2021–22 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season explained

Club:	Maccabi Haifa
Season:	2021–22
Chrtitle:	President
Chairman:	Ya'akov Shahar
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Manager:	Barak Bakhar
Stadium:	Sammy Ofer
League:	Ligat Ha'Al
League Result:	1st
Cup1:	State Cup
Cup1 Result:	Runners-up
Cup2:	Toto Cup
Cup2 Result:	Winners
Cup3:	Super Cup
Cup3 Result:	Winners
Cup4:	Champions League
Cup4 Result:	First qualifying round
Cup5:	Conference League
Cup5 Result:	Group stage
League Topscorer:	Omer Atzili (20)
Season Topscorer:	Omer Atzili (27)
Highest Attendance:	29,258 (vs Maccabi Netanya (21 May 2022)
Lowest Attendance:	9,483 (vs Hapoel Tel Aviv (22 August 2021)
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Prevseason:	2020–21
Nextseason:	2022–23

The 2021–22 season was Maccabi Haifa's 64th season in Israeli Premier League, and their 40th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.

In this season, the team won its Second championship in a consecutive to achieve three from four title on this season (Israeli Premier League, Toto Cup and the israeli super cup) and Finished Runners-up on the Israeli state cup.

Club

Squad information

Transfers

In

Date		Player		Moving from	Type	Fee	Notes	Source
		Sean Goldberg		Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Transfer	Free		^[1]
		Ali Mohamed		Beitar Jerusalem	Transfer	1,400,000€		^[2]
		Ori Dahan		Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Transfer	500,000€+Sweep deal		^[3]
		Itamar Israeli		Hapoel Kfar Saba	Transfer	Free		^[4]
		Ryan Strain		Adelaide United	Transfer	€300,000		^[5]
		Dean David		F.C. Ashdod	Transfer	€1,100,000		^[6]
		Ben Sahar		Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Transfer	Free		^[7]
		Yahav Gurfinkel		Hapoel Haifa	Loan returns	Free
		Ikouwem Utin		Bnei Sakhnin	Loan returns	Free
		Roi Mishpati		F.C. Ashdod	Transfer	Free		^[8]
		Mavis Tchibota		Ludogorets Razgrad	Transfer	€1,000,000		^[9]
		Mickaël Alphonse		Amiens	Transfer	Free		^[10]

Out

Date		Player		Type	Fee	Moving to	Notes	Source
				End of Contract	Free	CSKA Sofia		^[11]
		Omri Glazer		Release	Free	Hapoel Be'er Sheva		^[12]
				End of Contract	Free	Hapoel Nof HaGalil		^[13]
		Ayid Habshi		Transfer	Deal	Hapoel Kiryat Shmona	Part of Uri Dahan transfer deal.	^[14]
		Sonko Kabba		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Ramat HaSharon		^[15]
		Ihab Abu Alshikh		Loan Out	Free	Maccabi Netanya		^[16]
		Nikita Rukavytsya		End of Contract	Free	Hapoel Be'er Sheva		^[17]
		Stav Nahmani		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Nof HaGalil		^[18]
		Yahav Gurfinkel		Transfer	€400,000	Norrköping		^[19]
		Rony Laufer		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Afula		^[20]
		Nehorai Ifrach		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Afula		^[21]
		Ikouwem Utin		Transfer	€150,000	Slaven Belupo		^[22]
		Timothy Muzie		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Nof HaGalil		^[23]
		Mohammed Awaed		Loan Out	Free	Maccabi Petah Tikva		^[24]
		Yuval Ashkenazi		End of Contract	Free	Maccabi Netanya		^[25]
		Roey Elimelech		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Afula
		Adar Azruel		Loan Out	Free	Hapoel Ra'anana
		Ryan Strain		Release	Free	Free agent

Competitions

Overview

including 3-0 Walkover win against Bnei Sakhnin in round 35

Ligat Ha'Al

See main article: 2021–22 Israeli Premier League.

Regular season

Results overview

Opposition	Home score	Away score
Beitar Jerusalem	2–1	1–0
Bnei Sakhnin	2–1	6–0
F.C. Ashdod	6–0	2–2
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–2	2–1
Hapoel Hadera	1–0	0–0
Hapoel Haifa	5–1	1–0
Hapoel Jerusalem	1–1	4–1
Hapoel Nof HaGalil	1–1	4–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–0	3–1
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	4–0	1–2
Maccabi Netanya	2–0	1–1
Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–0	4–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–2	1–2

Championship round

Results overview

Opposition	Home score	Away score
Bnei Sakhnin	1–0	0–3 w/o^[26]
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–0	0–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	3–0	2–0
Maccabi Netanya	4–0	0–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–3	1–1

Overall

Results by round

State Cup

See main article: 2021–22 Israel State Cup.

