, as the following season it was replaced by Liga Leumit[1] and became the country's second tier. It consisted of 14 clubs, the 12 from the top division in the previous season and two promoted clubs (Hapoel Hadera and Beitar Jerusalem). It used two points for a win and one for a draw.
The title was won by Hapoel Petah Tikva, the club's first championship, whilst Hapoel Hadera and Hapoel Balfouria (who had finished bottom the previous season) were relegated automatically. Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Kfar Saba took part in the promotion/relegation play-offs with the top two clubs from Liga Bet, in which Kfar Saba retained their place in the top division, but Beitar were relegated.
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 17.
Player | Club | Goals | |||
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1 | Nisim Elmaliah | Beitar Tel Aviv | 30 | ||
align=center | 2 | Nahum Stelmach | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 27 | |
align=center | 3 | Yehoshua Glazer | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 26 | |
align=center rowspan=4 | 4 | Simon Elfasi | Beitar Jerusalem | align=center rowspan=4 | 16 |
Itzhak Caspi | Maccabi Netanya | ||||
Avraham "Huli" Levi | Beitar Tel Aviv | ||||
Moshe Litvak | Maccabi Rehovot | ||||
align=center | 8 | Boaz Kofman | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 15 | |
align=center rowspan=3 | 9 | Max Cohen | Maccabi Netanya | align=center rowspan=3 | 14 |
Zvi Studinski | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||||
Rehavia Rosenbaum | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
A promotion-relegation play-off between the 12th and 11th-placed teams in Liga Alef, Hapoel Kfar Saba and Beitar Jerusalem, and the winners of the regional divisions of Liga Bet, Maccabi Jaffa and Hapoel Kiryat Haim. Each team played the other three once.