In the 72 years since the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, there have been 68 league seasons, including the one currently suspended, and Maccabi Tel Aviv are the only outfit to have appeared in the top flight of the league every year.
Maccabi are also the most decorated club with:
Most league titles: 18
Most State Cups: 17
Most Toto Cups: 6
Most goals scored in a season: 100 in 23 matches in 1949-50. They were awarded a 3-0 technical win in one more match, raising the official goals scored column to 103.
Maccabi are the only club to have won the domestic treble when they took the league, the State Cup and the Toto Cup for the 2014-15 season.
Longest duration without conceding a goal: 1,272 minutes, a feat achieved earlier this season.
On the international stage, Maccabi have won the Asian Cup twice, in 1969 and 1971.
Since Israel joined UEFA and started playing in Europe in 1992-93, Maccabi have appeared in continental cup competitions on 20 occasions, more than any other club.
They appeared in the group stage of the Champions League twice, and four times in the group stage of the Europa League.
Interestingly, since independence, the national team has played 500 matches. Of the 6,843 players to have been selected to appear in Israel colours, Maccabi have had 1,217 representatives, 18 percent, while Maccabi Haifa are second with 1,024. Hapoel Tel Aviv have had 742 representatives.
The national team has scored 762 goals and conceded 723. Here, too, Maccabi Tel Aviv’s players have been the biggest contributors and have scored 137 goals. Giora Spiegel and Shiye Glazer have been Maccabi’s most prolific scorers for the national team, with 18 goals each.
Maccabi have also had the highest number of players represented in a national team starting lineup, six. It was in the 3-1 away defeat to Belgium in Brussels in October 2015.
Striker Tal Ben-Haim, and his central defender namesake were two of the players. They were joined by Eitan Tibi, Omri Ben Harush, Dor Peretz and Eran Zahavi. Avi Rikan and Gili Vermouth, also Maccabi players, started on the bench.
Miko Bello, a Maccabi player between the 1960s and 1980s, is at 17 and a half, the youngest player to have turned out for Israel and to have played a full 90 minutes in an official match, when the national team faced Bulgaria in 1966.
Avi Nimni holds the record for most international appearances as a Maccabi player, at 69. He made a total of 80 appearances for Israel while at other clubs.