Toto Cup

See main article: 2021–22 Toto Cup Al.

Final

Israel Super Cup

See main article: 2021 Israel Super Cup.

UEFA Champions League

See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.

See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round.

First qualifying round

UEFA Europa Conference League

See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.

Qualifying phase

See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round.

Play-off round

Group stage

Statistics

Squad statistics

			Ligat HaAl					State Cup					Toto Cup					Israel Super Cup					UEL/ECL					Total
Nation	No.	Name	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	GS	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	Min.	width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"		width=60 style="background: #FFFFFF"	As.
Goalkeepers
	44	align=left	Josh Cohen	33	33	3,259	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	102	0	0	1	1	100	0	0	13	13	1,160	0	0	48	48	4,621	0	0
	52	align=left	Itamar Israeli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	77	align=left	Roee Fucs	1	0	39	0	0	1	1	133	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	172	0	0
	90	align=left	Roi Mishpati	2	2	153	0	0	5	5	473	0	0	1	1	95	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	95	0	0	9	9	817	0	0
Defenders
	3	align=left	Sean Goldberg	31	27	2,738	0	1	4	3	208	0	0	2	2	198	0	0	1	0	16	0	0	7	5	512	0	0	45	37	3,672	0	1
	5	align=left	Bogdan Planić	32	32	3,019	0	1	4	3	387	0	0	1	1	96	0	0	1	1	84	0	0	10	10	917	0	0	48	47	4,503	0	1
	12	align=left	Sun Menahem	39	19	1,994	2	1	5	5	397	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100	0	0	11	9	842	0	0	47	34	3,333	3	3
	15	align=left	Ofri Arad	21	10	1,063	1	0	5	4	396	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	243	0	0	31	16	1,702	2	0
	17	align=left	Taleb Tawatha	3	1	95	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	132	0	0	7	4	272	0	0
	23	align=left	Mickaël Alphonse	15	12	1,226	0	0	3	1	212	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	13	1,438	0	0
	24	align=left	Ori Dahan	3	1	137	0	0	2	1	112	0	0	2	2	198	0	0	1	1	63	0	0	9	6	613	0	0	17	11	1,123	0	0
	25	align=left	Raz Meir	19	16	1,512	0	2	4	4	330	0	0	2	0	102	0	0	0	1	1	100	0	14	12	1,124	0	0	40	33	3,168	0	3
	55	align=left	Rami Gershon	11	0	258	0	0	3	1	146	0	0	1	1	51	0	0	1	0	37	0	0	10	9	89	0	0	26	11	1,371	1	0
Midfielders
	4	align=left	Ali Mohamed	35	28	3,519	0	2	3	1	98	0	0	2	1	121	0	0	1	1	100	0	0	8	7	759	1	0	49	38	3,597	0	5
	6	align=left	Neta Lavi	19	9	913	0	1	5	2	319	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	28	0	0	26	12	1,260	1	1
	7	align=left	Omer Atzili	33	31	2,867	20	10	5	4	463	2	1	2	0	87	0	1	1	1	84	0	0	12	9	848	6	3	53	45	4,349	28	15
	8	align=left	Dolev Haziza	30	29	2,606	9	6	4	3	324	0	0	1	0	51	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	13	9	1,006	2	2	48	41	3,987	11	9
	10	align=left	Tjaronn Chery	33	29	2,754	9	7	4	3	300	2	0	2	1	132	0	0	1	1	100	0	0	13	12	1,083	2	5	53	46	4,369	13	12
	14	align=left	José Rodríguez	27	22	2,012	0	3	5	3	260	0	0	2	1	93	0	0	1	0	26	0	0	13	12	1,063	0	0	48	38	3,454	0	3
	16	align=left	Mohammad Abu Fani	26	23	1,939	3	4	6	4	380	1	1	1	1	102	1	0	1	1	100	1	0	11	9	768	1	1	45	38	3,289	7	6
	26	align=left	Mahmoud Jaber	22	9	959	3	4	3	2	195	0	0	2	2	162	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	223	0	0	32	16	1,539	3	6
	32	align=left	Anan Khalaily	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	30	0	0
	33	align=left	Maor Levi	14	1	380	3	0	5	4	360	0	2	2	2	111	0	0	1	0	16	0	0	8	3	349	1	0	30	10	1,225	4	2
Forwards
	9	align=left		20	2	408	1	1	3	2	138	0	0	1	1	86	0	0	1	1	63	1	0	11	3	473	1	1	36	9	1,168	3	2
	11	align=left	Godsway Donyoh	26	9	1,131	5	4	4	3	296	0	0	1	1	66	0	0	1	0	36	0	1	10	6	487	1	0	42	19	2,010	6	5
	13	align=left	Mavis Tchibota	13	3	552	2	0	4	3	296	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	5	725	2	0
	21	align=left	Dean David	34	28	2,494	15	5	5	3	260	4	0	2	0	72	2	0	1	1	74	0	0	14	8	750	4	1	56	40	3,650	25	5
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club
	2	align=left	Ryan Strain	7	4	353	0	0	1	1	64	0	0	1	1	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	179	0	0	12	8	647	0	0
	18	align=left	Yuval Ashkenazi	8	1	167	0	0	2	0	36	0	0	2	2	111	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	251	3	0	18	5	565	3	0
	34	align=left	Roey Elimelech	1	0	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	0	1
	36	align=left	Adar Azruel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	34	0	0	1	0	34	0	0

