2017–18 Beitar Jerusalem F.C. season

The 2017–18 season is Beitar Jerusalem 81st season since its establishment in 1936, and 70th since the establishment of the State of Israel. During the 2017–18 campaign the club have competed in the Israeli Premier League, State Cup, Toto Cup, UEFA Europa League. In the end of the previous season the association of Israeli football decide that The owner Tabib can't manage the team for 2 years, because his involvement in criminal case. In 28 May the owner Eli Tabib announced the joining of the biggest legend of Beitar Eli Ohana to the chairman. Within the preparations of the season, Beitar signed the players: Georginho, Amir Agayev, Zion Tzemah, Miki Siroshtein, Gaëtan Varenne, Or Va'aknin, and the one of the successful Israeli players of all times Yossi Benayoun.

Beitar Jerusalem F.C.

2017–18 season
Chairman	Eli Ohana
Manager	Sharon Mimer Benny Ben Zaken
Stadium	Teddy Stadium
Ligat Ha'Al	3rd
State Cup	Runner-up
Europa League	Second qualifying round
Toto Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Itay Shechter & Claudemir (9 goals) All: Gaëtan Varenne (16 goals)
Highest home attendance	25,500 vs. Hapoel Be'er Sheva (5 May 2018)
Lowest home attendance	1,500 vs. Hapoel Haifa (21 May 2018)
Average home league attendance	10,493
Home colours Away colours

Current squad

As of 18 January 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ISR Boris Klaiman 2 DF  FRA Antoine Conte 3 MF  ISR David Keltjens 6 DF  ISR Tal Kachila 7 FW  SVK Jakub Sylvestr 8 MF  ISR Idan Vered 9 FW  ISR Itay Shechter (Captain) 10 MF  BRA Georginho 12 MF  ISR Or Va'aknin 13 DF  ISR Sean Goldberg 14 MF  BRA Claudemir

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  ISR Hen Dilmoni 18 MF  ISR Hen Ezra 19 DF  ISR Ofer Verta 20 DF  ISR Miki Siroshtein 21 FW  DEN David Boysen 22 GK  ISR Stav Shushan 23 DF  GER Marcel Heister 24 MF  ISR Ofir Kriaf 25 FW  FRA Gaëtan Varenne 52 MF  SVK Erik Sabo(on loan from PAOK FC) 77 MF  ISR Ya'akov Berihon

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 6 DF  ISR Tal Kachila (loan return from Bnei Yehuda) 7 MF  ISR Amir Agayev (from Bnei Yehuda)[1] 10 MF  BRA Georginho (from Bnei Sakhnin)[2] 27 MF  ISR Zion Tzemah (from Hapoel Acre)[3] 4 DF  ISR Miki Siroshtein (from F.C. Ashdod)[4] 25 FW  ISR Gaëtan Varenne (from Hapoel Jerusalem)[4] 2 DF  FRA Antoine Conte (from Reims, previously loaned)[5] 15 MF  ISR Yossi Benayoun (from Maccabi Tel Aviv)[6] 5 MF  CIV Paul Edgar Akoukou (loan from Ekenäs IF, later bought)[7][8] 13 DF  ISR Sean Goldberg (loan from Maccabi Tel Aviv)[9] — DF  ISR Ofer Verta (from Hapoel Tel Aviv)[10]

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 11 MF  ISR Dan Einbinder (to Hapoel Be'er Sheva)[11] 4 DF  ESP Jesús Rueda (to APOEL)[12] 26 FW  ISR Shlomi Avisidris (to Hapoel Rishon LeZion)[13] 27 DF  ISR Oz Raly (to Hapoel Ashkelon)[14] 7 MF  ISR Yisrael Zaguri (to Bnei Sakhnin)[15] 21 MF  ISR Kobi Moyal (to New York Cosmos)[16] 5 DF  ISR Dan Mori (to Bnei Yehuda)[17] 12 FW  ISR Avishay Cohen (loan to Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla)[18] 10 MF  ISR Danny Preda (to Maccabi Herzliya)[19]

Winter

In: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ISR Ofir Kriaf (from Ironi Kiryat Shmona)[20] — MF  CIV Paul Akouokou (from Ekenäs IF, previously loaned) — FW  ISR David Boysen (from Lyngby BK)[21] — FW  SVK Jakub Sylvestr (from AaB)[22]

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ISR Amir Agayev (to Hapoel Tel Aviv)[23] — MF  ISR Yossi Benayoun (to Maccabi Petah Tikva)[24] — MF  ISR Zion Tzemah (on loan to Hapoel Ashkelon)[25] — MF  CIV Paul Akouokou (on loan to Hapoel Rishon LeZion) — FW  ISR Dekel Cohen (on loan to Hapoel Jerusalem)

