Saturday’s match at Netanya will be the 143rd league encounter against Maccabi Netanya. Maccabi met in the league only two opponents more than Netanya as they played Maccabi Haifa a 168 times and Hapoel Tel Aviv 159.
The record in those matches is clearly in Maccabi’s favour with 71 victories, 37 draws and 35 defeats and a goal tally of 233-149.
The average number of goals in a match against Netanya is 1.63 per game – the highest average of the 9 opponents Maccabi met in the league at least 100 times.
Maccabi Netanya is the team that suffered the largest number of league defeats against Maccabi with 71 while Maccabi Haifa (70) and Maccabi Petah Tikva (67).
Maccabi has a run of 7 successive victories over Netanya at their municipal stadium, with Maccabi hosting 3 of those matches.
This is the 7th longest run in the history against a specific opponent and at the same ground. The longest run (11 matches) was recorded against Bnei Sachnin at Bloomfield stadium on February 2021.
This is also Maccabi’s longest run against any opponent which includes away matches – all the six other runs of successive victories were recorded by Maccabi at home (Bloomfield or Ramat Gan).
Maccabi’s highest league victory (7-1) since the State of Israel proclaimed Independence was recorded against Netanya in April 1950.
Shiye Glazer and Ahron Sidi scored 4 goals each as Maccabi recorded their highest victory over Maccabi Netanya 9-0 in the 1946/47 season.
Gabi Kanichowsky and Dan Glazer are two members of the Maccabi squad who previously played for Netanya.
Benny Tabak is the leading goal-scorer against Netanya with 11 while Avi Nimni and Shiye Glazer share second place having scored 9 goals each.
Newly appointed coach Benny Lam will guide Netanya and make his debut as the coach of the club he starred for during the 70’s and 80’s. This will be the first time Lam faces Maccabi as a coach, but as a player he scored 7 goals in 22 league matches against Maccabi and 28 in all competitions.
