2023–24 Мальтийская Премьер -лига

Мальтийская Премьер -лига

Сезон	2023–24
Даты	15 сентября 2023 г. - 4 мая 2024 г.
Чемпионы	Хамрун Спартанцы (10 -е заголовок)
Понижен	Гуджа Юнайтед Санта -Люсия Сирены Валлетта
Лига чемпионов УЕФА	Хамрун Спартанцы
Лига конференции УЕФА	Флориана Марсакслокк Слима странники
Матчи сыграли	182
Голы забили	443 (2,43 за матч)
Лучший бомбардир	Люк Монтебелло (21 гола)
Biggest home win	Marsaxlokk 5–1 Naxxar Lions (15 September 2023) Naxxar Lions 4–0 Santa Lucia (1 October 2023) Floriana 4–0 Mosta (13 April 2024) Naxxar Lions 4–0 Valletta (28 April 2023)
Biggest away win	Balzan 1–7 Ħamrun Spartans (27 January 2024) Gudja United 0–6 Sliema Wanderers (27 April 2024)
Highest scoring	Balzan 1–7 Ħamrun Spartans (27 January 2024)
Longest winning run	Ħamrun Spartans (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Floriana Ħamrun Spartans (11 matches)
Longest winless run	Gudja United (26 matches)
Longest losing run	Gudja United (16 matches)
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 5 May 2024.

Мальтийская Премьер -лига 2023–24 годов лиги высшей лиги была 109-м сезоном футбола на Мальте . Сезон начался 15 сентября 2023 года и закончился в апреле 2024 года.

В сезоне появилось вылечение Валлетты , одной из самых исторических команд на мальтийском футболе, впервые в своей истории.

Команды

Лига состояла из четырнадцати команд; Лучшие двенадцать команд из предыдущего сезона , и две команды продвинулись в рамках лиги мальтийского вызова 2022–23 годов . Ħamrun Спартанцы вошли в сезон в качестве действующих чемпионов. Слима Уондерерс и Naxxar Lions были повышены и возвращены в Мальтийскую Премьер -лигу после одного и пяти лет отсутствия соответственно. Они заменили двух нижних команд Премьер -лиги в 2022–23 годах, Pietà Hotspurs и żebbuġ Rangers (оба понижены через год в верхнем полете).

On 13 April 2023, The Malta Football Association announced that four clubs would be relegated to the Maltese Challenge League at the end of the season, as the number of clubs would be reduced to twelve starting from the 2024–25 season. As a result, the Maltese Premier League play-off was scrapped for this season, and this was the last season to consist of fourteen teams.

Balzan

Birkirkara

Floriana

Gudja United

Gżira United

Ħamrun

Hibernians

Marsaxlokk

Mosta

Naxxar Lions

Santa Lucia

Sliema

Sirens

Valletta

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Location of teams in 2023–24 Maltese Premier League

Team	In league since	City
Balzan	2011	Balzan
Birkirkara	1990	Birkirkara
Floriana	1986	Floriana
Gudja United	2019	Gudja
Gżira United	2016	Gżira
Ħamrun Spartans	2016	Ħamrun
Hibernians	1945	Paola
Marsaxlokk	2022	Marsaxlokk
Mosta	2011	Mosta
Naxxar Lions	2023	Naxxar
Santa Lucia	2019	Santa Luċija
Sliema Wanderers	2023	Sliema
Sirens	2019	St. Paul's Bay
Valletta	1944	Valletta

Venues

On 29 April 2024, the Malta Football Association introduced another stadium, Victor Tedesco Stadium due to the final fixture of the season that played four matches at the same time.

