Football at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Men's tournament

2009 Men's Maccabiah football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Israel
Dates	12 July – 22 July
Teams	17 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina
Runners-up	Great Britain
Third place	Israel
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	40
Goals scored	145 (3.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tzahi Elihan (4 goals)
Best player(s)

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The men's association football tournament at the 2009 Maccabiah Games was held in Haifa, Israel from 12 July to 22 July.

For these Games, the men competed in a 17-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 12 July, the day before the Games' Opening Ceremony. The teams were grouped into four pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool will advance to an eight-team single-elimination bracket. The Netherlands pulled out just one month before the competition.^[1]

Venues[]

The city of Haifa served as the venue for the 2009 Maccabiah Games – men's open football tournament.

Haifa	Haifa	Haifa	Haifa
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
Capacity: 14,002	Capacity: n/a	Capacity: n/a	Capacity: n/a

Originally, was chosen to host the final. However, once the draw took place for Maccabi Haifa's UEFA Champions League qualifiers and there was no conflict with the tournament end date, the venue was changed to Kiryat Eliezer Stadium.

All times are Israel Standard Time (UTC+2).

Preliminaries[]

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	4	3	0	1	9	3	+6	9
Canada	4	3	0	1	8	5	+3	9
Russia	4	2	1	1	17	2	+15	7
Switzerland	4	1	1	2	7	8	−1	4
Germany	4	0	0	4	1	24	−23	0

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Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7
Australia	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Chile	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3
Peru	3	0	0	3	3	10	−7	0

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Group C[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	12	3	+9	7
South Africa	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
Sweden	3	0	1	2	5	9	−4	1
Venezuela	3	0	1	2	5	14	−9	1

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Group D[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Great Britain	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Brazil	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
France	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3

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Stage 2[]

5th place bracket[]

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	20 July – Neve Shaanan Stadium
	United States	4
					22 July – Avi Ran Field
	South Africa	1
					United States	4
	20 July – Neve Shaanan Stadium
					Australia	1
	Canada	0
	Australia	2
					Seventh place
					22 July – Avi Ran Field
					South Africa	4
					Canada	1

Championship bracket[]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	19 July – Avi Ran Field
	Israel	1
					20 July – Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
	South Africa	0
					Israel	0
	19 July – Neve She'anan Stadium
					Great Britain	1
	United States	0
									22 July – Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
	Great Britain	2
									Great Britain	1
	19 July – Avi Ran Field
									Argentina	2
	Mexico	3
					20 July –
	Canada	0
					Mexico	0
	19 July – Neve She'anan Stadium
					Argentina	3			Third place
	Argentina	3
									22 July – Neve She'anan Stadium
	Australia	1
									Israel	7
									Mexico	1

Quarterfinals[]

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Semifinals[]

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Bronze medal match[]

Gold medal match[]

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's football	Argentina (ARG) Ariel Kaplan Martin Saban Coach:	Great Britain (GBR) Andrew Goldman Sam Sloma Mitchel Hahn Coach: Jonathan Kestenbaum	Israel (ISR) Arik Yanko Hatem Abd Elhamed Hana Nasser Osher Zeitun Sari Falah Rahamim Daniel Adir Maman Muayan Halaili Nir Biton Barak Moshe Tzahi Elihan Temur Avitan Coach: Eli Ohana

Statistics[]

Top Scorers[]

8 goals

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Footnotes[]