Pre-season and friendlies

18 June 2017 Training Camp	Vasas SC	2–1	Beitar Jerusalem
	Kulcsár  3' Remili  63' (pen.)		Shechter  80'

21 June 2017 Training Camp	Ferencvárosi	1–0	Beitar Jerusalem	Budapest, Hungary
	Bognár  90+3'			Stadium: Groupama Arena

6 September 2017	Beitar Jerusalem	2–0	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	Jerusalem, Israel
	Georginho Agayev	Report

11 October 2017	Hapoel Marmorek	0–1	Beitar Jerusalem	Rehovot, Israel
		Report	Dilmoni  33'	Stadium: Itztoni Stadium

Competitions

Ligat Ha'Al

Results

20 August 2017 1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0 – 3	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
21:00 IDT		Summary Report (Hebrew)	Shechter  10', 34' Vered  90'	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Attendance: 11,325 Referee: Liran Liany

28 August 2017 2	Beitar Jerusalem	4 – 1	Ashdod	Petah Tikva
20:30 IDT	Georginho  24' Benayoun  55' Berihon  81' Varenne  85'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Genev  15'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium[note 1] Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Roi Reinshreiber

11 September 2017 3	Maccabi Petah Tikva	1 – 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Petah Tikva
21:00 IDT	Romário  26' (pen.)	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Georginho  18' Heister  78'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Alon Yefet

16 September 2017 4	Beitar Jerusalem	3 – 3	Hapoel Haifa	Jerusalem
20:30 IDT	Vered  22', 39' Georginho  66'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Ben Basat  17', 27', 90+4'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ziv Adler

25 September 2017 5	Beitar Jerusalem	1 – 1	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Jerusalem
20:30 IDT	Claudemir  8'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Gozlan  48'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Menashe Mashiah

1 October 2017 6	Bnei Sakhnin	3 – 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Acre
21:00 IDT	Azulay  4' Ottman  63' Mugrabi  68'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Ezra  37' Benayoun  90+3'	Stadium: Acre Municipal Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Eli Hachmon

16 October 2017 7	Beitar Jerusalem	4 – 1	Maccabi Netanya	Jerusalem
21:00 IDT	Shechter  17' Claudemir  74' (pen.) Vered  75' Benayoun  90+3'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Keita  57'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Gal Leibowitz

21 October 2017 8	Maccabi Haifa	1 - 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
20:30	Allyson  42' Ben Harush  49' Kostadinov  84' Athanasiadis  90+5'	Report	Shechter  45' Allyson  65' (o.g.) Paul Edgar  78' Klaiman  90'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 28,114 Referee: Eitan Shmuelevitz

28 October 2017 9	Beitar Jerusalem	2 - 0	Hapoel Ashkelon	Jerusalem
20:30	Shechter  5' Ezra  38'	Summary		Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 9,500 Referee: Zvika Levi

4 November 2017 10	Bnei Yehuda	3 - 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Petah Tikva
20:30	Buzaglo  22'  52'  60' Valskis  89'  90'	Summary	Claudemir  33' (pen.) Paul Edgar Akoukou  42' Kachila  44' Shechter  49' Verta  85'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Attendance: 9,100 Referee: Igal Frid

27 November 2017 11	Beitar Jerusalem	2 - 2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Jerusalem
21:00	Heister  52' Sabo  90+2'	Summary	Nwakaeme  54' Melikson  62'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 22,434 Referee: Liran Liani

2 December 2017 12	Hapoel Acre	1 - 3	Beitar Jerusalem	Acre
	Zino  12'	Summary	Shechter  9' Kachila  36' Varenne  90'	Stadium: Acre Municipal Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Igal Frid

9 December 2017 13	Beitar Jerusalem	3 - 2	Hapoel Ra'anana	Jerusalem
	Varenne  27' Shechter  35' Claudemir  58' (pen.)	Summary	Abuhatzira  45' (pen.) Faucher  62'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Erez Papir

18 December 2017 14	Beitar Jerusalem	1 - 2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
	Claudemir  55'	Summary	Rikan  1' Blackman  42'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 24,232 Referee: Eitan Shmuelevich

23 December 2017 15	Ashdod	1 - 3	Beitar Jerusalem	Ashdod
	Elke  10'	Summary	Siroshtein  36' Claudemir  45+2' Tzemah  85'	Stadium: Yud-Alef Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Zvika Levi

30 December 2017 16	Beitar Jerusalem	1 - 0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Jerusalem
	Berihon  69'	Summary		Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Ziv Adler

8 January 2018 17	Hapoel Haifa	0 - 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
		Summary	Varenne  33' Ezra  59'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Eli Hackmon

