Eitan Tibi made his debut in the top tier of Israeli football at Beitar Jerusalem and made his maiden appearance against Hakoach Amidar Ramat Gan in the 2006/07 season. He was loaned out to second league side Hapoel Ra’anana where he played in 33 league matches.  The following season, Tibi was once again loaned out, this time to Hakoach Amidar Ramat Gan who were then playing in the Israeli Premier (“Winner”) League. Tibi appeared in 28 games, scored four goals and reached the semi-finals of the coveted Israel State Cup.

After two years on loan, Tibi returned to Beitar Jerusalem in the 2009/10 season and appeared in 21 games. In 2010/11 he joined Belgian side Charleroi but spent most of the season on the bench before returning to Israel to join Ironi Kiryat Shmona during their historic championship 2011/12 season, making 23 league appearances. His success at Kiryat Shmona drew attention from Maccabi Tel Aviv and he joined the club at the start of the 2012/13 season.

Tibi’s transfer was completed just prior to the second match of the season and thereafter he missed just one other match for the balance of the season, due to yellow card accumulation. Over the course of his 34 league appearances he struck up a terrific partnership with Spanish defender Carlos Garcia as his steadfastness in central defense was a major contributing factor to Maccabi Tel Aviv’s championship in the 2012/13 season. After only his first season at Maccabi Tel Aviv, Eitan Tibi made an indelible mark on the club and secured a position on the Israeli national team, playing his first match in May 2012 in an international friendly against the Czech Republic.

His second campaign with the Yellow-and-Blue was as equally successful playing in 34 out of 36 league matches helping Maccabi win the league title by a margin of 16 points. Tibi also appeared in all of the club’s Europa League matches, playing in 12 European games total in the 2013/14 season.

In the 2014/15 season Tibi continued playing a major role in the club’s defense as Maccabi gave up only 30 goals over the course of the Treble winning year.

Tibi began the 2015/16 campaign in fine form as Maccabi defeated Viktoria Plzen away to advance to the Champions League playoff round and moved onto the Group Stages by aggregate over Basel. At the end of the season, the central defender signed a new contract with the club.

In 2016/17, Tibi made 49 appearances with 5 coming in the Group Stages of the Europa League.

Again in 2017/18, Tibi helped the Club advance to the Europa League, playing in the 8 qualifiers and 4 group stage matches. As part of a rotation with Tal Ben Haim and Jean-Sylvain Babin, Tibi made 42 appearances across all competitions and became the all time leader in matches played under Jordi Cruyff with 267.

Tibi was one of the key players in what was another amazing season (2019/20) for Maccabi, as he played an important part in the record-breaking defense. Tibi ended a four-year-goalless-run as he scored 3 goals in 31 appearances to mark his best year at the club. At the end of the season, Tibi lifted the league title in what was his 5^th championship at Maccabi and 7^th personal.

 

Dor Peretz was promoted from the club’s Under-19 team and given a place on the senior squad at the start of the 2014/15 Treble winning campaign. Peretz had joined Maccabi Tel Aviv from Hapoel Hod Hasharon in 2010 and moved his way up through the Youth Division teams until joining the Under-19s in the 2012/13 season. He spent two years with Maccabi Tel Aviv “Shachar”, interrupted only by an injury that kept him out of action for three months in his second season. During that time he scored four goals before joining the senior squad.

Peretz wasted no time in appearing in the starting eleven with 90 minutes against Maccabi Netanya in the “Toto” (League) Cup. He made two more League Cup appearances, against Hapoel Ra’anana and Hapoel Petach Tikva, Maccabi’s rival in the home-away quarter finals. In the second leg Peretz came off the bench and his smart long-range effort represented his first official goal as a member of the first team.

The 2015/16 season began with Peretz moving from the central defender position he played during the prior year to the midfield spot he plays now. Peretz came in as a substitute in both Basel legs and started the play that led to Eran Zahavi’s second goal of the away match. He also began the League campaign in the starting lineup. Peretz earned his first Champions League minutes at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea when he came on as a substitute. His first goal was against Maccabi Haifa in a 2:0 win at Sammy Ofer Stadium. He finished the season with 38 appearances, one goal and a pair of assists.

In 2016/17 he made 19 appearances under new head coach Shota Arveladze and picked up two assists. Peretz was then loaned out to Hapoel Haifa in January for the balance of the season.

The 2017/18 season saw Peretz become a key part of the Yellow & Blue and played the central defender role, replacing veteran Gal Alberman. His goal at Hapoel Beer Sheva helped defeat the Southern Reds 1:0 for their first ever home league loss at Turner Stadium. In total, #42 made 24 league appearances under Head Coach Jordi Cruyff.

