A new club record:
Maccabi ended the 2023/24 season by winning the 25th league title in the Club’s history. During the campaign, Robbie Keane’s charges set a new club record by scoring 124 goals in 56 matches in all competitions. 75 goals were scored in ten league, 31 goals scored in European competitions, 11 in the Toto Cup and 7 in the State Cup.
Maccabi ended the season with 85 points and a 78.7% success rate with a goal tally of 75-25. Only 9 Champions in the history of Israeli football ended their season with a better goal average of more than 50+.
With runners up Maccabi Haifa ending their season 11 points adrift of the Champions – a double digit gap from first to second place was achieved 10 times in Israel’s history. Maccabi holds the all-time record of 31 points in the 2018/19 season.
Zahavi’s achievement:
Eran Zahavi ended the season as the joint top goal scorer with Din David of Maccabi Haifa as both scored 20 goals each.
Zahavi became the first player in Israel’s history to score at least 20 league goals in 5 different seasons.
This was the fourth time the striker won the top goal scorer award to equal the record set by Kish Romano (Shimshon Tel Aviv), David Lavi (Maccabi Netanya) and Alon Mizrahi (Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Haifa).
Zahavi scored in the 2023/24 season 39 goals in all competitions, the second highest number of goals scored by a player in one season. Zahavi’s tally places him second in Maccabi’s history behind …Eran Zahavi who scored 49 goals in the 2015/16 season.
Additional numbers:
Felicio Milson assisted the highest number of goals for Maccabi this season with 12.
Dor Peretz played the highest number of minutes this season as the 29-year-old midfielder featured for 4316 minutes over 52 matches. Peretz is Maccabi’s second best scorer with 19 goals in all competitions.
Gabi Kanichowsky is the only Maccabi player to finish the season with double figures in two categories as the 26-year-old midfielder scored 11 and added 11 assists.
Dan Biton was close as his 2023/24 campaign resulted with 10 goals and 9 assists.
The longest distance goal was scored by Dan Biton as the midfielder scored from 26 meters out during the 4-1 victory over Ashdod.
Dor Turgeman scored the fastest goal of the campaign setting the stopwatch on 85 seconds during the 4-2 Tel Aviv derby victory over Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Eran Zahavi scored the latest goal of the campaign stopping the clock 99 minutes following his injury time penalty during the 2-0 victory over Bnei Sakhnin.
Maccabi’s latest winner was scored by Yonatan Cohen (91) in the 1-0 victory over Beitar Jerusalem at Bloomfield.
