Eran Zahavi

**Eran Zahavi** (or Zehavi, ,  ; born 25 July 1987) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which he also captains.

Zahavi won Israeli Footballer of the Year twice (2013 and 2014), and finished as the top goalscorer of the Israeli Premier League for three seasons in a row (2013–14 29 goals, 2014–15 27 goals and 2015–16 35 goals, all-time league record). In 2016, he broke the Israeli league sixty-year-old record, scoring the most goals in a single season, beating the 1954–55 record. He was named the 2017 Chinese Super League MVP, and broke the league's single-season scoring record in 2019. Zahavi has played for the national team since 2010, earning over 65 caps.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=5|Hapoel Tel Aviv|2006–07|rowspan=4|Israeli Premier League|0|0|0|0|2|0|—|—|2|0||
|2008–09|28|7|1|0|7|4|6|1|—|42|12|||||
|2009–10|33|11|5|1|6|1|11|0|—|55|13|||||
|2010–11|33|9|4|2|1|1|12|5|—|50|17|||||
|rowspan="3"|Ironi Ramat HaSharon (loan)|2006–07|rowspan="2"|Liga Leumit|17|2|1|0|—|—|—|18|2|||
|2007–08|28|7|2|1|2|2|—|—|32|10||||||
|rowspan="3"|Palermo|2011–12|rowspan="2"|Serie A|20|2|0|0|—|2|0|—|22|2||
|2012–13|3|0|1|0|—|—|—|4|0|||||||
|rowspan="5"|Maccabi Tel Aviv|2012–13|rowspan="4"|Israeli Premier League|16|7|2|1|—|0|0|—|18|8||
|2013–14|34|29|1|1|—|11|5|—|46|35||||||
|2014–15|33|27|5|5|4|1|6|2|—|48|35|||||
|2015–16|36|35|6|3|2|1|11|8|1|2|56|49||||
|rowspan="6"|Guangzhou R&F|2016|rowspan="5"|Chinese Super League|15|11|4|6|—|—|—|19|17|||
|2017|30|27|4|4|—|—|—|34|31|||||||
|2018|26|20|3|2|—|—|—|29|22|||||||
|2019|28|29|0|0|—|—|—|28|29|||||||
|2020|7|4|0|0|—|—|—|7|4|||||||
|rowspan="3"|PSV Eindhoven|2020–21|rowspan="2"|Eredivisie|25|11|2|0|—|6|6|—|33|17||
|2021–22|25|11|4|1|—|16|8|1|0|46|20|||||
|rowspan="3"|Maccabi Tel Aviv|2022–23|rowspan="2"|Israeli Premier League|32|20|4|4|1|0|4|2|—|41|26|
|2023–24|2|2|0|0|2|3|6|5|—|10|10|||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|Israel|2010|3|0|
|2011|5|0|||
|2012|3|0|||
|2013|6|1|||
|2014|6|2|||
|2015|7|1|||
|2016|5|2|||
|2017|4|0|||
|2018|3|2|||
|2019|10|11|||
|2020|7|5|||
|2021|11|9|||

