This Saturday, Youth Division league competition holds out a whole host of interesting matches for Maccabi Tel Aviv's younger players: The Under-19s against Maccabi Netanya, two matches in Kiryat Ono and three derby ties at Hapoel Tel Aviv's Wolfson training ground
Maccabi Tel Aviv's Under-19s will round off an intensive week of competitive play on Saturday at 11.30am with a home tie against Maccabi Netanya at the Kiryat Shalom training ground. The visitors go into the match with five points, two less than Maccabi Tel Aviv "Shachar". In the two teams' last encounter, the penultimate match of the 2012/13 season, Maccabi Tel Aviv won 0-3 in Netanya courtesy of goals by defenders Guy Aviv and Sean Goldberg and a Maccabi Netanya own goal. Due to the national Israeli Under-17 team's participation in the European championship qualifiers, Maccabi's Under-17s have their second consecutive Saturday off.
At 8.30am on Saturday Maccabi's Under-16s, who have harvested all fifteen points from their first five matches of the new season, will play host at Kiryat Shalom to Ashdod FC. In their last match, Maccabi "Eli Fuchs" scored an astounding 13 goals to no reply away at Beitar Beer Sheva while Ashdod lost their first match of the season 1-2 to Hapoel Beer Sheva. Maccabi's Under-15s will travel to Bikat Ono at 8.30am to face Hapoel Kiryat Ono, who have collected just one point from their first four league ties. In their last match, Maccabi Under-15 head coach Shlomi Mitelka's lads beat Hapoel Beer Sheva 4-2, bringing their points total to eight this season, just two points off the pace. The Under-15 Team 2 will travel to Ra'anana's "Hatsfoni" Park at 12pm to face Hapoel Ra'anana.
In matchweek three of the national Under-14 league Central District, Maccabi's Team South will host Ashdod FC at Kiryat Shalom at 10.30am, having one win and one draw from their first two matches. Team North will travel to "Levita" training complex in Kfar Saba to face Hapoel Kfar Saba at 9am. Maccabi's Under-13 Team South, with two wins in their first two matches, hope to keep apace at the top of their league table after their visit to Hapoel Kiryat Ono at 1.50pm. Team North will host Beitar Haifa on the synthetic pitch at Kiryat Shalom at 12.30pm.
Other fixtures:
Under-12 Team South (Maccabi "Leibo") will host Section Nes Tsiona at Kiryat Shalom's synthetic pitch at 8.30pm.
Under-12 Team North will travel to Hapoel Kiryat Ono at 10.15am.
Under-11 Teams North(10am) and South (1pm) will both be playing derby matches away against Hapoel Tel Aviv at their Wolfson training ground. In between at 11.30am, the Maccabi Under-10 Team South will also be hosted by their municipal rivals.