13 January 2018 18	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	1 - 1	Beitar Jerusalem	Kiryat Shmona
	Lako  3'	Summary	Claudemir  21'	Stadium: Kiryat Shmona Municipal Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Eitan Shmuelevich

22 January 2018 19	Beitar Jerusalem	4 - 2	Bnei Sakhnin	Jerusalem
	Kriaf  42' Varenne  47' Ezra  52' Heister  68'	Summary	Ataa  4' Klaiman  37' (o.g.)	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Erez Papir

29 January 2018 20	Maccabi Netanya	2 - 1	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
	Levi  6' Heubach  35'	Summary	Varenne  89'	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Eli Hackmon

3 February 2018 21	Beitar Jerusalem	3 - 1	Maccabi Haifa	Jerusalem
	Varenne  45+1' Sabo  53' Shechter  69'	Summary	Mizrachi  35'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 11,300 Referee: Ziv Adler

10 February 2018 22	Hapoel Ashkelon	1 - 3	Beitar Jerusalem	Ashkelon
	Jovanović  56'	Summary	Claudemir  64' Varenne  87' Sabo  89'	Stadium: Sala Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Liran Liani

19 February 2018 23	Beitar Jerusalem	2 - 0	Bnei Yehuda	Jerusalem
	Claudemir  72' Sylvestr  90+1'	Summary		Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 0 *Radius game without fans Referee: Shay Ben Avraam

25 February 2018 24	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1-1	Beitar Jerusalem	Beersheba
	Maman  31'	Summary	Sylvestr  60'	Stadium: Turner Stadium Attendance: 15,700 Referee: Erez Papir

3 March 2018 25	Beitar Jerusalem	3-0	Hapoel Acre	Jerusalem
	Sabo  14' (pen.) Shechter  64' Kriaf  84'	Summary		Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 6,062 Referee: Orel Grinfeld

10 March 2018 26	Hapoel Ra'anana	0-2	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
		Report	Camara  45' (o.g.) Sylvestr  90'	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Attendance: 5,280 Referee: Eitan Shmuelevich

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	26	17	6	3	43	18	+25	57	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Beitar Jerusalem	26	17	5	4	60	30	+30	56
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	26	16	7	3	44	20	+24	55
4	Hapoel Haifa	26	15	7	4	36	21	+15	52
5	Maccabi Netanya	26	12	9	5	43	29	+14	45

Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.[27]

Top playoff

17 March 2018 27	Beitar Jerusalem	2-0	Maccabi Netanya	Jerusalem
20:30 IST	Sylvestr  5' Sabo  78' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 10,200 Referee: Orel Greenfeld

4 April 2018 28	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3-1	Beitar Jerusalem	Be'er Sheva
19:30 IST	Sahar  3' Zrihan  39', 50'	Report	Sabo  53' (pen.)	Stadium: Turner Stadium Attendance: 15,900 Referee: Ziv Adler

8 April 2017 29	Beitar Jerusalem	1-1	Bnei Yehuda	Jerusalem
20:55 IST	Vered  10'	Report	Gordana  53' (pen.)	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 6,870 Referee: Eli Hackmon

16 April 2018 30	Beitar Jerusalem	3-2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Jerusalem
20:55 IST	Claudemir  29' Ezra  34' Sylvestr  42'	Report	Atzili  38' (pen.) Kjartansson  58'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 11,900 Referee: Liran Liani

23 April 2018 31	Hapoel Haifa	0-1	Beitar Jerusalem	Haifa
20:55 IST		Report	Ezra  23'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 7,700 Referee: Alon Yefet

30 April 2018 32	Maccabi Netanya	4-1	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
21:00 IST	Avraham  16' Saba  31' Kougbenya  42' Heubach  81'	Report	Ezra  82'	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Orel Greenfeld

5 May 2018 33	Beitar Jerusalem	1-4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Jerusalem
21:00 IST	Ezra  22'	Report	Elhamed  47' Mamam  52' Sahar  62' Nwakaeme  74'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 25,500 Referee: Alon Yefet

12 May 2018 34	Bnei Yehuda	3-3	Beitar Jerusalem	Petah Tikva
20:15 IST	Gordana  52' (pen.) Tchibota  53' Cohen  78'	Report	Kachila  20' Vered  45+1' (pen.) Sylvestr  60'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Ziv Adler

15 May 2018 35	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3-1	Beitar Jerusalem	Netanya
20:55 IST	Rikan  8' Davidzada  31' Blackman  37' (pen.)	Report	Kachila  64'	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Attendance: 6,595 Referee: Idan Layba

21 May 2018 36	Beitar Jerusalem	1-1	Hapoel Haifa	Jerusalem
21:00 IST	Kriaf  59'	Report	Ginsari  63'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Gal Laibovich

Top playoff table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (C)	36	24	8	4	70	27	+43	80	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	36	21	8	7	60	33	+27	71	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Beitar Jerusalem	36	20	8	8	75	51	+24	68
4	Hapoel Haifa	36	17	11	8	48	39	+9	62	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5	Maccabi Netanya	36	16	10	10	59	54	+5	58
6	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	36	13	10	13	47	41	+6	49

Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.[28]
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. Hapoel Haifa qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2017–18 Israel State Cup.

