Maccabi held 23 league matches so far at Sammy Ofer stadium that will stage the match. The record currently stands on 62.3%: 11 victories, 10 draws and 2 defeats.
Maccabi is the team with the best success rate at the Haifa stadium even better than the two clubs that host their home league matches at the venue (Maccabi Haifa 56%) and (Hapoel Haifa 41.7%).
In the last seven seasons, Hapoel Haifa scored the largest number of goals against Maccabi from the 90th minute onwards.
Since the 2014/15 season Hapoel Haifa scored 5 injury time goals, 2 of which didn’t influence the outcome of the game. Two injury time goals led to draws, while one goal awarded Haifa a victory.
On the other hand, when both teams met earlier this season, a dramatic match saw Maccabi win 4-3 thanks to a 95th minute Yaonatan Cohen penalty – after coming back from a 2-0 early deficit and an 87th minute 3-2 Haifa lead.
This was the seventh match in the history that Maccabi manages to come-back from a to-goal deficit and record a victory. The last time such a scenario happened was the 2012/13 season and the famous 4-3 victory over Ramat Hasharon.
Rafi Levy, who died last week at the age of 83, is the top scorer against Hapoel Haifa with 10 goals. Shiye Glazer and Avi Nimni have 9 goals each.
Maccabi has 13 victories over teams coached by Haim Silvas.
Hapoel Haifa’s coach has 1 victory and 2 draws against Maccabi, and holds a success rate of 10.5% – the lowest of the 48 coaches that met Maccabi for 15 matches or more.
