2022–23 Gibraltar Football League

The 2022–23 Gibraltar Football League season is the fourth season of the Gibraltar Football League in Gibraltar (first under its current name), and the 124th season of football on the territory overall. The league is due to kick off in Autumn 2022. Lincoln Red Imps are the reigning champions, winning their second title in April 2022. Due to the league's fall down the UEFA coefficient rankings, this season only 2 teams will qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Gibraltar Football League

The Victoria Stadium where each match is played
Season	2022–23
Dates	30 September 2022 - 23 April 2023
Champions	Lincoln Red Imps 3rd GFL title 27th overall
Champions League	Lincoln Red Imps
Europa Conference League	Europa Bruno's Magpies
Matches played	105
Goals scored	360 (3.43 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juanfri (21 goals)
Best goalkeeper	2 players (7 clean sheets)
← 2021–22 2023–24 → All statistics correct as of 23 April 2023.

Format

The structure of the league is expected to follow that of the previous three seasons.^[1] Teams will play one round of games as a single league, before splitting into two groups: the Championship Group contested by the top 6 sides, and the Challenge Group between the bottom 5 sides. The winners of the Challenge Group will receive the GFA Challenge Trophy and receive a bye to the second round of the next season's Rock Cup.

Teams

Victoria Stadium

Location of the stadium where all teams play

The Gibraltar FA announced the clubs who had obtained licences to compete in the 2022–23 season on 17 May 2022.^[2] Six clubs were granted UEFA club licences: Bruno's Magpies, Glacis United, Lincoln Red Imps, Lions Gibraltar, Europa and St Joseph's. 5 clubs were granted Gibraltar FA Domestic 'Gold' Licenses: College 1975, Europa Point, Lynx, Manchester 62 and Mons Calpe, who lost their UEFA license. As such, the league is unchanged from the previous season.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Club sponsor	2021–22
Bruno's Magpies	Nathan Rooney	Kyle Casciaro	Macron	Chestertons	4th
College 1975	Luis Manuel Blanco	Adam Gracia	Joma		8th
Europa	Miguel Ángel Berlanga	Jayce Olivero	Kappa	Situs Construction	2nd
Europa Point	Garry Lowe	Daniel Tudela	Xtreme Sports China	BLOKK	10th
Glacis United	Michele Di Piedi	Nacho Fernández	Macron	LOBO	5th
Lincoln Red Imps	Javi Muñoz	Roy Chipolina	Givova	Damex	1st
Lions Gibraltar	Adrian Parral	Antonio Cintas	Macron		11th
Lynx	Albert Parody	Jesse Victory	Givova	Grupo Casais	9th
Manchester 62	Jamie McDonough	Kieron Garcia	Macron	GADS	7th
Mons Calpe	David Guti	Emanuel Ojeda	Givova	FanPlay 365	6th
St Joseph's	Abraham Paz	Aymen Mouelhi	Legea		3rd

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Mons Calpe	Leo Fuentes	Mutual consent	1 May 2022	Pre-season	Allen Bula	17 May 2022[3]
St Joseph's	Jaime Molina				Abraham Paz	8 June 2022[4]
Lions Gibraltar	Paco Luna				Adrian Parral	17 June 2022[5]
Europa Point	Tommy Taylor				Garry Lowe	1 July 2022
Lincoln Red Imps	Mick McElwee	Resigned[6]	9 May 2022		Raúl Castillo	18 May 2022[7]
Europa	Arteaga	Sacked	2 September 2022		Steven Cummings	2 September 2022
Mons Calpe	Allen Bula		9 October 2022[8]	8th	David Guti	12 October 2022
Manchester 62	David Wilson		11 October 2022	11th	Jamie McDonough	11 October 2022
Lincoln Red Imps	Raúl Castillo	Resigned[9]	31 December 2022	2nd	Javi Muñoz	31 December 2022[10]
College 1975	Ángel Espinosa	Sacked	9 January 2023[11]	11th	Luis Manuel Blanco	16 January 2023
Europa	Steven Cummings	Mutual consent	1 March 2023	3rd	Miguel Ángel Berlanga	2 March 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation[a]
1	Europa	10	8	1	1	34	4	+30	25	Qualification for the Championship Group
2	Lincoln Red Imps	10	8	1	1	36	8	+28	25
3	Bruno's Magpies	10	8	1	1	24	5	+19	25
4	St Joseph's	10	6	1	3	26	10	+16	19
5	Lynx	10	6	1	3	19	9	+10	19
6	Glacis United	10	4	0	6	14	20	−6	12
7	Lions Gibraltar	10	3	2	5	11	20	−9	11	Qualification for the Challenge Group
8	Mons Calpe	10	3	1	6	7	14	−7	10
9	Manchester 62	10	2	1	7	12	23	−11	7
10	Europa Point	10	1	1	8	7	45	−38	4
11	College 1975	10	1	0	9	4	32	−28	3

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play
Notes:

1. Teams play each other once (10 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom five) for the last 10 respectively 8 matches.

