Double (association football)
Club Number Seasons
Maccabi Tel Aviv 7 1946-47 , 1953-54 , 1957-58 , 1969-70 , 1976-77 , 1995-96 , 2014-15
Hapoel Tel Aviv 4 1933-34 , 1937-38 , 1999-2000 , 2009-10
British Police 1 1931-32
Maccabi Netanya 1 1977-78
Maccabi Haifa 1 1990-91
Beitar Jerusalem 1 2007-08
Europe -- Israel
In Israel , the Double can be achieved by winning the Top division championship and the Israel State Cup . The team that has won the most doubles to date is Maccabi Tel Aviv , with seven wins , followed by their city rivals , Hapoel Tel Aviv with four wins . A total of 15 doubles have been won .
The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. The lists in this article examine this definition of a double, while derivative sections examine much less frequent, continental instances. The Double can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as doing the double over a particular opponent. The first club to achieve a double was Preston North End in 1889, winning the FA Cup and The Football League in the inaugural season of the league. The team that holds the record for the most doubles is Linfield of Northern Ireland, with a total of 24.