2018–19 Hapoel Haifa F.C. season

Hapoel Haifa
2018–19 season
Chairman	Yoav Katz
Manager	Nir Klinger
Stadium	Sammy Ofer
Super Cup	Winner
Toto Cup	Semi final
Top goalscorer	League: ; Ness Zamir (2); All: ; Ness Zamir (3)
Biggest win	5 - 0 (vs Maccabi Netanya, 25 August 2018)
Biggest defeat	1 - 4 (vs Atalanta, 9 August 2018)
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Hapoel Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football club located in Haifa. During the 2018–19 campaignthe club have competed in the Israeli Premier League, State Cup, Toto Cup, Super Cup, UEFA Europa League.

Club

Kits

Provider: Joma
Main Sponsor: Bogart Men's Fashion
Secondary Sponsor: Moked Hat'ama

Home

Away

3rd

4th

GK 1

GK 2

First team


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ISR	Ran Kadoch
2	DF	SWE	Rasmus Sjöstedt
3	DF	ISR	Sean Goldberg
4	DF	ISR	Dor Malul (Vice-Captain)
5	MF	ISR	Roei Shukrani
6	MF	ISR	Gal Arel
7	MF	ISR	Maxim Plakuschenko
9	FW	ISR	Ben Azubel
10	FW	MDA	Radu Gînsari
11	MF	ISR	Ness Zamir
13	GK	LTU	Ernestas Šetkus
14	MF	ISR	Gil Vermouth (Captain)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	FW	ISR	Lior Berkovic
17	FW	ISR	Eli Elbaz
18	DF	ISR	Hen Dilmoni
19	FW	GRE	Thanasis Papazoglou
23	MF	ISR	Guy Hadida
24	DF	ISR	Liran Serdal
26	DF	ISR	Guy Mishpati
30	DF	ROU	Gabriel Tamaș
51	DF	MKD	Risto Mitrevski
55	DF	ISR	Nisso Kapiloto
77	FW	ISR	Almog Buzaglo
99	FW	ISR	Mamoon Qashoua

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ISR	Hen Dilmoni (from Beitar Jerusalem)
—	MF	ISR	Roei Shukrani (from Hapoel Ra'anana)
—	MF	ISR	Ness Zamir (from Hapoel Petah Tikva)
—	FW	ISR	Eli Elbaz (from Apollon Smyrni)
—	DF	ISR	Guy Mishpati (from Hapoel Marmorek)
—	MF	ISR	Guy Hadida (from Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla)
—	FW	GRE	Thanasis Papazoglou (from K.V. Kortrijk)
—	FW	ISR	Almog Buzaglo (from Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv)
—	DF	ISR	Sean Goldberg (from Maccabi Tel Aviv)
—	FW	ISR	Ben Azubel (on loan from Hapoel Acre)
—	FW	ISR	Lior Berkovic (came from the youth group)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ISR	Samuel Scheimann (to Hapoel Be'er Sheva)
—	MF	ISR	Roslan Barsky (loan return to Maccabi Tel Aviv)
—	FW	ISR	Alon Turgeman (to Austria Wien)
—	FW	ISR	Aner Shechter (on loan to Hapoel Afula)
—	DF	ISR	Ofek Fishler (on loan to Hapoel Nazareth Illit)
—	FW	ISR	Idan Golan (leaved the team)
—	FW	ISR	Eden Ben Basat (to Hapoel Be'er Sheva)
—	FW	CRO	Josip Ivančić (to F.C. Ashdod)
—	FW	ISR	Sa'ar Fadida (on loan to Hapoel Rishon LeZion)
—	GK	ISR	Rotem Fadida (on loan to Maccabi Tzur Shalom)
—	DF	ISR	Haim Megrelashvili (leaved the team)

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss

6 July 2018	Hapoel Hadera	0 - 1	Hapoel Haifa	Hadera
			Arel 75'	Stadium: Hadera

9 July 2018	Hapoel Haifa	3 - 3	Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Haifa
	Plakuschenko 12' Fadida 86' Hadida 89'	Report	Garcia 7' Hasselbaink 45' Ryan 70'	Stadium: Beit Nagler Attendance: 400

11 July 2018 Training Camp	Hapoel Haifa	0 - 2	KV Oostende	Netherlands
19:00		Report	Rajsel 22' (pen.) Capon 65'

14 July 2018 Training Camp	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 3	Club Brugge	Netherlands
20:00	Ben Basat 18'	Report	Vanaken 14', 39' Refaelov 89'

17 July 2018 Training Camp	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 1	Zulte Waregem	Netherlands
20:00	Gînsari 4'	Report	Kaya 33'

4 September 2018	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 0	Hapoel Nazareth Illit	Haifa
	Mitrevski 47'	Report		Stadium: Beit Nagler

