1. Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Real Madrid - This is the meeting with the most glorious record in the history of European basketball. The teams have met 64 times in an official game, more than any international meeting in the history of the European Cup. The balance is 39 wins for Real, 25 wins for Maccabi.
2. The balance in Tel Aviv is 11:19 for Maccabi, while in Madrid it is a crushing 4:27 to win Real.
In neutral pitches the balance is 1: 2 for the Yellows.
3. Maccabi and Real Madrid met three times in the final or European Final Four:
In the 1980 European Cup final in Berlin, Real won 85:89 and lifted the title.
In the semi-finals of the 2011 Euroleague Final Four in Barcelona, Maccabi defeated Real 63:82.
In the 2014 Euroleague final in Milan, Maccabi defeated Real 86:98 after extra time.
Maccabi players celebrate winning in Milan in 2014, Photo: Alan Shiver
4. Only once in history have Maccabi and Real met in the series.
This happened in the 2012/13 Euroleague season and Real won 0: 3, with Maccabi scoring only 57.7 points on average per game in the series.
5. The last victory of the Maccabees in Madrid was in the 2009/10 season.
D'Or Fischer and David Blue scored 13 points each in 64:66 for Maccabi, which has since been defeated in Madrid in 11 games in a row.
6. Real Madrid and Maccabi Tel Aviv are the two teams that reached the Champions Cup final the most times in its various incarnations. Real qualified for the prestigious final 18 times - 10 wins against 8 losses. Maccabi played in the Champions final 15 times - 6 wins versus 9 losses.
Rodriguez vs. Logan in 2013, Photo: AP
7. At the two clubs, the longest break between winning the Champions Cup is 20 years: Maccabi between 1981 and 2001, Real between 1995 and 2015.
8. Maccabi's last three games against Real Madrid ended with a difference of one point, 2 points and 2 points, with Maccabi winning two of them.
Earlier, the Spaniards won in 9 out of 10 meetings.
9. In the first 12 games played between the teams in Madrid, the Whites of Real Madrid won.
Only in 1987, almost 20 years after the first meeting between them, did Maccabi return from the pavilion with its first victory.
Ending against Rudy and Noccioni in 2015, Photo: EPI
10. In the last 15 seasons there has been only one season in which the two empires did not meet (2016).
11. Three of the 64 games between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Real Madrid went into extra time, and in all three Maccabi won: 88:96 in 1968 in Tel Aviv, 100: 103 in 2008 in Madrid and 86:98 in the 2014 Euroleague final in Milan.
12. Six players played both in the Maccabi uniform and in the ranks of Real: Wendell Alexis, Nicola Lonchar, Machi Lampe, D'Or Fischer, Othello Hunter and Alex Tios.
Jean Tabak, who played and was an assistant coach at Real, coached Maccabi.
* The data according to the official website of Maccabi Tel Aviv
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