Season so far

UEFA Europa League

Key, Maccabi TA v Bologna
League position, Maccabi Tel Aviv 36th, Bologna 15thTotal points, Maccabi Tel Aviv 1, Bologna 12

Goals scored

Maccabi Tel Aviv 2Bologna 11

Form guide

All competitions

Maccabi Tel Aviv lose
v Hapoel Tel Aviv
1
2
Ligat Ha'al
Bologna lose
v Genoa
3
2
Serie A
Maccabi Tel Aviv lose
v Freiburg
1
0
UEFA Europa League
Bologna draw
v Celtic
2
2
UEFA Europa League
Maccabi Tel Aviv lose
v Maccabi Haifa
4
1
Ligat Ha'al
Bologna lose
v Fiorentina
1
2
Serie A
Maccabi Tel Aviv draw
v Hapoel Tel Aviv
1
1
State Cup
Bologna won
v Hellas Verona
2
3
Serie A
Maccabi Tel Aviv won
v Bnei Sakhnin
1
0
Ligat Ha'al
Bologna draw
v Como
1
1
Serie A

Match Facts

  • Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bologna have never faced before in any European competition – Maccabi’s only previous meetings with an Italian side were in the UEFA Champions League in 2004-05, losing 1-0 away and drawing 1-1 at home to Juventus.

  • The only previous games between an Israeli side and an Italian team in the UEFA Europa League came in 2016-17, when Hapoel Be’er Sheva won both group games against Internazionale.

  • Maccabi Tel Aviv are one of three winless sides in the UEFA Europa League this season (D1 L6, also Utrecht and Malmö); they last went a full group stage campaign without victory in major European competition when losing all six of their matches in the 2015-16 UEFA Champions League.

  • Bologna are unbeaten in each of their last six UEFA Europa League games, coming from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Celtic on MD7 (W3 D3); it is their longest run without defeat in major European competition since a seven-game spell between November 1968 and November 1971, across the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Cup Winners’ Cup and UEFA Cup.

  • Thijs Dallinga has scored in seven of his 11 starts in the UEFA Europa League (7 goals), including all three for Bologna in 2025-26; only Helmut Haller has ever scored in four consecutive starts in major European competition for the Italian side (in the 1966-67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup).