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Association football club in Malta From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hibernians Football Club is a Maltese professional football club based in the town of Paola.
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| Full name | Hibernians Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Hibs Raħal Ġdid (Paola) The Peacocks | ||
| Founded | 1922[1] | ||
| Ground | Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola, Malta | ||
| Capacity | 2,968 | ||
| Chairman | Ranier Bezzina | ||
| Manager | Branko Nišević | ||
| League | Maltese Premier League | ||
| 2023–24 | Maltese Premier League, 7th of 14 | ||
| Website | https://www.hiberniansfc.mt/ | ||
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The club played one season in 1922 as Constitutionals FC, representing the pro-British Constitutional Party.[2] They started up again in the 1927–28 season and became a top amateur side, winning the Amateur League in 1930–31.[2]
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Party had upset the Catholic Church so much that, in May 1930, Catholics were told not to vote for the party. The football club changed its name a year later to Hibernians Football Club[2] as a nod to Hibernian, the club founded by Irish Catholics in Edinburgh. They won their first match as Hibernians 2–1, against HMS Antelope in October 1931.[2] They had to wait for a place to become available in the professional league, but in January 1933 they joined the league with a 3–1 victory over Sliema Rangers. They have stayed in the top division ever since.[2]
Around 1970 English football legend Sir Stanley Matthews managed Hibernians. He led the club to a League title and two Maltese FA Trophies.[3]
Hibernians faced a long period of decline followed the success of the 1980s to the end of the decade.[2] Hibernians have a futsal team, which plays in Malta's top futsal league, the Premier Futsal League.[citation needed]
The club's home ground is Hibernians Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Paola, which has a capacity of about 3,000.
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| Competition | Played | Won | Drew | Lost | GF | GA | GD | Win% |
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| European Cup / Champions League | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 71 | −51 | 17.86 |
| Cup Winners' Cup | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 17 | −13 | 20.00 |
| UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | 30 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 107 | −82 | 10.00 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 14 | +1 | 50.00 |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 26 | −17 | 16.67 |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0.00 |
| Total | 90 | 16 | 12 | 62 | 82 | 238 | −156 | 17.78 |
Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.
Maltese teams are limited to eight players without Maltese citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Robert Gatt (30 June 1998 – 8 July 2007)
Edmond Lufi (2007 – 8 September 2008)
Mark Miller (1 July 2008 – 2012) Michael Woods (13 June 2012 – 2013)
Branko Nišević (30 May 2013 – 2016) Mark Miller (2016 – 5 March 2018)[6] Mario Muscat (5 March 2018 – 4 July 2018)[7]
Stefano Sanderra (4 July 2018 – 30 June 2022) Andrea Pisanu (8 July 2022 – 6 February 2023) Silvio Vella (7 February 2023 – 1 June 2023) Branko Nišević (17 July 2023 – )A women's team plays in the Women's Maltese First Division. The team is the national record champion with twelve titles, the most recent being won in 2016.[8]
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