Eran Zahavi, one of the most talented midfielders Israel has produced in recent years, began his career at Maccabi during the January 2013 transfer window after he returned to Israel from a year and a half at the Italian club Palermo. The 26 year-old Zahavi had played for two different clubs in Israel, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Ramat Hasharon, before his move to Italy in the summer of 2011. His maiden goal for the club came in the fourth matchweek of Serie A play against Cagliari Calcio, a match Palermo won 3-2. In his first season at Palermo, Zahavi made 20 league and two European appearances, scoring two goals and making three assists.

He missed the beginning of the 2012/13 season through an injury he recovered from before arriving at Maccabi Tel Aviv on a three and a half year deal. And it took him only one match to leave his mark on the club when he scored the second goal in a 2-0 victory over Maccabi Netanya in the eighth round of the prestigious State Cup competition. His goals were a significant contribution to the 2012/13 Championship season, scoring seven of them in the last two months of the season. His best performance came in a match against Bnei Yehuda when his brace brought Maccabi on level terms after they were trailing 2-0. Zahavi also scored twice against his old club Hapoel Tel Aviv and against Ironi Kiryat Shmona, but in separate matches.

Zahavi’s contribution to the title drive was considerable and at season’s end Zahavi celebrated not only Maccabi’s first championship in a decade but also the second title of his career. His excellent form in the second half of Maccabi’s season also brought about his return to head coach Eli Gutman’s Israeli national side. His first appearance in close to a year came in March of 2013 in Israel’s 0-2 victory over Northern Ireland in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. In all Zahavi has been capped thirteen times for Israel, the first of which against Malta in the European Cup qualifiers in 2012.

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Dan Glazer is a product of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Department and in the 2017/18 season the midfielder went on loan to Maccabi Netanya. In the summer of 2018 Glazer returned to the club for its preseason training camp.

At the start of the 2018/19 season Glazer,  who captained all the young teams he played at, returned to the club. It did not take long before the combative holding midfielder made the position his own in what was his breakthrough season in Yellow and Blue that resulted with the championship. Glazer made 39 appearances in all competitions, adding two assists and scoring his senior debut goal at the match the championship plate was presented to Maccabi – following the 3-0 victory over Maccabi Netanya.

Glazer continued his improvement during the 2019/20 season as his outstanding form throughout the season earned him the League’s Player of the season award. He led Maccabi to a second d championship in succession and the 24^th in the club’s history making 40 appearances in all competitions and adding three assists.

Glazer also played an important role in Maccabi’s qualification for the Europa League group stage (20/21) and the Conference League group stage (21/22), making a total of 35 appearances in UEFA competitions.

In the summer of 2023, Glazer embarked on a new chapter in his career by joining OFI Crete, where he made 27 appearances. The following season, he moved to Russia to join FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod, making 15 appearances during the first half of the campaign before transferring to Kairat Almaty in January 2025.

Ben Chaim returned for a second spell at Maccabi Tel Aviv in July 2020 after spending three years with Sparta Prague.

A product of Maccabi Petah Tikva’s Youth Department, Tal Ben Chaim, made his senior top-flight debut against Bnei Yehuda in May 2008. Ben Chaim who scored 22 goals in all competitions for Petah Tikva’s U-19’s side, scored his debut senior goal against Hapoel Tel Aviv on the penultimate match of the season. After a barren season in which he only scored 3 goals for Petah Tikva’s youth team but none for the senior side, the 2009/10 campaign proved to be Ben Chaim’s breakthrough season as he scored 10 goals and continued with 13 goals in the following 2010/11 campaign. Having scored a total of 29 goals for Petah Tikva, Ben Chaim joined Hapoel Tel Aviv in the summer of 2012 and made his debut in a Toto Cup derby against Maccabi and finished the season with 9 goals in all competitions.

Ben Chaim then joined Maccabi ahead of the 2013/14 campaign and made his first appearance in Yellow and Blue under Paulo Souza during the Champions League qualifier against Hungarian side Gyori. Ben Chaim, opened his account the following week as he scored in the return leg against Gyori before helping the side reach the Europa League group stage and the round of 32 in the competition. The talented winger added four more league goals and five assists which helped him celebrate his first league title and Maccabi’s second championship in succession.

Ben Chaim played an integral part in Maccabi’s historic 2014/15 treble winning season under Pako Ayestaran as he scored 11 goals and added 7 assists in 48 appearances in all competitions. In the summer of 2015, Ben Chaim helped Maccabi qualify to the Champions League group stage under Slavisa Jokanovic and played in all the matches against Chelsea, Porto and Dynamo Kiev. The 2015/16 season however ended in a sour note with the loss of the championship to Hapoel Be’ersheva by a solitary point and a State Cup final defeat to Maccabi Haifa, but Ben Chaim racked-up 13 goals and 4 assists in 50 appearances in all competitions.