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ligat Ha'Al	25 August 2018	N/A	Matchday 1	N/A	6	1	2	3	8	9	−1	016.67
State Cup	January 2019	N/A	Eighth Round	N/A	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Super Cup	28 July 2018	28 July 2018	Final	Winner	1	0	1	0	1	1	+0	000.00
Toto Cup	20 August 2018	20 August 2018	Semi Final	Semi Final	1	0	1	0	1	1	+0	000.00
UEFA Europa League	26 July 2018	16 August 2018	Second qualifying round	Third qualifying round	4	1	1	2	3	7	−4	025.00
Total					12	2	5	5	13	18	−5	016.67

Last updated: 1 September 2018 (2018-09-01).
Source: Competitions

UEFA Europa League

Win Draw Loss

Second qualifying round

26 July 2018 First leg	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 1	FH	Haifa, Israel
19:00	Arel 52' Papazoglou 65' 88' Dilmoni 72'	Report	Viðarsson 52' Gomes 53' 72' Nielsen 90+2'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 3,950 Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

2 August 2018 Second leg	FH	0 - 1 (1 – 2 agg.)	Hapoel Haifa	Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
22:15	Crawford 49' Jónsson 90+3' Hendriksson 90+3'	Report	Elbaz 68' Malul 68'	Stadium: Kaplakriki Attendance: 1,136 Referee: Sergey Tsinkevich (Belarus)

Third qualifying round

9 August 2018 First leg	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 4	Atalanta	Haifa, Israel
19:00	Buzaglo 7'	Report	Hateboer 18' Zapata 21' Palomino 33' Pašalić 65' Barrow 86' Gosens 90+1'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 6,412 Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

16 August 2018 Second leg	Atalanta	2 - 0 (6 – 1 agg.)	Hapoel Haifa	Reggio Emilia, Italy
21:00	Zapata 71' Cornelius 90+2'	Report	Tamaș 79'	Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore Attendance: 6,546 Referee: Frank Schneider (France)

Ligat Ha'Al

Matches

Win Draw Loss

25 August 2018 Match 1	Hapoel Haifa	5 - 0	Maccabi Netanya	Haifa
19:30	Malul 6' Sjöstedt 35' 43' Elbaz 45+2' Tamaș 55' Zamir 58', 62'	Report	Amos 44' Kanichowsky 80' Malede 83' Avraham 89'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Gal Leivovitch

1 September 2018 Match 2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1 - 0	Hapoel Haifa	Petah Tikva
20:45	Agayev 87' Farhat 90+4'	Report	Tamaș 37' Arel 84' Elbaz 90+4'	Stadium: HaMoshava Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Daniel Bar Natan

17 September 2018 Match 3	Hapoel Haifa	2 - 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
21:00	Tamaș 1' Gînsari 29' Azubel 67'	Report	Vered 24' 40' Inbrum 64' Zhairi 88' Levy 88'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Attendance: 8,840 Referee: Erez Papir

24 September 2018 Match 4	Hapoel Hadera	2 - 0	Hapoel Haifa	Netanya
19:00	Lababidi 75' Mateos 80' Lúcio 86' Abu Zaid 90'	Report	Azubel 24' Plakuschenko 63'	Stadium: Netanya Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Liran Liani

29 September 2018 Match 5	Maccabi Petah Tikva	1 - 1	Hapoel Haifa	Petah Tikva
18:00	Benayoun 60' Kanyuk 82'	Report	Kapiloto 34' Arel 87'	Stadium: HaMoshava Attendance: 1,800 Referee: Ziv Adler

6 October 2018 Match 6	Hapoel Haifa	0 - 3	Bnei Sakhnin	Haifa
18:45	Vermouth 40' Azubel 76' Malul 87'	Report	Ghadir 5' 26' Ottman 21' 65' Ganayem 33' Azulay 50'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Attendance: 3,700 Referee: Eli Hachmon

20 October 2018 Match 7	Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona	v	Hapoel Haifa	Kiryat Shmona
19:00				Stadium: Kiryat Shmona Municipal

28 October 2018 Match 8	Hapoel Haifa	v	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Haifa
20:30				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

3 November 2018 Match 9	F.C. Ashdod	v	Hapoel Haifa	Ashdod
18:10				Stadium: Yud-Alef

10 November 2018 Match 10	Hapoel Haifa	v	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	Haifa
18:00				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

1 December 2018 Match 11	Maccabi Haifa	v	Hapoel Haifa	Haifa
21:00				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

4 December 2018 Match 12	Hapoel Haifa	v	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Haifa
21:00				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

