Monday’s match will be the 30th encounter between Maccabi and Hapoel Hadera with 24 league matches and 5 State Cup ties played over the years. Maccabi won 19 matches, Hadera won 6 and 4 matches were drawn with a goal tally of 48-22 in Maccabi’s favor.
Since Hadera returned to the top flight in the 2018/19 season, the two sides met 8 times in the league as Maccabi won 7 and drawn 1 with a goal tally of (16-1).
Maccabi has a 91.7% success rate in the last 8 league matches against Hadera. This is the highest success rate of the 14 league opponents Maccabi met over 5 league matches or more over the past 3 seasons.
Maccabi kept a clean sheet in 13 matches of the 24 league encounters against Hadera (54%).
Of the 23 opponents Maccabi played for more than 20 league matches, this is the highest success rate of matches with a clean sheet (together with Rishon Lezion).
Twice in the history, Maccabi managed to beat an opponent four times in a season whilst keeping a clean sheet – Hadera (2018/19) and Hapoel Tel Aviv (2019/20).
The highest victory over Hapoel Hadera in all competitions was in the Quarter Final of the State Cup in the 1954/55 season. Yossale Mirimovic (2), Shmuel Yisraeli (2), Zvika Studinski and Yitzhak Sneior scored the goals.
Hadera’s coach Mencahem Koretzki met Maccabi 13 in the league with Maccabi winning 11 matches, drawing 1 and losing 1.
