The Israeli Best National League Scorers (ALL), 1954-2009

Last Updated: 02/06/2009

No.	Surname, Name	Games	Goals	Penalties	Average
1	Mizrahi, Alon	385	206	30	0.535
2	Makhnes, Oded	413	197	6	0.477
3	Nimni, Avi	430	194	42	0.451
4	Romeno, Moshe	439	192	9	0.437
5	Holtzman, Shai	480	169	36	0.352
6	Spiegler, Mordechai	373	168	26	0.450
7	Malmilian, Uri	466	159	51	0.341
8	Lavi, David	362	158	19	0.436
9	Stelmakh, Nakhum	364	155	2	0.426
10	Feigenbaum, Shiya	430	148	9	0.344
11	Damthi, Gideon	519	143	7	0.276
12	Zohar, Itzhak	389	139	30	0.357
13	Kakun, Moti	316	133	32	0.421
14	Glaser, Shiya	218	132	2	0.606
15	Shaharabani, Yehuda	375	129	17	0.344
16	Driks, Eli	449	129	2	0.287
17	Tabak, Beni	412	128	9	0.311
18	Turgeman, Amir	378	125	13	0.331
19	Kofman, Boaz	315	124	19	0.394
20	Vogel, Israel	376	124	11	0.330
21	Attar, Reuven	414	123	25	0.297
22	Serussi, Victor	321	122	0	0.380
23	Ohana, Eli	310	121	1	0.390
24	Avitan, Shalom	334	117	1	0.350
25	Armeli, Zahi	284	114	1	0.401
26	Onana, Moshe	416	113	7	0.272
27	Ratsbi, Zecharia	232	107	0	0.461
28	Ben-Rimoz, Eli	352	106	17	0.301
29	Levi, Shlomo	179	105	1	0.587
30	Shirazi, Hezi	423	105	0	0.248
31	Tubi, Assaf	266	104	10	0.391
32	Spiegel, Giora	288	103	11	0.358
33	Refua, Cobi	278	102	22	0.367
34	Sinai, Moshe	372	102	17	0.274
35	Bar-Nur, Dror	287	99	2	0.345
36	Yaani, Eli	331	98	1	0.296
37	Hazum, Ihiezkiel	324	96	2	0.296
38	Avvargeal, Yaniv	321	95	18	0.296
39	Ashkenazi, Israel	199	94	2	0.472
40	Levin, Nir	240	94	13	0.392
41	Ben-Tovim, Ehud	350	91	21	0.260
42	Shitrit, Offer	227	90	10	0.396
43	Jojosian, Bokhus	185	88	17	0.476
44	Mizrahi, Itzhak	227	88	6	0.388
45	Harazi, Ronen	205	87	4	0.424
46	Sevilla, Nir	274	86	1	0.314
47	Perets, Vickey	250	81	3	0.324
48	Single, Tsvi	339	81	0	0.239
49	Revivo, Haim	182	80	10	0.440
50	Rosenboim, Rehavia	237	80	0	0.338

Bold letters - the deceased players.
Bold italicized letters - currently active players (Ligat-ha'Al).
NOTE: The number of the active players' games may be inaccurate.

This is the list of "The Best Scorers" ever in the National League. Alon Mizrahi, twice the Best Forward of the European Cup Winners' Cup (1993-94, 1998-99), finished his career before the start of this season after having finally bypassed the 15-years old record of Oded Makhnes and opened the "Club 200". His record, it seems, wouldn't be broken for at least another 15 years...

It should be mentioned, though, that some of the players prefer to develop their own careers abroad and not to be included in some symbolic list. Quite understandable, isn't it? Giora Spiegel, Mordechai Spiegler, Beni Tabak, Eli Ohana and Moshe Sinai made this choice earlier, the only natural choice in a professional Soccer. Haim Revivo returned home for his last season to play for SC Ashdod before his retirement, after a glorious European career of 7 years and 51 league goals in Celta Vigo, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray; his magnificent career finally ended on March 31st, 2004, with yet another injury and 80 goals, but how different could his scoring sheet have become in those 7 years!.. The supertalent Yossi Benayoun left at the age of 21 for the Spanish club Racing Santander after having reached 71 goals in the Israeli League and advanced later to West Ham United and the superclub Liverpool FC.

As for the legionaries, the Israeli League never found a twin of Gabriel Batistuta - no great scorer stayed in the modest League for a number of seasons. The best ever foreign scorer in Israel is the Croatian superstar Giovanni Rosso (Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Hapoel Haifa, Beitar Jerusalem, Maccabee Haifa, Maccabee Tel-Aviv and again Macabee Haifa), who in his 12 seasons in Israel has reached 69 goals in 336 games. Istvan Salloi, the Hungarian midfielder of Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabee Herzliya, held a record previously with 68 goals in 149 games. Nikolai (Niko) Kudritskiy, the legendary Ukrainean forward of Bnei-Yehuda Tel- Aviv, tragically lost his life in a traffic accident near Raananna, staying forever with 50 goals in 85 games. Russian striker Roman Filipchuk finished his Israeli spell with 42 goals; Sergei Kandaurov, the legendary Ukrainean midfielder of Maccabee Haifa who advanced to a major European soccer power (Benfica Lisbon), reached 42 goals as well, but left for good after an unsuccessful Israeli comeback spell with SC Ashdod. The Hungarian top gun Istvan Pisont (Beitar Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel-Aviv, SC Ashdod and Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv) left Israel after 7 seasons, having had 37 goals on his scoring sheet. The Albanian Victor Pacha left for Kocaelispor in Turkey after having scored 42 goals in 4 seasons. The Polish forward Andrzej Kubica (Maccabee Tel-Aviv, SC Ashdod, Beitar Jerusalem and again Maccabee Tel-Aviv, 54 goals in 3.5 seasons), the first ever foreign winner of "The Best Scorer" award, as well as the Moldovian scorer Sergei Kleschenko (Maccabee Haifa, Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv, 52 goals in 4 seasons) had unfortunately finished their Israeli time on a minor note. Let us wait and see what the future brings to all those scorers, and whether there appear some new names of glory...

Speaking of legionaries, one can't help mentioning a very special story - Roberto Colautti. The Argentinean forward of Boca Juniors, came to Israel as a legionary, but has married an Israeli Alawit Strauss and got an Israeli citizenship, thus formally ceasing being a foreigner and even playing for the Israeli National team. His scoring abilities, be it for Maccabee Haifa in the Championship / the European Cups or in the National team, were a great story of success, as after 3 seasons with the Greens he had 39 goals on his Israeli League scoring sheet. But the hunger for internatonal success carried him to Europe, where his important last minute goal vs Schalke 04 kept Borussia Moenchengladbach in the First Bundesliga.


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