Matchday 16 at Bloomfield on Tuesday will be the fourth league encounter between Maccabi and Ironi Tiberias. Last season, which was Tiberias’ debut season in the Israeli top-flight, ended in two draws: 1-1 at Bloomfield and 2-2 in the corresponding fixture at Green Stadium in Nof Hagallil. When both teams met earlier this season Maccabi recorded an emphatic 4-1 victory at Green. Ido Shahar, Sagiv Yehezkel, Ion Nicolaescu, and Dor Peretz scored Maccabi’s goals on MD3 which was played on September 13th.
The match against Tiberias will be Maccabi’s final match of 2025, marking the 65th time since the state of Israel was founded that Maccabi ends the calendar year with a league match. Maccabi has ended 10 calendar years with a Toto Cup match and twice with a State Cup tie.
Maccabi faced 26 different opponents in the final fixture of the calendar year. Maccabi Netanya was the most frequent opponent facing Maccabi 9 times. This will be the first time Maccabi ends a calendar year against with a match against Ironi Tiberias.
Maccabi holds the record among the top-flight clubs with 13 victories in succession from the end of 2009 through to 2021 to end the sporting calendar year.
Maccabi’s all-time record in the final match of the calendar year: 41 victories, 17 draws, and 18 defeats. The last defeat came at the end of 2004, a 2-1 league defeat to Bnei Sakhnin.
The match against Tiberias will be Maccabi’s 55th official match in 2025.
The breakdown: 37 league matches, 4 European matches, 2 State Cup ties, 1 Toto Cup match, 1 Super Cup match.
Only six previous calendar years saw Maccabi play more official matches. The record currently stands on 63 matches in 2017.
Before the match against Tiberias, Maccabi’s record for 2025 currently stands on: 27 victories, 12 draws, and 15 defeats.
In 2025 Maccabi scored 104 goals and conceded 71.
Only six times in the club’s history has Maccabi scored more than 104 goals in a single calendar year, finding the back of the net 120 times in 2024.
Maccabi faced 25 different opponents this year.
The teams faced the most: Hapoel Haifa, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Be’ersheva – 5 times.
The most wins: 5 wins from 5 matches all against Hapoel Haifa.
Maccabi’s biggest victory in 2025 was recorded on MD34 of last season (May 12th, 2025) – a 6–1 victory away to Maccabi Netanya. Eran Zahavi (3), Dor Turgeman, Osher Davida, and Nemanja Stojić scored the goals in that match. Zahavi’s hat-trick was Maccabi’s only hat-trick by a player in 2025.
In 2025 no less than 39 players featured for Maccabi in official matches in all competitions.
Osher Davida made the most appearances playing in 52 matches.
Nineteen different players scored for Maccabi in 2025 with Dor Peretz leading the list of scorers with 19 goals to his name.
