List of Israel State Cup winners

Maccabi Petah Tikva are the current Israel State Cup holders, having beaten Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1–0 in the final for their third title.

The sustained good performance of Beitar Jerusalem, the next most successful team in terms of State Cup wins with seven, is a relatively recent occurrence compared to the two major Tel Aviv clubs: Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv have been consistently successful throughout the cup's history, but Beitar Jerusalem only reached their first finals in the 1970s.

[1] Starting in 1922, unofficial cup competitions were held in Mandatory Palestine on an annual, national basis under the sponsorship of Britain's military garrison there.

The next four editions of this competition were won by a Royal Air Force team drawn from across the Mandate, which beat the Ramla side in the 1927 decider.

[7] The Eretz Israel Football Association was founded in August 1928,[11] and the first officially sanctioned national tournament was held the same year as the "People's Cup".

The Jerusalem-based British Police side won in 1932 and Maccabi Petah Tikva lifted the cup three years later.

During this period Hapoel Tel Aviv won three consecuive cup titles (1937 to 1939), which remains a record to this day.

At the end of the Mandate period, Maccabi Tel Aviv were the most successful team in the national cup, with six final wins; their city rivals Hapoel followed with five.

Despite this, the People's Cup trophy was awarded after the 1943 final to the victorious team of British artillerymen, Gunners.

The 1944–45 War Cup was controversial both at its beginning and at its end—it was boycotted from the start by clubs of the Beitar organisation and its final match, held on 13 January 1945, was abandoned.

The official sent the offending player off, but he vehemently refused to leave the pitch, causing significant disruption.

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv first lifted the trophy in 1968, and Hakoah Ramat Gan did the same a year later.

A modern association football team lines up for a pre-match photograph. Five players squat in front of a line of six, which stands. All of the players wear a dark blue uniform with yellow markings, apart from the player to the extreme right of the standing row, who wears an orange shirt with black shorts and socks. He also wears a pair of white gloves, indicating that he is the team's goalkeeper.
Maccabi Tel Aviv (2011 team pictured) have won the Israel State Cup on a record 24 occasions. [ 1 ]
A black-and-white photograph of an athletic-looking association football player of Semitic appearance, wearing a dark shirt, white shorts and dark socks and kicking an old-fashioned football with his right foot
Shmuel Ginzburg played for Maccabi Tel Aviv from 1936 to 1943 and contributed to the team's cup win in 1941. [ 10 ]
A group of men congregate around a silver trophy on the ground in this black-and-white photograph. Five men squat beside it, while ten stand behind. The five men at the front and six of those behind wear soccer attire; ten wear dark shirts marked with a white "V" extending from each shoulder to meet on the chest, with white shorts and hooped socks. The eleventh player, the goalkeeper, appears to be wearing all black. The four non-players wear street clothes; one wears a t-shirt and a greatcoat, while the other three wear suits and greatcoats.
Hapoel Tel Aviv players and staff before the 1961 final, which they won 2–1 against Hapoel Petah Tikva