Hibernians Football Club is a Maltese professional football club based in the town of Paola.

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Hibernians

Full name	Hibernians Football Club
Nickname(s)	Hibs Raħal Ġdid (Paola) The Peacocks
Founded	1922; 100 years ago (1922)[1]
Ground	Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola, Malta
Capacity	2,968
Chairman	Ranier Bezzina
Manager	Andrea Pisanu
League	Maltese Premier League
2021–22	Maltese Premier League, 1st Champions
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

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]

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]}

Stadium

The club's home ground is Hibernians Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Paola, which has a capacity of about 3,000.

Honours

[3]

• Maltese Premier League

Winners (13): 1960–61, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2001–02, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2021–22

• Maltese FA Trophy

Winners (10): 1961–62, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1997–98, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2011–12, 2012–13

• Maltese Super Cup

Winners (3): 1994, 2007, 2015

Cassar Cup: (2) 1961–1962, 1962–1963

Testaferrata Cup: (3) 1977–1978, 1978–1979, 1980–1981

Independence Cup: (3) 1967–1968, 1968–1969, 1970–1971

Sons of Malta Cup: (3) 1969–1970, 1970–1971, 1971–1972

Olympic Cup: (1) 1962–1963

Schembri Shield: (1) 1961–1962

European Record

Accurate as of 11 August 2022

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1961–62	European Cup	Prelim	Servette FC	1–2	0–5	1–7
1962–63	European Cup Winners' Cup	Prelim	Olympiacos	w/o	w/o	w/o
		1R	Atlético Madrid	0–1	0–4	0–5
1967–68	European Cup	1R	Manchester United F.C.	0–0	0–4	0–4
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Aris Thessaloniki F.C.	0–6	0–1	0–7
1969–70	European Cup	1R	FC Spartak Trnava	2–2	0–4	2–6
1970–71	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Real Madrid C.F.	0–0	0–5	0–5
1971–72	European Cup Winners' Cup	Prelim	Fram	3–0	0–2	3-2
		1R	Steaua Bucharest	0–0	0–1	0–1
1974–75	UEFA Cup	1R	FC Amsterdam	0–7	0–5	0–12
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1R	Grasshoppers	0–2	0–7	0–9
1978–79	UEFA Cup	1R	S.C. Braga	3–2	0–5	3–7
1979–80	European Cup	1R	Dundalk F.C.	1–0	0–2	1–2
1980–81	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Waterford	1–0	0–4	1–4
1981–82	European Cup	1R	Red Star Belgrade	1–2	1–8	2–10
1982–83	European Cup	1R	Widzew Łódź	1–4	1–3	2–7
1986–87	UEFA Cup	1R	Trakia Plovdiv	0–2	0–8	0–10
1994–95	UEFA Cup	Prelim	FC Dinamo Minsk	4–3 (a.e.t.)	1–3	5–6
1995–96	UEFA Cup	Prelim	FC Chornomorets Odessa	2–5	0–2	2–7
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 11	FC Ural Yekaterinburg	1–2	—	5th
			PFC CSKA Sofia	—	1–4
			RC Strasbourg Alsace	0–2	—
			Kocaelispor	—	3–5
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Zagłębie Lubin	1–0	0–4	1–4
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Shelbourne F.C.	2–2	1–0	3–2
		2Q	Boavista F.C.	3–3	0–4	3–7
2003	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	AC Allianssi	1–1	0–1	1–2
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	NK Slaven Belupo	2–1	0–3	2–4
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	AC Omonia	0–3	0–3	0–6
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1Q	FC Dinamo București	0–4	1–5	1–9
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	FK Vojvodina	0–2	1–5	1–7
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	ND Gorica	0–3	0–0	0–3
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	1Q	FK Mogren	0–2	0–4	0–6
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FK Sarajevo	4–4	2–5	6–9
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FK Vojvodina	1–4	2–3	3–7
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FC Spartak Trnava	2–4	0–5	2–9
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.	2–1	1–5	3–6
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FC Spartak Trnava	0–3	0–3	0–6
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	1Q	FCI Tallinn	2–0	1–0	3–0
		2Q	FC Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–3	0–6
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	0–1	0–1	0–2
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Vaduz	—	2–0	—
		2Q	Fehérvár	0–1	—	—
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Flora	0–3	0–2	0–5
	UEFA Europa Conference League	2Q	Folgore	4–2	3–1	7–3
		3Q	Riga	1–4 (a.e.t.)	1–0	2−4
2022–23	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Shamrock Rovers	0–0	0–3	0−3
	UEFA Europa Conference League	2Q	FCI Levadia	3–2	1–1	4–3
		3Q	RFS	1–3	1–1	2−4

Players

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.

Current squad

As of 13 September, 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  MLT Jayden Ohaka 3 DF  MLT Ferdinando Apap 4 DF  MLT Kurt Shaw 5 MF  MLT Matthew Ellul 6 DF  ESP Gonzalo Llerena 7 FW  ANG Thaylor Lubanzadio 8 MF  MLT Jake Grech 9 FW  ESP Jairo Morillas 10 FW  MLT Jurgen Degabriele 11 MF  MLT Bjorn Kristensen 12 MF  MLT Dunstan Vella 13 DF  MLT Zachary Grech

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK  MLT Justin Haber 17 FW  GHA Gabriel Mensah 18 MF  MLT Arziel Borg 19 DF  MLT Joseph Zerafa 20 DF  MLT Andrei Agius 22 DF  ESP Gabri Izquier 23 FW  NGA Yunusa Muritala 24 GK  GUI Ibrahim Koné 30 DF  MLT Isaiah Chukunyere 42 MF  CIV Ali Diakité 88 DF  BRA Rodolfo Soares

Out on loan

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

Managers

• 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)[4]
• Mario Muscat (5 March 2018 – 4 July 2018)[5]
• Stefano Sanderra (4 July 2018 –30 June 2022)
• Andrea Pisanu (8 July 2022- )

Women's team

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.[6]

See also

• Hibernians Basketball Club

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

[de] Hibernians Paola

[es] Paola Hibernians Football Club

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