Dan Glazer Returns to Maccabi Tel Aviv on Two-Year Deal with Option

Dan Glazer has signed a two-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, including an option for a third season, following over a week of negotiations. The midfielder will earn approximately 350,000 euros per season. The transfer was finalized after Maccabi Tel Aviv agreed to pay around 200,000 euros in transfer fees to Kairat Almaty, the Kazakh club where Glazer was previously playing.

Despite significant interest from Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Netanya, Glazer chose to return to Maccabi Tel Aviv, the club where he developed and excelled, having been named Israeli Premier League Player of the Year in the 2019/20 season. The deal was also facilitated by a conversation between Maccabi's sporting director Steven Vanharon and Glazer, in which Glazer was promised a key role in the team's rotation.

Glazer, 29, is returning to the club where he experienced the peak of his career, winning two league titles and a State Cup. He left Israel in summer 2023 for his first overseas stint, playing for OFI Crete in Greece, then moving to Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, and later to Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan. At Kairat, he played alongside Israeli defender Ofri Arad and participated in the club's UEFA Champions League campaign last season.

Internationally, Glazer has earned 21 caps for the Israeli national team since his debut in 2018 and scored his only international goal in a 4-2 victory over Zambia in 2022.