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.

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	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Hapoel Tel Aviv	33	19	9	5	43	23	20	66	Qualified for Intertoto Cup
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	Qualified for 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

Relegation group

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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	Qualified for Intertoto Cup
12	Maccabi Tel Aviv	31	8	12	11	43	43	0	36
13	Hapoel Lod	31	3	9	19	17	69	-52	18	Relegated to Liga Artzit
14	Maccabi Petah Tikva	31	3	8	20	19	49	-30	17	Relegated to Liga Artzit

References

Israel - List of Final Tables RSSSF

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v t e 1987–88 in Israeli football
Domestic leagues	Liga Leumit Liga Artzit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel
Domestic cups	State Cup Toto Cup Leumit Artzit Lilian Cup
Related to national team	Results 1988 Olympics qualification 1988 South American U-20 Championship
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Liga Leumit	Beitar Jerusalem Beitar Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Lod Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tzafririm Holon Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Netanya Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Tel Aviv Shimshon Tel Aviv

v t e 1987–88 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '87 '88 England Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88 Spain Sweden '87 '88 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88
Supercups	West Germany
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup