Maccabi is the team with the most appearances in the Play-Offs.
Maccabi will make their 16th successive appearance in the top Play-Offs – more than any other team in the league.
Maccabi won the league title 6 times at the end of the Play-Off matches.
The first championship was won at the end of the 1992/3 season, the three successive league titles 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 as well as the past two seasons.
The current league and Play-Off system was first introduced in the 2012/13 season and Maccabi is the only team to appear in the top Play-Off during Eight seasons and has won 5/8 league titles under this system.
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What is the largest number of points collected in the Top Play-Offs?
Maccabi collected 23 points in the top Play-Offs on two occasions in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons- our most successful seasons at this stage.
Maccabi also managed an unbeaten Play-Offs having collected 20 points in the 2015/16 season (5 wins and 5 draws).
Eran Zahavi is Maccabi’s leading goalscorer in the Play-Offs with 31 goals to his name.
Maccabi’s record in the opening match of the Play-Offs over the past eight seasons is: 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat with a goalscoring tally of 12-3 in Maccabi’s favor.
7 encounters with Be’ersheva in one season.
The forthcoming two matches against Hapoel Be’ersheva in the Play-Offs will be the 6th and 7th time Maccabi faces the southern side this season: four in the league, a double headed tie in the Super Cup and a State Cup match.
The record in these matches is 4 Maccabi victories and a draw with a goal tally of 6-0.
Only twice in the club’s history Maccabi faced an opponent 7 times in one season – Maccabi Haifa (1991/2) and Maccabi Petah Tikva (2016/17).
Maccabi faced Be’ersheva 3 times in the past on MD27 (1972, 1993 and 2005) with all three matches ending in a goalless 0-0 draw.
