Israeli Premier League table 2026/27 season: Israel, points and home and away records

updated 2026-09-01

updated 2026-09-01

The Israeli Premier League table covers 14 clubs over 2 matches each. Points run three for a win and one for a draw, so the order follows points first, then goal difference and goals scored.

#ClubPWDLGoalsGDPts
1Maccabi Tel Aviv22008:3+56
2Maccabi Petah Tikva22004:2+26
3Maccabi Netanya21104:1+34
4Ironi Kiryat Shmona21013:2+13
5Hapoel Be'er Sheva11002:1+13
6Hapoel Petah Tikva21011:103
7Maccabi Haifa21013:4-13
8Hapoel Haifa10100:001
9Hapoel Tel Aviv10100:001
10Bnei Sakhnin20111:2-11
11Hapoel Ramat Gan20022:4-20
12Beitar Jerusalem10011:4-30
13Hapoel Jerusalem20022:6-40
14Ironi Tiberias21011:2-1-1

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Close crop of a printed results table showing ruled column gutters

Israeli Premier League table: how to read points and goal difference

The gap from top to bottom is 7 points. Maccabi Tel Aviv lead on 6 with a difference of +5; Ironi Tiberias sit last on -1. Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Petah Tikva are level on points, with goal difference deciding first place.

Maccabi Tel Aviv score most with 8 goals. Hapoel Haifa defend best, conceding 0, while Hapoel Jerusalem have shipped 6 — the spread between those two says how uneven the league is at the back.

A club takes 1.25 points per match on average and scores 2.3 goals across the season. The median is 3 points (Ironi Kiryat Shmona), with 3 clubs above it. The median describes a league better than the mean does: one runaway side pulls the mean up and barely moves the median.

The drop zone is 1 points from safety: Hapoel Ramat Gan sit 11th on 0, against Ironi Tiberias on -1. Those are the numbers that decide the closing weeks.

Israeli Premier League home and away: split points

The Israeli Premier League table recomputes separately for home fixtures and for away ones. They are the same matches split by venue, so points in the two tables always sum back to the overall one.

Israeli Premier League: goals, averages and difference

The season has produced 32 goals.

Hapoel Petah Tikva carry the flattest goal difference at 0 — clubs on those numbers usually sit mid-table, equally far from the title and the drop.

How the Israeli Premier League table looked in earlier seasons is in the archive: Israel, year by year, with final tables for every division and zone.

Israeli Premier League: division size and what it changes

The size of a division changes how its figures read. With 14 clubs each plays 2 matches, and a run of three or four results moves a position further than it would in a league twice the size: the sample is smaller, so chance weighs more.

For the same reason the points gap between neighbouring places tends to be narrower here and the middle of the table reorders more often. Goal difference is especially useful in a division this size, because it accumulates across every match and depends less on who a club happened to face recently.

Comparing this division with others on absolute numbers — goals scored, points taken — means little where the number of rounds differs. What compares is the relative measures: points per match, scoring rate, the share of draws.

Israel: the divisions and where Israeli Premier League sits

Israel: this is the only division we currently carry a table for.

Maccabi Netanya have drawn most at 1, Maccabi Tel Aviv fewest at 0.

Israeli Premier League: match results and head-to-head

Any two clubs can be compared in the panel alongside, which reads the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.

Common questions

How are points awarded in the Israeli Premier League table?

Three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat. A side with more wins can still sit below one that draws often, but only where the number of matches played differs.

What separates clubs level on points?

Goal difference first, then goals scored. Maccabi Tel Aviv currently lead Israeli Premier League on 6 points with a difference of +5.

How does the home table differ from the overall one?

The home table counts only matches played at home and the away table only those on the road. They are the same fixtures, so the two sets of points add back to the overall table. A mid-table club is often in the top three of one of them.

How many goals does a match produce on average?

The scoring average is computed from the matches played this season and shown in the metrics panel.

Where are previous seasons?

In the country archive: Israel, final tables year by year, split by division and, where they existed, by territorial zone.

How can two clubs be compared?

Through the head-to-head panel: pick two sides and it returns the score of their meetings this season, read from the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.

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