Maccabi Los Angeles

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club

Full name	Maccabi (Maccabee) Los Angeles Soccer Club מכבי לוס אנג'לס
Nickname(s)	Maccabees
Founded	1971 (competitive)
Dissolved	1982
Stadium	Jackie Robinson Field
Ground Capacity	10,820
League	GLASL
Home colors

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club (Hebrew: מכבי לוס אנג'לס‎‎, MAH-KAH-Bee) was an American soccer club based in Los Angeles, California. The team competed professionally in the GLASL, the CONCACAF Champions Cup (CONCACAF Champions League), including appearing in the National Challenge Cup (US Open Cup) final seven times in their eleven-year history most notably becoming only one of two teams along with Bethlehem Steel to win the competition five times.^[1]

History

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club was formed by a group of Israeli expatriates to serve as a recreational Sunday soccer team, the primary activity of the Maccabee Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California.^[2] The team began playing competitively in 1971, with the addition of former Israeli national team players who had recently immigrated to the Los Angeles area. They were Triple Crown winners twice in 1977 and 1978 winning the GLASL, California State Cup and the U.S. Open Cup.They participated in the CONCACAF Champions Cup (CONCACAF Champions League) in 1978 but did not advance.^[3]

Maccabi played Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978 National Challenge Cup Final at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in front of a crowd of over 30,000 people. The game was part of a double header with the New York Cosmos and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League. Maccabi ceased operations after the 1982 season but Maccabee Athletic Club is still in existence to this day.

Honors

• National Challenge Cup (US Open Cup)
• Winner (5) 1973,1975,1977,1978,1981
• Finalist (2) 1980,1982
• Triple Crown Winners (2) 1977,1978

Past Rosters

National Challenge Cup 1973

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No. Position Player 2 DF Eric Braeden 3 DF Eli Marmur 8 MF Yarone Schmitman

National Challenge Cup 1975

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No. Position Player 2 DF Eli Marmur 10 MF Chon Miranda

National Challenge Cup 1977

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eduardo Chantre 2 DF Eli Marmur 3 DF Leo Kulinczenko 4 DF Russell Hulse 8 MF Abraham Cohen 10 MF Manuel Mena 11 FW Guy Newman 9 FW Meir Segal

National Challenge Cup 1978

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eduardo Chantre 2 DF Eli Marmur 3 DF Leo Kulinczenko 4 DF Russell Hulse 5 DF Joseph Mizrahi 6 MF Abraham Cohen 7 FW Toni Moran 8 MF Ramon Sandounh 9 FW Meir Segal 10 MF Carlos Roveri 11 FW Izhar Mozik 12 FW Benny Binshtock 13 DF Peter Gonzales

National Challenge Cup 1980

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eduardo Chantre 4 DF Russell Hulse 9 FW Ole Mikkelsen 11 FW Tony Douglas

National Challenge Cup 1981

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eduardo Chantre 4 DF Russell Hulse 9 FW Tony Douglas 10 MF Dan Ben Dror

National Challenge Cup 1982

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eduardo Chantre 9 FW Tony Douglas 4 DF Russell Hulse

National Challenge Cup Results

• 1973 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Cleveland Inter Italian 3
• 1975 Maccabi Los Angeles 1 vs New York Inter Giuliana 0
• 1977 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Philadelphia German-Hungarians 1
• 1978 Maccabi Los Angeles 2 vs Bridgeport Vasco da Gama 0 (OT)
• 1980 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 3 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 2
• 1981 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1
• 1982 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 4 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 3 (OT)^[4]

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