The league administration announced the dates of the games for the first round of the Premier League: The champion will host Maccabi Petah Tikva on Sunday (September 30) as part of the main game • The newcomer Bnei Sakhnin will host Bnei Yehuda on Saturday • All dates and details

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  Oded Karni

The director of the leagues announced tonight (Thursday) the dates of the games for the first round of the Premier League. The placement of the games shows that the match between MS Ashdod and Kiryat Shmona will actually open the season, and on the same Saturday (29.9) there will be two more games: Bnei Sakhnin will meet Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Kfar Saba against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

A day later, all four big players participating in the European factories will join the circle of games. The main game will bring the champion Maccabi Tel Aviv to Maccabi Petah Tikva at 21:00. In another game, Barak Bachar's Maccabi Haifa will meet the local Hapoel Hadera in Netanya (20:30). Two more games that Sunday: Hapoel Beer Sheva will host Maccabi Netanya (20:00) and Hapoel Haifa will host Betar Jerusalem (20:15).

The principal noted that: “The dates depend on the progress of the Israeli representation in Europe due to the need to synchronize the days of the games. Accordingly, the placement and publication of the 2nd round games (which will take place on the weekend of 12.09) will only take place after the end of the first round games of the Europa League qualifiers and the draw for the second round games. "