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Hibernians

Full name	Hibernians Football Club
Nickname(s)	Hibs Raħal Ġdid (Paola) The Peacocks
Founded	1922; 103 years ago (1922)
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/
Home colours Away colours

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

History

The club played one season in 1922 as Constitutionals FC, representing the pro-British Constitutional Party. They started up again in the 1927–28 season and became a top amateur side, winning the Amateur League in 1930–31.

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 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. 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.

Around 1970 English football legend Sir Stanley Matthews managed Hibernians. He led the club to a League title and two Maltese FA Trophies.

Hibernians faced a long period of decline followed the success of the 1980s to the end of the decade. Hibernians have a futsal team, which plays in Malta's top futsal league, the Premier Futsal League.

Stadium

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

Honours

Source:

• 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 (4): 1994, 2007, 2015, 2022
• Cassar Cup
  • Winners (2): 1961–62, 1962–63
• Testaferrata Cup
  • Winners (3): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81
• Independence Cup
  • Winners (3): 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71
• Sons of Malta Cup
  • Winners (3): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72
• Olympic Cup
  • Winners (1): 1962–63
• Schembri Shield
  • Winners (1): 1961–62

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 Odesa	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 5 September, 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ENG Pablo Sánchez 2 DF  BRA Kleiton 4 DF  MLT Jayden Ohaka 5 DF  MLT Kurt Shaw 6 MF  MLT Lucas Caruana 7 MF  MLT Ayrton Attard 8 MF  BRA Khevin Fraga 9 FW  BRA Miullen 10 FW  MLT Jurgen Degabriele 11 MF  MLT Bjorn Kristensen

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  MLT Dexter Xuereb 17 FW  MLT Isaiah Chukunyere 20 FW  ARG Federico Falcone 21 FW  BRA Alex Bruno 22 MF  MLT Timothy Eviparker 23 DF  MLT Matthew Ellul 29 FW  GRE Giannis Bastianos 30 GK  MLT Hugo Sacco 44 DF  BRA Pedrão 99 DF  BRA Higor Gabriel

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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)
• Mario Muscat (5 March 2018 – 4 July 2018)
• 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 – )

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.

See also

• Hibernians Basketball Club

References

1. Hibernians F.C. team profile Soccerway. Retrieved 24 September 2021
2. ^ "History". hiberniansfc.org. Archived from the original on 17 March 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
3. Stanley Matthews’s connection with Malta, Carmel Baldacchino, Times of Malta, 19 August 2010
4. "Honours". Hibernians F.C.
5. "Squad". Hibernians F.C. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
6. "Hibernians FC part ways with coach Mark Miller". The Malta Independent. 5 March 2018.
7. "Mario Muscat appointed as Qormi technical advisor". MaltaFootball.com. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
8. "Hibernians BOV Women's League Champions". maltafootball.com. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.

External links

• Official website

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National teams	Men Men's results footballers captains U-21 U-19 U-17 Amateur Gozo Main Women Women's U-19 U-17
Domestic leagues	Men Premier League Challenge League Amateur League I Amateur League II Gozo Gozo Football League First Division Gozo Football League Second Division Women First Division Youth Youth Football Association Defunct Second Division Third Division Women's Second Division Gozo Third Division Women's League
Domestic cups	Men FA Trophy Super Cup National Amateur Cup Gozo G.F.A. Cup GFA Super Cup First Division Knock-Out Cup Second Division Knock-Out Second Division Challenge Cup Women Women's Cup Defunct First Division knock-out Second and Third Division knock-out Gozo Independence Cup Freedom Day Cup Republic Cup Women's Cup
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