{"id":31383,"date":"2011-09-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-and-hapoel-together-in-israeli-cup-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:39:45","slug":"maccabi-and-hapoel-together-in-israeli-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-and-hapoel-together-in-israeli-cup-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi and Hapoel Together in Israeli Cup Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Current Israeli Cup holders Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv will be taking part in the competition\u2019s playoff stage this season, rather than qualifying immediately for the quarter-final. The draw for the games will take place on December 25<SUP>th<\/SUP>. And just to add a little spice \u2013 like last season, Maccabi faces the possibility of a game against their cross-town rivals from the second league, Hapoel Tel Aviv.<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The other teams to take part in the draw will be the eight winners of the first round (which will take place on October 26<SUP>th<\/SUP>) and Elizur Ashkelon, Maccabi Ashdod, Hapoel Galil Elyon, Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Jerusalem, and Barak Netanya who automatically qualify owing to their participation last season in the Cup quarterfinals.<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT><BR><\/P> <P><A href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><U>www.samintranslations.com<\/U><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv and its cross-town rival Hapoel Tel Aviv with both take part in the Israeli Cup playoffs on January 8th.  The draw will take place on the 25th of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496394,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions\/496394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}