Maccabi Tel Aviv FC are the only club in Israel to have played in the top division in all 85 seasons (74 seasons since the State of Israel was established, and 11 seasons prior to it).
Playing their fourth season in succession of top-flight football, Bnei Reineh, are the 47th club (only ahead of Ironi Tiberias at 48) to appear in Israel’s top division.
Reineh’s league debut in Israel’s top division was in the 2022/23 campaign, away to Maccabi on Matchday 1, ending in a 5-0 defeat. Similar debuts include Maccabi Ahi Nazareth in 2003/04 (2-0 to Maccabi) and Ironi Ashdod in 1993/94 (1-0 to Maccabi).
Their debut top-flight 0-5 defeat to Maccabi remains Bnei Reineh’s heaviest defeat in 281 matches since the club was re-established.
Maccabi have faced Bnei Reineh in 9 league matches and a 74.1% success rate having won 6, drawn 2 and lost 1 with a total goal tally of 19-7.
Fifty two Maccabi players featured against Reineh in league matches. Maccabi’s captain Dor Peretz is the only player to have featured in all 9 encounters.
A total of 12 Maccabi players scored against Bnei Reineh with Dor Peretz leading the list with 3 goals to his name.
Four players who played for Maccabi also featured for Reineh: Saied Abu Farchi, Ruslan Barsky, Osama Khalaila, and Omri Altman.
