UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Bloomfield - Tel Aviv Thursday 7 November 2013 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Group F - Matchday 4 Eintracht Frankfurt Last updated 07/10/2014 16:48CET

Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Match officials 9 Legend 11

1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv

Previous meetings

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2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv Match background

Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC are bidding to burst Eintracht Frankfurt's bubble at the top end of UEFA Europa League Group F and keep on target for a place in the round of 32. Previous meetings • Maccabi Tel-Aviv failed to become the first Israeli club to win a game on German soil on matchday three, going down 2-0 at Eintracht, who were playing their first game against a side from Israel. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv's record in five games against German clubs is W0 D1 L4 (W0 D1 L1 at home – W0 D0 L3 in ). They have lost their last four meetings with Bundesliga opponents but made a breakthrough of sorts in the second most recent of those fixtures, with Baruch Dego's penalty in a 5-1 defeat against FC Bayern München in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage their first goal against a German side. • Nine games have been played between teams representing these two nations in Israel, with the only home win to date Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC's 1-0 success against Hamburger SV in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. The other eight games produced two 0-0 draws and six German wins. The aggregate score over the nine matches is 15-2 to the Bundesliga sides. Match background • Maccabi Tel-Aviv's 2-1 win at FC Girondins de Bordeaux on matchday two was their first UEFA Europa League group stage win in eight attempts. With four points from their first three fixtures they have already doubled the total they racked up in their group stage debut in 2011/12. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv were handed a bye in the UEFA Europa League play-offs after their opponents, PAOK FC, took the place of excluded FC Metalist Kharkiv in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. • Back in Europe for the first time since failing to make it through the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage, Eintracht are unbeaten in eight continental fixtures – three draws followed by five wins, with all of those victories coming this season. • Eintracht are unbeaten in five European away games – three draws followed by two wins this season – since a 3-0 loss at Bordeaux in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Team facts • Five clubs go into matchday four with 100% records: Eintracht, ACF Fiorentina, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, FC Salzburg, and Tottenham Hotspur FC. Eintracht, Ludogorets and Tottenham are also yet to concede. No club has ever gone through a UEFA Europa League group with six clean sheets. The record mark of just one goal conceded was set by R. Standard de Liège in 2011/12. • Eintracht's Václav Kadlec scored the first goal of the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League group stage, a calm finish from inside the area four minutes into his side's 3-0 matchday one win against Bordeaux. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv are the most southerly side in this season's competition, with Tromsø IL pushing the competition's northern frontier inside the Arctic Circle – 4,299km separate the two clubs. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Group F rivals APOEL are among nine domestic champions in this season's group stage along with NK Maribor (Slovenia), FC Sheriff (Moldova), Ludogorets (Bulgaria), Legia Warszawa (Poland), FC Shakhter Karagandy (Kazakhstan), GNK Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) and IF Elfsborg (Sweden). • Maccabi Tel-Aviv midfielder Gal Alberman has some Bundesliga experience, having represented VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach from 2008 to 2010. • Maccabi Tel-Aviv's Swedish forward Rade Prica has also played in Germany, scoring 20 goals in 113 league games for FC Hansa Rostock between 2002 and 2006. Coach information • Maccabi Tel-Aviv's Portuguese coach Paulo Sousa famously won back-to-back UEFA Champions League titles with different clubs – Juventus (1995/96) and Borussia Dortmund (1996/97). The defensive midfielder also reached the semi-finals of UEFA EURO 2000 with Portugal. He coached a series of English league clubs before leading Videoton FC in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, and was hired as Maccabi coach in June 2013. • Hired in May 2011, Armin Veh led Eintracht to promotion in his first season in charge and into Europe as sixth-place finishers in his second. As a midfielder, he was in the VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach squad that lost to Eintracht in the 1980 UEFA Cup final, before a broken leg ended his career. As a coach, he won the 2006/07 German title at VfB Stuttgart prior to less successful spells with VfL Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV.

