Maccabi and Be’ersheva played each other in the league on 164 occasions with Maccabi winning 64, Be’ersheva winning 31 while 39 matches ended in a draw. The total goal tally currently stands on 189-113.
Be’ersheva hosted Maccabi for 65 matches, with Maccabi winning 24 league matches away from home while Be’ersheva won 21. Maccabi is the only team in the league with a positive record away to Be’ersheva out of the 26 clubs who played away to Be’ersheva for five matches or more.
Maccabi’s record in the 17 matches which were hosted at Turner since it was opened currently stands on 5 victories, 5 draws and 7 defeats.
The highest victory at Turner was a 6-1 Toto Cup rout on the opening match of the 2023/24 season with Eran Zahavi (3), Yonatan Cohen, Dor Peretz and Dan Biton scoring the goals.
Maccabi’s highest victory in the league at Tuner was 4-0 on the final day of the 2018/19 season. An own goal by John Ogu, Yonatan Cohen, Avi Rikan and Eli Dasa scored Maccabi’s goals.
Eighty-three Maccabi players featured against Be’ersheva in the league.
Dor Peretz holds Maccabi’s appearance record at Turner with 10 while Ofir Davidzada and Avi Rikan featured 9 matches each.
Twelve players scored for Maccabi in the league at Turner. Eran Zahavi, Dor Peretz and Yonatan Cohen scored 2 goals each.
Be’ersheva’s coach Ran Kuzukh faced Maccabi 7 times in the league of which Maccabi won 4, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Maccabi and Be’ersheva locked horns in the Playoff for 24 matches of which Maccabi won 10, lost 6 while 8 matches were drawn.
Under the current league format Maccabi met Be’ersheva for the second Playoff match (MD28) four times. In 2014 and in 2015 Maccabi hosted the fixture at Bloomfield winning both matches twice. A Barak Badash brace in 2014 led Maccabi a 2-0 victory and in 2015 an Eran Zahavi brace and a goal by Tal Ben Chaim gave Maccabi a 3-1 victory. Be’ersheva hosted the fixture in 2016 (1-1) and 2017 (0-1).
