1955–56 Beitar Jerusalem F.C. season

Beitar Jerusalem
1955–56 season
Manager	Egon Pollak; Wermes
Stadium	YMCA Stadium
Liga Alef (1955) ; Liga Alef (1956)	11th ; 10th
State Cup	not completed
	← 1954–55 1956–57 →

The 1955–56 Beitar Jerusalem season was the club's 20th season since its establishment, in 1936, and 8th since the establishment of the State of Israel.

At the start of the season, the league which started during the previous season was completed, with the club finishing 11th (out of 14), which meant the club had to compete in a promotion/relegation play-offs against the 12th placed club, Hapoel Kfar Saba, and the two Liga Bet winners, Maccabi Jaffa and Hapoel Kiryat Haim. The club lost all three play-offs matches and was relegated to the second division, which was renamed Liga Alef, and played in this division during the remainder of the season, finishing 10th (out of 12), which meant that the club had to face another promotion/relegation play-offs, which were delayed and were played at the beginning of the next season.

Match Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

1954–55 Liga Alef

The league began on 6 February 1955, and by the time the previous season ended, only 20 rounds of matches were completed, with the final 6 rounds being played during September and October 1955.^[1]

Final table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
9	Hapoel Haifa	26	9	6	11	40	55	0.73	24
10	Hapoel Ramat Gan	26	10	3	13	35	41	0.85	23
11	Beitar Jerusalem	26	8	5	13	37	59	0.63	21	Promotion/relegation play-offs
12	Hapoel Kfar Saba	26	6	6	14	38	46	0.83	18	Promotion/relegation play-offs
13	Hapoel Hadera	26	7	2	17	36	53	0.68	16	Relegated to Liga Alef
14	Hapoel Balfouria	26	3	2	21	32	129	0.25	8	Relegated to Liga Alef

Matches

3 September 1955 21	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	2–1	Template:Fb team Hapoel Petah Tikva	Jerusalem
	Elfasi 49' Yehezkel 58'	Report (p. 8)	Kofman 72'	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Werner

10 September 1955 22	Template:Fb team Hapoel Kfar Saba	0–1	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Kfar Saba
		Report (p. 8)	44' Elfasi	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Frizner

24 September 1955 23	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	4–2	Template:Fb team Hapoel Hadera	Jerusalem
	Elfasi 35' Zion 63', 76' Hasson 87'	Report (p. 8)	9' Piterman 14' Haviv	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Dudkevich

1 October 1955 24	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	0–1	Template:Fb team Hapoel Ramat Gan	Jerusalem
		Report (p. 8)	57' R. Cohen	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Frizner

8 October 1955 25	Hapoel Balfouria	4–2	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Afula
	Kochavi 34' Tal 38', 88' Bentov 61' (pen.)	Report (p. 8)	41' Zion 86' Elfasi	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 800 Referee: Scheindling

15 October 1955 26	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	1–4	Template:Fb team Maccabi Netanya	Jerusalem
	Elfasi 86' (pen.)	Report (p. 8)	4', 69', 80', 87' (pen.) I. Caspi	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen

Results by match

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Promotion/Relegation play-offs

Table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Notes
1	Maccabi Jaffa	3	2	1	0	8	2	4.00	5	Liga Leumit
2	Hapoel Kfar Saba	3	1	2	0	5	3	1.67	4	Liga Leumit
3	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	3	1	1	1	5	7	0.71	3	Liga Alef
4	Beitar Jerusalem	3	0	0	3	3	9	0.33	0	Liga Alef

Beitar Jerusalem relegated to Liga Alef

Matches

22 October 1955 1	Hapoel Kfar Saba	3–1	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
	Avrutski 5' Ratz 26' Glazer 33'	Report (p. 8)	7' Elfasi	Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Reuven Frizner

29 October 1955 2	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	3–2	Beitar Jerusalem	Petah Tikva
	Handler 14', 40' Havinski 25'	Report (p. 8)	6' Zion 29' Elfasi	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Arie Ben-Rubi

5 November 1955 3	Maccabi Jaffa	3–0	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
	B. Cohen 34' Miranda 41' Kalev 53'	Report (p. 8)		Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Nahman Cohen

1955–56 Liga Alef

Final table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Notes
8	Maccabi Ramat Gan	22	7	6	9	31	34	0.91	20
9	Ahva Notzrit Haifa	22	9	2	11	31	40	0.78	20	Relegation play-offs
10	Beitar Jerusalem	21	7	3	11	26	45	0.58	17	Relegation play-offs
11	Hapoel Ra'anana	22	6	4	12	20	49	0.41	16	Relegated to Liga Bet
12	Hapoel Balfouria	22	5	3	14	29	44	0.66	13	Relegated to Liga Bet

