2017–18 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. season

The 2017–18 season was Maccabi Tel Aviv's 111th season since its establishment in 1906, and 70th since the establishment of the State of Israel. During the 2017–18 campaign the club competed in the Israeli Premier League, State Cup, Toto Cup, UEFA Europa League.

Maccabi Tel Aviv
2017–18 season
ChairmanMitchell Goldhar
ManagerJordi Cruyff
StadiumNetanya Stadium (temporary)
Premier League2nd
State CupRound of 16
Toto CupWinners
UEFA Europa LeagueGroup stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Vidar Orn Kjartansson (13)
All: Vidar Orn Kjartansson (21)

First team edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   ISR Daniel Lifshitz
2 DF   ISR Eli Dasa
3 DF   ISR Yuval Spungin
5 DF   MTQ Jean-Sylvain Babin
6 MF   ESP José Rodríguez
7 MF   ISR Omer Atzili
9 FW   ISL Viðar Kjartansson
10 FW   ISR Barak Yitzhaki
11 FW   ENG Nick Blackman
13 MF   ISR Sheran Yeini (Captain)
15 MF   ISR Dor Micha
16 FW   ISR Eliran Atar
18 DF   ISR Eitan Tibi
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 GK   BRA Daniel Tenenbaum
20 DF   ISR Matan Baltaxa
21 DF   BLR Egor Filipenko
22 MF   ISR Avi Rikan
23 MF   ISR Eyal Golasa
25 FW   USA Aaron Schoenfeld
26 DF   ISR Tal Ben Haim
27 DF   ISR Ofir Davidzada
28 MF   ITA Cristian Battocchio
31 MF   BIH Tino-Sven Sušić
42 MF   ISR Dor Peretz
45 MF   ISR Or Dasa
95 GK   SRB Predrag Rajković

Transfers edit

Summer edit

Winter edit

Pre-season and friendlies edit

20 June 2017 Training Camp Maccabi Tel Aviv   1–1   Trenčín Leoben, Austria
Azulay   75'
Kartzav   90'
Čataković   52'

UEFA Europa League edit

First qualifying round edit

29 June 2017 First leg Maccabi Tel Aviv   2–0   Tirana Netanya
21:00 Cohen   27'
Dasa   64'
Kërçiku   41'
Acquah   51'
Sentamu   74'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
6 July 2017 Second leg Tirana   0–3   Maccabi Tel Aviv Tirana
17:00 Sentamu   44'
Doka   90'
Davidzada   27'
Schoenfeld   49'
Itzhaki   80'   90'
Peretz   82'
Rikan   86'
Stadium: Selman Stërmasi Stadium

Second qualifying round edit

13 July 2017 First leg Maccabi Tel Aviv   3–1   KR Netanya
18:00 Schoenfeld   65'
Kjartansson   78'
Atzili   82'
Gunnarsson   15'
Pálmason   85'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
20 July 2017 First leg KR   0–2   Maccabi Tel Aviv Reykjavík
22:10 Friðgeirsson   35' Tibi   15'
Atzili   57'
Peretz   66'
Stadium: KR-völlur

Third qualifying round edit

27 July 2017 First leg Maccabi Tel Aviv   1–0   Panionios Netanya
19:45 Kjartansson   25'   48'
Spungin   54'
Tapoko   30' Stadium: Netanya Stadium
3 August 2017 Second leg Panionios   0–1   Maccabi Tel Aviv Athens
22:00 Korbos   58'   79' (o.g.) Battocchio   37'
Golasa   45'
Schoenfeld   50'
Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium

Playoff round edit

17 August 2017 First leg Rheindorf Altach   0–1   Maccabi Tel Aviv Innsbruck
20:30 Ngamaleu   20'
Galvão   83'
Report Kjartansson   68'
Yeini   83'
Stadium: Tivoli-Neu
Attendance: 5,269
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
24 August 2017 Second leg Maccabi Tel Aviv   2–2
(3–2 agg.)
  Rheindorf Altach Netanya
19:00 Tibi   35'
Kjartansson   41'
Yeini   73'
Report Schreiner   63'
Ngamaleu   70'
Netzer   79'
Aigner   81'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
Referee: Aleksei Eskov (Russia)

Group stage edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Villarreal 6 3 2 1 10 6 +4 11 Advance to knockout phase
2   Astana 6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10
3   Slavia Prague 6 2 2 2 6 6 0 8
4   Maccabi Tel Aviv 6 1 1 4 1 8 −7 4
Source: UEFA
19 October 2017 3 Astana   4-0   Maccabi Tel Aviv Astana, Kazakhstan
22:00 (UTC+6) Muzhikov   13'
Twumasi   33' (pen.), 42'
Kabananga   47', 52'
Shitov   61'
Report Peretz   33'
Blackman   41'
Stadium: Astana Arena
3 November 2017 4 Maccabi Tel Aviv   0-1   Astana Netanya
20:05 Schoenfeld   66' Report Tagybergen   38'
Twumasi   57'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium

