2016–17 Toto Cup Al

The 2016–17 Toto Cup Al was the 32st season of the third-important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the 11th tournament involving Israeli Premier League clubs only.

2016–17 Toto Cup Al

Country	Israel
Teams	14
Champions	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Runners-up	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Matches played	37
Goals scored	93 (2.51 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Ben Sahar (5)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The competition is held in two stages. First, fourteen Premier League teams were divided into three groups, five teams in groups A and B and four teams in group C, the teams playing against each other once. The best three teams from groups A and B and the best two teams from group C will advance to the quarter-finals, which will be played over two-legged ties. The semi-finals and the final are then played as one-legged matches in a neutral venue.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the cup by defeating Hapoel Kiryat Shmona 4–1 in the final.^[1]

Group stage

Groups were allocated according to geographic distribution of the clubs, with the northern clubs allocated to Group A (include team from Kfar Saba), In Group B allocated the three teams from Tel Aviv, one team from Petah Tikva and one more team from Ra'anana, the rest of the teams In Group C .

The matches started July 30th.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		MHA	HHA	IKS	BNS	HKS
1	Maccabi Haifa	4	3	1	0	6	3	+3	10	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—	1–0		2–1
2	Hapoel Haifa	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	5				—	1–1	2–2
3	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	4	0	4	0	2	2	0	4			0–0		—		0–0
4	Bnei Sakhnin	4	0	3	1	4	5	−1	3					1–1	—	0–0
5	Hapoel Kfar Saba	4	0	2	2	2	5	−3	2			2–3	0–2			—

Updated to match(es) played on 16 August 2016. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		MTA	BNY	HTA	MPT	HRA
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4	3	0	1	7	2	+5	9	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—			1–0	3–0
2	Bnei Yehuda	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7			2–1	—	0–2
3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	5			0–2		—		0–0
4	Maccabi Petah Tikva	4	1	1	2	3	3	0	4				1–2	0–0	—
5	Hapoel Ra'anana	4	0	2	2	1	6	−5	2				1–1		0–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 15 August 2016. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		ASH	HBS	HAS	BEI
1	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7	Qualified to Quarter-finals		—		2–2	3–1
2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6			0–1	—
3	Hapoel Ashkelon	3	0	2	1	3	8	−5	2				0–5	—	1–1
4	Beitar Jerusalem	3	0	1	2	4	8	−4	1				2–4		—

Updated to match(es) played on 10 August 2016. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.

Knockout Rounds

All times are in Israel Standard Time

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maccabi Haifa	3–4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–2	1–2
Bnei Yehuda	2–3	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	2–3	0–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–5	Hapoel Haifa	0–3	2–2
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–3 (a)	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	3–2	0–1

Semi-finals

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona v F.C. Ironi Ashdod

14 December 2016	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	1–0 (a.e.t.)	F.C. Ironi Ashdod	Petah Tikva
20:30	Azulay   120' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium Referee: Gal Leibovich

Hapoel Be'er Sheva v Hapoel Haifa

15 December 2016	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–1	Hapoel Haifa	Netanya
19:30	Sahar   44', 53' (pen.)	Report	10' Jazvić	Stadium: Netanya Stadium Referee: Oren Simanian

Final

28 December 2016

20:00

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4–1	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Sahar   34' (pen.), 36' Radi   73' Barda   90'	Report	70' (o.g.) Turjeman

Netanya Stadium

Referee: Ziv Adler

References

1. Hapoel Beersheba Rolls to Toto Cup Triumph Allon Sinai, 29 December 2016, Jerusalem Post

External links

• Official website 2012-07-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Hebrew)