1988–89 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season
{{Unreferenced|date=April 2010}}
{{Infobox football club season
| club = Maccabi Haifa
| season = 1988–89
| manager = {{flagicon|ISR}} Amazzia Levkovic
| chairman =
| league = 1988–89 Liga Leumit
| league result = 1st
| cup1 = State Cup
| cup1 result = Runners-up
| cup2 = Toto Cup
| cup2 result =
| league topscorer =
| season topscorer =
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| highest attendance = 15,000 vs Hapoel Petah Tikva
(13 May 1989)
| lowest attendance = 4,000 vs Hapoel Petah Tikva
(24 September 1988)
| average attendance = 7,633
| prevseason = 1987–88
| nextseason = 1989–90
}}
The 1988–89 season was Maccabi Haifa's 31st season in the Liga Leumit, and their 8th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.
The season was a great success for the club winning the league and coming extremely close to winning the State Cup to go with it.
First Division
{{main|1988–89 Liga Leumit}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |
| Date
!Opponents !H / A !Result !Scorers !Attendance |
|---|
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|17 September 1988 |H |2 – 2 |6,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|24 September 1988 |H |3 – 0 |4,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|1 October 1988 |A |2 – 1 |1,500 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|8 October 1988 |H |0 – 0 | |12,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|15 October 1988 |A |0 – 0 | |7,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|22 October 1988 |H |2 – 1 |7,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|29 October 1988 |A |1 – 1 |8,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|5 November 1988 |H |0 – 0 | |8,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|30 October 1988 |A |3 – 1 |5,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|19 November 1988 |H |1 – 1 |6,500 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|26 November 1988 |A |4 – 1 |2,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|3 December 1988 |H |3 – 1 |8,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|9 December 1988 |A |1 – 1 |4,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|17 December 1988 |A |1 – 1 |3,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffdddd"
|24 December 1988 |A |0 – 2 | |2,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|31 December 1988 |H |1 – 1 |6,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|7 January 1989 |A |2 – 2 |2,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|14 January 1989 |H |0 – 0 | |6,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|21 January 1989 |A |3 – 0 |2,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|28 January 1989 |H |5 – 0 |6,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|4 February 1989 |A |2 – 0 |10,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|11 February 1989 |H |2 – 0 |12,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|18 February 1989 |A |0 – 0 | |4,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|25 February 1989 |A |2 – 0 |Technical Win |3,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|11 March 1989 |A |0 – 0 | |3,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|25 March 1989 |H |1 – 0 |5,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|22 April 1989 |H |3 – 0 |5,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|29 April 1989 |A |2 – 0 |8,000 |
| bgcolor="#ddffdd"
|6 May 1989 |H |2 – 1 |8,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffffdd"
|13 May 1989 |H |1 – 1 |15,000 |
| bgcolor="#ffdddd"
|20 May 1989 |A |0 – 1 | |3,000 |
{{:1988–89 Liga Leumit|transcludesection=Championship group|showteam=MHA}}
State Cup
Toto Cup
Squad statistics
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | ||||||||
| rowspan="2" valign="bottom"|Pos.
!rowspan="2"|Name !colspan="2" width="85"|League !colspan="2" width="85"|State Cup !colspan="2" width="85"|Toto Cup !colspan="2" width="85"|Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps
!Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals | ||||||||
| align="left"|GK | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Giora Antman
|31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Eitan Aharoni
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Marco Balbul
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ARG}} Fabian Grimberg
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} David Levy
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Zion Merili
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|DF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Yossi Tsarfati
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Avraham Abukarat
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Reuven Atar
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Yaron Givol
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Nir Klinger
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Yossi Kramer
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|MF | align="left"|{{flagicon|ARG}} Fabian Lagman
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Zahi Armeli
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Avi Golder
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Zadok Malka
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Offer Mizrahi
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Itai Mordechai
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ISR}} Raffi Osmo
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| align="left"|FW | align="left"|{{flagicon|ARG}} Patricio Sayegh
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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