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The draw for the quarter-finals of the State Cup is being held at this time at the offices of the Football Association in the Ramat Gan Stadium, with the participation of six Premier League teams and two representatives from the National League.
This time there is no rematch in the quarter-finals, which will take place in the normal format of one game (with the possibility of overtime and penalties) on April 2-3.
The semi-finals are scheduled for April 23-24 or 30 and the final will be on May 30.
Qualifying for the quarterfinals:
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Hapoel Beer Sheva Hapoel Petah
Tikva
Maccabi Petah Tikva
Maccabi Netanya
Urban Kiryat Shmona (national)
Hapoel Nof HaGalil (national)
Ben Binyamin, former player/Shlomi Gabai
The person present at the lottery is Ben Binyamin, 38, a former soccer player, who was a MS player at the beginning of the season.
Kiryat Yam from League A North, who was seriously injured on October 7 and had his leg amputated after being shot by terrorists.
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Derby from Labasi in the quarter-finals?/Shlomi Gabai
The only possibility for the derby is in Petah Tikva, where both municipal teams managed to qualify for the last eight.
The last time the two met in the cup was in the round of 16 in 2015, when Idan Shemesh gave Maccabi Petah Tikva a 0:1 lead in the 90th minute.
They last played against each other in the quarter-finals in 2002 (0:1 to Hapoel) and before that in 1994 (0:2 to Maccabi).
A meeting between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv is possible, but so is a replay of two of last season's quarterfinals, when Maccabi Netanya eliminated Maccabi Haifa with a score of 3:4 (and continued until the final where they lost to Beitar Jerusalem) and Maccabi Tel Aviv passed Maccabi Fatah Tikva with 1:6 in the aggregate.
As mentioned, the National League has two representatives. Ironi Kiryat Shmona, which is in first place and a leading candidate to return to the Premier League, returned to this position after six years (it then beat Hapoel Beer Sheva 1:2 in the aggregate), while Nof HaGilil is in the quarter The final for the first time since 2011/12, when Nazareth Illit lost 2:0 to Maccabi Haifa.
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