Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Netanya met each other in the league 154 times. The historic record currently stands on 77 Maccabi victories, 37 Netanya victories and 37 draws with an all-time goal tally of 255-162.

Of the 1151 Maccabi league victories throughout history, Netanya is the team they defeated most – 77 times. Maccabi Haifa are second with 74 defeats while Maccabi Petah Tikva are third with 72.

Maccabi has an existing run of 17 unbeaten home matches against Netanya since the 2010/11 season. Seventeen matches (13 wins and 4 draws) against Netanya equals the previous run on 17 matches between 1950 and 1970.

58 players featured for both clubs in the league over the years. Of Maccabi’s current squad, Gabi Kanichowsky, Raz Shlomo and Yonas Malede previously played for Netanya.

The match against Netanya, MD19 of 36 kicked off the second phase of the league. Maccabi’s record in the opening match of the second half of the season stands on 37 victories, 26 draws and 9 defeats. In the past 11 seasons Maccabi started the second phase with 10 victories and a draw.

Before Saturday’s match kicks off, Netanya is the team we faced most at the start of the second phase. Of those six encounters, Maccabi won 1, drawn 3 and lost 2.

This will be the 32nd league match between Maccabi and a club guided by Netanya’s coach Yossi Abuksis. Maccabi won 18, drawn 9 and lost 5 to Abuksis who previously coached Hapoel Tel Aviv, Bnei Sakhnin, Bnei Yehuda, Hapoel Be’ersheva and Beitar Jerusalem.