Teddy Stadium (Teddy Stadium)
Malha sits in a valley on the south-western edge of the city, and the stand that changed the ground was the south one, built in 2011–2013, which pushed capacity to 31,733 and earned Teddy Stadium a UEFA category 4 rating. Before that it had grown more modestly: the north stand's 1998–1999 expansion, an eight-and-a-half-million-shekel job, took it to around 21,600.
The municipal company Moriah — Jerusalem Development Company built the stadium for the city, and it opened on 14 September 1991, with a formal inauguration the following year. The name has not changed since: it honours Teddy Kollek, the mayor who ran Jerusalem for close to three decades, and no sponsor has been allowed to attach a name to it.
It is the only ground in the city built for football at this scale, which is why both Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Jerusalem play their home fixtures on the same natural grass, and why the national team uses it on occasion rather than keeping a ground of its own here. The record crowd, 30,000, came for a Beitar–Hapoel Tel Aviv derby on 21 October 2013, days after the new south stand had opened.
Recent work has gone into comfort rather than size: a roof over the south stand, LED floodlights and solar panels installed between 2018 and 2020 at a cost of 25 million shekels, followed by new seating and screens on the north stand in 2021–2022.
Who plays here
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Beitar Jerusalem 130 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug | Beitar Jerusalem — Maccabi Netanya | 1:4 |
| 6 Aug | Beitar Jerusalem — Austria Wien | 1:2 |
| 30 Jul | Beitar Jerusalem — AEK Larnaca | 2:3 |
| 18 Jul | Beitar Jerusalem — Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2:2 |
| 9 Jul | Beitar Jerusalem — Dukagjini | 1:0 |
| 23 May | Beitar Jerusalem — Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1:1 |
| 12 May | Beitar Jerusalem — Hapoel Beer Sheva | 1:1 |
| 2 May | Beitar Jerusalem — Maccabi Tel Aviv | 4:2 |