Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv, the club’s Under-15 south team defeated Hapoel Beer Sheva on Matchday 29 to win the league championship. Ori David’s side entered the day in first place with a two point lead over second place Hapoel Sheva. The win over the southern reds pushed the lead atop the table to 5 points with one Matchday remaining as the league title made its way to Kiryat Shalom.

The team has won 24 out of 29 matches with two draws and 3 losses whole scoring 119 goals, the most in the league while only conceding 23 (the least in the league). Elad Kaplan has 28 goals this season and leads the league while Oskar Glok has 24 markers.

Maccabi “Eldad” has scored in 28 of the 29 matches, had a streak of 5 games where they didn’t give up a goal and recorded 16 clean sheets over the course of the campaign.

Head Coach Ori David summed up the match and the season as a whole: “We came into the match after a disappointing week where we lost on penalties in the State Cup Semifinal and fell to Beitar Jerusalem in a league match that should we have won we would have secured the title. The main part of our preparation was on the mental he tactical side and the players came into the game ready to go. We played smart and responsible football and our philosophy helped us win the match. We were totally motivated and we took home the win and the championship!”

“The team had a tremendous season and played football at the highest of levels following the club’s philosophy while coach Nissim Davash did an excellent preparing the squad last season in order to get them ready for this campaign as my assistant Ben Kaplan and I continued the work from there. We scored the most goals in the league and we conceded the fewest. We were very organized both offensively and defensively. The season is about to end and I’m already looking forward to the opening of the next! It’s important for me to note that the team has been managed by a number of professionals from Ben Kaplan my amazing assistant, goalkeeper coach Eliezer Graf, Jordan Saada as well as Raymond Atteveld and Patrick van Leeuwen who was the x-factor for this squad.

Following two losses last week we were encouraged and received support from everyone at the club, coaches, analysts, medical staff and more as everyone came together as one department to help us in our quest.”