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 | ||
Ground | Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola, Malta | ||
Capacity | 2,968 | ||
Chairman | Ranier Bezzina | ||
Manager | Branko Nišević | ||
League | Maltese Premier League | ||
2022–23 | Maltese Premier League, 5th of 14 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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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.
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.[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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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.
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