Results

Home \ Away	BRU	COL	EFC	EPO	GLA	LIN	LGI	LYN	MAN	MON	SJO
Bruno's Magpies				7–0			2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0
College 1975	0–4			0–4	1–0	0–5					1–4
Europa	1–1	5–0			7–0	0–1		2–1			1–0
Europa Point			0–9		0–4		0–1				0–6
Glacis United	1–2						1–0	0–2		3–0	2–1
Lincoln Red Imps	1–3			10–0	4–1		6–0		3–0	2–1
Lions Gibraltar		5–1	0–3					0–0	3–2	1–1	1–4
Lynx		1–0		5–1		1–2			4–2
Manchester 62		2–0	1–4	2–2	3–2						0–3
Mons Calpe		2–1	0–2	1–0				0–3	1–0
St Joseph's	1–2					2–2		2–1		3–0

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

• The match between St Joseph's and Mons Calpe on 16 December 2022 originally finished 2–2, but was later awarded as a 3–0 win to St Joseph's.

Championship and Challenge groups

Championship Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lincoln Red Imps (C)	20	17	1	2	68	14	+54	52	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Europa	20	14	2	4	48	15	+33	44	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
3	Bruno's Magpies	20	11	4	5	39	18	+21	37
4	Lynx	20	10	3	7	33	29	+4	33
5	St Joseph's	20	10	2	8	36	25	+11	32
6	Glacis United	20	4	1	15	19	49	−30	13

Source: Flashscore
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play
(C) Champions

Championship Group results

Home \ Away	BRU	EFC	GLA	LIN	LYN	SJO
Bruno's Magpies		1–2	3–0	1–5	1–1	0–1
Europa	0–0		4–2	0–2	2–1	3–0
Glacis United	0–0	0–1		0–5	0–2	0–2
Lincoln Red Imps	3–1	1–2	4–1		4–0	1–0
Lynx	0–5	2–0	5–2	1–4		1–1
St Joseph's	1–3	2–0	3–2	0–3	0–2

Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Challenge Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mons Calpe	18	9	1	8	26	26	0	28	GFA Challenge Trophy and bye in 2023–24 Rock Cup
2	Manchester 62	18	9	1	8	34	30	+4	28
3	Lions Gibraltar	18	5	4	9	25	37	−12	19
4	College 1975	18	2	3	13	19	51	−32	9
5	Europa Point	18	1	4	13	12	65	−53	7

Source: Flashscore
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play

Challenge Group results

Home \ Away	COL	EPO	LGI	MAN	MON
College 1975		2–2	4–1	2–4	2–3
Europa Point	1–1		0–5	0–4	1–4
Lions Gibraltar	2–2	0–0		0–4	2–5
Manchester 62	4–1	2–0	2–1		0–2
Mons Calpe	2–1	2–1	0–3	1–2

Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	21
2	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	17
3	Aldair Ruiz	Lynx	12
	Aodhán O'Hara	Manchester 62
5	Pibe	Bruno's Magpies	11
6	Ibrahima Ndiaye	Europa	8
	Labra	Lions Gibraltar
	Boro	St Joseph's
9	Anthony Hernandez	Europa	7
	Sergio Rivera	Europa
	Xhelal Terziqi	Glacis United
	Liam Walker	Lincoln Red Imps

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Kegan Caull	Europa Point	College 1975	4–0 (A)	2 October 2022
Kike Gómez 5	Lincoln Red Imps	Europa Point	10–0 (H)	16 October 2022
Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	Europa Point	10–0 (H)	16 October 2022
Sergio Rivera	Europa	Europa Point	9–0 (A)	23 October 2022
Pibe 4	Bruno's Magpies	Europa Point	7–0 (H)	29 October 2022
Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	Glacis United	4–1 (H)	30 October 2022
Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	College 1975	5–0 (H)	26 November 2022
Ibrahima Ndiaye	Europa	College 1975	5–0 (H)	3 December 2022
Xhelal Terziqi	Glacis United	Europa Point	4–0 (A)	14 December 2022
Jack Storer	Bruno's Magpies	Glacis United	3–0 (H)	12 February 2023

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Jaylan Hankins	Bruno's Magpies	7
	Dayle Coleing	Lincoln Red Imps
3	Bradley Banda	Europa	6
4	Borja Valadés	Lions Gibraltar	5
	Bradley Avellano	Lynx
6	Jordan Perez	Lynx[a]	4
	Alan Martin	St Joseph's
8	Christian Lopez	Europa	3
	Fernando Canto	Manchester 62
10	Daniel Tudela	Europa Point	2
	Quinn Johnson	Glacis United
	Nauzet Santana	Lincoln Red Imps
	Christian Fraiz	Mons Calpe

1. Includes one clean sheet for Mons Calpe

See also

• 2022–23 Gibraltar Intermediate League
• 2022–23 Gibraltar Women's Football League

References

1. Restructuring of the Domestic Men's Senior League Archived 1 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar FA. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
2. Club Licenses Granted for 2022–23 Season Gibraltar FA. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
3. Statement Allen Bula on Twitter. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
4. Welcome Abraham Paz St Joseph's FC. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
5. Adrian Parral announced as head coach at Lions Gibraltar Gibraltar Chronicle. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
6. Legendary Head Coach Steps Down Lincoln Red Imps FC. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
7. New Head Coach Appointed as Raúl Takes Over Lincoln Red Imps FC. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
8. Mons Calpe part ways with Bula after two matches Gibraltar Chronicle. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
9. Head Coach Steps Down Lincoln Red Imps FC. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023
10. Munoz takes Head Coach role Lincoln Red Imps FC. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023
11. College 1975 confirm departure of first team manager Gibraltar Chronicle. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.

External links

• GFL Website
• Gibraltar Football Association