- _Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zahavi goal._

|No.|Date|Venue|Cap|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|10 September 2013|Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia|15||1–3|1–3|2014 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|2.|1 June 2014|BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, United States|20||1–0|4–2|Friendly|
|3.|16 November 2014|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|23||3–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying|
|4.|3 September 2015|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|27||1–0|4–0|UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying|
|5.|31 May 2016|Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad, Serbia|31||1–1|1–3|Friendly|
|6.|12 November 2016|Elbasan Arena, Elbasan, Albania|32||1–0|3–0|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|7.|15 November 2018|Netanya Stadium, Netanya, Israel|41||1–0|7–0|Friendly|
|8.|20 November 2018|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|42||2–3|2–3|2018–19 UEFA Nations League C|
|9.|21 March 2019|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|43||1–1|1–1|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|10.|24 March 2019|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|44||1–1|4–2|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|11.|2–1|||||||
|12.|3–1|||||||
|13.|7 June 2019|Daugava Stadium, Riga, Latvia|45||1–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|14.|2–0|||||||
|15.|3–0|||||||
|16.|5 September 2019|Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva, Israel|47||1–0|1–1|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|17.|9 September 2019|Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia|48||2–1|2–3|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|18.|10 October 2019|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria|49||1–0|1–3|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|19.|15 October 2019|Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva, Israel|50||2–0|3–1|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying|
|20.|4 September 2020|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|53||1–1|1–1|2020–21 UEFA Nations League B|
|21.|11 October 2020|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|56||1–2|1–2|2020–21 UEFA Nations League B|
|22.|14 October 2020|Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava, Slovakia|57||1–2|3–2|2020–21 UEFA Nations League B|
|23.|2–2|||||||
|24.|3–2|||||||
|25.|31 March 2021|Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova|62||1–1|4–1|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|26.|5 June 2021|City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro|63||1–0|3–1|Friendly|
|27.|1 September 2021|Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands|65||1–0|4–0|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|28.|2–0|||||||
|29.|4–0|||||||
|30.|4 September 2021|Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel|66||3–0|5–2|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|31.|5–2|||||||
|32.|9 October 2021|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland|68||1–0|2–3|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|33.|12 October 2021|Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva, Israel|69||1–0|2–1|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|

### Club

**Hapoel Tel Aviv**
- Israeli Premier League: 2009–10
- Israel State Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11

**Maccabi Tel Aviv**
- Israeli Premier League: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
- Israel State Cup: 2014–15
- Toto Cup: 2014–15

**PSV Eindhoven**
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 2021

### Individual

- Israeli Premier League Most Assists: 2010–11
- Footballer of the Year in Israel: 2013–14, 2014–15
- Israeli Premier League Top Goalscorer: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
- Israeli Premier League Player of the Month: December 2014
- 2015–16 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase Top Scorer: 7 goals
- Chinese Super League MVP: 2017
- Chinese Super League Top Scorer: 2017, 2019
- Chinese Super League Team of the Year: 2017, 2019

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Eran Zahavi
- **image size**: 295
- **caption**: Zahavi celebrating a goal for PSV Eindhoven in 2021
- **fullname**: Eran Zahavi
- **birth place**: Rishon LeZion, Israel
- **height**: 1.82 m
- **position**: Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, Attacking midfielder, Forward (association football)#Striker, striker
- **currentclub**: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv
- **clubnumber**: 7
- **youthyears1**: 1993–2003
- **youthclubs1**: Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv
- **youthyears2**: 2003–2005
- **youthclubs2**: Hapoel Rishon LeZion F.C., Ironi Rishon LeZion
- **youthyears3**: 2005–2006
- **youthclubs3**: Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv
- **years1**: 2006–2011
- **clubs1**: Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv
- **caps1**: 94
- **goals1**: 27
- **years2**: 2007–2008
- **clubs2**: → Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C., Ironi Ramat HaSharon (loan)
- **caps2**: 45
- **goals2**: 9
- **years3**: 2011–2013
- **clubs3**: Palermo F.C., Palermo
- **caps3**: 23
- **goals3**: 2
- **years4**: 2013–2016
- **clubs4**: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv
- **caps4**: 119
- **goals4**: 98
- **clubs5**: Guangzhou City F.C., Guangzhou R&F
- **years5**: 2016–2020
- **caps5**: 106
- **goals5**: 91
- **clubs6**: PSV Eindhoven
- **years6**: 2020–2022
- **caps6**: 50
- **goals6**: 22
- **clubs7**: Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv
- **years7**: 2022–
- **caps7**: 34
- **goals7**: 22
- **nationalyears1**: 2008
- **nationalteam1**: Israel national under-21 football team, Israel U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 1
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2010–2021
- **nationalteam2**: Israel national football team, Israel
- **nationalcaps2**: 70
- **nationalgoals2**: 33
- **club-update**: 15 September 2023