2018 Israel State Cup final

The 2018 Israel State Cup Final decided the winner of the 2017–18 Israel State Cup, the 82nd season of Israel's main football cup. It will be played on 9 May 2018 at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa.

2018 Israel State Cup Final

Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem hosted the final
Event	2017–18 Israel State Cup
Hapoel Haifa Beitar Jerusalem 3 1
After extra time
Date	9 May 2018
Venue	Teddy, Jerusalem
Referee	Liran Liany

Background

Beitar Jerusalem had previously played 10 Israel cup Finals, had won the competition a record 7 times. Their most recent appearance in the final was tin 2009, in which they won 2–1 against Maccabi Haifa.

Hapoel Haifa had previously played in 8 finals, winning 3. Their most recent appearance in the final was in 2004, in which they lost 4–1 to Bnei Sakhnin, and their most recent victory in the tournament was in 1974, beating Hapoel Petah Tikva 1–0.

The two teams played each other three times during the 2017–18 Israeli Premier League season until the final. In the first instance, on 16 September 2017 at Teddy Stadium the game end draw 3–3, in the two other times beitar win 2–0 and 1–0 on summy ofer.

Road to the final

Hapoel Haifa		Round	Beitar Jerusalem
Opponent	Result	2017–18 Israel State Cup	Opponent	Result
Hapoel Petah Tikva	2–1	Eighth round	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	2–1
Hapoel Acre	2–1	Round of 16	Hapoel Marmorek	2–1
Maccabi Haifa	2–2	Quarter-finals first leg	Hapoel Kfar Saba	2–0
Maccabi Haifa	1–1	Quarter-finals second leg	Hapoel Kfar Saba	0–0
Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C.	0–0 (4–3) after penalties	Semi-finals	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	3–2

Details

9 May 2018

20:45 CEST

Hapoel Haifa	3–1	Beitar Jerusalem
Plakuschenko 28' Scheimann 105' Turgeman 105+2'		Varenne 29'

Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem

Referee: Liran Liany

Hapoel Haifa

Beitar Jerusalem

GK 13 Ernestas Šetkus RB 4 Dor Malul CB 55 Nisso Kapiloto CB 30 Gabriel Tamaș LB 18 Samuel Scheimann DM 6 Gal Arel  103' CM 14 Radu Gînsari LM 7 Maxim Plakuschenko RW 15 Gil Vermouth  116' CF 9 Eden Ben Basat (c)  113' LF 17 Alon Turgeman Substitutes: GK 1 Ran Kadoch DF 3 Haim Megrelashvili MF 2 Rasmus Sjöstedt  113' DF 77 Roslan Barsky MF 22 Josip Ivančić FW 51 Risto Mitrevski  103' FW 99 Maamun Qashua  116' Manager: Nir Klinger

GK 1 Boris Klaiman RB 2 Antoine Conte  91' CB 6 Tal Kachila CB 13 Sean Goldberg LB 20 Miki Siroshtein DM 52 Erik Sabo CM 24 Ofir Kriaf  97' CM 14 Claudemir Ferreira RW 18 Hen Ezra LW 25 Gaëtan Varenne  106' CF 9 Itay Shechter (c)  62' Substitutes: GK 22 Stav Shushan DF 18 Hen Dilmoni DF 23 Marcel Heister FW 8 Idan Vered  106' MF 7 Jakub Sylvestr  61' MF 3 David Keltjens  97' FW 77 Ya'akov Berihon Manager: Benny Ben Zaken