Israeli Premier League edit

Regular season edit

20 August 2017 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv 0–3 Beitar Jerusalem Netanya
21:00 Rajković   10'
Peretz   17'
Spungin   36'
Yitzhaki   45'
Shechter   10', 34'
Keltjens   30'
Heister   60'
Klaiman   69'
Vered   90'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
9 September 2017 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-0 Bnei Sakhnin Netanya
18:00 Kjartansson   54', 72'
Blackman   63'
Sagas   24'
Khalaila   54'
Ottman   55'
Mugrabi   64'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
18 September 2017 4 Maccabi Netanya 2-3 Maccabi Tel Aviv Netanya
21:00 Keita   20'
Saba   29'
Olsak   39'
Rodríguez   18'
Atzili   22'   52'
Davidzada   38'
Itzhaki   39'
Kjartansson   50'
Blackman   59'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
1 October 2017 6 Hapoel Ashkelon 2-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Ashkelon
21:00 Oremuš   56'
Raly   82'   90+2'
Smiljanić   84'
Ivančić   85'
Blackman   24'
Atzili   50' (pen.)
Yeini   90+2'
Stadium: Sala Stadium
23 October 2017 8 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv Be'er Sheva
21:00 Abd Elhamed   15'   21'
Taha   49'
Nwakaeme   62'
Sahar   68'
Korhut   74'
Elo   90'
Rikan   29'
Davidzada   61'
Azili   89'
Babin   90'
Ben Haim   90+1'
Atar   90+3'
Stadium: Turner Stadium
29 October 2017 9 Maccabi Tel Aviv 5-2 Hapoel Acre Netanya
20:10 Atar   28', 76', 90+2'
Rikan   30', 69'
Ben Haim   53'
Eliyahu   33'
Knaykovski   80'
Mulić   86'
Farhat   90'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
5 November 2017 10 Hapoel Ra'anana 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv Netanya
20:30 Binyamin   30'
Shaker   39'
Nimni   40'
Tibi   40'
Dasa   10'   87'
Kjartansson   42'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
26 November 2017 11 Hapoel Haifa 2-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Haifa
20:15 Turgeman   33'
Kapiloto   45'   86'
Maman   48'   55' (pen.)
Babin   13'
Rikan   35'
Atar   45'
Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium
2 December 2017 12 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-1 F.C. Ashdod Netanya
16:00 Micha   37'
Blackman   45'
Davidzada   67'
Atar   80'
Mauricio   30'
Kinda   67'
Asafa   79'
Moshel   79'
Edri   81'   90+2'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
18 December 2017 14 Beitar Jerusalem 1-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Jerusalem
21:00 Shechter   41'
Ferreira   55'
Sabo   90'
Rikan   1'
Golasa   11'
Blackman   42'   42'
Babin   54'
Peretz   72'
Stadium: Teddy Stadium
23 December 2017 15 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-1 Ironi Kiryat Shmona Netanya
20:30 Kjartansson   19'   30'
Blackman   54'
Dasa   79'
Micha   84'
Brossou   39'   65'
Ryan   42'
Abed   44'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
1 January 2018 16 Bnei Sakhnin 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv Sakhnin
21:00 Kandil   55'
Khalaila   75'
Sagas   90'
Peretz   39'
Kjartansson   56' (pen.)
Rodríguez   71'
Blackman   89'
Stadium: Doha Stadium
9 January 2018 17 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-0 Maccabi Netanya Netanya
21:00 Babin   20'
Micha   29'
Peretz   38'
Dasa   73'
Itzhaki   75'
Kjartansson   82', 90'
Blackman   87'
Mor   11'
Goldenberg   12'
Kougbenya   62'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
15 January 2018 18 Maccabi Haifa 1-3 Maccabi Tel Aviv Haifa
21:00 Levi   19'
Rukavytsya   66'
Gershon   68'
Allyson   74'
Kjartansson   1', 54'
Tibi   66'
Battocchio   85'
Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium
21 January 2018 19 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-1 Hapoel Ashkelon Netanya
20:30 Davidzada   14'
Ben Haim   54'
Peretz   64'
Itzhaki   65'   67'
Atar   87' (pen.)
Gabay   7'
R. haddad   86'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
28 January 2018 20 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv 0-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv Petah Tikva
20:30 Zubas   53'
Mori   84'
Rikan   58'
Micha   90+2'
Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium
5 February 2018 21 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Be'er Sheva Netanya
21:00 Spungin   22'   40'
Atar   48'
Bitton   19'
Ogu   22'   25'
Taha   49'   89'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
11 February 2018 22 Hapoel Acre 0-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Acre
20:15 Ibeh   33'
Reichert   72'
Shish   79'
Peretz   17'
Blackman   32'   79'
Itzhaki   57'
Atar   72'
Stadium: Acre Municipal Stadium
17 February 2018 23 Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-1 Hapoel Ra'anana Netanya
16:00 Dasa   73'
Babin   90'
Tibi   90+1'
Zikri   28'
Nikolić   41'
Camara   71'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
24 February 2018 24 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 Hapoel Haifa Netanya
20:30 Blackman   13'
Rodríguez   33', 61'
Rikan   66'
Davidzada   83'
Arel   57'
Ben Basat   75'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
3 March 2018 25 F.C. Ashdod 0-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv Ashdod
20:30 Inbrum   23'
Brown   82'
Babin   81' Stadium: Yud-Alef Stadium
12 March 2018 26 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-0 Maccabi Petah Tikva Netanya
21:00 Kjartansson   17'
Rikan   45+1'   62'
Rodríguez   74'
Kanyuk   76'
Soumah   50' Stadium: Netanya Stadium

