The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Maccabi Tel Aviv right now
8 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Hélio Varela takes the afternoon — 9.25
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Hélio Varela provided it, and the 9.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Oct 2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv are top
24 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hélio Varela is carrying Maccabi Tel Aviv
17 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Maccabi Tel Aviv
Mohamed Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Ofek Melika
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match17 Oct 2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv find a way past Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv made Maccabi Tel Aviv work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gabi Kanichowsky falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Osher Davida
- The dugout No hiding place for Dan Glazer
- The dugout A satisfied Lior Atzili