The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Ethane Azoulay
Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Maccabi Haifa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva count the cost of losing Adar Ratner
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: Maccabi Petach Tikva walk away from Shachar Rosen
$130.0K was the most the club would pay and Maccabi Tel Aviv were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 academy graduates step up at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv watching José Cortés
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Maccabi Petach Tikva have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Gil Refaelov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gil Refaelov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Lior Natcho joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lior Natcho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nir David steps up from the Maccabi Petach Tikva academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nir David has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Bruno Costa is in the works
Maccabi Petach Tikva have made the call to Brasil de Pelotas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Squad Words at Maccabi Petach Tikva training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Maccabi Petach Tikva say no to the training-ground money
- Squad Ben Lederman is a square peg at Maccabi Petach Tikva