9 December 2018 Match 13	Hapoel Ra'anana	v	Hapoel Haifa	Ramat Gan
19:00				Stadium: Ramat Gan

15 December 2018 Match 14	Maccabi Netanya	v	Hapoel Haifa	Netanya
18:15				Stadium: Netanya

Match 15	Hapoel Haifa	v	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 16	Beitar Jerusalem	v	Hapoel Haifa	Jerusalem
				Stadium: Teddy

Match 17	Hapoel Haifa	v	Hapoel Hadera	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 18	Hapoel Haifa	v	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 19	Bnei Sakhnin	v	Hapoel Haifa	Sakhnin
				Stadium: Doha

Match 20	Hapoel Haifa	v	Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 21	Maccabi Tel Aviv	v	Hapoel Haifa	Netanya
				Stadium: Netanya

Match 22	Hapoel Haifa	v	F.C. Ashdod	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 23	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	v	Hapoel Haifa	Petah Tikva
				Stadium: HaMoshava

Match 24	Hapoel Haifa	v	Maccabi Haifa	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Match 25	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	v	Hapoel Haifa	Be'er Sheva
				Stadium: Turner

Match 26	Hapoel Haifa	v	Hapoel Ra'anana	Haifa
				Stadium: Sammy Ofer

Regular season table

Template:2018–19 Israeli Premier League Regular Season table

Results overview

Win Draw Loss

Opposition	Home score	Away score
Beitar Jerusalem	2 - 2
Bnei Sakhnin	0 - 3
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv
F.C. Ashdod
Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Hapoel Hadera		0 - 2
Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona
Hapoel Ra'anana
Hapoel Tel Aviv		0 - 1
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Netanya	5 - 0
Maccabi Petah Tikva		1 - 1
Maccabi Tel Aviv

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	1	2	3	8	9	−1	5	1	1	1	7	5	+2	0	1	2	1	4	−3

Last updated: 28 August 2018.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Ground	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	L	D	L	D	L
Position	1	5	5	8	8	12

Updated to match(es) played on 28 August 2018. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Israel Super Cup

Win Draw Loss

28 July 2018 Super Cup	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 1 (5 - 4 p)	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Netanya
21:00	Tamaș 28' Kapiloto 55' Sjöstedt 68' Dilmoni 88' Elbaz 90+2'	Report	Dilmoni 26' (o.g.) Cétout 72'	Stadium: Netanya Referee: Guy Berger
	Penalties
	Tamas Kapiloto Plakuschenko Hadida Arel		Sahar Melikson Zrihan Ezra Tzedek

Toto Cup

Win Draw Loss

20 August 2018 Semi-Final	Hapoel Haifa	1 - 1 (2 - 3 p)	Maccabi Haifa	Haifa
21:00	Hadida 21' Papazoglou 76' Zamir 82'	Report	Mizrahi 51' dos Santos 68' Rukavytsya 73' Haimov ^[1]	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 10,600 Referee: Erez Papir
	Penalties
	Tamaș Kapiloto Plakuschenko Zamir Malul		Alberman Rukavytsya Mandjeck Habshi Kramer

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Ligat Ha'Al		State Cup		Super Cup		Toto Cup		UEFA Europa League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ISR	Ran Kadoch	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
2	DF	SWE	Rasmus Sjöstedt	9	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
3	DF	ISR	Sean Goldberg	6	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
4	DF	ISR	Dor Malul	11	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
5	MF	ISR	Roei Shukrani	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF	ISR	Gal Arel	12	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
7	MF	ISR	Maxim Plakuschenko	12	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
9	FW	ISR	Ben Azubel	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	MDA	Radu Gînsari	11	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
11	MF	ISR	Ness Zamir	9	3	6	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
13	GK	LTU	Ernestas Šetkus	10	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
14	MF	ISR	Gil Vermouth	11	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
15	FW	ISR	Lior Berkovic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	FW	ISR	Eli Elbaz	9	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	1
18	DF	ISR	Hen Dilmoni	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
19	DF	GRE	Thanasis Papazoglou	10	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	1
23	MF	ISR	Guy Hadida	10	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
24	DF	ISR	Liran Serdal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	ISR	Guy Mishpati	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
30	DF	ROU	Gabriel Tamaș	10	1	5	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	0
51	DF	MKD	Risto Mitrevski	10	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0
55	DF	ISR	Nisso Kapiloto	11	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
77	FW	ISR	Almog Buzaglo	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
99	FW	ISR	Mamoon Qashoua	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Ligat Ha'Al	Super Cup	Toto Cup	UEFA Europa League	Total
1	11	MF	Ness Zamir	2	0	1	0	3
2	17	FW	Eli Elbaz	1	0	0	1	2
3	2	DF	Rasmus Sjöstedt	1	0	0	0	1
	4	DF	Dor Malul	1	0	0	0	1
	9	FW	Ben Azubel	1	0	0	0	1
	10	FW	Radu Gînsari	1	0	0	0	1
	55	DF	Nisso Kapiloto	1	0	0	0	1
	19	FW	Thanasis Papazoglou	0	0	0	1	1
	77	FW	Almog Buzaglo	0	0	0	1	1
	30	DF	Gabriel Tamaș	0	1	0	0	1
Own goal				0	0	0	0	0
Totals				8	1	1	3	13

