The Toto Cup’s current format has been around for 34 years and Maccabi Tel Aviv has taken part in each one of them.
To date, the Yellow & Blue have won the title 5 times and lost 3 times in the final. Maccabi has also featured in the semifinals 10 times. The 5 titles came in 1993, 1999, 2009, 2015, 2018.
The match against Maccabi Haifa will be the 9th time Maccabi will be in the final – more than any other club.
Maccabi’s Toto Cup record in 227 contests: 124 wins, 39 draws, 64 losses. Success rate: 60.4% – the highest percentage of any other Israeli club. Goal differential: 415:244.
This is the second time Maccabi will face Maccabi Haifa in the final. The last time they played each other was 2014/15 when the Yellow & Blue defeated the Greens 2:1.
Maccabi has met Beitar twice in the final and also faced Ashdod, Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Hapoel Petah Tikva once each.
Avram Grant led Maccabi to 5 Finals – the most of any other Head Coach.
The biggest win in the final: 4:0 Maccabi Petah Tikva 1992/93. This was also the biggest win in the history of the Toto Cup Final.
84 players have appeared for Maccabi in the Toto Cup Final. Avi Nimni and Shura Uvarov have the most of ay other player with 5 appearances a piece.
Nimni is also Maccabi’s leading goal scorer in the final with 4 goals.
The legendary #8 is also the Yellow & Blue’s leading goal scorer in the competition with 25 markers. Eli Driks is second with 19 goals.
Netzach Masoubi is the only Maccabi player to have scored 4 goals in a Toto Cup match in 1992/93 in a 5:1 win over Maccabi Yavneh.
Sheran Yeini holds the record for appearances with 58. Driks and Uvarov are second with 53 matches each.
Maccabi has won their last 7 Toto Cup matches which is just one away from their record which was set in the 1990’s.
