Which Ligat Ha'al club is actually worth the most? Sport5 built a new interactive value quiz to make readers guess — and paired it with its own attempt at an answer: a club-by-club financial ranking of Israel's top flight ahead of the new season.
According to Sport5's model, Maccabi Haifa comes out on top, valued at roughly €83.8 million (about ₪300 million).
Maccabi Tel Aviv is close behind in second place, at an estimated €79.85 million (around ₪280 million) — a gap of only a few million euros separating Israel's two biggest clubs from one another, but a far wider one from the rest of the division.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva was rated third, at roughly €39 million (about ₪137 million) — less than half of Maccabi Tel Aviv's figure and under a third of the division-leading Maccabi Haifa number.
Beitar Jerusalem followed in fourth at an estimated €30.6 million (about ₪108 million), with Hapoel Tel Aviv rounding out the top five at roughly €23.6 million (around ₪82 million), Sport5 reported.
To arrive at the figures, Sport5 said its model combined four inputs: each squad's current market value as tracked by Transfermarkt, an estimate of the club's youth academy worth, projected subscriber and membership revenue, and prize money earned from UEFA competitions over the previous five seasons.
Sport5 was careful to frame the numbers as an estimate rather than an audited or legally binding valuation. The outlet noted the model does not account for factors professional buyers would weigh — real estate holdings, sponsorship potential or projected future revenue — the kind of detail that feeds Forbes-style valuations of Europe's biggest clubs.
That comparison is deliberate: Israeli football has no equivalent standardised, published valuation system for its clubs, which is part of why Sport5 said it built the model in the first place.
Turning the numbers into a quiz format — inviting fans to rank the clubs themselves before revealing Sport5's answer — is a familiar pre-season device for the outlet, timed to land as Ligat Ha'al sides return to training and supporters start arguing about where their club really stands, financially as much as on the pitch.
