1960–61 Liga Leumit

Liga Leumit
Season1960–61
ChampionsHapoel Petah Tikva
4th title
RelegatedBeitar Tel Aviv
Top goalscorerZecharia Ratzabi
Shlomo Levi (15)

The 1960–61 Liga Leumit season saw Hapoel Petah Tikva crowned champions for the third successive season. Hapoel's Zecharia Ratzabi and Hapoel Haifa's Shlomo Levi were the joint top scorers with 15 goals each.

Beitar Tel Aviv were relegated to Liga Alef.

Final table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 Hapoel Petah Tikva 22 16 4 2 48 15 +33 36
2 Hapoel Tel Aviv 22 14 2 6 38 20 +18 30
3 Hapoel Haifa 22 12 5 5 44 25 +19 29
4 Maccabi Tel Aviv 22 12 2 8 34 29 +5 26
5 Maccabi Haifa 22 11 3 8 40 33 +7 25
6 Maccabi Jaffa 22 10 3 9 27 28 −1 23
7 Hapoel Jerusalem 22 9 3 10 29 26 +3 21
8 Shimshon Tel Aviv 22 6 8 8 18 29 −11 20
9 Maccabi Petah Tikva 22 6 4 12 23 31 −8 16
10 Maccabi Netanya 22 6 2 14 19 33 −14 14
11 Bnei Yehuda 22 4 5 13 20 38 −18 13
12 Beitar Tel Aviv 22 5 1 16 17 50 −33 11 Relegated to Liga Alef
Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away BTA BnY HHA HJE HPT HTA MHA MJA MNE MPT MTA STA
Beitar Tel Aviv — 3–0 2–1 0–3 0–3 0–6 2–1 3–2 2–1 1–4 0–3 1–3
Bnei Yehuda 3–0 — 1–3 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–2 0–2 1–1 0–2 3–5 0–1
Hapoel Haifa 2–0 0–1 — 2–1 1–2 2–1 4–1 4–1 3–0 0–0 2–1 5–0
Hapoel Jerusalem 2–1 1–1 0–0 — 0–2 0–4 2–1 0–1 5–0 2–1 2–3 0–1
Hapoel Petah Tikva 5–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 — 4–0 0–2 3–2 2–0 4–2 2–0 2–2
Hapoel Tel Aviv 2–1 3–0 2–5 1–0 0–2 — 3–1 2–0 4–0 1–0 1–1 0–0
Maccabi Haifa 3–0 5–3 3–3 0–3 1–0 1–0 — 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 4–1
Maccabi Jaffa 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–0 — 1–0 2–1 0–3 3–0
Maccabi Netanya 2–0 0–1 2–3 0–1 0–2 0–1 3–0 1–0 — 2–1 3–0 0–0
Maccabi Petah Tikva 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–2 1–3 1–2 1–5 1–2 1–0 — 0–0 3–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 3–2 2–1 4–3 0–1 — 1–0
Shimshon Tel Aviv 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–2 2–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–1 —
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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