Police cancel Tel Aviv derby after fans riot at stadium

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19 October 2025, 9:48 pm

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Police announce they have canceled a much-anticipated derby match between Tel Aviv’s rival soccer teams after riots broke out in and around the stadium.

The match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot.

Police say fans threw objects at officers, lightly injuring them, and hurled flares and smoke bombs onto the field ahead of the game.

Police arrested five on suspicion of disturbing public order and detained 13 masked fans after they allegedly lit flares and threw them onto the soccer field.

A total of 51 flares and smoke bombs were thrown onto the turf, Ynet reports.