Regular season table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 26 17 6 3 43 18 +25 57 Qualification for the Championship round
2 Beitar Jerusalem 26 17 5 4 60 30 +30 56
3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 26 16 7 3 44 20 +24 55
4 Hapoel Haifa 26 15 7 4 36 21 +15 52
5 Maccabi Netanya 26 12 9 5 43 29 +14 45
Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.[1]



Play-off edit

18 March 2018 27 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-2 Hapoel Haifa Netanya
21:00 Dasa   15'
Golasa   18'
Blackman   45'
Spugnin   52'
Mitrevski   19'
Barsky   49'
Plakuschenko   67'   90'
Megrelashvili   90+2'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
3 April 2018 28 Maccabi Netanya 4-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv Netanya
19:30 Saba   17', 57', 90+3'
Avraham   33'
Safouri   45'
Glazer   47'
Levy   52'
Tiram   78'
Peretz   5'
Micha   66'
Ithzkai   69'   80' (pen.)
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
9 April 2018 29 Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-1 Hapoel Be'er Sheva Netanya
21:00 Babin   50'
Ben Haim   84'
Golasa   85'
Itzhaki   90+5'
Maman   35'
Bitton   36'   53'
Haimov   83'
Einbinder   90+5'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
16 April 2018 30 Beitar Jerusalem 3-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Jerusalem
Claudemir   29'
Ezra   34'
Goldberg   40'
Sylvestr   42'
Klaiman   80'
Dasa   27'
Atzili   38' (pen.)
Kjartansson   58'
Stadium: Teddy Stadium
21 April 2018 31 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-0 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Netanya
20:30 Rodríguez   10'
Schoenfeld   44'
Davidzada   55'
Atzili   62'
Micha   72'
Soro   60'
Gordana   68'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
30 April 2018 32 Hapoel Haifa 2-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Haifa
21:00 Tamaș   46'
Ben Basat   88', 90+3'
Schoenfeld   31'   89'
Atzili   47'
Rikan   76'
Blackman   81'
Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium
5 May 2018 33 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-0 Maccabi Netanya Netanya
20:30 Ben Haim   5'
Spungin   21'
Kjartansson   69' (pen.)
Rikan   74'
Peretz   78'
Atzili   89'
Heubach   31'
Safouri   50'
Glazer   79'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
12 May 2018 34 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv Be'er Sheva
21:00 Taha   33'
Maman   45'
Einbinder   55'
Haimov   90'
Peretz   44'
Blackman   86'
Stadium: Turner Stadium

Championship round table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Hapoel Be'er Sheva (C) 36 24 8 4 70 27 +43 80 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 36 21 8 7 60 33 +27 71 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3 Beitar Jerusalem 36 20 8 8 75 51 +24 68
4 Hapoel Haifa 36 17 11 8 48 39 +9 62 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
5 Maccabi Netanya 36 16 10 10 59 54 +5 58
6 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv 36 13 10 13 47 41 +6 49
Source: Israel Football Association, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Play-off.[2]
(C) Champions
Notes:


State Cup edit

24 January 2018 round of 16 Maccabi Haifa 3-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv Haifa
18:10 Kehat   54'
Sallalich   57'
Rukavytsya   76'
Dor Peretz   76'
Golasa   88'
Stadium: Sammy Ofer Stadium