Ta' Qali Tony Bezzina Stadium Victor Tedesco Stadium	Ta' Qali	Ta' Qali	Paola	Hamrun
	Ta' Qali National Stadium	Centenary Stadium	Tony Bezzina Stadium	Victor Tedesco Stadium
	Capacity: 16,997	Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 2,968	Capacity: 1,962

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
Balzan	Oliver Spiteri	Joma	MBI Group	Visit Malta (Bottom)
Birkirkara	Jose Borg	Nike	McDonald's	Inter Sport (Top)	Visit Malta (Right)
Floriana	Mauro Camoranesi	Joma	Harmont & Blaine, Greens Supermarket		Go & Fun (Right)
Gudja United	Renzo Kerr-Cumbo	Macron	Handy Man, SixSevenEight	Apex Group (Top)	Thomas Smith Insurance Broker (Left)
Gżira United	Andrew Cohen	Joma		Finanzi (Top), Recruit Giant (Bottom), Visit Malta (Bottom)
Ħamrun Spartans	Luciano Zauri	Puma	J. Portelli	Meridianbet (Bottom), Besteam audio (Bottom)	Ta' Fonzu (Right), Tescoma (Left)
Hibernians	Branko Nišević	Joma	Bezzina
Marsaxlokk	Winston Muscat	Joma	1padel		Mr. Fitz Restaurant Marsaxlokk (Left)
Mosta	Joseph Grech	Macron		Teamsport (Bottom)
Naxxar Lions	George Vella	Joma	Brown's, sottozero	Zarb Coaches (Top), Badass, McQueen, Sammut Concrete Supplies (Bottom)	Welbee's (Right), Würth, Centerparc (Left)
Santa Lucia	Alessandro Zinnari	Capelli Sport	Multivend, avanza	Elmo (Top), Konica Minolta (Bottom)	Yellow Army (Left), Levissima (Right)
Sliema Wanderers	Paul Zammit	Adidas	NMGroup, Comeon Group, Xace	Daikin, Zarb Coaches (Bottom)
Sirens	Stephen Damato	Macron	Café del Mar Malta, Welbee's	Arringo (Top), Malta National Aquarium (Bottom)
Valletta	Juan Cruz Gill (Caretaker)	Nike	Iniala	Inter Sport (Top)	Toyotomi, Da Mattia (Left), 5 Beans (Right)

• Additionally, referee kits are made by Macron

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Ħamrun Spartans	Branko Nišević	Resign	22 April 2023	Pre-season	Luciano Zauri	29 April 2023
Sirens	Winston Muscat		28 April 2023		Stephen Damato	24 May 2023
Marsaxlokk	Pablo Doffo	End of Contract	6 May 2023		Winston Muscat	14 June 2023
Floriana	Gianluca Atzori		10 May 2023		Mauro Camoranesi	5 June 2023
Hibernians	Silvio Vella	Mutual consent	1 June 2023		Branko Nišević	17 July 2023
Santa Lucia	Enzo Potenza	Resign	21 June 2023		Alessandro Zinnari	12 July 2023
Gudja United	Ludvic Bartolo	End of Caretaker	29 July 2023		Jesmond Zammit	29 July 2023
Valletta	Thane Micallef	Sacked	2 October 2023	8th	Enzo Potenza	7 October 2023
Birkirkara	Giovanni Tedesco	Resign	26 November 2023	10th	Brian Chetcuti (Caretaker)	26 November 2023
Gudja United	Jesmond Zammit	Sacked	21 December 2023	14th	Renzo Kerr-Cumbo	27 December 2023
Gżira United	Darren Abdilla	Resign	17 January 2024	9th	Andrew Cohen	18 January 2024
Birkirkara	Brian Chetcuti	End of Caretaker	5 February 2024	7th	Jose Borg	5 February 2024
Valletta	Enzo Potenza	Resign	26 February 2024	12th	Juan Cruz Gill (Caretaker)	26 February 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ħamrun Spartans (C)	26	19	5	2	61	16	+45	62	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Floriana	26	18	3	5	53	19	+34	57	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3	Sliema Wanderers	26	14	8	4	34	12	+22	50	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
4	Marsaxlokk	26	12	7	7	40	23	+17	43	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
5	Birkirkara	26	9	9	8	28	27	+1	36
6	Naxxar Lions	26	9	8	9	32	35	−3	35
7	Hibernians	26	9	8	9	29	28	+1	35
8	Balzan	26	8	10	8	26	28	−2	34
9	Gżira United	26	9	6	11	38	33	+5	33
10	Mosta	26	7	10	9	19	32	−13	31
11	Santa Lucia (R)	26	8	6	12	25	41	−16	30	Relegation to the Maltese Challenge League
12	Valletta (R)	26	6	9	11	26	31	−5	27
13	Sirens (R)	26	3	7	16	17	50	−33	16
14	Gudja United (R)	26	0	6	20	14	67	−53	6

