Summary of Maccabi Haifa's victory 0:2 over Hapoel Beer Sheva (Sport1)
20 different coaches spent this season in the Premier League, five of them coached more than one team, five others started the season and are still in the position.
On the occasion of the end of the regular season, it's time to rank them.
The rules: the ranking refers to the current season only and does not include temporary coaches.
After yesterday (Wednesday) we published places 20-11 in the ranking, it's time to reveal the top 10.
The day after the end of the regular season
Shaari Hamra: the numbers of the regular season in the Premier League for the 2022/23 season
The playoffs will start in Beer Sheva: the dates of the 27th round of
the Beitar Premier League against Hapoel Tel Aviv in the upcoming round: the lower playoff schedule
Place in the middle after a discount.
Crank (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
10. Aitor Karanka (Maccabi Tel Aviv from cycle 15)
Among Maccabi Tel Aviv fans there are those who label Karanka as the worst foreign coach in the Goldhar era.
A bit harsh definition for someone who has been here for a total of two months.
On the other hand, a coach who arrives in the middle of the season and regardless of the situation, is expected to bring something different and make a mark.
Mladen Krastych was certainly not a resounding success, but he left behind a dowry and will forever be remembered as the man who gave Oskar Gloch his first chance.
Cranka's legacy as of now is the inability to prepare, react, fight, pack it, even say anything beyond the banal.
The exchanges are strange, the preparation for the game is not clear, the method does not work.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fades from game to game with slow pace and boring football.
After assuming that he was thrown into a complex situation, in a foreign league, lost a significant star and did not receive a purchase, Karanka gets a place exactly in the middle - as befits a mediocre term with an asterisk.
9. Roni Levy (Hapoel Haifa from cycle 10)
Roni Levy is a kind of Israeli Maurizio Sarri.
He has a history of success and has been in prestigious places, one that allows him to come to the negotiating table from a position of strength and with a series of demands. He wants things to happen his way, not to get involved, it takes time to get used to it and those who don't line up fly home, no matter the names. Roni Levy is someone with a presence, someone who is felt.
This also happened in Hapoel Haifa. There were tactical changes and the team stabilized, there was a revolution in the squad and there was mainly a lot of noise. It is impossible to absolve the coach who guided the team for over half a regular season from responsibility for the failure, but for creating the effect on his behalf he Hove, Roni earns a place at the bottom of the top ten. This is precisely where the difference from Karanka lies. Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa cannot be compared in terms of goals, but in the case of Roni Levy there is an expectation to see the results of his process next season, and in the case of Karanka... well, You figured it out yourself.
He brought out a staff on the borderline of delusion more than any of his predecessors.
Haim Silves (Photo: Danny Maron)
8. Haim Silves (Sakhnin children, cohort 1-13, Hapoel Tel Aviv from cohort 18)
Yes, yes, you raised an eyebrow.
NOTED.
There is something very authentic about the syllabus that makes it one that is easy to relate to.
Reactions on the lines, preparations after games.
He does not apologize or look for excuses, but is engaged in a constant war of survival while deeply understanding what awaits him at any given moment.
Sylves got into a bad streak with Sakhnin and was fired after a reasonable round of seventh place.
Sylves arrived at Hapoel Tel Aviv and brought out a squad on the verge of delusion more than any of his predecessors when he received very little in the transfer window and behaved in uncertainty in the shadow of the change of owners.
Even if he doesn't continue, and the chances are high, Silves will finish a positive season for him.
7. Vladan Ivitch (Maccabi Tel Aviv cycle 1-14)
Maybe it's easy to talk in retrospect, but something didn't work in the renewed connection between Ivitch and Maccabi Tel Aviv from the first moment.
It has something to do with impossible expectations to recreate the nostalgia and dominance of two truly special seasons, but there is something beyond.
Ivitch saw the newborn.
He wasn't happy with the squad, he wasn't happy with the acquisition, he didn't hide the fact that he couldn't play the way he wanted, he understood where the business was going - and left when a tempting offer arrived.
He left behind hurt and angry fans who are now a little less angry.
They understand that Ivic may not have been the solution, but he certainly wasn't the problem.
Glide with impressive ease to the head coach position.
Kozhuch (photo: Barney Ardov)
6. Ran Kozhoch (Maccabi Netanya as head coach from cycle 12)
Kozhoch is seen as a brilliant football mind, but also one who has a question about his ability to lead and carry a team.
