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American soccer club with multiple national championships
Soccer club
Maccabee Athletic Club
Full name Maccabee Los Angeles Nickname(s) Maccabees Founded 1971 (competitive) Dissolved 1982 Stadium Jackie Robinson Field Capacity 10,820 League
Greater Los Angeles Soccer League
Maccabee Athletic Club (
Hebrew : מכבי לוס אנג'לס , MAH-KAH-Bee) was an American athletic club based in
Los Angeles, California . The primary activity of the club was Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Club, a team which competed professionally in the
Greater Los Angeles Soccer League . The soccer club is notable for appearing in the
US Open Cup final seven times in its eleven-year history, becoming one of only two teams to win the competition five times.
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History Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Club was formed by a group of
Israeli expatriates to serve as a recreational Sunday soccer team.
[2] The team began playing competitively in 1971 as part of the
Greater Los Angeles Soccer League , with the addition of former Israeli national team players who had recently immigrated to the
Los Angeles area . While the club used the
Star of David and other Jewish symbols, the players came from various countries and many of them were not Jewish.
[3] They won the Triple Crown twice in 1977 and 1978 by winning the
Greater Los Angeles Soccer League ,
California State Cup and the
US Open Cup . They qualified for the
CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1974 and 1978 but withdrew before competing both times.
[4]
Maccabee Los Angeles played
Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978
US Open Cup winning the
final at
Giants Stadium in
East Rutherford, New Jersey . The match was part of a double header with the
New York Cosmos and the
Tampa Bay Rowdies of the
North American Soccer League in front of 30,000 fans. Maccabee Los Angeles ceased operations after the 1982 season but Maccabee Athletic Club is still in existence for youth players.
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Honors
US Open Cup
Winner (5) : 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981Finalist (2) : 1980, 1982
Triple Crown Winners : (2): 1977, 1978
Greater Los Angeles Soccer League
Winner (7) : 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982Past rosters US Open Cup 1973 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1975 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1977 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1978 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1980 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1981 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup 1982 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
US Open Cup results 1973 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Cleveland Inter Italian 3
1975 Maccabee Los Angeles 1 vs New York Inter Giuliana 0
1977 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Philadelphia German-Hungarians 1
1978 Maccabee Los Angeles 2 vs Bridgeport Vasco da Gama 0 (OT)
1980 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 3 vs Maccabee Los Angeles 2
1981 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1
1982 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 4 vs Maccabee Los Angeles 3 (OT)
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