1960–61 Liga Leumit
# 1960–61 Liga Leumit

The 1960–61 Liga Leumit season saw Hapoel Petah Tikva crowned champions for the third successive season. Hapoel's Zecharia Ratzabi and Hapoel Haifa's Shlomo Levi were the joint top scorers with 15 goals each.

Beitar Tel Aviv were relegated to Liga Alef.

## Final table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 48 | 15 | +33 | 36 | |
| 2 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 38 | 20 | +18 | 30 | |
| 3 | Hapoel Haifa | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 29 | |
| 4 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 34 | 29 | +5 | 26 | |
| 5 | Maccabi Haifa | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 40 | 33 | +7 | 25 | |
| 6 | Maccabi Jaffa | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 27 | 28 | −1 | 23 | |
| 7 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 29 | 26 | +3 | 21 | |
| 8 | Shimshon Tel Aviv | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 29 | −11 | 20 | |
| 9 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 23 | 31 | −8 | 16 | |
| 10 | Maccabi Netanya | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 33 | −14 | 14 | |
| 11 | Bnei Yehuda | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 38 | −18 | 13 | |
| 12 | Beitar Tel Aviv | 22 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 50 | −33 | 11 | Relegated to Liga Alef |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BTA | BnY | HHA | HJE | HPT | HTA | MHA | MJA | MNE | MPT | MTA | STA |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Beitar Tel Aviv | — | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–6 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–3 |
| Bnei Yehuda | 3–0 | — | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–5 | 0–1 |
| Hapoel Haifa | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 5–0 |
| Hapoel Jerusalem | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 0–2 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 |
| Hapoel Petah Tikva | 5–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | — | 4–0 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 |
| Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–5 | 1–0 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Maccabi Haifa | 3–0 | 5–3 | 3–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 |
| Maccabi Jaffa | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 3–0 |
| Maccabi Netanya | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 |
| Shimshon Tel Aviv | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | — |
