6 groups following 3 tickets

At the end of a busy Saturday in the Premier League and as the regular season draws to a close, the battle for the last places in the top playoffs only heats up. Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv have long since secured their place, MS Ashdod III is very close to joining them and only a nightmare scenario will keep it out of the top six, but the battle for the remaining three tickets is just hot and includes no less than 6 teams – Maccabi Petah Tikva, Hapoel Beer Sheva, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Haifa, Kiryat Shmona and Beitar Jerusalem.

So how many games are left for each and what are the direct encounters between the teams that will try to qualify for the top playoffs, and on the way to avoid the nerve-wracking underground fights in the bottom playoffs. We make you order in a hurry.

Fourth place: Maccabi Petah Tikva – 32 points (21 games)

Maccabi Netanya (b)
Maccabi Haifa (H)
Kiryat Shmona Urban (h)
Hapoel Beer Sheva (b)
Bnei Sakhnin (h)

Maccabi Petah Tikva players (Noam Moreno)

Fifth place: Hapoel Beer Sheva – 31 points (21 games)

Betar Jerusalem (b)
Urban Kiryat Shmona (h)
Hapoel Tel Aviv (b)
Maccabi Petah Tikva (H)
Bnei Yehuda (b)

Hapoel Beer Sheva players celebrate with Anthony and Arn (Oren Ben Hakon)

Sixth place: Maccabi Netanya – 30 points (22 games)

Maccabi Petah Tikva (H)
Bnei Yehuda (b)
Hapoel Hadera (b)
Maccabi Haifa (H)

Maccabi Netanya players celebrate (Shahar Gross)

Seventh place: Hapoel Haifa – 28 points (22 games)

Maccabi Tel Aviv (b)
Hapoel Kfar Saba (h)
MS Ashdod (B)
Hapoel Hadera (H)

Hapoel Haifa players celebrate with Hanan Maman (Omri Stein)

Eighth place: Kiryat Shmona – 28 points (21 games)

Hapoel B’Sh (b)
Bnei Sakhnin (h)
Maccabi Petah Tikva (b)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (b)
Hapoel Kafas (H)

Kiryat Shmona players (Nissan Aish)

Ninth place: Betar Jerusalem – 27 points (20 games)

Hapoel B’Sh (H)
Bnei Sakhnin (b)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (H)
Bnei Yehuda (b)
Hapoel Kfar Saba (b)
MS Ashdod (H)

Betar Jerusalem Players (Hagai Michaeli)