Maccabi Tel Aviv is about to open up yet another year in Israel’s first league and we’ve got all kinds of great facts and figures about the Yellow & Blue that perhaps you didn’t know about their participation in the top division.
65 – The amount of years since the founding of the State that the Yellow & Blue have been a part of the country’s first league. In fact, Maccabi is the only club that has played every year in the league’s top division.
3,191 – Maccabi Tel Aviv’s all-time goals in the league accounting for almost 10% of the goals ever scored in the league (34,477 total goals) since the founding of the State of Israel. The Yellow & Blue have scored the most goals of any clubs with second place being held by Maccabi Haifa having scored 2,812 goals.
14 – Out of 76 season leading goal scorers in 64 campaigns are from Maccabi Tel Aviv which is the most of any other club. 12 season leading goal scorers come from Maccabi Netanya while 8 are from Maccabi Haifa.
434 – Matchdays that Maccabi Tel Aviv have been in first place out of 1,960 making them the team with the most Matchdays at the top of the league. There have been 26 different teams that have been in first place.
1950 – Was the year that Maccabi set two records that have yet to be broken, winning the championship with a 89.6% success rate (43 of 48 points when victories were worth 2 points) and scoring 100 goals over the course of the season.
35 – Straight home matches without a loss which is not only Maccabi’s longest such streak but also the longest in the league taking place between September 2013 and May 2015. The Yellow & Blue have also gone six campaigns (most in Israeli football history) where they did not lose a home game.
9,300 – Average attendance per match. Stadiums around the league have hosted over 61 million spectators since the founding of the state for an average of 4,500 fans per contest. Maccabi has hosted over 9 million at home games for the 9,300 average attendance per match which is the most of any other team in the league.
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13:0 – Maccabi’s largest margin of victory in a league match and it happened in 1950 when they defeated Maccabi Rishon Le’Zion.
20.5% – All-time Israel National Team players that came from Maccabi Tel Aviv the most of any other club in the league.
22 – League Championships won by Maccabi Tel Aviv (17 after the founding of the state and 5 beforehand) the most of any other team. Maccabi Haifa is second with 12 titles while Hapoel Tel Aviv has 8 championships (with 5 more from before the founding of the state).
