1955–56 Hapoel Haifa F.C. season
| 1955–56 season | |
|---|---|
| Manager | Ya'akov Stern |
| Stadium | Kiryat Haim Stadium Kiryat Eliezer Stadium |
| Liga Alef (1955) Liga Leumit (1956) | 9th 6th |
| State Cup | Quarter-finals |
| Top goalscorer | Avraham Ginzburg Avraham Nestenfober Ze'ev Schneid (10) |
The 1955–56 Hapoel Haifa season was the club's 33rd season since its establishment in 1924, and 8th since the establishment of the State of Israel.
At the start of the season, the league which started during the previous season was completed, with the club finishing 9th. The new league season, with the top division being renamed Liga Leumit, began on 3 December 1955 and was completed on 3 June 1956, with the club finishing 6th.[1]
During the season, the club also competed in the State Cup, which was also carried over the summer break. The club was eliminated by city rivals Maccabi Haifa in the quarter finals, losing 0–4.[2][3]
On 15 September 1955 a new stadium, Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, officially called Haifa Municipal Stadium or Luigi Antonini Stadium,[4][5] was opened with a match between a Haifa XI and a Tel Aviv XI.[6] Hapoel Haifa started playing home matches in the stadium on 16 October 1955, starting with a match against Hapoel Balfouria.
Match Results
[edit]Legend
[edit]Win Draw Loss
International friendly matches
[edit]During the season Hapoel Haifa played one international friendly match, against Sunderland, which the club lost.
| 13 May 1956 | Hapoel Haifa | 2–4 | Sunderland | Haifa |
Ginzburg  | HaTzofe | Fleming Shackleton Holden | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 6,000 |
The league began on 6 February 1955, and by the time the previous season ended, only 20 rounds of matches were completed, with the final 6 rounds being played during September and October 1955.[7]
Final table
[edit]| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 37 | 41 | 0.90 | 27 | |
| 8 | Maccabi Rehovot | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 49 | 48 | 1.02 | 26 | |
| 9 | Hapoel Haifa | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 40 | 55 | 0.73 | 24 | |
| 10 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 26 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 35 | 41 | 0.85 | 23 | |
| 11 | Beitar Jerusalem | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 37 | 59 | 0.63 | 21 | Promotion/relegation play-offs |
Matches
[edit]| 3 September 1955 21 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Tel Aviv |
| Miremovich 25', 54', 61', 75' R. Levi 28' Studinski 78' | Report (p. 8) | Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Ben-Rubi |
| 10 September 1955 22 | Hapoel Haifa | 1–0 | Beitar Tel Aviv | Haifa |
| Gilerman 3' | Report (p. 8) | Stadium: Kiryat Haim Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Werner |
| 24 September 1955 23 | Maccabi Haifa | 4–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Haifa |
| Hardy 41' Fuchs 65' Held 75' Tenenbaum 87' | Report (p. 8) | 24' Kremer | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Fritzner |
| 1 October 1955 24 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–9 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | Haifa |
| Kremer 13' Nestenfober 65' Schneid 71' | Report (p. 8) | 2', 12', 29', 39', 87' Stelmach 35' Chirik 70', 73', 86' Kofman | Stadium: Kiryat Haim Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Dudkevich |
| 8 October 1955 25 | Hapoel Hadera | 0–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Hadera |
| Report (p. 8) | 32' M. Simantiris | Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Frizner |
| 15 October 1955 26 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–1 | Hapoel Balfouria | Haifa |
| Diamant 35' M. Simantiris 41' Schneid 61' | Report (p. 8) | 80' (o.g.) Ben-Nun | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Zahavi |
Results by match
[edit]Final table
[edit]| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 47 | 34 | 1.38 | 27 |
| 5 | Maccabi Haifa | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 51 | 29 | 1.76 | 25 |
| 6 | Hapoel Haifa | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 39 | 0.82 | 22 |
| 7 | Beitar Tel Aviv | 22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 42 | 44 | 0.95 | 20 |
| 8 | Maccabi Netanya | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 31 | 44 | 0.70 | 20 |
Matches
[edit]| 3 December 1955 1 | Maccabi Jaffa | 1–2 | Hapoel Haifa | Tel Aviv |
| Gal 22' | 3' Schneid 55' Ben-David | Stadium: Maccabi Jaffa Ground Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Dudkevich |
| 10 December 1955 2 | Hapoel Haifa | 1–3 | Beitar Tel Aviv | Haifa |
| Diamant 45' | 57' Huli 60' Shchinik 70' Gleit | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Zahavi |
| 17 December 1955 3 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 1–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Givatayim |
| Kirschenberg 76' (pen.) | Stadium: Hamakhtesh Stadium Attendance: 1,800 Referee: Dudkevich |