Goals

Rank	Player	Position	Ligat HaAl	State Cup	Toto Cup	Israel Super Cup	UCL/ECL	Total
1			20	2	0	0	6	28
2			15	4	2	0	4	25
3			9	2	0	0	2	13
4	Dolev Haziza		9	0	0	0	2	11
5			3	1	1	1	1	7
6			5	0	0	0	1	6
7	Maor Levi		3	0	0	0	1	4
align=center rowspan=4	8	Mahmoud Jaber		3	0	0	0	0	3
Sun Menahem		2	0	0	0	1	3
		1	0	0	1	1	3
Yuval Ashkenazi		0	0	0	0	3	3
align=center rowspan=2	12	Ofri Arad		1	1	0	0	0	2
		2	0	0	0	0	2
align=center rowspan=2	14			0	1	0	0	0	1
Rami Gershon		0	0	0	0	1	1
align=center colspan=3	Own goals	3	2	0	0	1	6

Clean sheets

width=35		width=35		width=35		width=200	Name	Ligat HaAl	State Cup	Toto Cup	Israel Super Cup	UEL/ECL	width= 75	Total
1	GK	44	Josh Cohen	16		1	1	3	21
2	GK	90	Roi Mishpati		5				5
3	GK	77	Roee Fucs	1	0				1

Disciplinary record for Ligat Ha'Al and State Cup

			Name	Ligat Ha'Al			State Cup			Total
8			Dolev Haziza	12						12
4			Ali Mohamed	8						8
5			Bogdan Planić	7			1			8
12			Sun Menahem	5			1			6
16			Mohammad Abu Fani	5	2		2			7	2
14			José Rodríguez	3			2			5
21			Dean David	5						5
25			Raz Meir	4		1				4		1
33			Maor Levi	3			1			4
3			Sean Goldberg	5						5
55			Rami Gershon	3			1			4
7			Omer Atzili	3		1				3		1
15			Ofri Arad	2		1	1			3		1
10			Tjaronn Chery	3						3
11			Godsway Donyoh	2						2
44			Josh Cohen	1						1
23			Mickaël Alphonse	1						1
90			Roi Mishpati	1						1

Disciplinary record for Champions League and Europa Conference League

			Name	Qualification			Group stage			Total
16			Mohammad Abu Fani	4			1			5
12			Sun Menahem	2			2			4
11			Godsway Donyoh	2			1			3
7			Omer Atzili	1			2			3
5			Bogdan Planić	1			2			3
14			José Rodríguez	2			1			3
8			Dolev Haziza	2						2
2			Ryan Strain	2						2
24			Ori Dahan	1			1			2
10			Tjaronn Chery				2			2
3			Sean Goldberg				2			2
44			Josh Cohen				2			2
4			Ali Mohamed	1		1				1		1
25			Raz Meir	1						1
17			Taleb Tawatha				1			1
33			Maor Levi				1			1