Source: Malta Football Association
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-offs (only if needed to decide champions, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	BAL	BIR	FLO	GUD	GŻI	ĦAM	HIB	MAR	MOS	NXR	SLC	SLI	SIR	VAL
Balzan	—	0–3	0–3	2–0	1–0	1–7	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–0
Birkirkara	1–1	—	1–2	2–0	3–2	3–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–1
Floriana	2–2	2–0	—	5–1	0–1	0–5	2–0	3–2	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0
Gudja United	2–2	1–1	1–1	—	1–6	0–4	0–3	1–1	0–1	2–4	0–4	0–6	1–2	0–3
Gżira United	1–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	—	0–1	0–4	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–1
Ħamrun Spartans	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	—	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–1	4–1	1–1	2–0	1–1
Hibernians	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	3–2	1–2	—	0–2	0–0	0–2	3–2	0–1	2–1	2–2
Marsaxlokk	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	—	1–2	5–1	3–0	1–2	3–1	0–1
Mosta	0–2	0–2	0–3	0–0	0–3	0–4	3–1	3–2	—	2–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–0
Naxxar Lions	1–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	0–1	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	4–0	1–4	1–2	4–0
Santa Lucia	0–1	2–2	0–4	1–1	2–1	1–3	0–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	—	0–1	1–1	2–0
Sliema Wanderers	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	—	3–0	1–0
Sirens	1–4	1–2	0–3	2–0	0–4	0–4	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	—	0–3
Valletta	1–0	0–1	0–2	5–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	—

Source: Malta Football Association
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of 28 April 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luke Montebello	Ħamrun Spartans	21
2	Kemar Reid	Floriana	13
	Yuri	Marsaxlokk
4	Andrei Ciolacu	Birkirkara	11
	Uroš Đuranović	Ħamrun Spartans
6	Pablo	Naxxar Lions	10
7	Sunday Akinbule	Marsaxlokk	9
8	Jurgen Degabriele	Hibernians	8
	Luis Willis Alves Furtado	Floriana

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Stadium	Date
Luke Montebello4	Ħamrun Spartan	Balzan	7-1 (A)	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali	27 January 2024
George Blackwood	Balzan	Sirens	4-1 (A)	Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali	6 April 2024
Pablo	Naxxar Lions	Gudja United	4-2 (A)
Seth Paintsil4	Ħamrun Spartan	Floriana	5-0 (A)	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali	27 April 2024

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goalss

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Georgi Kitanov	Floriana	15
	Rashed Al-Tumi	Sliema Wanderers
3	Marcel Zapytowski	Birkirkara	10
4	Akpan David Udoh	Mosta	9
	Matthias Debono	Naxxar Lions
6	Henry Bonello	Ħamrun Spartans	8
	Ibrahim Koné	Hibernians
8	Danilo Golovic	Balzan	7
	Marko Drobnjak	Marsaxlokk
	Francisco Celio Da Paz Silva Filho	Santa Lucia

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 11
  • Evans Damian Aneni (Mosta)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Ali Diakite (Birkirkara)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 66
  • Sliema Wanderers
• Most red cards: 6
  • Sliema Wanderers

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
September	Mauro Camoranesi	Floriana	Kemar Reid	Floriana
October	George Vella	Naxxar Lions	Luke Montebello	Hamrun Spartans
November			No Winner
December	Paul Zammit	Sliema Wanderers
Январь	Лучано раня	Голодные спартанцы	Люк Монтебелло	Голодные спартанцы
Февраль