Football at the 2017 Maccabiah Games – Men's tournament

The men's association football tournament at the 2017 Maccabiah Games was held in Jerusalem, Israel from 5 July to 16 July.

2017 Men's Maccabiah football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryIsrael
Dates5 July–16 July
Teams16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions United States
Runners-up Great Britain
Third place Israel
Fourth place Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played40
Goals scored134 (3.35 per match)
Top scorer(s) Jake Rozhansky (6 goals)
Football at the
2017 Maccabiah Games
Tournament
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Squads
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For these Games, the men competed in a 16-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 5 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 advanced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket.

The United States won the gold medal after beating Great Britain in the final 3–0 thanks to a hat-trick by Jake Rozhansky, while Israel won the bronze medal after beating Mexico in a Penalty shoot-out.[1]

Venues

The city of Jerusalem served as the venue for the matches.

Givat Ram Bayit VeGan Har Homa Emek Ha'arazim
Hebrew University Stadium Bayit VeGan Soccer Field Har Homa Stadium Kraft Family Sports Campus
Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: n/a Capacity: n/a Capacity: n/a

All times are Israel Summer Time (UTC+3).

Preliminary round

The draw for the groups of the preliminary round took place on 25 June 2017 under the supervision of retired judge Amnon Straschnov, the chairman of the games' disciplinary court Tal Lavi, the Maccabiah's vice-president Roi Hessing, and former captain of Israel's women's basketball team Liron Cohen.[2]

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Great Britain 3210917
United States 3201516
Venezuela 31022113
Australia 3012251
United States 3–0 Venezuela
 Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Australia 1–1 Great Britain
  • Sacks
Report
  • Smith
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Great Britain 1–0 United States
  • Bolle
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Venezuela 2–1 Australia
  • Cohen
  • Sheero
Report
  • Sweet
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Great Britain 7–0 Venezuela
  • Burchell
  • Kasler  (2)
  • Marks
  • Kennet
  • Kyte  (2)
 Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
United States 2–0 Australia
 Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
France 3300839
Argentina 3201623
Germany 31026113
South Africa 3003370
Argentina 4–1 Germany
  • Rubin
  • Saal
  • Nicolaievsky
  • Kuperman
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
France 2–1 South Africa
  • Benazerah  (2)
 Report
  • Vituli
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
France 1–0 Argentina
  • Goslan
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Germany 3–2 South Africa
 Report
  • Witz
  • Segal
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Argentina 2–0 South Africa
  • Garber
  • Lubiencki
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
France 5–2 Germany
  • Sebbah  (2)
  • Boccara
  • Benazerah
  • Zarka
Report
  • Ableski
  • Lesegeld
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Uruguay 3210737
Brazil 3201346
Canada 3111334
Peru 3003470
Canada 2–1 Peru
  • Fischman
  • Morris
Report
  • Ackerman
Kraft Family Sports Campus, Emek Ha'arazim
Uruguay 3–0 Brazil
  • D. Gonzalez
  • Mendlowicz  (2)
 Report
Kraft Family Sports Campus, Emek Ha'arazim
Brazil 2–1 Peru
  • De Oliveira
  • Sein
Report
  • Benaim
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Canada 1–1 Uruguay
 Report
  • Oppenheimer
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Canada 0–1 Brazil
Report
  • Bin
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Uruguay 3–2 Peru
  • Schindler
  • Mendelsohn
  • N. Poziomek
Report
  • Benaim
  • Topf
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Israel 3300909
Mexico 3201436
Colombia 3102323
Belgium 3003280
Colombia 1–2 Mexico
  • Cuperman
Report
  • Saadia
  • Turqie
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Israel 4–0 Belgium
  • Hadad  (3)
  • Dayan
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Mexico 2–1 Belgium
  • Helfon
  • Finkler
Report
  • Levy
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Israel 4–0 Colombia
  • Ronen  (2)
  • Tewabe  (2)
 Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Colombia 2–1 Belgium
  • Davidescu
  • Mekler
Report
  • Silber
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Mexico 0–1 Israel
Report
  • Akariya
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Stage 2

13-14 places
Australia 0–3 South Africa
Report
Kraft Family Sports Campus, Emek Ha'arazim
Peru 3–1 Belgium
  • Rozeznic
  • Kauffman  (2)
 Report
  • Baron
Kraft Family Sports Campus, Emek Ha'arazim

9-10 places
Venezuela 3–0 Germany
Report
Har Homa Stadium, Har Homa
Canada 2–1 Colombia
 Report
  • Nessim
Har Homa Stadium, Har Homa

5-8 places
 
Semi-finalsFifth place
 
      
 
