What do Hapoel Ramat Gan, Upper Galilee, Hapoel Jerusalem, Bnei Herzliya, Bnei Hasharon, Hapoel Holon, Galil Gilboa, Hapoel Eilat, Maccabi Haifa have in common?
They all defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv in a knockout match for a title at the Yad Eliyahu Sports Hall. Hapoel Tel Aviv, the Israeli team that defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv the most, is not on this list.
Hapoel Tel Aviv played 24 times in Yad Eliyahu in the "DO OR DIE" game.
In all of them she lost.
It started with cup games in the mid-1960s and culminated in memorable playoff battles in the 1980s and 1990s.
The young Hapoel fans who despise the Menora Mivtachim hall and call it derogatory names do not remember that the mythological hall at 53 Yigal Alon Street was the home of the team in the 1970s until the inauguration of the Ussishkin Hall in the early 1980s.
Hapoel fans in the hall.
What will happen in the 25th Derby ?, Photo: Alan Schieber
In 1985 and 1987, Hapoel stunned Maccabi with a victory in the first game of the playoff final series.
For box office reasons, she preferred to host Game 2, which is decisive in Yad Eliyahu.
In 1985 the boxing match between Largi and Arousti knocked her to the boards as well as the punches he sent to Even Mercer to Tomer Steinhauer at the start of Game No. 5 in 1992.
In the last decade, Hapoel Tel Aviv was a three-way distance from Durand Scott in December 2014 to oust Maccabi from the cup.
In July 2020, in a league that took place between the corona waves, Hapoel missed a victory in the first game of the quarterfinal series and in game number 3, it defeated Maccabi without Wilbkin, who was sent off, but collapsed in the last quarter.
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