Maccabi Tel Aviv (soccer)
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| Surname | Moadon Kadu Rule Maccabi Tel Aviv | |||
| Seat | Tel Aviv | |||
| founding | 1906 | |||
| president |
 Mitchell Goldhar
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| Website | maccabi-tlv.co.il | |||
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| Head coach |
 Georgios Donis
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| Venue | Bloomfield Stadium | |||
| Places | 29,150 | |||
| league | Ligat ha'Al | |||
| 2019/20 |
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The Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv ( Hebrew : מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביב; - Football Club Maccabi Tel Aviv ) is the football division of the largest Israeli sports club Maccabi Tel Aviv , also known for its basketball division .
Founded in Jaffa in 1906 as HaRishon LeZiyyon, Maccabi is not only one of the oldest football clubs in Israel, but also the most successful with 22 championships and 23 cup wins. Maccabi has played at the highest level in the Ligat ha'Al without interruption since 1949 . The main rival is local rival Hapoel Tel Aviv .
The club won the Asian Club Championship in 1968 and 1971 . The club won the final in 1971 without a fight when the Iraqi “police club” Al-Shorta from Baghdad refused to take part.
Name and coat of arms
In the club's coat of arms, the Star of David is prominent in the execution of the Maccabi movement , the aim of which is to promote the awareness of Jewish youth for religious , cultural and national values. The term “Maccabi” is derived from the name of a priestly family, the Maccabees , whose members are viewed as freedom fighters.
history
Founding years (1906–1927)
On the eve of Passover in 1906, a group of boys between the ages of 14 and 16 met at Meir Dizengoff's house . They decided to found the first Jewish football club in what was then Ottoman Palestine. The Maccabi HaRishon LeZion was born. The first game was won 3-0 against a team made up of French seafarers. After the city of Tel Aviv was founded in 1909, the association was renamed Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Football in Palestine (1928-1945)
In 1928 the Palestine Football Association was founded. The first members of the football association included Maccabi, Allenbi Hapoel (later Hapoel Tel Aviv) and a number of British clubs. This enabled the country's first football league to be founded. In the same year the Israeli Cup was founded under the name "People Cup". The first derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Allenbi Hapoel also took place in 1928 and was decided with a 3-0 by Maccabi. In 1929 the club was able to win its first state cup. In the final Maccabi HaShmona'i was defeated. In 1930 the second cup success was made sure. The team won 2-1 against the 48th platoon of the British Army.
In 1936 Maccabi was invited to the USA. On their way there were two friendlies in France . But it wasn't enough to win against Racing Paris and Olympic Lille. In the United States, the team defeated a New York All Star team in the 50,000-strong Yankee Stadium . More games followed. The coach at the time was the Austrian Egon Pollak .
After arriving back in Israel from the USA, a players strike broke out within the team. The association could no longer pay the salaries. After a year, the football association accepted the players' demands. In 1937 Maccabi won its first championship. Two years later the second title could be obtained. At the end of this season, the team went to Australia. Under the name Maccabi Palestine Team, they completed a total of 18 games there. You played against the national teams of the individual states, regional teams and five times against the Australian national team .
The first double was achieved in 1941. In the final of the cup, the team won against Hapoel Tel Aviv. After the end of this season, the league was suspended until 1945 due to the Second World War , but the team continued to play in various friendly matches. In 1946 the league was still not played, but the State Cup. Maccabi won this against Hapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion 6-0. In 1947 league operations were resumed, and Maccabi Tel Aviv was again champions. The cup final against Beitar Tel Aviv could be won 3-2 because the referee denied a goal for Beitar. The players and fans of the losing team rushed to the referee and Yom-Tov Mansherov, a Beitar player, snatched the trophy. This reappeared 45 years later in Petach Tikwa .
After independence (from 1948)
After the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, Maccabi won the first championship in the 1949/50 season. The team scored a record 103 goals in 24 games. In the following years, Maccabi dominated the league with four other championship titles in the 50s.
