2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit

Toto Cup Leumit
Season	2008–09
Champions	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st title)
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit was the twenty-seventh season of the third most important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and fifth under the current format. It was held in two stages. First, twelve Liga Leumit teams were divided into two groups. Four teams from each group advanced to the Quarterfinals. Quarterfinals held as two-legged matches, while the Semifinals and the Final was held as one-legged matches.

The defending champions were Hapoel Petah Tikva.

On 3 February 2009, Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the 2008–09 Toto Cup Leumit making it their first Toto Cup title.

Group stage

The matches were played from August 8 to November 18, 2008.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	HHA	HRG	HBL	IRH	MAN	MKA
1	Hapoel Haifa (A)	10	7	3	0	18	4	+14	24		0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0
2	Hapoel Ramat Gan (A)	10	5	3	2	15	6	+9	18	0–0		3–1	3–0	2–3	2–1
3	Hapoel Bnei Lod (A)	10	4	2	4	12	13	−1	14	1–3	1–0		1–1	1–2	3–1
4	Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon (A)	10	2	3	5	10	14	−4	9	2–3	0–3	0–1		1–1	2–0
5	Maccabi Ahi Nazareth	10	2	3	5	11	19	−8	9	1–4	0–2	0–2	1–1		1–1
6	Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata	10	2	2	6	10	20	−10	8	0–2	0–0	3–1	0–3	4–2

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advanced to the quarterfinals

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	HAC	HBS	MHE	HJE	HRA	HKS
1	Hapoel Acre (A)	10	6	2	2	20	8	+12	20		1–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	4–0
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	10	5	3	2	12	9	+3	18	0–3		1–2	1–1	2–0	2–1
3	Maccabi Herzliya (A)	10	3	3	4	10	12	−2	12	1–3	1–2		2–2	2–1	1–0
4	Hapoel Jerusalem (A)	10	3	3	4	11	15	−4	12	0–1	0–2	1–0		5–0	0–2
5	Hapoel Ra'anana	10	2	4	4	12	16	−4	10	1–0	0–0	0–0	6–0		3–3
6	Hapoel Kfar Saba	10	2	3	5	8	13	−5	9	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0

Source: football.org.il (in Hebrew)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advanced to the quarterfinals

Elimination rounds

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played from November 24 to December 11, 2008 while the second legs were played on January 5 to 13, 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Herzliya	3–2	Hapoel Haifa	1–0	2–2
Ironi Ramat HaSharon	3–2	Hapoel Acre	1–2	2–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	0–6	Hapoel Bnei Lod	0–4	0–2
Hapoel Ramat Gan	3–5	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–2	2–3 (aet)

Semifinals

January 20, 2009

17:00

Maccabi Herzliya	2 – 1	Ironi Ramat HaSharon

Winter Stadium, Ramat Gan

January 22, 2009

19:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4 – 0	Hapoel Bnei Lod

Winter Stadium, Ramat Gan

Final

February 3, 2009

19:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1 – 0 (aet)	Maccabi Herzliya

Winter Stadium, Ramat Gan

External links

Official website (in Hebrew)

v t e Toto Cup seasons
Top Division	1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Second Division	1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Third Division	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09
Previous League Cup Competitions	10th Anniversary Cup 20th Anniversary Cup 25th Anniversary Cup 1975–76 Israeli League Cup Lilian Cup

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Elimination rounds

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

See also

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