Hapoel Tel Aviv were promoted as the winners of the 2017–18 Liga Leumit.

This ends the team's one-year absence from the top division.

This marked the return of Hadera to the top division after 39 years of absence.

The number of foreign players were restricted to six per team, while only five could have been registered to a game.

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 26 games) Due to 3 teams that play in the Netanya stadium qualifying to this round, and in order to insure that all the last games of this round, can be played in the same time(for purity reasons), the order of the games, has been changed.