The 1979 Israel Super Cup was the ninth Israel Super Cup (14th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.
The match was played between Maccabi Tel Aviv, champions of the 1978–79 Liga Leumit and Beitar Jerusalem, winners of the 1978–79 Israel State Cup.
This was Maccabi Tel Aviv's 5th Israel Super Cup appearance (including unofficial matches) and Beitar's third. At the match, played at Bloomfield Stadium, Maccabi Tel Aviv won 2–0.Israel - List of 'Champions of Champions' (Super Cup) Finals Yaniv Bleicher, 3 July 2008, RSSSFMaccabi T.A. – "Champion of Champions" Beat Beitar Jerusalem 2:0 I. Almog, Davar, 2 September 1979, Historical Jewish Press
Match details
GK Emmanuel Schwarz RB Rami Marciano CB Meir Nimni CB Avi Yerushalmi LB Menachem Bello (c) CM Yehuda Katsav CM Yaron Oz CM Alon Kaplan FW Beni Tabak FW Moshe Schweitzer FW Vicky Peretz Substitutes:MF Avraham Levy FW Moshe Goldenberg Manager: Nissim Bachar GK Yossi Mizrahi RB Yossi Hacham DF Itzhak Jano DF Hanan Azulay (c)LB Moshe Golan RM Yigal Gruber CM Moshe Cohen (footballer) CM Danny Noyman LM David Yishai FW Eli Miali FW Yossi Avrahami Substitutes:DF Mordechai Levy MF Maman Manager: Emmanuel Scheffer
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