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| Full name | Maccabi Haifa Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | The Greens The Greens from the Carmel | |||
| Short name | MHA | |||
| Founded | 1913[1] | |||
| Ground | Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel | |||
| Capacity | 30,942 | |||
| Owner | Ya'akov Shahar | |||
| President | Ya'akov Shahar | |||
| Head coach | Barak Bakhar | |||
| 2023–24 | Israeli Premier League, 2nd of 14 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Maccabi Haifa Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון הכדורגל מכבי חיפה, romanized: Moadon haKaduregel Makabi Ḥefa) is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Haifa, Israel, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club plays in the Israeli Premier League. Maccabi Haifa home games are played at Sammy Ofer Stadium. The stadium, which is shared with rivals Hapoel Haifa, is the second largest in Israeli football, with a capacity of 30,942.[2]
Maccabi Haifa is one of the "Big Four" clubs in Israeli football. The meaning of the name Maccabi – 'there is no one like you among the gods' – also refers to the Star of David in the team's logo. The side has won fifteen league titles, second only to the club's biggest rivals, Maccabi Tel Aviv, six State Cups and five Toto Cups. Maccabi Haifa has won the championship and the cup in the same season (referred to as winning the "double") once, and was the first Israeli club to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, in the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League season. Maccabi Haifa holds the record, for the most Champions League group stage qualifications for an Israeli team in three occasions. In 2020–21, Maccabi Haifa won the Israeli Premier League, their first championship in a decade. The club won the next two titles on their way to three consecutive championships.
Maccabi Haifa is currently coached by Barak Bakhar, who returned to the team after a short journey in the Serbian League, the same coach the led the club to three league titles in a row along with qualification for the Champions League group stages in 2022.
- ^ "History of Maccabi Haifa F.C." Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Facts and Numbers". Sammy Ofer Stadium Haifa (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.