3 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv Team facts

Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Formed: 1906 Nickname: The Yellows UEFA club competition honours • none Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 20 (2013) Israeli Cup: 22 (2005) Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: second qualifying round 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition 2005/06: second qualifying round 2004/05: UEFA Champions League group stage 2003/04: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Maccabi v FK Željezničar 04/08/11, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg 6-0: Maccabi v FK Žalgiris Vilnius 09/08/01, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-3: PAOK FC v Maccabi 10/08/04, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-3: Maccabi v Beşiktaş JK 01/12/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 1-2: Maccabi v Stoke City FC 03/11/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 0-1 of four occasions, most recently v FC Bayern München 15/09/2004, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Beşiktaş JK v Maccabi 15/09/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 5-1: FC Bayern München v Maccabi 23/11/04, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Maccabi v FK Željezničar (see above) 6-0: Maccabi v FK Žalgiris Vilnius (see above) • Biggest away win 0-2 on three occasions, most recently v Győri ETO FC 17/07/13, second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-3: Maccabi v Beşiktaş JK (see above) 1-2: Maccabi v Stoke City FC (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Beşiktaş JK v Maccabi (see above)

4 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv

Eintracht Frankfurt Formed: 1899 Nickname: Adler (Eagles) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1960) • UEFA Cup: 1980 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 1 (1959) German Cup: 4 (1988) Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition 2006/07: group stage 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA competition 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Eintracht v RTS Widzew Łódź 30/09/92, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-6: FC Dinamo Moskva v Eintracht 14/09/93, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-3: Eintracht v FC Dynamo Kyiv 23/10/74, UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup second round first leg 1-2 on three occasions, most recently v US Città di Palermo 19/10/06, UEFA Cup group stage 0-1: Eintracht v KAA Gent 06/11/91, UEFA Cup second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Brøndby IF v Eintracht 19/09/90, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 9-0: Eintracht v RTS Widzew Łódź (see above) • Biggest away win 0-6: FC Dinamo Moskva v Eintracht (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-2 twice, most recently v US Città di Palermo (see above) 0-1: Eintracht v KAA Gent (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Brøndby IF v Eintracht (see above)

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6 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv Fixtures and results

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8 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv Match officials

Referee Serge Gumienny (BEL) Assistant referees Frank Bleyen (BEL) , Kristof Meers (BEL) Additional assistant referees Luc Wouters (BEL) , Alexandre Boucaut (BEL) Fourth official Jimmy Cremers (BEL) UEFA Delegate Jevgenijs Milevskis (LVA) UEFA Referee observer Gylfi Thor Orrason (ISL)

Referee UEFA Europa Name Date of birth League UEFA matches matches Serge Gumienny 14/04/1972 20 75

Serge Gumienny Referee since: 1988 First division: 2000 FIFA badge: 2003

Tournaments: 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2005 UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup

Finals N/A

UEFA Europa League matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 15/09/2005 UEL R1 PFC CSKA Sofia 0-1 Leverkusen 21/02/2008 UEL R32 SC Braga SV Werder Bremen 0-1 Braga 01/10/2009 UEL GS Sporting Clube de Portugal Hertha BSC Berlin 1-0 Lisbon 16/12/2009 UEL GS Athletic Club SV Werder Bremen 0-3 Bilbao 26/08/2010 UEL PO Qarabağ FK Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Baku 17/02/2011 UEL R32 FC Metalist Kharkiv Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-4 Kharkiv 25/08/2011 UEL PO Sevilla FC Hannover 96 1-1 Seville 20/09/2012 UEL GS VfB Stuttgart FC Steaua Bucureşti 2-2 Stuttgart VfL Borussia Olympique de 25/10/2012 UEL GS 2-0 Monchengladbach Mönchengladbach Marseille

Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 19/05/2004 U19 2QR Israel 2-0 Montefiascone 15/09/2005 UEL R1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen PFC CSKA Sofia 0-1 Leverkusen 23/05/2006 U21 GS-FT Serbia Germany 0-1 Barcelos 05/09/2006 U21 QR Germany Romania 5-1 Wilhelmshaven 21/02/2008 UEL R32 SC Braga SV Werder Bremen 0-1 Braga 04/08/2009 UCL 3QR Maccabi Haifa FC FC Aktobe 4-3 Haifa 01/10/2009 UEL GS Sporting Clube de Portugal Hertha BSC Berlin 1-0 Lisbon

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Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 16/12/2009 UEL GS Athletic Club SV Werder Bremen 0-3 Bilbao 26/08/2010 UEL PO Qarabağ FK Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Baku 03/11/2010 UCL GS CFR 1907 Cluj FC Bayern München 0-4 Cluj-Napoca 17/02/2011 UEL R32 FC Metalist Kharkiv Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-4 Kharkiv 25/08/2011 UEL PO Sevilla FC Hannover 96 1-1 Seville 20/09/2012 UEL GS VfB Stuttgart FC Steaua Bucureşti 2-2 Stuttgart VfL Borussia Olympique de 25/10/2012 UEL GS 2-0 Monchengladbach Mönchengladbach Marseille 11/10/2013 WC QR Germany 3-0 Cologne

10 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 7 November 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield, Tel Aviv Legend Competitions

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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