Last updated: 18 September 2018

Assists

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Ligat Ha'Al	Super Cup	Toto Cup	UEFA Europa League	Total
1	14	MF	Gil Vermouth	2	0	0	1	3
2	11	MF	Ness Zamir	2	0	0	0	2
2	17	FW	Eli Elbaz	2	0	0	0	2
4	4	DF	Dor Malul	0	0	0	1	1
	30	DF	Gabriel Tamaș	0	0	0	1	1
	23	MF	Guy Hadida	0	1	0	0	1
	7	MF	Maxim Plakuschenko	0	0	1	0	1
Totals				6	1	1	3	11

Last updated: 18 September 2018

Clean sheets

Updated on 18 September 2018

Rank	Pos.	No.	Name	Ligat Ha'Al	State Cup	Super Cup	Toto Cup	UEFA Europa League	Total
1	GK	13	Ernestas Šetkus	1				1	2

Disciplinary record

Updated on 18 September 2018

No.	Pos	Nat	Name
No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Ligat Ha'Al	State Cup	Super Cup	Toto Cup		UEFA Europa League	Total
30	DF		Gabriel Tamaș	3					1	4
6	MF		Gal Arel	2					1	3
19	FW		Thanasis Papazoglou					1	1	1	1
9	FW		Ben Azubel	2						2
4	DF		Dor Malul	1					1	2
17	FW		Eli Elbaz	1		1				2
2	DF		Rasmus Sjöstedt	1		1				2
18	DF		Hen Dilmoni			1			1	2
7	MF		Maxim Plakuschenko	1						1
14	MF		Gil Vermouth	1						1
55	DF		Nisso Kapiloto			1				1
23	MF		Guy Hadida				1			1

Suspensions

Updated on 18 September 2018

Player	Date Received	Offence	Length of suspension
Gabriel Tamaș	8 December 2016	32' 79' Steaua București vs Villarreal (2016–17 Steaua București season)	1 Match	FH (H)	26 July 2018
Thanasis Papazoglou	20 August 2018	76' vs Maccabi Haifa	1 Match	Maccabi Netanya (H)	25 August 2018

Penalties

Updated on 18 September 2018

Date	Penalty Taker	Scored	Opponent	Competition

Overall

	Total	Home	Away	Natural
Games played	12	5	5	2
Games won	2	1	1	-
Games drawn	5	2	1	2
Games lost	5	2	3	-
Biggest win	5 - 0 vs Maccabi Netanya	5 - 0 vs Maccabi Netanya	1 - 0 vs FH	-
Biggest loss	1 - 4 vs Atalanta	1 - 4 vs Atalanta	0 - 2 vs Atalanta	-
Biggest win (League)	5 - 0 vs Maccabi Netanya	5 - 0 vs Maccabi Netanya	-	-
Biggest loss (League)	0 - 3 vs Bnei Sakhnin	0 - 3 vs Bnei Sakhnin	0 - 2 vs Hapoel Hadera	-
Biggest win (Cup)	-	-	-	-
Biggest loss (Cup)	-	-	-	-
Biggest win (Super Cup)	-	-	-	-
Biggest loss (Super Cup)	-	-	-	-
Biggest win (Toto)	-	-	-	-
Biggest loss (Toto)	-	-	-	-
Biggest win (Europa League)	1 - 0 vs FH	-	1 - 0 vs FH	-
Biggest loss (Europa League)	1 - 4 vs Atalanta	1 - 4 vs Atalanta	0 - 2 vs Atalanta	-
Goals scored	13	9	2	2
Goals conceded	18	10	6	2
Goal difference	5	2	3	-
Clean sheets	2	1	1	-
Average GF per game	1.08	1.8	0.4	1
Average GA per game	1.64	2	1.2	1
Yellow cards	22	9	8	5
Red cards	1	0	0	1
Most appearances	3 Players (11)
Most goals	Ness Zamir (3)
Most Assist	Gil Vermouth (3)
Penalties for	-	-	-	-
Penalties against	-	-	-	-
Winning rate	16.67%	20%	20%	0%

Last updated: Updated on 18 September 2018
Source: Competitive matches

References

^ Received a yellow card in the Penalty shoot-out

[1] Received a yellow card in the Penalty shoot-out

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