Toto Cup edit

Group stage edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 3 1 0 7 1 +6 10 Qualified to Quarter-finals
2 Bnei Yehuda 4 2 0 2 4 5 −1 6
3 Maccabi Petah Tikva 4 2 0 2 4 6 −2 6
4 Maccabi Netanya 4 1 1 2 7 8 −1 4
5 Hapoel Ra'anana 4 1 0 3 5 7 −2 3
Updated to match(es) played on 27 September 2017. Source: Israel Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals scored; 5) head to head; 6)deciding match.
9 August 2017 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–0 Maccabi Petah Tikva Netanya
21:00 Kjartansson   9', 17', 56'
Golasa   27'
Soumah   16'
Shabtay   19'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium
12 August 2017 4 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 Hapoel Ra'anana Netanya
21:00 Ben Haim   45'
Azulay   45'   55'
Kartzav   90'
Abuhatzira   3'
Shaker   11'
Hugi   83'
Mbola   86'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium

Quarterfinal edit

26 October 2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–0 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Netanya
19:00 Blackman   18'   77' (pen.)
Atar   42'
Sušić   44'
Spugnin   71'
Rikan   78'
Habshi   24'
Mori   41'
Balilty   66'
Hozez   76'
Stadium: Netanya Stadium

Semifinal edit

Final edit

14 December 2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Be'er Sheva Netanya
20:40 Davidzada   10'
Rikan   32'
Tibi   51'
Kjartansson   83'
Taha   32' Stadium: Netanya Stadium

Squad statistics edit

As of match played 15 May 2018

Appearances and goals edit

No. Pos Nat Player Total Premier League State Cup Toto Cup UEFA Europa League
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   ISR Daniel Lifshitz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 DF   ISR Eli Dasa 24 2 18 1 1 0 1 0 4 1
3 DF   ISR Yuval Spungin 34 0 20 0 1 0 4 0 9 0
5 DF   FRA Jean-Sylvain Babin 40 0 32 0 1 0 2 0 5 0
6 MF   ESP José Rodríguez 22 2 19 2 1 0 2 0 0 0
7 FW   ISR Omer Atzili 31 12 17 10 0 0 3 0 11 2
9 FW   ISL Viðar Örn Kjartansson 46 21 30 13 1 0 3 4 12 4
10 FW   ISR Barak Itzhaki 25 6 14 3 2 1 4 1 5 1
11 FW   ISR Nick Blackman 40 12 31 10 1 0 3 1 5 1
13 DF   ISR Sheran Yeini 38 1 21 0 1 0 3 0 13 1
15 MF   ISR Dor Micha 42 1 28 1 2 0 5 0 7 0
16 FW   ISR Eliran Atar 36 8 25 7 2 0 3 1 6 0
17 MF   ISR Gidi Kanyuk 5 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 DF   ISR Eitan Tibi 42 0 25 0 1 0 4 0 12 0
19 GK   BRA Daniel 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0
22 DF   ISR Avi Rikan 53 9 34 6 1 0 6 2 12 1
23 MF   ISR Eyal Golasa 33 0 20 0 2 0 3 0 8 0
25 FW   ISR Aaron Schoenfeld 35 4 19 0 1 1 4 1 11 2
26 DF   ISR Tal Ben Haim 35 1 19 0 1 0 3 1 12 0
27 DF   ISR Ofir Davidzada 51 4 31 3 2 1 4 0 14 0
28 MF   ITA Cristian Battocchio 41 1 25 1 0 0 5 0 11 0
42 MF   ISR Dor Peretz 41 2 24 1 1 0 7 0 9 1
55 GK   ISR Haviv Ohayon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
95 GK   SRB Predrag Rajković 55 0 36 0 1 0 4 0 14 0
Players away from Maccabi Tel Aviv on loan:
24 MF   ISR Yonatan Cohen 6 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 1
17 MF   ISR Sagiv Yehezkel 5 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 0 0
45 MF   ISR Eliel Peretz 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0
29 MF   BRA Marcelo 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
21 DF   BLR Egor Filipenko 8 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 3 0
44 DF   ISR Sean Goldberg 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
20 DF   ISR Matan Baltaxa 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
45 MF   ISR Or Dasa 6 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
Players who appeared for Maccabi Tel Aviv that left during the season:
16 MF   ISR Shlomi Azulay 5 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0
31 MF   BIH Tino-Sven Sušić 11 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 4 0

References edit

  1. ^ "Ligat ha'AL 2017/2018 - Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Ligat ha'AL 2017/2018 - Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2017.