At a good and successful time, and after leading the Youth Super League table since the eighth round and for 23 games, the youth team of the Maccabi Haifa Football Club "Maccabi "Hardy" Haifa" won the State Football Championship for the 17.5.2025/2024 season today (Saturday, May 2025, XNUMX) and raised the championship plate at its home field, "Katzaf" in Haifa.
The young men of Itay Mordechai, the team's coach, and his assistant, Tzadok Malka, defeated the Hapoel Nir Ramat Hasharon team in the game with an impressive 1:4 victory for the Greens. The four goals for Maccabi Haifa were scored by: Iyad Halaili (minute 17), Itay Ehud (minute 28), Yahli Malka (minute 53) and Amit Arazi (minute 64). The halftime score was 0:2 in favor of Haifa.
The youth team of the club Maccabi "Hardy" Haifa celebrated the club's 18th championship since the establishment of the state, which is the most of any football club in Israel. They also made the team's coach Itai Mordechai the "king of the championships" of the youth team in Israel, which is also his fifth title. His assistant, Zadok Malka, who led the team to the championship at the beginning of the millennium as a coach, is also celebrating another championship.
The championship plate was hoisted by team captain Amit Arazi, who called on his teammate Yavlu Gattachou to assist him in hoisting it, while paying tribute to Gadi Kinda by hoisting his shirt along with the championship plate. In this way, the championship plate returns to the trophy cabinet after an "absence" of only one season.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that in the honor gallery at the game at the "Katzaf" field, Lior Refaelov, who will retire from active play this coming Monday in a farewell match at the "Sami Ofer" Stadium against Maccabi Tel Aviv, was present, with club president Yakle Shahar, CEO Itzik Ovadia, Football Association chairman Shino Zuaretz, and former player and goalkeeper Bonnie Ginzburg, who serves as the technical director of the Football Association's youth teams. We should add that coach Itai Mordechai, who only recently moved to coach the senior team, was also present and sat in the honor gallery on the field.
