The midfielder, 185cm, began his playing career at Hapoel Haifa’s youth academy before switching to Kiryat Shmona in 2012. Shamir made his senior debut for Kiryat Shmona at a league match against Hapoel Ra’anana in November 2013 and at the end of that season won the State Cup.

This season Shamir played once for Liege in the league against Genk as well as one pre-season friendly match against Mechelen. Last season Shamir made 23 appearances for Liege in all competitions including featuring for the Belgian club in the Europa League group stages.

Khalaila, played for Bnei Sachnin’s U-19’s team, made his senior debut in May 2017 against Beitar Jerusalem. Since then he scored 25 goals in 107 appearances for Sachnin in all competitions. Khalaila scored 2 goals in 11 appearances for Israel’s Youth team before adding 8 more appearances for Israel’s U-21’s. Earlier this month (June 2021), Khalaila made his full international debut for Israel in a friendly against Portugal.

The central defender who made his first footballing footsteps at Kiryat Shmona’s Youth Department has been playing with in the first team for the past four years and scored 6 goals in 140 appearances in all competitions.

Nachmias made his senior international debut for Israel against Slovakia in October 2020 and scored 1 goal in 10 appearances for the U21’s as well as 16 international appearances for the young national teams.

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