Season trivia for Ligat HaAl 2024/2025
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2024/2025 Ligat HaAl season in Israel.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Dean David and Dia Saba. Together they were behind 9 goals for Maccabi Haifa in the 2024/2025 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2024/2025 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Dor Hugi, playing for Hapoel Haifa, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 31 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Hapoel Haifa-Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In December 2024, Guy Melamed (Maccabi Haifa/Hapoel Haifa) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2024/2025 season.
Most braces by player
Guy Melamed in Maccabi Haifa/Hapoel Haifa scored (at least) two goals in a match five times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2024/2025 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2024/2025 season was Guy Melamed in Maccabi Haifa/Hapoel Haifa, in total he did it eight times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were two players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, seven times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Guy Melamed (Maccabi Haifa/Hapoel Haifa)
Dor Turgeman (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2024/2025 season was Dor Turgeman, in total he scored seven penalties for his Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Most penalty goals by team
Maccabi Tel Aviv was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2024/2025 season, in total they scored twelve of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, four players scored two goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Alon Turgeman (Hapoel Be'er Sheva)
Amir Ganah (Hapoel Be'er Sheva)
Alfredo Stephens (Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona)
Lior Refaelov (Maccabi Haifa)
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Hapoel Be'er Sheva was the best team, in total they scored nine goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2024/2025 season was Grigori Morozov, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Ligat HaAl, which he did two times.
Most own goals by team
Beitar Jerusalem scored four own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2024/2025 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were two players who scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 season, and the players who achieved this were Guy Melamed (Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Haifa) and Dan Biton (Hapoel Be'er Sheva).
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
The best streak of matches with an assist was 4 matches in the season 2024/2025, a feat achieved byMohammed Kna'an (FC Ashdod) and Roy Revivo (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Dan Biton in Hapoel Be'er Sheva scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Mohammed Kna'an in FC Ashdod who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 11 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Guy Melamed in Maccabi Haifa/Hapoel Haifa scored a total of 13 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Ligat HaAl during the 2024/2025 season.
Most consecutive wins
Hapoel Be'er Sheva was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2024/2025 season, with a total of 6 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Hapoel Be'er Sheva were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2024/2025 season, playing 17 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2024/2025 season, there were three teams that had 5 consecutive losses, and those teams were Bnei Sakhnin, FC Ashdod and Maccabi Petah Tikva.
Most matches in a row without a win
Hapoel Hadera managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Maccabi Tel Aviv were best at during the 2024/2025 season, they came back to win five matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Hapoel Hadera and FC Ashdod were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in four different matches during the 2024/2025 season.