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Maccabi Haifa
2007–08 season
ChairmanIsrael Ya'akov Shahar
ManagerIsrael Elisha Levy
Top goalscorerLeague:
Brazil Renato (7)

All:
Brazil Renato (13)
Highest home attendancevs (?)
Lowest home attendancevs (?)

The 2007–08 season was Maccabi Haifa's 50th season in Ligat ha'Al, and their 26th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.

Liga Al (Premier League)

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Date Opponents H / A Result
F – A
Scorers Attendance
18 August 2007 F.C. Ashdod H 0 – 1 9,000


Pos Club Pld W D L F A GD Pts
4 Bnei Sakhnin 33 15 10 8 35 29 +6 55
5 Maccabi Haifa 33 13 8 12 38 27 +11 47
6 Maccabi Tel Aviv 33 11 8 14 43 43 0 41

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

State Cup

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Date Round Opponents H / A Result

F – A

Scorers Attendance
14 February 2009 Round 9 Hapoel Ramat Gan A 1 – 0
(aet)
Katan 113'
12 March 2009 Round of 16 Hapoel Tel Aviv A 1 – 1
(2 – 1p)
Katan 81' 12,500
22 April 2009 Quarter-final Maccabi Ah"i Nazareth A 4 – 0 Fanteni (2) 30', 87', Katan 45', Harazi 82' 4,000
13 May 2009 Semi-final Maccabi Netanya N 1 – 1
(5 – 4p)
Meshumar 65' 36,000
26 May 2009 Final Beitar Jerusalem N 1 – 2 Kayal 88' 40,000

Toto Cup

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Group stage

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Date Opponents H / A Result

F – A

Scorers Attendance Group

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9 August 2008 Beitar Jerusalem H 1 – 1 Fanteni 31' 1st
17 August 2008 Maccabi Netanya H 1 – 1 Boccoli 5' 1st
23 August 2008 Bnei Yehuda A 3 – 1 Kayal 6', Rafaelov 16', Fanteni 21' 1st
5 November 2008 Beitar Jerusalem A 2 – 0 Ghadir 59', Arbeitman 89' 1st
29 October 2008 Maccabi Netanya A 4 – 1 Ghadir 20', Osei 43', Arbeitman (2) 53', 82' 1st
12 November 2008 Bnei Yehuda H 1 – 1 Ghadir 12' 1st
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Maccabi Haifa 6 3 3 0 12 5 +7 12
Bnei Yehuda 6 3 1 2 10 10 0 10
Maccabi Netanya 6 2 1 3 6 10 −4 7
Beitar Jerusalem 6 1 1 4 6 9 −3 4

Knockout stage

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Date Round Opponents H / A Result

F – A

Scorers Attendance
5 January 2009 Quarter-final
First leg
Hapoel Tel Aviv A 0 – 2
11 March 2009 Quarter-final
Second leg
Hapoel Tel Aviv H 2 – 0
(3 – 4p)
Boccoli 22', Keinan 55'

UEFA Intertoto Cup

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Second round

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Haifa was drawn against Romanian club, Gloria Bistriţa in the second round of the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

In the return leg, Haifa played very well and controlled the match.[1] After taking a 1–0 lead, the referee called a penalty kick against the Greens. Nir Davidovich stopped the penalty kick.

Date Opponents H / A Result
F – A
Scorers Attendance Leg
19 September 2007 Gloria Bistriţa H 1 – 0 1st
14 July 2007 Gloria Bistriţa A 1 – 0 Hemed 70' 2nd

Squad statistics

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Pos. Name League State Cup Toto Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK   Gad Amos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK   Nir Davidovich 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK   Yahav Yulzeri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF   Diego Crosa 29 0 2 0 4 0 35 0
DF   Ronny Gafney 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0
DF   Alon Harazi 22 0 1 0 10 1 33 1
DF   Dekel Keinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF   Adoram Keisi 3 0 0 0 4 0 7 0
DF   Tsepo Masilela 24 1 2 0 5 0 31 1
DF   Shai Maimon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF   Eyal Meshumar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF   Łukasz Surma 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
MF   Omri Afek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   Gustavo Boccoli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   John Jairo Culma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   René Lima 9 0 2 0 0 0 11 0
MF   Eyal Golasa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   Biram Kayal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   Lior Rafaelov 24 3 2 0 9 2 35 5
MF   Giovanni Rosso 28 3 1 0 4 0 33 3
MF   Renato 27 7 2 0 6 6 35 13
FW   Shlomi Arbeitman 7 0 0 0 2 0 9 0
FW   Oshri Gita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW   Thembinkosi Fanteni 14 6 2 1 1 0 17 7
FW   Mohammad Ghadir 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW   Yaniv Katan 29 5 2 1 6 1 40 7
FW   Ransford Osei 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

References

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  1. ^ Harush, Moshe (2007-07-14). "מכבי חיפה הודחה בפנדלים מהאינטרטוטו" [Maccabi Haifa Eliminated From Intertoto On Penalties]. Ha'aretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 October 2009.

2007-08 Maccabi Haifa