2020–21 Israeli Basketball Premier League

Israeli Basketball Premier League
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Season	2020–21
Dates	1 November 2020 – 17 June 2021
Number of games	208
Number of teams	13
TV partner(s)	Sports Channel
Regular season
Season MVP	Casey Prather
Relegated	Ironi Nahariya; Maccabi Haifa
Finals
Champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv (55th title)
Runners-up	Hapoel Gilboa Galil
Semifinalists	Hapoel Holon; Hapoel Eilat
Finals MVP	Scottie Wilbekin
Awards
Israeli MVP	Yiftach Ziv
Rising Star	Yair Kravitz
Best Defender	Chris Johnson
Most Improved	Noam Dovrat
Sixth Man	Guy Pnini
Coach of the Year	Stefanos Dedas
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Caleb Agada
Rebounds	Josh Nebo
Assists	Tamir Blatt
Index Rating	Keenan Evans
	← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 17 June 2021.

The 2020–21 Israeli Basketball Premier League, for sponsorship reasons Ligat Winner, was the 67th season of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

Format

The regular season will be played in a 26-round Round-Robin format.
The top 6 finishers will play the 5 round "upper house", with the other 7 teams playing the 7 round "bottom group".
The 6 upper group teams, joined by the top 2 teams from the bottom group, will play the originally planned to be Best-of-5 Quarter finals as Best-of-3 series.^[1]
The Semi finals and Finals will also be played as Best-of-3 series.^[2]

Teams

Herzliya

Teams of the 2020–21 Israeli Basketball Premier League

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Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Be'er Sheva	Conch Arena	3,000
Hapoel Eilat	Eilat	Begin Arena	1,490
Hapoel Gilboa Galil	Gilboa Regional Council	Gan Ner Sports Hall	2,100
Hapoel Haifa	Haifa	Romema Arena	5,000
Hapoel Holon	Holon	Holon Toto Hall	5,500
Hapoel Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Pais Arena	11,000
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Drive in Arena	3,504
Ironi Nahariya	Nahariya	Ein Sarah	2,500
Ironi Nes Ziona	Ness Ziona	Lev Hamoshava	1,200
Bnei Herzliya	Herzliya	HaYovel Herzliya	1,500
Maccabi Haifa	Haifa	Romema Arena	5,000
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	Rishon LeZion	Beit Maccabi Rishon	2,500
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383

Team	Chairman	Head coach	Team captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Bnei Herzliya	Eldad Akunis	Sharon Drucker	Nitzan Hanochi	Peak
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Kfir Arazi	Rami Hadar	Spencer Weisz	Spalding	Altshuler Shaham
Hapoel Eilat	Tal Pinhas	Ariel Beit-Halahmy	Jonathan Skjöldebrand	Peak	Yossi Avrahami
Hapoel Gilboa Galil	Haim Ohayon	Avishai Gordon	Yotam Hanochi		Gilboa Regional Council
Hapoel Haifa	Yuval Rosman	Elad Hasin	Ofek Avital		B-CURE LASER
Hapoel Holon	Eitan Lanciano	Stefanos Dedas	Guy Pnini	Kelme	Unet credit
Hapoel Jerusalem	Eyal Chomski	Yonathan Alon	J'Covan Brown	Peak	Bank Yahav
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Rami Cohen	Danny Franco	Yam Madar		SP Metzer
Ironi Nahariya	Zviel Rubin	Shai Segalovich	Orr Leumi		Geshem Holdings
Ironi Nes Ziona	Yaniv Mizrahi	Brad Greenberg	Tal Dunne	Kappa	Chai Motors
Maccabi Haifa	Jeff Rosen	Amit Ben David	Alex Chubrevich	Joma
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	Itzhak Peri	Guy Goodes	Darryl Monroe	Under Armour	Zarfati Zvi and his sons
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Shimon Mizrahi	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	John DiBartolomeo	Nike	Playtika

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Ironi Nahariya	Danny Franco	Resigned	22 December 2020	11th (1–5)	Shai Segalovich	24 December 2020
Hapoel Jerusalem	Oded Kattash	Mutual consent	14 January 2021	3rd (7–2)	Dainius Adomaitis	14 January 2021
Hapoel Gilboa Galil	Lior Lubin	Mutual consent	14 January 2021	4th (7–2)	Avishai Gordon	14 January 2021
Hapeol Tel Aviv	Ioannis Kastritis	Fired	5 February 2021	11th (3–8)	Danny Franco	5 February 2021
Maccabi Haifa	Daniel Seoane		6 March 2021	13th (2–12)	Amit Ben David	6 March 2021
Hapoel Jerusalem	Dainius Adomaitis		9 April 2021	5rd (13–8)	Yonathan Alon	9 April 2021

