1939 Palestine League

The 1939 Palestine League was the seventh season of league football in the British Mandate for Palestine.

Palestine League
Season1939
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Due to the Arab Revolt the league was split into regional leagues in Tel Aviv (two tiers), Samaria and South districts,[1] while in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tiberias leagues were played, managed by the British Army.

Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Tel Aviv regional league on goal average,[2] while Beitar Netanya and Maccabi Rehovot won the Samaria and Southern divisions. Neither of the winning teams is listed as champions in the Israel Football Association.[3][4]

Tel Aviv regional league

Division I
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (C) 10 8 1 1 32 8 4.000 17
2 Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 8 1 1 31 10 3.100 17
3 Maccabi Petah Tikva 10 5 1 4 16 12 1.333 11
4 Maccabi Nes Tziona 10 3 1 6 12 28 0.429 7
5 Hapoel Herzliya 10 1 2 7 13 28 0.464 4
6 Hakoah Tel Aviv 10 1 2 7 13 31 0.419 4
Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 1939. Source: IFA, The Palestine Post
(C) Champion.

Division II
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1 Beitar Tel Aviv (C) 22 20 2 0 110 13 8.462 42
2 Degel Zion Tel Aviv 22 16 3 3 91 17 5.353 35
3 Egged Tel Aviv 21 16 2 3 72 24 3.000 34
4 Hapoel Petah Tikva 22 13 4 5 63 34 1.853 30
5 Hegge Tel Aviv 22 13 2 7 68 27 2.519 28
6 HaTehiya Tel Aviv 22 12 3 7 54 45 1.200 27
7 Hapoel Ramat Gan 21 7 2 12 57 86 0.663 16
8 Hakoah Maccabi Petah Tikva 21 6 2 13 45 63 0.714 14
9 Maccabi Herzliya 21 5 3 13 30 64 0.469 13
10 Hapoel Ra'anana 22 5 1 16 22 85 0.259 11
11 Maccabi Ramat Gan 21 2 1 18 19 102 0.186 5
12 HaKochav Tel Aviv 22 1 1 20 15 75 0.200 3
Updated to match(es) played on 24 December 1939. Source: IFA, The Palestine Post
(C) Champion.

Samaria regional league
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1 Beitar Netanya (C) 10 7 1 2 27 5 5.400 15
2 Hapoel Hadera 10 7 1 2 37 9 4.111 15
3 Maccabi Netanya 10 4 2 4 12 16 0.750 10
4 Maccabi Binyamina 10 4 1 5 21 22 0.955 9
5 Maccabi Hadera 10 2 2 6 10 24 0.417 6
6 Hapoel Netanya 10 2 1 7 7 38 0.184 5
Updated to match(es) played on 13 May1939. Source: IFA, The Palestine Post
(C) Champion.

Southern regional league
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1 Maccabi Rehovot (C) 14 12 0 2 52 11 4.727 24
2 Hapoel Rishon LeZion 14 10 3 1 48 21 2.286 23
3 RSG Rehovot 14 10 2 2 40 17 2.353 22
4 Maccabi Gedera 14 5 1 8 18 27 0.667 11
5 Maccabi Rishon LeZion 14 4 1 9 33 27 1.222 8[lower-alpha 1]
6 Hapoel Rehovot 14 4 0 10 23 37 0.622 8
7 Hapoel Nes Tziona 14 3 0 11 18 52 0.346 6
8 Beitar Rishon LeZion 14 3 1 10 18 58 0.310 6[lower-alpha 1]
Updated to match(es) played on 3 December 1939. Source: IFA, The Palestine Post
(C) Champion.
Notes:
  1. No points or goals were awarded for a match between Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Beitar Rishon LeZion.

References
  1. New League for Palestine The Palestine Post, 22 February 1939, Historical Jewish Press
  2. Maccabi Tel Aviv Champion of The Football League HaBoker, 26 November 1939, via archive.football.org.il (in Hebrew)
  3. "List of Champions" (in Hebrew). Israel Football Association. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  4. How Many Championships Does Maccabi Tel Aviv Have? Ron Amikam, 8 July 2009, nrg.co.il (in Hebrew)
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