The MD26 WINNER League match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Be’ersheva will be the 138th time both teams face each other in the league. The overall record currently stands on 65 Maccabi victories, 32 Be’ersheva victories while 40 matches ended in a draw and a goal tally of 193-116.
Maccabi hosted Be’ersheva on 70 league matches of which 40 matches were won, 20 drawn and 10 lost with a goal tally of 110-47.
Over the past four seasons (2022-2025), all four of the home matches in the regular season against Be’ersheva ended with the same result – a 1-0 victory for Maccabi.
Since the start of the 2018/19 season, Maccabi has a 14-match unbeaten run against Be’ersheva at home of which 9 matches were won and 5 drawn. This is the longest unbeaten home against Be’ersheva, and the 10th longest unbeaten home unbeaten run against any opponent in the club’s history.
A total of 334 Maccabi players featured against Be’ersheva. Sheran Yeini holds the appearance record with 34 matches while Dor Peretz is second with 29 appearances.
Eighty seven Maccabi players scored against Be’ersheva as Benny Tabak leads the chart with 9 goals. Eli Driks and Eran Zahavi are in the joint second place with 8 goals to their name.
Maccabi at the end of the regular season:
Until the 1986/87 season (with the exception of the 1966-68 campaign, which lasted two years and four rounds), the league followed a classic round-robin format, at the end of which the Champions and relegated teams were determined. Since 1987/88, a Playoff or three rounds was added (with a temporary return to a round-robin format between 1995-1999).
Since the 2012/13 season under the current league format, 14 clubs play two full rounds and a total of 26 matches. After Matchday 26, the regular season is concluded and the Playoff begins.
Since the State of Israel was founded (73 seasons), Maccabi finished the regular season 19 times in the top spot – the most in the league. Maccabi Haifa finished 16 times in second place. On 11 Eleven occasions finishing top at the end of the regular season, resulted by winning the title (no Playoff). In the other 8 seasons, Maccabi also went on to win the title after the Playoff.
In the 2024/25 and 2002/03 seasons, Maccabi won the league title despite not finishing top at the end of the regular season.
Maccabi’s record on the final day of 73 regular-season’s match currently stands on: 37 victories, 12 draws, and 22 defeats with a goal tally of: 118-76.
Under the current format, Maccabi’s record on Matchday 26 (final round of the regular season) stands on 11 victories, 2 draws and goal tally of 30-6.
The biggest victory in a final regular-season match was recorded in the 1997/98 campaign – a 7-1 victory over Ironi Ashdod. Ben Luz (2), Nir Klinger, Efi Tzafrir, Haim Hajaj, Guy Tzarfati, and Alec Nilesh were on target.
Maccabi faced 25 different opponents on the final matchday. Hapoel Tel Aviv (9), Hapoel Petah Tikva (8), Hapoel Haifa (7 including the last 3 seasons). Sunday’s match will be the 6th time Maccabi faces Hapoel Be’ersheva on the final day of the regular season.
Benny Tabak made the most appearances as a Maccabi player on the final day of the regular season with 16 matches between 1973-1989, excluding 1985. Miko Belo (15) and Eli Driks (13) are in second and third place respectively.
Eran Zahavi is the top scorer on the final day of the regular-season with 8 goals in 7 matches, including a hat-trick in the 3-2 derby win in 2013/14.