Suspensions

Player	Date Received	Offence	Length of suspension
	9 June 2021	Discipline	3 Match	Maccabi Tel Aviv (H) Hapoel Tel Aviv (H) Hapoel Hadera (A)	25 July 2021 22 August 2021 29 August 2021
	14 July 2021	vs FC Kairat (A)	2 Match	Dinamo Tbilisi (A) Dinamo Tbilisi (H)	22 July 2021 29 July 2021
	22 July 2021	vs Dinamo Tbilisi (A)	1 Match	Dinamo Tbilisi (H)	29 July 2021
	3 October 2021	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (H)	1 Match	Hapoel Jerusalem (A)	16 October 2021
	3 October 2021	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (H)	1 Match	Hapoel Jerusalem (A)	16 October 2021
	4 November 2021	vs Slavia Prague (A)	1 Match	Union Berlin (H)	25 November 2021
	25 November 2021	vs Union Berlin (H)	1 Match	Feyenoord (A)	9 December 2021
	2 December 2021	vs Hapeol Haifa (H)	1 Match	Beitar Jerusalem (H)	13 December 2021
	18 December 2021	vs Hapeol Jerusalem (A)	1 Match	Bnei Sakhnin (H)	25 December 2021
	3 January 2022	vs Maccabi Tel Aviv (H)	1 Match	Beitar Jerusalem (H)	12 January 2022
Raz Meir	17 January 2022	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	1 Match	Hapoel Jerusalem (H)	22 January 2022
	22 January 2022	vs Hapoel Jerusalem (H)	1 Match	Maccabi Netanya (A)	30 January 2022
	26 January 2022	Discipline	1 Match	Maccabi Netanya (A)	30 January 2022
	30 January 2022	vs Maccabi Netanya (A)	1 Match	F.C. Ashdod (H)	7 February 2022
	14 February 2022	vs Ironi Kiryat Shmona (A)	1 Match	Hapoel Haifa (A)	26 February 2022
	4 April 2022	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (H)	1 Match	Bnei Sakhnin (H)	16 April 2022
	4 April 2022	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (H)	1 Match	Bnei Sakhnin (H)	16 April 2022
	23 April 2022	Maccabi Netanya (A)	1 Match	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	7 May 2022
	7 May 2022	vs Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	1 Match	Maccabi Tel Aviv (H)	10 May 2022
	7 May 2022	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	1 Match	Maccabi Netanya (H)	21 May 2022
	7 May 2022	Hapoel Be'er Sheva (A)	1 Match	Maccabi Netanya (H)	21 May 2022

Penalties

Date	Penalty Taker	Scored	Opponent	Competition
26 August 2021	Dolev Haziza		Neftçi	Conference League
11 September 2021	Omer Atzili		Bnei Sakhnin	Liga Ha`Al
3 October 2021	Dolev Haziza		Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Liga Ha`Al
28 November 2021	Omer Atzili		Hapoel Tel Aviv	Liga Ha`Al
12 January 2022	Mohammad Abu Fani		Beitar Jerusalem	State Cup
21 May 2022	Mavis Tchibota		Maccabi Netanya	Liga Ha`Al
24 May 2022	Omer Atzili		Hapoel Be'er Sheva	State Cup

Overall

	Total	Home	Away	Natural
Games played	59	30	26	3
Games won	37	23	12	2
Games drawn	9	4	5	N/A
Games lost	12	3	9	1
Biggest win				2-0 vs Hapoel Haifa
Biggest loss				N/A
Biggest win (League)				N/A
Biggest loss (League)				N/A
Biggest win (Cup)				2-0 vs Hapoel Haifa
Biggest loss (Cup)		N/A	N/A	1-3 (p) vs Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Biggest win (Toto)			N/A	7-6 (p) vs Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Biggest loss (Toto)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Biggest win (Europe)				N/A
Biggest loss (Europe)		0-1 vs Union Berlin		N/A
Goals scored	121	72	44	5
Goals conceded	48	16	29	3
Goal difference	+73	+56	+15	+2
Clean sheets	27	17	9	1
Average per game
Average per game
Yellow cards	145	70	64	11
Red cards	5	2	3	N/A
Most appearances	Dean David (56)
Most minutes played	Josh Cohen (4,621)
Most goals	Omer Atzili (28)
Most Assist	Omer Atzili (15)
Penalties for	7	5	1	1
Penalties scored	7	5	1	1
Penalties against	7	4	3	N/A
Penalties saved	7	4	3	N/A
Winning rate	%	%	%	%

External links

• Maccabi Haifa website

Notes and References

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