Gentenaar, who last season worked in the United Arab Emirates as GK coach at Abu Dhabi based club Al Wahda FC under Maurice Steijn, Manolo Jimenez and Mark Wotte, previously coached at Ajax Amsterdam’s Youth Academy, AFC Amsterdam. He began his playing career as a goalkeeper with NEC Nijmegen, joined German giants Borussia Dortmund, returned to Holland and played for Ajax Amsterdam, VVV Venlo, Almere City FC, returned to NEC and retired at the end of the 2013/14 season.

Reinier Robbemond, is an experienced coach who spent all his playing and coaching career in Holland working at PSV Eindhoven as a first team Assistant Coach to Mark van Bommel between 2018 – 2019. He began his coaching career in 2009 shortly after his retirement as he joined the Youth Academy of AZ Alkmaar where spent five seasons before joining the Dutch FA as the Assistant coach of the national U-18’s. He returned to AZ as the Head Coach of the U-23’s between 2013-15, was then appointed as Head Coach for second division side FC Oss (15/16). Robbemond, then started at Willem II as Assistant Coach and was promoted to caretaker and Head Coach in 2018 before switching to PSV.

Robbemond made his first footballing footsteps at the youth academies of Dordrecht and Feyenoord before making his senior debut for his boyhood town in 1990. After six seasons at Dordrecht (1990-96) he moved to FC Utrecht (1996-2001) before joining AZ Alkmaar (2001-04). In 2005 Robbemond moved to De Graafschap and having played until 2009 ended his playing career with a total of 29 goals and 412 appearances.

The Dutchman joined Maccabi in the summer of 2016, arriving from Kairat Almaty of Kazakhstan.

After retiring in 1996 from a playing a career at Sparta Rotterdam and Helmond, Van Leeuwen began working at Feyenoord’s Youth Department as a coach of the Academy teams for 10 years during which he was also the Head Coach of the Feyenoord China projects as well as Head of Youth Scouting for the Feyenoord Academy.

Van Leeuwen spent seven years as Shaktar Donetsk Head of Youth Department before being appointed in March 2013 as Sports Director at Kairat Almaty of Kazakhstan

Under Van Leeuwen’s guidance, Almaty finished in 3rd place twice, qualified to the Europa League once, finished in the runners-up spot last season and won the Kazakhstan Cup in the last two years.

In June 2021 Van Leeuwen was appointed as Maccabi’s Head Coach and at the end of the season led the team to a State Cup final victory. The following season van Leeuwen guided the team to the Conference League Group Stage in its’ innagural season. Van Leeuwen ended his role as the team’s Head Coach in October 2021

Giora Spiegel, one of both Israel’s and Maccabi Tel Aviv’s most outstanding players, made his first appearance for Maccabi Tel Aviv aged sixteen in the 1963/64 season. And what an appearance that was, as Spiegel found the net five times in a 10-1 thrashing of Beitar Machane Yehuda in the second round of the Israel Football Association (IFA) Cup. Spiegel continued his impressive form in his first league season with five goals in all competitions and at age 17 was already regarded as a future star of the club.

In his second season the young star’s statistics continued to rise, with Spiegel scoring 21 goals in all competitions. He even managed to outdo his five goal appearance from the previous season, scoring six times in an IFA Cup match against Hapoel Tel Mond.  And so it was throughout his Maccabi Tel Aviv career that this highly gifted midfielder would continue to deliver stellar performances and score goals in double digits in every full season he played for the club. In all, 97 league goals and another 26 in IFA Cup competition, placing him fifth in the list of all-time Maccabi Tel Aviv goal scorers. Perhaps the most memorable of all his performances came in the 1969/70 season when he scored a hat-trick in Maccabi’s 5-0 derby triumph over arch rivals Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Spiegel was not only impressive in his play and in his personal statistics but also in the number of titles he accumulated during the ten seasons he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv. In all he won four championships, four IFA Cups (including a double in 1969/70) and figured in the two history making Asian Cup victories to the club’s credit. In the first of those two (1968/69), Spiegel played a central role, scoring six goals in six matches, including a hat-trick in the 6-0 semi-final victory over Indian side Misora.  In the second (1970/71) Spiegel scored two goals on the way to the final in which Maccabi were awarded a technical victory against Police Club Bagdad. In both campaigns Spiegel served as the team’s captain.

During the 1972/73 season Spiegel turned his eyes to Europe, playing in France at RC Strasbourg from 1973 to 1976 and at Olympique Lyon from 1976 to 1978. After a successful career in France he returned for one more season at Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 1978/79 season, crowning his career with the club with the league championship.  Spiegel was also capped 44 times for the Israel national team, scoring 18 goals and serving as the lynchpin in the national side that qualified for the World Cup finals in Mexico in 1970.

picture courtesy of the Israel Football Association archives

A product of Real Madrid’s Youth Academy, Hernandez played for Real Madrid’s C’ and Real Madrid B’ between 2007-2011 before joining Real Sporting de Gijon in 2012. Hernandez, who played at Gijon alongside former Maccabi keeper Juan Pablo Colinas, made 140 appearances and scored one goal in four seasons for the Asturian club.

החלוץ הסרבי הצטרף למכבי תל אביב באוקטובר 2020, אחרי שחתם על חוזה לעונה אחת עם אופציה לעונה נוספת.

פשיץ’, שהשתייך בשנתיים האחרונות לקבוצת אל- איתיחאד, הושאל בעונה האחרונה לקבוצת פ.צ סיאול בה כבש 10 שערים ב-23 הופעות. לפני כן הספיק החלוץ לזכות בתואר מלך השערים של הליגה הסרבית כשסיים את עונת 2017/18 בשורות הכוכב האדום בלגרד עם 29 שערים ו-22 בישולים ב-51 הופעות בכל המפעלים.