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| Date | 23 November 1957 | ||||||
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| Venue | Basa Stadium, Tel Aviv | ||||||
| Referee | Werner | ||||||
| Attendance | 6,000 | ||||||
The 1957 Israel Super Cup was the first edition of the Israel Super Cup, an annual Israeli football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup. As the match was not set by the Israel Football Association, it was considered an unofficial cup, with the cup being donated by the family of Lt-Col Zivi Tzafriri, who died in battle during the Sinai War [1]
The Israel Super Cup, also known as Champion of Champions is an Israeli association football club competition played as a single match between the winner of the latest Israeli top league champions and the winner of the latest Israel State Cup. If a team won both the championship and the state cup, their designated rival for the Super Cup match was the league runner-up.
Liga Leumit is the second tier in the Israeli football league system below the Premier League.
The State Cup of Israel, is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israeli Football Association.
In the match, held on 23 November 1957, league champions Hapoel Tel Aviv had beaten Hapoel Petah Tikva 3–0.
Hapoel Tel-Aviv Football Club is an Israeli football club based in Tel Aviv, that competes in the Ligat Ha'al. The club's traditional home ground is Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa, but due to renovation the team temporarily plays at HaMoshava Stadium. To date, the club has won thirteen championships and sixteen State Cups. In 1967 Hapoel Tel Aviv became the first club to win the Asian Club Championships.
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. is an Israeli football club based in the city of Petah Tikva. Their most successful period was the late 1950s and early 1960s, in which the club won six championships, five of them in consecutive seasons. Although they have not won the title since 1963, Hapoel still hold the record for the number of back-to-back titles. The club's last piece of major silverware came in 2005 when they won the Toto Cup, and of all the clubs to have won the State Cup, Hapoel have the worst record in the finals, having won on only two of their nine appearances in the final.
