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| Full name | Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Maccabi The Yellows | |||
| Short name | MTA | |||
| Founded | 1906[1] | |||
| Ground | Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel | |||
| Capacity | 29,400 | |||
| Owner | Mitchell Goldhar | |||
| Chairman | Jack Angelides | |||
| Coach | Žarko Lazetić | |||
| League | Israeli Premier League | |||
| 2023–24 | Israeli Premier League, 1st of 14 (champions) | |||
| Website | maccabi-tlv.co.il | |||
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Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל מכבי תל אביב; Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv) is an Israeli professional football club from Tel Aviv and part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club.
Founded in 1906 in Jaffa as the HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association, it is the oldest football club in Israel. With the establishment of the city of Tel Aviv in 1909, the club changed its name to Maccabi Tel Aviv. In 1922, it became the first Jewish football club to participate in local competitions. The meaning of the name Maccabi forms an integral part of the character of the team, which took the Star of David as their logo to represent the Jewish people. Maccabi Tel Aviv have won more titles than any other Israeli club, winning 25 League Championships, 24 State Cups, 8 Toto (League) Cups,[2] and 2 Asian Champion Club Tournaments before Israel were expelled from the AFC in 1974.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is the only football team that has never been relegated from the Israeli Premier League and one of only three Israeli teams to ever progress to the UEFA Champions League group stage. The club is named after the Maccabees and invests in the development and nurturing of young talent: the club runs three football academies in the Tel Aviv area as part of its youth programme, working with over 750 children aged 6–15, as well as running 17 youth teams with 400 players between 9 and 19 years old. These teams tend to compete very successfully in local and national leagues.[3]
- ^ "Maccabi in UEFA Website". UEFA. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Maccabi Titels". Maccabi Tel Aviv Official Website. Maccabi Tel Aviv. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Youth Academy". Maccabi Tel Aviv Official Website. Maccabi Tel Aviv. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2015.