1988–89 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season

The 1988–89 season was Maccabi Haifa's 31st season in the Liga Leumit, and their 8th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.

Maccabi Haifa

1988–89 season
Manager	Amazzia Levkovic
1988–89 Liga Leumit	1st
State Cup	Runners-up
Highest home attendance	15,000 vs Hapoel Petah Tikva (13 May 1989)
Lowest home attendance	4,000 vs Hapoel Petah Tikva (24 September 1988)
Average home league attendance	7,633
Home colours

The season was a great success for the club winning the league and coming extremely close to winning the State Cup to go with it.

First Division

Main article: 1988–89 Liga Leumit

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
17 September 1988	Hapoel Kfar Saba	H	2 – 2	Mordechai, Merili	6,000
24 September 1988	Hapoel Petah Tikva	H	3 – 0	Givol, Mordechai, Armeli	4,000
1 October 1988	Shimshon Tel Aviv	A	2 – 1	Merili, Armeli	1,500
8 October 1988	Beitar Jerusalem	H	0 – 0		12,000
15 October 1988	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	A	0 – 0		7,000
22 October 1988	Hapoel Tiberias	H	2 – 1	Mizrahi, Atar	7,000
29 October 1988	Maccabi Tel Aviv	A	1 – 1	Armeli	8,000
5 November 1988	Beitar Tel Aviv	H	0 – 0		8,000
30 October 1988	Maccabi Netanya	A	3 – 1	Malka, Atar, Armeli	5,000
19 November 1988	Hapoel Jerusalem	H	1 – 1	Sayegh	6,500
26 November 1988	Hapoel Tel Aviv	A	4 – 1	Givol, Klinger, Atar, Armeli	2,000
3 December 1988	Bnei Yehuda	H	3 – 1	Atar, own goal, Klinger	8,000
9 December 1988	Zafririm Holon	A	1 – 1	Klinger	4,000
17 December 1988	Hapoel Kfar Saba	A	1 – 1	Givol	3,000
24 December 1988	Hapoel Petah Tikva	A	0 – 2		2,000
31 December 1988	Shimshon Tel Aviv	H	1 – 1	Armeli	6,000
7 January 1989	Beitar Jerusalem	A	2 – 2	Atar, Armeli	2,000
14 January 1989	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	H	0 – 0		6,000
21 January 1989	Hapoel Tiberias	A	3 – 0	Armeli, Mizrahi, Merili	2,000
28 January 1989	Maccabi Tel Aviv	H	5 – 0	Klinger (3), Mizrahi, Atar	6,000
4 February 1989	Beitar Tel Aviv	A	2 – 0	Merili, Klinger	10,000
11 February 1989	Maccabi Netanya	H	2 – 0	Givol, Armeli	12,000
18 February 1989	Hapoel Jerusalem	A	0 – 0		4,000
25 February 1989	Hapoel Tel Aviv	A	2 – 0	Technical Win	3,000
11 March 1989	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	A	0 – 0		3,000
25 March 1989	Zafririm Holon	H	1 – 0	Armeli	5,000
22 April 1989	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	H	3 – 0	Klinger, Atar, Armeli	5,000
29 April 1989	Maccabi Netanya	A	2 – 0	Merili, Armeli	8,000
6 May 1989	Shimshon Tel Aviv	H	2 – 1	Mizrahi, Reuven Atar	8,000
13 May 1989	Hapoel Petah Tikva	H	1 – 1	Mizrahi	15,000
20 May 1989	Beitar Tel Aviv	A	0 – 1		3,000

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		State Cup		Toto Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Giora Antman	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Eitan Aharoni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Marco Balbul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Fabian Grimberg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	David Levy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Zion Merili	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DF	Yossi Tsarfati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Avraham Abukarat	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Reuven Atar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Yaron Givol	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Nir Klinger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Yossi Kramer	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
MF	Fabian Lagman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Zahi Armeli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Avi Golder	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Zadok Malka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Offer Mizrahi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Itai Mordechai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Raffi Osmo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FW	Patricio Sayegh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0