The 2023/24 campaign is the 39th season in which the Toto Cup is being played with Maccabi winning the title 7 times more than any other club.
Besides the 2020/21 season when the competition’s format was shortened due to COVID, the Toto Cup featured a Semi Final.
Since the Toto Cup was introduced in the 1984/85 season and until the 2010/11 season, 36 of the 54 Semi Finals were staged at the Ramat Gan national stadium. Ever since the 2011/12 season the Semi Final is being staged in various venues, some of which in the home stadiums of the teams that qualified.
Over the years, 27 different clubs reached the Semi Final of the Toto Cup. Maccabi qualified to the last four of the competition 20 times, more than any other club, playing 13 times at Ramat Gan and 7 more elsewhere.
Maccabi has a 50% success rate in the Toto Cup Semi Finals, advancing through in 10 attempts and suffering a knockout in 10 others.
Maccabi faced 12 different opponents in the Semi Finals, with local city rivals Hapoel Tel Aviv supplying the opposition the most. Maccabi won all 3 Toto Cup Semi Final derby encounters (1991/92, 2008/09 and 2018/19).
Two Semi Finals involving Maccabi were decided in a penalty shoot-out:
Maccabi beat Maccabi Petah Tikva 4-3 in a penalty shoot-out to reach the 1992/93 Toto Cup Final.
The following season Maccabi were beaten 5-4 on penalties by Maccabi Haifa to suffer a Semi Final exit.
Eli Driks (8) made the most Toto Cup Semi Final appearances for Maccabi.
Driks, Yonatan Cohen, Avi Nimni and Jose Duarte are Maccabi’s leading goal scorers in the Semi Finals with 2 goals to their names. Nineteen other players scored a goal each in that stage of the competition.
Maccabi faced Bnei Sakhnin 11 times in the Toto Cup, winning 7 ties, drawing 2 and losing twice.
Ten of the encounters with Bnei Sakhnin were in the group stages between 2002/03 and 2010/11. One tie saw both sides meet in the 2020/21 Toto Cup Final when Matan Baltaxa and Dan Biton scored the goals on the way to a 2-0 victory at Doha stadium.
