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Teddy stadium will host Maccabi for a league match for the 48th time on Saturday. Hapoel Jerusalem hosted Maccabi at Teddy stadium in the league only 5 times, with 40 matches played against Beitar, Hapoel Be’ersheva hosted Maccabi once, and two matches were hosted by Maccabi. The first match Maccabi played against Hapoel Jerusalem at Teddy stadium which was opened in 1991 resulted in a 5-0 victory at the 1991/92 season with Avi Cohen scoring a brace.

71 league matches were played between the two sides with Maccabi winning 43, losing 16 with 12 matches drawn and a goal tally of 128-66.

Over the past 12 years of playing league matches at Teddy, Maccabi won 10 drawn 6 and lost 3 with a 63% success rate – the highest success rate of the 24 league clubs who played at Teddy.

Ninety years and 3 weeks have passed since the first league encounter between the two clubs as Maccabi beat Hapoel Jerusalem 7-1 at the old Y.M.C.A stadium on December 26th 1931. Ya’acov Zelibansky scored a hatrick with one of the goals scored from the halfway line!

Avi Nimni is Maccabi’s leading goal-scorer at Teddy stadium with 11 of 76 goals the Yellow and Blues managed to score in the Jerusalem venue.

Nikola Mitrovic’s goal from 26 meters against Ahi Nazareth in the State Cup Semi Final of the 2014/15 season was the longest most successful strike at Teddy.