An 18th round match between Hapoel Nahariya and Beitar Jerusalem wasn't played due to misunderstanding between the teams regarding the time of the match,^[2] and was left unplayed at the end of the season.^[3]

Matches

3 December 1955 1	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	3–2	Hapoel Rehovot	Jerusalem
	Yehezkel 18' Zion 53', 70'		44' S. Hadad 58' I. Hadad	Stadium: YMCA Stadium

10 December 1955 2	Maccabi Ramat Gan	2–2	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Ramat Gan
	Barbalat 44' Mishkit 68'		14', 75' Zion	Stadium: Maccabi Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Schwartz

17 December 1955 3	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	0–2	Hakoah Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
			40', 52' Sa'adia	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Werner

24 December 1955 4	Template:Fb team Hapoel Hadera	2–0	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Hadera
	Barzilai 68' Haviv 83'			Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 400 Referee: Frizner

31 December 1955 5	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	2–0	Template:Fb team Hapoel Ra'anana	Jerusalem
				Stadium: YMCA Stadium

7 January 1956 6

Hapoel Mahane Yehuda

4–0

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

Petah Tikva

14 January 1956 7

Hapoel Nahariya

1–1

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

Nahariya

21 January 1956 8

Hapoel Kiryat Haim

7–0

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

4 February 1956 9	Template:Fb team Hapoel Jerusalem	0–1	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Jerusalem
			Elfasi 30'	Stadium: Katamon Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Werner

11 February 1956 10

Ahva Notzrit Haifa

3–0

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

Haifa

18 February 1956 11	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	1–1	Hapoel Balfouria	Jerusalem
				Stadium: YMCA Stadium

3 March 1956 12	Hapoel Rehovot	3–2	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Rehovot
	Mizrahi 49', 60' Shar'abi		18' Zion 27' Yehezkel	Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 800 Referee: Wackermann

10 March 1956 13	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	2–3	Maccabi Ramat Gan	Jerusalem
	Yehezkel 30', 85'		35', 46' Yakobson 70' Azami	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Mizrahi

17 March 1956 14

Hakoah Tel Aviv

2–0

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

24 March 1956 15	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	3–8	Template:Fb team Hapoel Hadera	Jerusalem
	Federman 5' Zion 37' Elfasi 88' (pen.)		6', 48', 77' Piterman 20' Agi 30', 75' Salomon 52' ? 65' (o.g.) ?	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Wackermann

31 March 1956 16

Template:Fb team Hapoel Ra'anana

1–0

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

7 April 1956 17	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	3–0	Hapoel Mahane Yehuda	Jerusalem
	Ashkenazi 30' Hasson 46' Babayoff 89'			Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Handwerg

14 April 1956 18

Hapoel Nahariya

v

Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem

Nahariya

22 April 1956 19	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	4–2	Hapoel Kiryat Haim	Jerusalem
	Davidoff 5' Hasson 25', 70' Babayoff 57'		14' Klein 44' Moshe Handler	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Rosenblum

19 May 1956 20	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	Template:Fb team Hapoel Jerusalem	Jerusalem
	Hasson 85'			Stadium: YMCA Stadium

27 May 1956 21	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	0–2	Ahva Notzrit Haifa	Jerusalem
			35' Boulos 89' Fadul	Stadium: YMCA Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Wajim

2 June 1956 22	Hapoel Balfouria	0–1	Template:Fb team Beitar Jerusalem	Balfouria
			48' Babayoff

Results by match

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References

^ 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule dribblist.com Template:He icon
^ Hapoel J-m – Hapoel Balfouria 4:0 Davar, 15 April 1956, Historical Jewish Press Template:He icon
^ Liga Alef Justified Its Existence Herut, 10 June 1956, Historical Jewish Press Template:He icon

[1] 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule dribblist.com Template:He icon

[2] Hapoel J-m – Hapoel Balfouria 4:0 Davar, 15 April 1956, Historical Jewish Press Template:He icon

[3] Liga Alef Justified Its Existence Herut, 10 June 1956, Historical Jewish Press Template:He icon

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v t e 1955–56 in Israeli football
Domestic leagues	1st Division 1954–55 Liga Alef 1955–56 Liga Leumit 2nd Division 1954–55 Liga Bet 1955–56 Liga Alef 3rd Division 1954–55 Liga Gimel 1955–56 Liga Bet 4th Division 1955–56 Liga Gimel
Domestic cups	Israel State Cup 1954–55 1956–57
Related to national team	Results 1956 Olympics qualification
Club seasons
Liga Alef/Liga Leumit	Beitar Jerusalem Beitar Tel Aviv Hapoel Balfouria Hapoel Hadera Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Ramat Gan Hapoel Tel Aviv Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Jaffa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Rehovot Maccabi Tel Aviv