The 2018–19 Toto Cup Al is the 34th season of the third-important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the 13th tournament involving Israeli Premier League clubs only.
Maccabi Tel Aviv are the defending champions.Maccabi Tel Aviv captures Toto Cup over Be'er Sheva Allon Sinai, 15 December 2017, Jerusalem Post
Format changes The four clubs playing in the Champions League and Europa League (Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa) will not take part in the group stage, while the remaining ten clubs were divided into two groups of five clubs. At the end of the group stage each of the group winners will qualify to the semi-finals. Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Hapoel Haifa will play (in the 2018 Israel Super Cup match) for a place in one of the semi-finals (meeting the group winner with the fewest points accumulated), while Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem will play for a place in the other semi-final (meeting the group winner with the most points accumulated). All the clubs will participate in classification play-offs.Premier League Matches Draw: Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Maccabi Haifa in the First Round Walla!, 19 June 2018
Group stage Groups were allocated according to geographic distribution of the clubs, with the northern clubs allocated to Group A, and the southern clubs allocated to Group B. Each club will play the other clubs once.
The matches are scheduled to start on 28 July 2018.
Key to colours in group tablesTeams advanced to the Quarterfinals
Group A
Group B
European qualification route Israel Super Cup
UEFA qualifiers match
Classification play-offs 13-14th classification match
11-12th classification match
9-10th classification match
7-8th classification match
5-6th classification match
Semi-finals
Final
Final rankings Team 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2 Maccabi Haifa 3 Hapoel Haifa 4 Hapoel Tel Aviv 5 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 6 Maccabi Netanya 7 Maccabi Petah Tikva 8 Beitar Jerusalem 9 Bnei Sakhnin 10 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv 11 Hapoel Ra'anana 12 Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona 13 Hapoel Hadera 14 F.C. Ashdod
References
External links Official website