1933–34 in Mandatory Palestine football

The 1933–34 season was the 7th season of competitive football in the British Mandate for Palestine under the Eretz Israel Football Association and the 2nd under the Arab Palestine Sports Federation.

IFA Competitions

1933–34 Palestine League

Due to orders of the High Commissioner for Palestine, the second edition of the Palestine League was played without participation of British teams, including the reigning champions, British Police. Hapoel Tel Aviv won the title after completing a perfect season of 14 victories in 14 matches.

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|1||align=left|Hapoel Tel Aviv ||14||14||0||0||42||6||36||28
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|2||align=left|Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem||13||7||2||4||26||14||12||16
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|3||align=left|Maccabi Tel Aviv||13||5||3||5||23||21||2||13
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|4||align=left|Hapoel Haifa||11||4||4||3||23||18||5||12
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|5||align=left|Maccabi Avshalom Petah Tikva||11||5||2||4||14||16||-2||12
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|6||align=left|Maccabi Nes Tziona||13||4||2||7||9||24||-15||10
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|7||align=left|Maccabi Rehovot||12||2||2||8||11||30||-19||6
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|8||align=left|Hapoel Jerusalem||13||0||3||10||10||35||-25||3
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1934 Palestine Cup

10 clubs entered the competition, which ended, as the previous competition, with a Tel Aviv derby. This time Hapoel defeated Maccabi 3–2 and won the cup.

Final

National team

1934 World Cup Qualification 

The EIFA entered a team to the 1934 World Cup, and was placed in Group 12 of the qualification rounds, with Egypt and Turkey. Following Turkey's withdrawal, the national team faced Egypt in a two-legged tie.
Prior to the first match the national team played three practice matches, the first against a Royal Air Force Palestine XI, which was won 7–2, the second against a British military team from Gaza, which was won 3–1, and the second against a Royal Air Force Middle East XI, which was won 8–1.

Egypt qualified for the final round.

Line-ups
Coaches:  Egon Pollak,  Shimon Ratner

16/03/1934: 
GK: Willy Berger (Hap. Tel Aviv)
DF: Avraham Reznik (Mac. Tel Aviv), Pinhas Fiedler (Mac. Hasmonean)
MF: Zalman Friedman (Hap. Tel Aviv), Gedalyahu Fuchs (Hap. Haifa), Yohanan Sukenik (Hap. Tel Aviv)
FW: Amnon Harlap (Hap. Tel Aviv), Ferenc Kraus (Hap. Tel Aviv), Paul Kastenbaum (Hap. Tel Aviv), Haim Reich, Avraham Nudelman (Hap. Tel Aviv)

06/04/1934:
GK: Willy Berger (Hap. Tel Aviv) 
DF: David Weinberg (Mac. Tel Aviv), Pinhas Fiedler (Mac. Hasmonean) 
MF: Zalman Friedman (Hap. Tel Aviv), Gedalyahu Fuchs (Hap. Haifa), Yohanan Sukenik (Hap. Tel Aviv) 
FW: Amnon Harlap (Hap. Tel Aviv), Ya'akov Levi-Meir (Hap. Tel Aviv), Ya'akov Zelivanski (Mac. Tel Aviv), Haim Reich, Avraham Nudelman (Hap. Tel Aviv)

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