Not a figure, not a big name, exactly the kind of "transparent" people in Israeli football who find it more difficult to get a chance to lead a team in the Premier League.
Fortunately for Kozhoch, Eyal Segal abhors memes, or anything mainstream for that matter.
His thing is to do things differently than everyone else.
The assistant who started as a temporary coach, became permanent until the end of the season and is expected to receive a contract extension.
Beyond a 62 percent success rate, winning the Toto Cup, and qualifying for the top playoffs and the semi-finals of the State Cup, Kozhoch glided with impressive ease to the position of head coach, stabilized a team, zero stars and successfully passed the first impression test.
The beginning is promising, now Segal will have to show that he goes with him even when more difficult times come.
5. Yossi Aboksis (Beitar Jerusalem)
For a club that was in existential danger until just before the start of the season, gathered players in the summer so that it would be possible to train and was only really built during the season, seventh place is beyond success.
A necessary intermediate step on the way to a (slightly) better future.
Aboksis and Beitar found each other in a difficult moment and the connection between them is working. How much patience will Beitar fans have to accommodate an attractive team for episodes that can't really compete?
How will the audience react when the club also starts selling players?
These are important questions for another time.
In the season's coaches' rating, Aboksis entered the playoffs at the top even though his team found itself at the bottom.
Transformation of the year.
Ziv Aryeh (Photo: Danny Maron)
4. Ziv Aryeh (Hapoel Jerusalem)
Ziv Aryeh is trending.
Get the transformation of the year.
How did Ziv Arya turn from a half-annoying-half-funny gimmick, the enemy of the linemen, into one of the most successful coaches of the season?
The answer is simple: he hasn't changed.
He still hates the media and despises interviews, he still lives football obsessively from morning to night and doesn't care for a moment what people think of him and he is still the most powerful man here.
It's the media that in victories contains his craziness better.
The way of Ziv Aryeh and the bosses of Bahpoel Jerusalem has proven itself.
The fact that Hapoel Jerusalem finished in the top playoffs a year after barely surviving a shocking season puts Ziv Aryeh as a fairly senior candidate for a step up.
Maybe second only to come in line on the list.
3. Ran Ben Shimon (MS Ashdod)
When Ran Ben Shimon returned to Ashdod from Cyprus, it was clear to him that this was the project of his life.
The occasional successes at Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Petah Tikva did not stick with him and the historic championship with Kiryat Shmona became a distant memory.
He needed an ongoing success story in a small group.
He got a full back and aligned with the needs of a club that must sell players to survive.
Three years later, the project was crowned a success.
A top playoff, a cup semi-final, a crowd that wakes up, his team and the hype increases.
How did Yaniv Tuchman write here this week?
The closest thing to a championship.
It is not easy for a symbol like him to win the hearts of the fans as a coach as well.
Eliniv Barda (Photo: Danny Maron)
2. Eliniv Barda (Ha'poel Beer Sheva)
The debate was difficult, the battle was close, Barda deserves first place thanks to Beer Sheva's phenomenal regular season, at the end of which she remains as the only alternative in the fight for the championship.
Quite contrary to all early expectations and despite a certain quality gap in the staff level.
Breda is emerging as a coach type of coach.
He brings the same quietness and inner strength he had as a player to the lines.
A non-aggressive leader, a type that players follow.
It is not easy for a symbol like him to win the hearts of the fans as a coach as well, but Barda meanwhile is succeeding where many failed before him at other clubs.
He heads the strongest and most relevant Beer Sheva since the last championship.
One that can really call herself a candidate for the championship.
1. Barak Becher (Maccabi Haifa)
Thanks to qualifying for the Champions League, thanks to the ability to have a staff with an inflated ego and to continue to stand up even in difficult periods of falling energy, because he still creates self-deterrence, surprises, improvises and never stops innovating.
This is not the most brilliant Maccabi Haifa of its time, but the most powerful.
It's his.
Bacher hit his peak this year.
He knows it, Maccabi Haifa knows it, everyone knows it.
The day when Bachar will ask himself if he has achieved enough here, just after another of his lineage reaches its peak, is approaching.
The moment when he chooses to take a challenge overseas is approaching.
Meanwhile, he is still above everyone else.
Regular season coach.
never stops renewing.
Barak Bacher (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
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