2008–09 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season

Maccabi Haifa
2008–09 season
Chairman	Ya'akov Shahar
Manager	Elisha Levy
Liga Al	1st
State Cup	Runners-up
Toto Cup	Quarterfinals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Thembinkosi Fanteni (11); All: ; Thembinkosi Fanteni (16)
Highest home attendance	14,500 vs Hapoel Tel Aviv (8 December 2008 & 18 May 2009)
Lowest home attendance	7,000 vs Bnei Sakhnin (24 January 2009)
Average home league attendance	10,472
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 season was Maccabi Haifa's 51st season in Israeli Premier League, and their 27th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.

The season was a great success for the club winning the league and coming extremely close to winning the State Cup to go with it.

Liga Al

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
30 August 2008	F.C. Ashdod	H	3 – 1	Keinan, Katan (2)	11,000
13 September 2008	Hapoel Tel Aviv	A	0 – 0		0 (closed doors)
21 September 2008	Bnei Yehuda	H	1 – 0	Rafaelov	7,500
28 September 2008	Beitar Jerusalem	A	1 – 1	Keinan	18,000
4 October 2008	Maccabi Petah Tikva	H	3 – 1	own goal, Fanteni (2)	8,000
18 October 2008	Bnei Sakhnin	A	1 – 0	Rafaelov	2,500
27 October 2008	Maccabi Tel Aviv	H	3 – 2	Fanteni (2), Lior Rafaelov	14,000
1 November 2008	Hakoah Amidar/Ramat Gan	A	3 – 0	Rafaelov, Boccoli, Kayal	2,500
10 November 2008	Maccabi Netanya	H	2 – 3	Keinan, Fanteni	14,000
15 November 2008	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	H	1 – 1	Rafaelov	10,000
22 November 2008	Hapoel Petah Tikva	A	4 – 1	Ghadir, Rafaelov, Kayal, Arbeitman	4,000
29 November 2008	F.C. Ashdod	A	3 – 1	Fanteni, Golasa, Kayal	5,000
8 December 2008	Hapoel Tel Aviv	H	2 – 2	Arbeitman, Maimon	14,500
15 December 2008	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	A	1 – 0	Katan	8,000
22 December 2008	Beitar Jerusalem	H	0 – 0		14,000
17 January 2009	Maccabi Petah Tikva	A	0 – 2		4,000
24 January 2009	Bnei Sakhnin	H	2 – 1	Fanteni, Katan	7,000
2 February 2009	Maccabi Tel Aviv	A	1 – 1	Boccoli	13,000
2 February 2009	Hakoah Amidar/Ramat Gan	H	2 – 0	Katan, Boccoli	8,000
23 February 2009	Maccabi Netanya	A	0 – 2		5,000
4 March 2009	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	A	0 – 1		1,000
7 March 2009	Hapoel Petah Tikva	H	1 – 0	Osei	9,000
15 March 2009	Bnei Yehuda	A	1 – 0	Masilela	6,000
21 March 2009	Maccabi Petah Tikva	H	0 – 0		9,000
6 April 2009	F.C. Ashdod	A	3 – 0	Arbeitman, Rafaelov, Boccoli	2,500
11 April 2009	Hapoel Petah Tikva	H	2 – 1	Arbeitman, Meshumar	10,000
19 April 2009	Maccabi Tel Aviv	A	1 – 1	Fanteni	12,000
25 April 2009	Hapoel Petah Tikva	H	2 – 1	Fanteni (2)	8,000
4 May 2009	Bnei Sakhnin	A	0 – 0		3,000
9 May 2009	Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan	H	2 – 0	Arbeitman, Rafaelov	8,000
18 May 2009	Hapoel Tel Aviv	H	1 – 0	Katan	14,500
23 May 2009	Maccabi Netanya	A	2 – 0	Fanteni, Kayal	6,000
1 June 2009	Beitar Jerusalem	H	1 – 1	Rafaelov	14,000

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maccabi Haifa (C)	33	19	10	4	49	24	+25	67	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	33	17	10	6	49	28	+21	61	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
3	Beitar Jerusalem^[a]	33	16	12	5	47	28	+19	57^[b]
4	Maccabi Netanya	33	14	12	7	40	32	+8	54	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round^[c]
5	Bnei Yehuda	33	14	7	12	38	31	+7	49	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round^[c]

Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
(C) Champions
Notes:

State Cup

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^{[permanent dead link]} (2 – 1p)	Katan 81'	12,500
22 April 2009	Quarter-final	Maccabi Ah"i Nazareth	A	4 – 0^{[permanent dead link]}	Fanteni (2) 30', 87', Katan 45', Harazi 82'	4,000
13 May 2009	Semi-final	Maccabi Netanya	N	1 – 1^{[permanent dead link]} (5 – 4p)	Meshumar 65'	36,000
26 May 2009	Final	Beitar Jerusalem	N	1 – 2^{[permanent dead link]}	Kayal 88'	40,000

Toto Cup

Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Group position
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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Maccabi Haifa (A)	6	3	3	0	12	5	+7	12
2	Bnei Yehuda (A)	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	10
3	Maccabi Netanya (A)	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7
4	Beitar Jerusalem	6	1	1	4	6	9	−3	4

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd matches won; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head; 6th decision match
(A) Advanced to the quarterfinals

Knockout stage

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'

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		State Cup		Toto Cup		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Gad Amos	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
GK	Nir Davidovich	22	0	5	0	3	0	30	0
GK	Amir Edri	11	0	0	0	5	0	16	0
DF	Ronnie Gafney	4	0	1	0	7	0	12	0
DF	Alon Harazi	24	0	3	1	4	0	31	1
DF	Dekel Keinan	28	3	5	0	4	1	37	4
DF	Leo Krupnik	30	0	4	1	5	0	39	1
DF	Tsepo Masilela	32	0	4	0	3	0	39	0
DF	Shai Maimon	6	1	0	0	6	1	12	2
DF	Eyal Meshumar	18	1	4	2	6	0	28	3
DF	Anderson West	3	0	1	0	1	0	5	0
MF	Omri Afek	14	0	1	0	3	0	18	0
MF	Gustavo Boccoli	33	4	5	0	4	2	42	6
MF	John Jairo Culma	30	0	5	1	6	1	41	2
MF	Liad Elmaliah	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
MF	Eyal Golasa	26	1	5	0	6	0	37	1
MF	Beram Kayal	30	4	5	2	5	1	40	7
MF	Lior Rafaelov	33	9	5	0	6	1	44	10
MF	Yisrael Zaguri	2	0	0	0	6	1	8	1
FW	Shlomi Arbeitman	28	5	5	1	7	3	40	9
FW	Thembinkosi Fanteni	30	11	5	3	6	2	41	16
FW	Mohammad Ghadir	14	1	0	0	7	3	21	4
FW	Yaniv Katan	31	10	5	4	4	0	40	14
FW	Ransford Osei	11	1	2	0	4	1	17	2

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