Maccabi Tel Aviv will play Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv in the small city Derby at Bloomfield on December 24 (kickoff at 20:15) and tickets are now on sale for the TASE Premier League 15th round fixture.

Tickets are available through the Lean ticket agency at 42 Frishman Street, via phone on *8780 or here, on our official web site.

Maccabi fans have been allocated seats in gate 10 and 11 and seats are unmarked.

Loyalty points will be awarded to Maccabi scheme members for purchases for this fixture. Members who accrue more points get priority to buy tickets for away fixtures where there is high demand and only a limited number of seats:

Season ticket holders for the 2019-20 season will get two points per ticket.

FOREVER+ members who are season ticket holders will be awarded four points.

FOREVER+ members who are not season ticket holders will receive two points.

Non-loyalty scheme members will receive one point.

Note: In order to confirm points, season ticket holders must state their membership number when making their purchase. Non-season ticket holders who want to accrue the points must purchase their tickets through the Lean web site and log on with their personal details.

Fans who have bought tickets but are no-shows at the stadium for the match will have their points deleted automatically.

Ticket prices for Maccabi supporters:

Gates 10 and 11 (unmarked seats) 66 shekels at the Lean ticket office, or 77 shekels via telephone or web site order.

Please note that tickets will not be distributed at the stadium booths on match day. They must be printed at home or downloaded on to smart phones.

Maccabi Tel Aviv central defender Eitan Tibi was part of the side that drew with Ness Ziona on Saturday. They are the first club to score against Maccabi this season in the league.

“We weren’t good enough today. There are games when you don’t play so well and you get the points but today we didn’t manage to do this.”

“Ness Ziona scored a first goal against us this season and we were unable to find any holes in their defence. We didn’t control the game and I’m sure that there are aspects that the coach will want to discuss with us,” Tibi said.

“The season is still long and we are nowhere near winning the title yet, we will have to learn from our mistakes and be sharper in upcoming games. It’s disappointing to concede a goal finally but clearly, it’s part of the game and we must look ahead now and forget what has happened.”

Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Vladimir Ivic spoke after the disappointing 1-1 draw with bottom side Ness Ziona on Saturday and said the side would need to improve in upcoming games.

“For sure, this is not a good result for us, we wanted to take all three points but we lost confidence in the second half.

“For sure, it’s not good for us. We wanted to take all three points but we lost confidence in the second half.”

He spoke about opponents who throw all their players behind the ball and make it difficult for Maccabi to develop attacks.

“We have had this kind of opponent in the past and it’s never easy against sides who like to close down their defence.”

He said he was not disappointed at conceding a goal was only natural and it had to happen at some point.

“It has happened now, and if it were not to be this game it would have happened at some point in the future. It is impossible to play for months without conceding a goal.”

Ness Ziona stunned Daniel Tenenbaum and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield on Saturday and forced a 1-1 draw with their hosts and scored a first league goal against Maccabi net this season.

A match between the TASE Premier League leaders and the bottom team in the standings was far closer than the differences between the sides might have been on paper and indeed, Ness Ziona took the initiative and attacked from the outset and looked far from the underdogs. 

Indeed, they took the lead in the ninth minute of the match when Elad Shahaf struck a powerful shot in front of the posts from just outside the area and Tenenbaum’s goal was breached after 1,272 minutes of keeping a clean sheet.

The lead didn’t last long and two minutes later, Aron Schoenfeld equalised by slotting home from close in after Eylon Almog ran down the left byline and crossed a ball in along the goalmouth and the American-born player had the easiest of tap-ins.

Tenenbaum was tested once more in the 13th minute and had to make a diving save to prevent Maccabi conceding once more after another powerful shot in front of goal by Ofek Biton.

Omer Atzili almost gave Maccabi the lead in added time in the first half with a powerful shot that forced Ness Ziona goalkeeper Omri Glazer to dive to his left to keep the ball out.

Maccabi had several more chances in the second half, although a generally untidy game eventually ended in a result that was far more satisfactory for Ness Ziona than for Maccabi, who have now ended their last two games at Bloomfield in draws.