Saturday’s MD31 at Bloomfield stadium will be the 70th league encounter between the two sides of which Maccabi won 42, lost 12 with 15 matches ending in a draw. Maccabi scored 124 goals and conceded only 54.
Of all the clubs which faced Maccabi for 50 matches or more, Ashdod is the side Maccabi has the best success rate against with 68.1%.
Maccabi hosted Ashdod for 32 league matches of which they won 23, lost 4 and four other matches were drawn – with a 77.1% success rate.
Maccabi’s highest victory over Ashdod was a 7-1 win in the 1997/98 season. Ben Luz (2), Nir Klinger, Efi Tzafrir, Haim Hajaj, Guy Zarfati and Alec Nilash scored for Maccabi.
Both sides met in the Playoffs four times, all in the top Playoff with Maccabi maintaining an unbeaten record at this stage winning twice and drawing twice.
Ashdod’s coach, Ran Ben Shimon, faced Maccabi 30 times with teams he had coached of which he won 10, lost 13 and 7 other matches ended in a draw.
MD31 is history Maccabi’s best match-day as last season that week resulted with 5-0 victory over arch city rivals Hapoel in the derby.
