First, sixteen Liga Leumit teams were divided into four regionalized groups, with the winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.
Quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final are due to be held as one-legged matches.
The defending cup holders, Maccabi Sha'arayim, are not competing in this edition, as the club was relegated to Liga Alef at the end of the previous season.
[1] Groups were allocated according to geographic distribution of the clubs.
[2] If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.