1954–55 Beitar Tel Aviv F.C. season

The 1954–55 Beitar Tel Aviv season was the club's 22nd season since its establishment, in 1934, and 7th since the establishment of the State of Israel.

Beitar Tel Aviv
1954–55 season
ManagerHaim Reich
StadiumBasa Stadium, Tel Aviv
Liga Alefnot completed
State Cupnot completed
Top goalscorerLeague: Nisim Elmaliah (25)
All: Nisim Elmaliah (31)

During the season, the club competed in Liga Alef (top division) and the State Cup. In addition, the club played in the privately organized Shapira Cup, a four-club league competition.

Review and events

  • At the beginning of the season, top Beitar teams, Beitar Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem competed for the Lifa Livyatan Memorial Cup, named after a late Beitar journalist. In the first match, played on 28 August 1954, the teams tied 3–3,[1] and the match was replayed on 12 October 1954, Beitar Tel Aviv winning 5–2.[2]
  • During December 1954 and January 1955, as no league matches were played due to a dispute between Hapoel, Maccabi and Beitar factions in the IFA, Hapoel Tel Aviv organized a league competition for the top Tel Aviv teams, Hapoel, Maccabi, Beitar and Maccabi Jaffa. The competition was played as a double round-robin tournament, with the top placed team winning the cup, named after former Hapoel Tel Aviv treasurer, Yosef Shapira. The club won two matches and lost four, finishing third.[3]
  • The club played one international friendly match during the season, against AC Omonia, on 31 May1955, winning 4–2.[4]

Match results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Liga Alef

League matches began on 6 February 1955, and by the time the season, only 20 rounds of matches were completed, delaying the end of the league season to the next season.[5]

League table (as of 2 July 1955)

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
2 Hapoel Petah Tikva 20 13 4 3 38 15 2.533 30
3 Hapoel Tel Aviv 20 9 8 3 37 17 2.176 26
4 Beitar Tel Aviv 20 9 5 6 48 36 1.333 23
5 Maccabi Petah Tikva 20 8 6 6 27 24 1.125 22
6 Maccabi Haifa 20 8 5 7 36 29 1.241 21
Updated to match(es) played on 2 July 1955. Source: Hadshot HaSport, 3 July 1955 (in Hebrew)

Matches

5 February 1955 1 Hapoel Ramat Gan 0–3 Beitar Tel Aviv Givataim
Report (p. 8)  20' Elmaliah
 23' Gleit
 47' Huli
Stadium: HaMakhtesh Stadium
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Werner
12 February 1955 2 Beitar Tel Aviv 2–1 Maccabi Netanya Tel Aviv
Huli  48' (pen.)
Elmaliah  57'
Report (p. 8)  21' Statzki Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Markovich
19 February 1955 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Rabinovich  12'
Israeli  18'
Studinski  85'
Report (p. 8)  46' Huli Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Klein
26 February 1955 4 Beitar Tel Aviv 4–0 Beitar Jerusalem Tel Aviv
Osherov  61', 83'
Elmaliah  61', 75'
Report (p. 8) Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Ben-Rubi
5 March 1955 5 Beitar Tel Aviv 0–2 Maccabi Haifa Tel Aviv
Report  37' Daniel
 62' Held
Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Frisner
12 March 1955 6 Hapoel Petah Tikva 4–0 Beitar Tel Aviv Petah Tikva
Chirik  4', 49'
Stelmach  84'
Kofman  87'
Report (p. 8) Stadium: Hapoel Ground, Petah Tikva
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Fried
19 March 1955 7 Hapoel Hadera 2–5 Beitar Tel Aviv Hadera
Gali  44'
Salomon  75'
Report (p. 8)  29' Huli
 45' (o.g.) Weinberg
 64', 84' Elmaliah
 77' Bar-Zion
Stadium: Hapoel Ground
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Klein
2 April 1955 8 Beitar Tel Aviv 6–1 Hapoel Balfouria Tel Aviv
Huli  8', 21', 24'
Elmaliah  55', 57', 90'
 89' Gordon Stadium: Basa Stadium
9 April 1955 9 Beitar Tel Aviv 4–2 Hapoel Haifa Tel Aviv
Emaliah  20'
Huli  59', 70'
Gleit  62'
Report (p. 8)  68' Kramer
 87' (pen.) Martin
Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Moshe Cohen
13 April 1955 10 Maccabi Rehovot 2–7 Beitar Tel Aviv Rehovot
Shrager  25'
Kofman  82'
Report (p. 4)  23' (pen.), 55' (pen.), 74', 89' Huli
 52', 62' (pen.) Elmaliah
 70' Bar-Zion
Stadium: Maccabi Ground
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Fried
16 April 1955 11 Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Yehudayoff  50' Report (p. 8)  53' Huli Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Frizner
23 April 1955 12 Maccabi Petah Tikva 4–2 Beitar Tel Aviv Petah Tikva
Spiegel  8'
Rabinson  24'
Turkenitz  63' (pen.)
Carmeli  68'
Report (p. 8)  12' Bar-Zion
 17' HaMeiri
Stadium: Maccabi Ground
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Parnas
30 April 1955 13 Beitar Tel Aviv 1–1 Hapoel Kfar Saba Tel Aviv
Y. Gambash  58' Report (p. 8)  86' Tobiash Stadium: Maccabi Jaffa Ground
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Sher
14 May 1955 14 Beitar Tel Aviv 1–1 Hapoel Ramat Gan Tel Aviv
Elmaliah  24' Report (p. 8)  12' Radler Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Sher
21 May 1955 15 Maccabi Netanya 3–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Netanya
Meller  12', 26'
I. Caspi  22'
Report (p. 8)  80' Elmaliah Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Scheindling
4 June 1955 16 Beitar Tel Aviv 3–0 (w/o)
(abandoned)
Maccabi Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Report (p. 8)  5' Glazer
 36' (pen.) Turika
Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Sher
11 June 1955 17 Beitar Jerusalem 3–3 Beitar Tel Aviv Jerusalem
Hasson  8'
Yehezkel  12'
Elfasi  38'
Report (p. 8)  61' (pen.), 80', 85' Elmaliah Stadium: YMCA Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Metzler
18 June 1955 18 Maccabi Haifa 1–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Haifa
Hardy  23' Report  52' Kasuto Stadium: Kiryat Haim Stadium
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Dudkevich
26 June 1955 19 Beitar Tel Aviv 2–1 Hapoel Petah Tikva Tel Aviv
Elmaliah  14'
Huli  52'
Report (p. 8)  53' Stelmach Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Werner
2 July 1955 20 Beitar Tel Aviv 4–1 Hapoel Hadera Tel Aviv
Elmaliah  70' (pen.), 76', 85', 90' Report (p. 8)  65' Salomon Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Scheindling

