Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Maccabi Tel Aviv
מכבי תל-אביב


fullname = Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביב
founded = 1906, as "
HaRishon LeZiyyon - Yafo"
ground = Bloomfield Stadium,
Tel Aviv, Israel
capacity = c. 15,478 | chairman = flagicon|Canada Alex Sneijder
manager = flagicon|Israel Ran Ben Shimon
league = Ligat ha'Al ליגת העל
(Premier League)
season = 2007-08
position = 6th place
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Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. is an Israeli association football club, part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv sports club. It is one of the oldest clubs in Israeli football, and is the most decorated club in Israeli football history with 19 championships, 22 national cups, 2 Asian Champions Cups and 2 Toto cups. Maccabi have won the championship and the cup in the same season (referred to as winning the "double") seven times.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is the only team in Israel never to have played in the lower divisions, having always played in the top flight. The club is also one of the two only teams from Israel to reach the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.

Honours

* Old Liga Leumit/Ligat ha'Al [Up until 1999, the top division of Israeli football was the Liga Leumit; since then, it has been Ligat ha'Al.] "'
** Champions 1923, 1929, 1936, 1937, 1941/42, 1946/47, 1949/50, 1951/52, 1953/54, 1955/56, 1957/58, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1971/72, 1976/77, 1978/79, 1991/92, 1994/95, 1995/96, 2002/03
* Israel State Cup
** Winners 1928/29, 1929/30, 1932/33, 1940/41, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1953/54, 1954/55, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1963/64, 1964/65, 1966/67, 1969/70, 1976/77, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1993/94, 1995/96, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2004/05
* Asian Club Championship
** Winners 1968/69, 1970/71
* Toto Cup
** Winners 1992/93, 1998/99

Current squad

"As of August 2008"

Foreigners 2008–2009

* Dragoslav Jevrić
* Dulee Johnson
* Yannick Kamanan
* flagicon|Croatia Igor Tomašić

Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Maccabi Tel Aviv every season, from 1949 (the first season after Israeli Independence) to the present day.

Notable former and present players

Retired number

* 12: flagicon|Israel Meni Levi
* 8: flagicon|Israel Avi Nimni

References

External links

* [http://www.maccabi-tlv.co.il/ Official website]
* [http://www.hamaccabi.com/ Fans' site]