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Qualification or relegation
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	24	19	5	2152	1824	+328	.792	Advance to the Top-teams League Group
2	Hapoel Eilat	24	17	7	2200	2032	+168	.708
3	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	24	17	7	2009	1915	+94	.708
4	Hapoel Holon	24	16	8	2086	1990	+96	.667
5	Hapoel Haifa	24	14	10	2087	2130	−43	.583
6	Hapoel Jerusalem	24	13	11	2123	2100	+23	.542
7	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	24	13	11	2054	1999	+55	.542	Advance to the Bottom-Teams League Group
8	Ironi Nes Ziona	24	12	12	2022	1997	+25	.500
9	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	24	11	13	2098	2090	+8	.458
10	Hapoel Tel Aviv	24	8	16	2010	2087	−77	.333
11	Bnei Herzliya	24	7	17	2060	2111	−51	.292
12	Maccabi Haifa	24	6	18	1959	2200	−241	.250
13	Ironi Nahariya	24	3	21	1937	2322	−385	.125

Home \ Away	MTA	HEI	HGG	HHO	HHA	HJE	HBS	INZ	MRL	HTA	BNH	MHA	INA
Maccabi Tel Aviv		86–74	70–79	100–81	81–75	101–80	100–74	96–74	105–77	80–77	98–75	95–60	107–63
Hapoel Eilat	91–85		89–75	77–83	89–80	79–100	85–72	95–85	86–84	108–93	84–98	98–88	123–60
Hapoel Gilboa Galil	85–78	77–100		80–82	96–79	81–75	86–73	92–89	75–85	88–68	92–78	77–78	92–72
Hapoel Holon	79–76	80–73	81–88		96–88	103–94	82–75	90–92	99–94	77–63	90–85	105–69	98–76
Hapoel Haifa	67–104	84–97	68–83	96–85		101–99	101–91	106–91	85–84	92–78	80–79	87–84	97–87
Hapoel Jerusalem	76–100	95–104	83–101	82–73	87–100		94–66	83–99	97–84	89–95	96–86	111–77	91–82
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	93–79	93–88	83–60	86–89	78–82	81–83		93–89	98–84	88–75	94–86	94–86	104–80
Ironi Nes Ziona	58–65	84–89	88–74	84–76	100–70	78–84	85–78		93–73	76–66	80–74	80–76	76–71
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	72–89	90–95	69–71	100–91	104–98	98–67	62–70	79–74		86–84	93–85	102–72	91–93
Hapoel Tel Aviv	69–85	91–81	91–107	104–98	71–80	76–88	95–86	82–80	85–91		86–98	83–92	112–77
Bnei Herzliya	86–92	78–103	89–95	71–85	91–79	80–88	75–77	82–79	84–87	89–99		104–77	104–88
Maccabi Haifa	78–82	81–85	77–82	70–79	91–100	75–94	61–102	113–94	106–99	80–73	89–79		77–85
Ironi Nahariya	81–98	90–107	63–73	67–84	84–92	80–87	92–105	90–94	88–110	71–94	80–104	110–102

2020–21 Israeli Basketball Premier League

Format

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

Regular season

Rounds 1 to 26

Top-teams League Group

Positions by games played

Bottom-Teams League Group

Positions by Round

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Semifinals

Game 1

Game 2

Finals

Awards

MVP of the Round

Monthly Awards

Player of the Month

Israeli Player of the Month

Coach of the Month

Yearly awards

Israeli clubs in European competitions

References

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Qualification or relegation	MTA	HHO	HGG	HEI	HHA	HJE
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	29	23	6	2567	2185	+382	.793	Advance to the playoffs		86–65		95–72	85–76
2	Hapoel Holon	29	19	10	2515	2419	+96	.655					104–93		103–81
3	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	29	19	10	2432	2327	+105	.655		65–67	83–88			77–63
4	Hapoel Eilat	29	18	11	2662	2528	+134	.621				95–104		123–97	79–96
5	Hapoel Haifa	29	16	13	2506	2569	−63	.552			86–69				97–85
6	Hapoel Jerusalem	29	16	13	2567	2555	+12	.552		83–82		99–94

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Qualification or relegation	INZ	HBS	MRL	HTA	BNH	MHA	INA
7	Ironi Nes Ziona	30	17	13	2627	2522	+105	.567	Advance to the playoffs			87–86		87–98		105–91
8	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	30	17	13	2589	2521	+68	.567	Advance to the playoffs	82–107			99–100		85–76
9	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	30	15	15	2673	2608	+65	.500			83–87		99–93		113–83
10	Hapoel Tel Aviv	30	12	18	2562	2639	−77	.400		89–113				82–79		96–74
11	Bnei Herzliya	30	10	20	2611	2651	−40	.333			81–92	88–106			108–88
12	Maccabi Haifa	30	7	23	2478	2788	−310	.233	Relegation to Liga Leumit	79–106			88–92			105–84
13	Ironi Nahariya	30	3	27	2426	2903	−477	.100	Relegation to Liga Leumit		75–90	80–88		85–97

Team ╲ Round^{Bnei Herzliya}	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Team ╲ Round^{Bnei Herzliya}	Maccabi Haifa	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Ironi Nahariya	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	67–56	93–92	—
Hapoel Eilat	2–0	Hapoel Haifa	84–80	98–87	—
Hapoel Holon	2–1	Ironi Nes Ziona	92–90	75–86	85–76
Hapoel Gilboa Galil	2–0	Hapoel Jerusalem	85–58	91–89	—