13 July - Bayit VeGan
 
 
 Brazil 4
 
16 July - Bayit VeGan
 
 France 0
 
 Brazil 1
 
13 July - Bayit VeGan
 
 Argentina 3
 
 Argentina 2
 
 
 Uruguay 0
 
Seventh place
 
 
16 July - Bayit VeGan
 
 
 Uruguay 2
 
 
 France 5
Brazil 4–0 France
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Argentina 2–0 Uruguay
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Uruguay 2–5 France
  • Mendlowicz
  • N. Poziomek
Report
  • Sebbah
  • Corocs
  • J. Mimouni
  • Goslan
  • Tebika
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Brazil 1–3 Argentina
  • Fichmann
Report
  • Garber  (2)
  • Braun
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Knock-out stage
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
 Great Britain2
 
 
 
 Brazil1
 
 Great Britain2
 
 
 
 Israel1
 
 Israel1
 
July 20
 
 Argentina0
 
 Great Britain0
 
 
 
 United States3
 
 Uruguay2
 
 
 
 United States4
 
 Mexico0(4)
 
 
 
 United States (p)0(5) Third place
 
 France4
 
July 20
 
 Mexico5
 
 Israel5
 
 
 Mexico3
 

Quarterfinals
Great Britain 2–1 Brazil
  • Lipman
  • Hahn
Report
  • Camargo
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
France 4–5 Mexico
  • Madar
  • Sebbah
  • D. Mimouni
  • J. Mimouni
Report
  • Katz
  • Schvartzman
  • Perez
  • I. Cherem
  • Helfon
Kraft Family Sports Campus, Emek Ha'arazim
Uruguay 2–4 United States
  • F. Gonzalez
  • M. Poziomek
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
Israel 1–0 Argentina
 Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Semifinals
Mexico 0–1 Great Britain
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan
United States 2–1 Israel
Report
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Bronze medal match
Israel 1–1 Mexico
  • Ronen
Report
  • E. Cherem
Penalties
5–3
Bayit VeGan Soccer field, Bayit VeGan

Final
United States 3–0 Great Britain
 Report

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's football United States Great Britain Israel

Goalscorers
6 goals
4 goals
  • Antony Sebbah
3 goals
  • Brian Garber
  • Norbert Benazerah
  • Alon Abelski
  • Gil Hadad
  • Roy Ronen
  • Stephen Elias
  • Mario Mendlowicz
2 goals
  • Kilian Elkinson
  • Kevin Goslan
  • Jeremie Mimouni
  • Charlie Kasler
  • Max Kyte
  • Yoibbetal Tewabe
  • Moises Helfon
  • Ezer Benaim
  • Jaime Kauffman
  • Nicolas Poziomek
1 goal
  • Manuel Braun
  • Martin Kuperman
  • Kevin Lubieniecki
  • Guido Nicolaievsky
  • Ezequiel Rubin
  • Ezequiel Saal
  • Daniel Sacks
  • Gideon Sweet
  • Michael Baron
  • John Levy
  • Ted Silber
  • Sami Bin
  • Guilherme Camargo
  • Fabio De Oliveira
  • Daniel Fichmann
  • Leonardo Sein
  • Alexandre Boue
  • Alan Fischman
  • Jason Morris
  • David Cuperman
  • Ilan Davidescu
  • Jaime Mekler
  • Rony Nessim
  • Ilan Boccara
  • Hendrix Corcos
  • Alexis Madar
  • David Mimouni
  • Reuben Tebika
  • Sam Zarka
  • Ben Abelski
  • Ben Lesegeld
  • Dimitrij Rikspun
  • Adam Bolle
  • Adam Burchell
  • Mitchel Hahn
  • Josh Kennet
  • Austin Lipman
  • Jordan Marks
  • Thomas Smith
  • Ahmed Akariya
  • Roi Dayan
  • Elias Cherem
  • Isaac Cherem
  • Moises Finkler
  • Ari Katz
  • David Perez
  • Elias Saadia
  • Carlos Schvartzman
  • Jose Turquie
  • Alberto Ackerman
  • Jaime Rozeznic
  • Maurice Topf
  • Greg Segal
  • Gregory Vituli
  • Aaron Witz
  • Ryan Jones
  • Elijah Lichtenberg
  • Evin Nadnaner
  • Diego Gonzalez
  • Fabrizio Gonzalez
  • Nicolas Mendelsohn
  • Martin Oppenheimer
  • Marcel Poziomek
  • Federico Schindler
  • Andres Cohen
  • Ezra Sheero

References
  1. "רגע לפני שקיעה: סיכום המכביה ה-20" [A moment before sunset: A summary of the 20th Maccabiah]. ONE (in Hebrew). 17 July 2017.
  2. "המכביה ה-20: נערכה הגרלת משחקי ענפי הכדור" [The 20th Maccabiah: The draw for the ball games has taken place] (in Hebrew). Walla!. 25 June 2017.
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