Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv 1:0 Hapoel Petah Tikva
The club’s Under-19 team continued their momentum as they won an important contest against Petah Tikva on Matchday 28 of the Israel Youth Premier League Ligat Ha’Al. With their lead atop the table at 6 points thanks to Raanana’s loss and only two matches remaining together with a +18 goal differential, the young Yellow & Blue have almost wrapped up the league title. William Agada scored the only goal of the game. For the full Match Report Click Here.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv (U17)
The Under-17 side is on break until May 16 due to the Israel National Team taking part in the European Championships. Five Yellow & Blue representatives are with the squad in England. Last Friday Dan Lugassi scored in a 2:1 loss to the host.

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv 7:0 Hapoel Ashkelon (U16)
After a week off, the Under-16 side was back in action and picked up a big 7:0 win over Ashkelon to remain in first place due to a better goal differential than Beitar Jerusalem. Yonatan Paz, Tal Torjman x2, Niv Berkovich, Yishay Bozorgi, Roy Maayan and Amit Hevroni all scored for Maccabi. Head Coach Raymond Atteveld summed up the win: “We played well right from the get go and on the first attack we also scored. We continued to press the opponent and we could have scored even more goals. We used the players effectively as we have another match on Tuesday. All in all this was a good result and we didn’t concede a goal along with working together both for a defensive and offensive standpoint.

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv 1:0 Hapoel Beer Sheva (U15 South)
The Under-15 South team won the league championship after defeating Hapoel Beer Sheva. The young Yellow & Blue opened up a 5 point lead atop the table with only one match remaining. Elad Kaplan scored the winner. For the Full Match Report Click Here.

Maccabi “Ilan” Tel Aviv 1:0 Hapoel Kfar Saba (U15 North)
The Under-15 North Team defeated Kfar Saba on Matchday 29 of league play as the Yellow & Blue are in 3rd place with 7 wins out of their last 8 matches. Ben Lineker scored for Asaf Heber’s squad who summed up the performance: “The opponent who is one place behind us on the table gave us a tough time but we have been playing well lately. We scored the goal early on in the 10’ and we were able to cook down defensively from there. We controlled the pace of play but we missed some good chances. Near the end tiredness set in but we held on to the result.”

The club’s Under-19 side hosted Hapoel Petah Tikva on Matchday 28 of the Israel Youth Premier League as the young Yellow & Blue entered the contest in first place with a 3 point lead over Hapoel Raanana. The visitor’s came into the contest in second to last place and winless in their last five matches.

Head coach Guy Tzarfati’s Starting XI: Daniel Peretz, Noam Cohen, Alon Shtrozberg, Fadi Najar, Yoav Hofmayster, Amit Glazer, Tomer Altman, Prince Thomas, Mufleh Shalata, Eylon Almog and William Agada.

First Half
The Yellow & Blue began the match with tremendous pressure as Altman had the side’s first chance in the 3’ when his quality shot was saved by Adi Nasa the Petah Tikva keeper. Ten minutes later, Almog took the ball on the left wing and made his way to the middle of the box as the striker unleashed a scorcher but Nasa made the timely stop. In the 13’ Thomas sent the ball to Shalata on the right who sent a pinpoint perfect pass right to Agada’s head but the keeper was up to the task yet again to parry the ball away to safety.

A minute later Agada’s header from an Almog cross missed the target and in the 25’ Agada’s chance was again saved by a busy Nasa and sent out for a corner. Five minutes later Najar began the attack sent Thomas on his way who in turn passed the ball to Almog on the wing but his shot went wide.

In the 34’ Maccabi almost found their first goal of the match when Shalata sent the ball to Thomas in the middle of the pitch who gave and go with the former but Thomas’s opportunity was parried away by Nasa and the rebound was taken by the keeper off another chance by Agada as the half ended goalless.

Second Half
The half began just as the the first 45 minutes ended with Maccabi in complete control and in the 53’ they finally took a 1:0 lead as Almog crossed the ball from the left wing to Agada who beat the keeper for the one goal advantage. In the 71’ Shalata took a long range chance from the right side but Nasa came up with the ball as the Yellow & Blue looked to double the lead.

Peretz had to be alert a couple of minutes later as Tal Soares lifted the ball into the box to Olivier Boyse as the Maccabi keeper came up big making the timely save to stay in front. In the 78’ Hofmayster’s header went over the bar and just before the final whistle Eyal Hen who had come in as a substitute was stopped by Nasa as Maccabi wrapped up a 1:0 win and increased their lead atop the table to 6 points.

The Israel Under-17 team played their first match of the European Championship in Chesterfield and fell to the host country, England 2:1.

Five Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Department players are part of Head Coach Gady Brumer’s squad including Dan Lugassi and Ido Shahar who featured in the Starting Lineup as Rave Assayag made his debut in the 73’ for the Blue & White.

Israel fell behind 1:0 in the 29’ via a penalty but drew even on Dan Lugassi’s spot kick from 11 meters in the 41’. However, England found the winner in the 61’ to take home the victory.

The Blue & White will face Switzerland and Italy in Group A action later this week.

Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Petah Tikva, 11:30 Ramle (U19)
The Under-19 squad will look to keep up their positive momentum when the host Hapoel Petah Tikva on Matchday 28 of the Israel Youth Football Premier League Ligat Ha’Al. The young Yellow & Blue enter the contest in first place with a 3-point lead over second place Hapoel Raanana. The visitor’s are in second to last place on the table and have gone winless over their last 5 matches.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv (U17)
The Under-17 team is on break until May 16th due to the Israel National Team participating in the European Championships. The side sent 5 representatives to the competition in England.

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Ashkelon, 12:30 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U16)
After a week off, the Under-16 club gets back to action when they face Ashkelon on Matchday 28. Raymond Atteveld’s side are in first place due to a better goal differential than Beitar Jerusalem as they are level on points. The visitor’s are in 14th place with 6 straight losses.

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Beer Sheva, 10:30 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U15 South)
The young Yellow & Blue Under-15 South will look to wrap up their league title with a win against second place Hapoel Beer Sheva who are two points behind Maccabi on the table.

Maccabi “Ilan” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Kfir Saba, 08:30 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U15 North)
The Under-15 North squad will welcome Hapoel Kfar Saba on Matchday 29 of league play. Maccabi “Ilan”are in 3rd place with 6 wins out of their last 7 matches while Kfir Saba are in 4th place with 4 wins in 5 contests.