UEFA Europe League

First qualifying round

29 June 2017 First leg	Beitar Jerusalem	4–3	Vasas	Petah Tikva, Israel
19:45 IDT	Georginho  19' Benayoun  88' Vered  90+1' Sabo  90+2'	Report	Pavlov  36', 43' Kulcsár  52'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium[note 1] Attendance: 0 (No-crowd radius match) Referee: Nenad Đokić (Serbia)

6 July 2017 Second leg	Vasas	0–3 (3–7 agg.)	Beitar Jerusalem	Budapest, Hungary
20:30 CEST		Report	Ezra  10', 61' Varenne  90+1'	Stadium: Szusza Ferenc stadion Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

Second qualifying round

13 July 2017 First leg	Beitar Jerusalem	1–1	Botev Plovdiv	Petah Tikva, Israel
19:45 IDT	Kachila  11'	Report	Yusein  73'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium[note 1] Attendance: 9,450 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

20 July 2017 Second leg	Botev Plovdiv	4–0 (5–1 agg.)	Beitar Jerusalem	Burgas, Bulgaria
20:30 EEST	Dimov  10' Viana  32' Baltanov  47' Brisola  90'	Report		Stadium: Lazur Stadium Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Kirill Levnikov (Russia)

State Cup

4 January 2018 Eight Round	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	1 – 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Rishon LeZion
21:00 IDT	Omri Shekel  19'	Report	Varenne  25', 42'	Stadium: Haberfeld Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Daniel Bar Nathan

25 January 2018 Round of 16	Beitar Jerusalem	2 - 1	Hapoel Marmorek	Jerusalem
20:50	Varenne  19' Varenne  25'	Report	Dyulgerov  32'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Daniel Bar Nathan

6 February 2018 Quarter Finals , 1st leg	Hapoel Kfar Saba	0 - 2	Beitar Jerusalem	Kfar Saba
20:50	Varenne  42' Yazo  61' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Levita Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Alon Yeffet

28 February 2018 Quarter Finals , 2nd leg	Beitar Jerusalem	0-0 (2-0 agg.)	Hapoel Kfar Saba	Jerusalem
20:50				Stadium: Teddy Stadium

1 April 2018 Semi Finals	Beitar Jerusalem	3-2	Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Haifa
20:50	Sylvestr  53', 79' Sabo  88' (pen.)	Report	Shaker  31' Nachmias  90+4'	Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Erez Papir

9 May 2018 Final	Hapoel Haifa	3-1 (a.e.t.)	Beitar Jerusalem	Jerusalem
	Plakuschenko  28' Scheimann  105' Turgeman  120'	Report	Varenne  29'	Stadium: Teddy Stadium Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Liran Liany

Toto Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Beitar Jerusalem	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6	Qualified to Quarter-finals
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Hapoel Ashkelon	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 12 August 2017. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

30 July 2017 Group C	Ashdod	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	Rishon LeZion
19:10 IDT	Abd Elhamed  44' (pen.)	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Varenne  25', 81' Benayoun  54'	Stadium: Haberfeld Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Ziv Adler

6 August 2017 Group C	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–3	Beitar Jerusalem	Beersheba
21:00 IDT		Summary Report (Hebrew)	Keltjens  44' Shechter  76', 82'	Stadium: Turner Stadium Attendance: 11,800 Referee: Liran Liany

12 August 2017 Group C	Hapoel Ashkelon	1–2	Beitar Jerusalem	Rishon LeZion
21:00 IDT	Tzemah  63'	Summary Report (Hebrew)	Haddad  16' Ivančić  55'	Stadium: Haberfeld Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Alon Yefet

Knockout stage

25 October 2017 Quarter-final	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	1-0	Beitar Jerusalem	Kiryat Shmona
	Gozlan  67'			Stadium: Kiryat Shmona Municipal Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Igal Frid

Notes

1. Beitar Jerusalem hosted their UEFA Europa League home matches and the regular season round 2 outside Jerusalem, due to the 2017 Maccabiah Games and reseeding of the grass at Teddy Stadium.[26]

References

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