The 1961/62 season ended with tenth place. This was the team's worst result to date. A year later, the cup was won and again in 1967. That year the club moved to Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa . A double season was played from 1966 to 1968. Maccabi became a master again after almost ten years. The championship allowed the team to take part in the second Asian Champion Club tournament. This could be achieved by a final victory against the South Korean club Yangzee FC. The 1969/70 season was once again very successful for the team from Tel Aviv with a double win. The Asian Champion Club was won for the second time in the following season. The Iraqi team Al-Shorta said they would not participate in the final for political reasons. So the game was rated 2-0 for Maccabi. The previous group game was also rated 2-0 for the Israeli team.
In the 70s three more championships were won, differently in the 80s, during this period no championship could be achieved. In 1988 they achieved a record 10-0 victory over Maccabi Haifa. In 1992 Maccabi was able to lead the league again and become champions for the first time since 1979. The following season the club took part in the UEFA Champions League for the first time . In the preliminary round, the FC Valletta from Malta could be defeated with a total of 3-1. In the first leg of the first round, the team lost 1-0 to Club Bruges . The second leg was also lost 3-0. In the 1993/94 season Maccabi Tel Aviv took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup as a cup winner , but was eliminated in the first round against Werder Bremen .
Under coach Avram Grant , Maccabi won the championship again and qualified for the Champions League, but was eliminated early on against Grasshopper Club Zurich . Nevertheless, the 1995/96 season ended successfully with a double win. In the following years the Maccabi could only win the 1999 Toto Cup .
In 2001 and 2002 Maccabi became cup winners, in 2002/03 under coach Nir Klinger even champions. The title win came only through the goal difference to the second one better. In the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League managed Maccabi thanks to wins against HJK Helsinki and PAOK Thessaloniki in the group stage. There Maccabi met Juventus Turin , FC Bayern Munich and Ajax Amsterdam . With four defeats, one win against Ajax and one draw against Juventus, the club was eliminated. In the same year, the Israeli State Cup was won for the 22nd time. In the following season, the team suffered their biggest home defeat of all time. Maccabi lost 4-0 in the cup against second division club Hapoel Acre.
In 2008, the club's most successful goalscorer Avi Nimni ended his career. In a total of 355 games, he scored 174 goals. His shirt number 8 has not been awarded since then. Since 2008 he has also been the club's general manager and is supported as a coach by the former Israeli national goalkeeper Yossi Mizrahi.
In 2009 the Toto Cup was won against the MS Ashdod . In the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League , the team was eliminated in the play-off round against Paris Saint-Germain .
Stadion
The club usually plays its home games at Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa, which opened in 1962 . It has been renovated since mid-2017 and expanded to 29,150 spaces. It is scheduled to reopen in May 2019. In the meantime, Maccabi is playing at the Netanya Stadium in Netanya . The Bloomfield Stadium had 17,500 seats until the renovation. The association shares the use with local rivals Hapoel and Bne Jehuda . The football stadium is named after the Bloomfield Fund, from which the construction was financed. The opening game was played on October 12, 1962 by Hapoel and FC Twente Enschede from the Netherlands . Maccabi has been using the stadium since 1968. The facility is also used for concerts and the like. a. used by Phil Collins , the Scorpions, and The Black Eyed Peas .
Squad for the 2019/20 season
As of June 15, 2020
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Awarded Players
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title
- AFC Champions League (2): 1968, 1971
- Israeli Championship (22): 1937, 1939, 1941, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2003 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2019 , 2020
- Israeli Cup (23): 1929, 1930, 1933, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1976/77, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2015
- Israel League Cup (5): 1993, 1999, 2009, 2014, 2018
- Israeli Supercup (6): 1964, 1967, 1976, 1978, 1987, 2019
Trainer
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Avram Grant (1991-1995, 1996-2000) -
Dror Kashtan (1995-1996)
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Ton Caanen (2005-2006) -
Shota Arweladze (2012–2015, 2016–2017) -
Jordi Cruyff (2017-2018)
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Vladimir Ivić (2018-2020) -
Georgios Donis (since 2020)
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Web links
- Official website of the association
- Maccabi Tel Aviv in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tel Aviv: Bloomfield Stadium to be opened in May, 2019. In: stadiumdb.com. ynet.co.il / one.co.il, March 20, 2018, accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Squad on transfermarkt.de
- ^ Israel - List of Cup Finals RSSSF