Results by match

Match1234567891011121314151617181920
ResultWWLWLLWWWWDLDDLLDDWW
Position13544654333344555544
Updated to match(es) played on 3 July 1955. Source: 2 Dear Points
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

State Cup

26 March 1955 Round 3 Maccabi Rehovot 1–2 Beitar Tel Aviv Rehovot
Litvak  39'  18' Huli
 20' Elmaliah
Stadium: Maccabi Ground
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Moshe Cohen
28 May 1955 Round 4 Hapoel Jaffa 1–2 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Kindel  26'  7' Elmaliah
 35' Huli
Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: M. Klein

Shapira Cup

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1 Hapoel Tel Aviv (W) 6 5 0 1 12 7 1.714 10
2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 6 4 0 2 16 8 2.000 8
3 Beitar Tel Aviv 6 2 0 4 7 8 0.875 4
4 Maccabi Jaffa 6 1 0 5 5 17 0.294 2
Source: Hadshot HaSport, p. 1
(W) Winners.

Results

4 December 1954 1 Hapoel Tel Aviv 2–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Michaelov  18'
Yehudayoff  75'
 26' Elmaliah Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Frisner
11 December 1954 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Schneor  2'
Glazer  87'
 67' Gleit Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Werner
18 December 1954 3 Beitar Tel Aviv 2–0 Maccabi Jaffa Tel Aviv
Huli  9', 79' (pen.) Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Zahavi
25 December 1954 4 Beitar Tel Aviv 1–2 Hapoel Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Huli  55'  7' Rosenbaum
 72' (pen.) Balut
Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Rosenbaum
8 January 1955 5 Beitar Tel Aviv 2–1
abandoned
Maccabi Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
Huli  40'
Bar-Zion  58'
 38' Reznik Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Dudkevich
15 January 1955 6 Maccabi Jaffa 1–0 Beitar Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
M. Levi  1' Stadium: Basa Stadium
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Levichter

References

  1. Lifa Livyatan Cup and Tel Hai Matches – Without Decision Herut, 29 August 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  2. Lifa Livyatan Cup to Beitar Tel Aviv Herut 13 October 1954, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
  3. Hadshot HaSport, p. 1 (in Hebrew)
  4. Beitar Tel Aviv – Omonia 4:2 Hadshot HaSport, 1 June1955, p. 1 & 4 (in Hebrew)
  5. 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)
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