| 24 December 1955 4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 5–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Tel Aviv |
| Weiss 27' Balut 39' Rosenbaum 49', 89' Yehudayoff 77' | 24', o.g.' Cynowicz | Stadium: Basa Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Zahavi |
| 31 December 1955 5 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–2 | Maccabi Netanya | Haifa |
| Nestenfober 27', 65' Ginzburg 35' | 2', 64' Lemel | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Hechtberg |
| 7 January 1956 6 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–0 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | Haifa |
| Ginzburg 40' Martin 79' (pen.) Nestenfober 89' | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Moshe Cohen |
| 14 January 1956 7 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–0 | Maccabi Rehovot | Haifa |
| Nestenfober 4' Ben-David 24' Ginzburg 83' | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Referee: Rosenbaum |
| 21 January 1956 8 | Maccabi Haifa | 5–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Haifa |
| Hardy 39' S. Levi 60', 86', 89' Almani 76' | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Ben-Rubi |
| 11 February 1956 9 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 2–2 | Hapoel Haifa | Petah Tikva |
| Kofman 22' (Pen.) Zelikovich 35' | 57' Schneid 62' M. Simantiris | Stadium: Hapoel Ground Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Rosenbaum |
| 18 February 1956 10 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Tel Aviv |
| R. Levi 61', 74' | Stadium: Basa Stadium Referee: Fritzner |
| 25 February 1956 11 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–2 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | Haifa |
| Schneid 24', 63' Schlanger 45' | 40' Spiegel 82' Rabinson | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Rosenbaum |
| 3 March 1956 12 | Hapoel Haifa | 3–1 | Maccabi Jaffa | Haifa |
| Martin 25' (pen.) Schneid 68' Nestenfober 82' | 48' Ghougasian | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: M. Cohen |
| 10 March 1956 13 | Beitar Tel Aviv | 2–3 | Hapoel Haifa | Tel Aviv |
| Huli 49' Arbiv 81' | 51' Ginzburg 63' (pen.) Martin 72' M. Simantiris | Stadium: Maccabi Jaffa Ground Referee: Schwartz |
| 17 March 1956 14 | Hapoel Haifa | 2–3 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | Haifa |
| Martin 26' (pen.) Nestenfober 57' | 15' Mesika 60' Migdalovich 86' Kirschenberg | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Referee: Werner |
| 24 March 1956 15 | Hapoel Haifa | 2–2 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | Haifa |
| Nestenfober 1' Ginzburg 60' | 37', 50' Yehudayoff | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen |
| 31 March 1956 16 | Maccabi Netanya | 3–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Netanya |
| Shrager 5' Lemel 11' Hosias 60' | 2' Ginzburg | Stadium: Sar-Tov Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Werner |
| 7 April 1956 17 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 0–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Kfar Saba |
| 87' Ginzburg | Stadium: Hapoel Ground Referee: Fritzner |
| 14 April 1956 18 | Maccabi Rehovot | 1–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Rehovot |
| Vider 86' | Stadium: Maccabi Ground Referee: Werner |
| 22 April 1956 19 | Hapoel Haifa | 0–0 | Maccabi Haifa | Haifa |
| Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Sher |
| 19 May 1956 20 | Hapoel Haifa | 1–0 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | Haifa |
| Schneid 73' | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Moshe Cohen |
| 27 May 1956 21 | Hapoel Haifa | 0–3 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | Haifa |
| 52' Schneor 54' Israeli 74' Glazer | Stadium: Kiryat Eliezer Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Ben-Rubi |
| 2 June 1956 22 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 1–1 | Hapoel Haifa | Petah Tikva |
| Spiegel 35' | 48' Ginzburg | Stadium: Maccabi Ground |
Results by match
[edit]State Cup
[edit]| 27 August 1955 QF | Maccabi Haifa | 4–0 | Hapoel Haifa | Haifa |
| Georgiou 36' Hardy 37' Held 53' Fuchs 71' | Report (p. 8) | Stadium: Kiryat Haim Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Ben-Rubi |
References
[edit]- ^ Maccabi T.A. Won the Liga Leumit Championship After Beating Hapoel T.A. 3:0 (1:0) Davar, 3 June 1956, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
- ^ Maccabi T.A. – Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel P.T. – Hapoel R.G. in the Semi-Finals Hadshot HaSport, 28 August 1955, p. 1 (in Hebrew)
- ^ Many Went to Jaffa – and Missed a Drama in P.T. Izhar Brener, 31 August 1955, Hadshot HaSport, p. 2 (in Hebrew)
- ^ Luigi Rocco Antonini Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine luigiantonini.com
- ^ Named After Mati Sin-Krona, 11 May 2014, MiTzad Sheni (in Hebrew)
- ^ Tel Aviv team – Haifa team 3:3 Davar, 16 September 1955, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)
- ^ 1955-1955 Liga Leumit Schedule Archived 2015-07-26 at the Wayback Machine dribblist.com (in Hebrew)