UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Petrovskiy - St Petersburg Thursday 24 November 2016 17.00CET (19.00 local time) FC Zenit Group D - Matchday 5 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Last updated 23/11/2016 04:10CET

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1 FC Zenit - Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 17.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg

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Zenit's place in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 as group winners is already confirmed, but Maccabi Tel-Aviv's is very much in the balance as they head for Russia looking to forget about the teams' first encounter in Group D. • Dundalk and Maccabi play on matchday six so neither side can go through or out before that. • AZ Alkmaar are out if they lose, or if they draw and Maccabi avoid defeat at Dundalk; Zenit have won the group. Previous meetings • On matchday one, Maccabi led 3-0 in Tel-Aviv only to concede four goals between the 77th minute and the final whistle. Form guide • Zenit, Schalke and Shakhtar Donetsk are the only sides who have won all four of their group games. Shakhtar and Zenit are the top scorers this season with 13 goals: an average of 3.25 per match. • Maccabi have taken four points from their last two fixtures after starting their Group D campaign with two defeats. • UEFA Cup winners in 2008, Zenit have progressed in three of their four previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns. In 2010/11 they won all six group games and remain on target to do so again in 2016/17. • Maccabi and Gabala are the only teams who have made it from the first qualifying round to the group stage in the current UEFA Europa League. • Maccabi have qualified for the round of 32 in one of their two previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, in 2013/14. Links and trivia • The journey from Tel Aviv to St Petersburg is around 3,100km. • Zenit's Giuliano and Athletic's Aritz Aduriz are this season's group stage top scorers with five goals each. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv midfielder Gal Alberman is one game shy of 50 UEFA club competition appearances. The coaches • Mircea Lucescu took charge of Zenit this summer, the Romanian ending a 12-year spell at Shakhtar in which he picked up eight Ukrainian titles and the 2008/09 UEFA Cup. He previously won Turkish championships with Beşiktaş and Galatasaray. • Lucescu is the most experienced coach in the 2016/17 competition; this will be his 219th UEFA club competition match. • Maccabi's Georgian coach Shota Arveladze scored an impressive 32 goals in 64 UEFA club competition games as a player, lifting league titles with Ajax, Rangers and Trabzonspor. He is in his first term in Israel having spent the last five years coaching in Turkey.

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Club competitions National team competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League EURO: UEFA European Football Championship ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup WC: FIFA World Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup UCUP: UEFA Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals SCUP: UEFA Super Cup U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship Competition stages Other abbreviations F: Final GS: Group stage (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties GS1: First group stage GS2: Second group stage No.: Number og: Own goal 3QR: Third qualifying round R1: First round ag: Match decided on away P: Penalty R2: Second round R3: Third round goals agg: Aggregate R4: Fourth round PR: Preliminary round Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances SF: Semi-finals QF: Quarter-finals Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition R16: round of 16 QR: Qualifying round Pts: Points D: Drawn R32: Round of 32 1QR: First qualifying round R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth 1st: first leg 2QR: Second qualifying Res.: Result ET: Extra Time round sg: Match decided by silver GA: Goals against 2nd: second leg FT: Final tournament goal t: Match decided by toss of a PO: Play-off ELITE: Elite round coin Rep: Replay 3rdPO: Third-place play-off GF: Goals for W: Won PO - FT: Play-off for Final GS-FT: Group stage – final gg: Match decided by golden Y: Booked Tournament tournament goal L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow Nat.: Nationality cards) N/A: Not applicable f: Match forfeited Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended QUAL: All UEFA qualifiers UEL: Current season total UEFA Europa League appearances from the group stage onwards prior to the current matchday UEL: Total appearances in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final only UEFA: All-time total appearances in UEFA club competition including qualifying Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com.

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