Ben Chaim reached the Europa League group stage with Maccabi for the second time in the 2016/17 season, as the winger ended the campaign with 19 goals and 7 assists in 50 appearances in all competitions which prompted his transfer to Sparta Prague in July 2017.

 

The 23 year-old defender Omri Ben Harush joined the ranks of the Maccabi Netanya youth system at age eight and made his maiden appearance for the senior squad before the start of the 2009/10 season in a League (“Toto”) Cup match against Beitar Jerusalem. In his first season he scored two goals and made just 16 appearances, but the following season he upped that total to 35 and firmly established himself as a mainstay in the Netanya squad. Of the equally noteworthy 41 appearances he made in the 2011/12 season, his most memorable one will be for scoring the last goal at the mythological “Kufsa” Stadium in Netanya, an injury time winner against Bnei Sakhnin.

Last April he registered his 100th appearance for his old club. He also made 21 appearances for Israel’s Under-21s, including all of the games in the 2013 European Under-21 Championships held here in Israel in June. He has also played for Israel’s senior squad, making his maiden appearance in Israel’s defeat to Greece in September 2011. He arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv at the start of the 2013/14 season just after the club had begun their European campaign. His maiden appearance for Maccabi was in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers when he came off the bench in the away leg against FC Basel.

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The Serbian midfielder Nikola Mitrovic arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv at the beginning of the 2013/14 season from the Hungarian side Videoton FC, where he played for two seasons and scored seven goals in 55 league appearances. Of those two seasons, one and a half were played under current Maccabi head coach Paulo Sousa, for whom he scored three goals and made 15 assists in 62 appearances in all competitions. In his two seasons at Videoton, the 27 year-old Mitrovic left an impressive legacy of nine assists and one goal in his first season and six goals and five assists in his second.

Mitrovic was born in the Serbian town of Krusevac and rose through the ranks of the youth set-up at the local side FK Napredak, where he ultimately played three seasons for their senior squad. In 2007 the holding midfielder left his hometown club and joined one of the biggest teams in Serbia, FK Partizan Belgrade, where in his first season he celebrated with the club the league and cup double. After a further two seasons at FK Napredak, interrupted by a single season at the Russian side FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod, Mitrovic left Serbia in the 2010/11 season for the Hungarian side Ujpest FC. where his passing talents in his role as holding midfielder finally emerged. In his one season at Ujpest, Mitrovic registered twelve assists and a goal before moving on to Videoton in the 2011/12 season, winning there the League Cup and two Hungarian Super Cups.

Mitrovic’s maiden appearance for Maccabi Tel Aviv came in matchweek 1 of the 2013/14 season when he came off the bench in his side’s 0-2 away win against Hapoel Acre.

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Ohayon joined the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth department at the age of 15 and in his first year with the Under-17 side he played a big part in helping his team win the league title. Ohayon moved to the Under-19 team in his second season and was an integral part of the club that won the 2014/15 championship.

The keeper made his First Team debut in August 2015 when he played against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the Toto Cup competition as well as against Bnei Yehuda in the same tournament later on that same season.

In the summer of 2016, Ohayon signed a five year contract extension and was loaned to Premier League outfit Watford for a season. June 2018 saw the shot stopper take part in Maccabi’s preseason training camp.

Nigerian midfielder Nosa Igiebor joined Maccabi Tel Aviv at the start of the 2014/15 season after two years at Spanish side Real Betis. The 23 year-old Igiebor began his professional career at the age of 15 when he joined the senior squad of Nigerian Premier League side Sharks F.C. After two years at the club he moved on for an additional two years to Lagos based outfit Warri Wolves F.C. In 2009 he first left his homeland to make the almost 4,000 mile trek to Norway, where he made his breakthrough at Lillestrom SK. In his third season at the Norwegian first tier Tippeligaen club, Igiebor made his name by scoring 8 goals in 17 appearances.

In 2011, at the age of 21, Igiebor chose to further his career in Israel but wound up spending just one season at municipal rivals Hapoel Tel Aviv. There he collected his first title after scoring the winning goal in the final of the Israel Football Association State Cup. From there he moved on to Spain and the then top tier La Liga side Real Betis. The highlight of his 16 appearances in his maiden season at the club was when he came off the bench in the last minute of the Seville derby against Sevilla FC and scored a dramatic equaliser. In his second season he made 12 appearances and scored one goal, a matchwinner against La Liga rivals Villarreal that could not prevent his club from being relegated at the end of the season.

Igiebor has made eight appearances for the Nigerian national team and scored two goals. One of those goals came in Nigeria’s 2-0 victory over Liberia in the qualifiers for the 2013 African Cup of Nations, helping his side with a further two performances on their way to winning the competition. He scored his second international goal in a friendly against Venezuela in November 2012.