Mqabba F.C.

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Mqabba F.C.

Full name	Mqabba Football Club
Nickname(s)	Tal-Gebel Hajduks
Founded	1957; 67 years ago (1957)
Ground	Ta'Qali Stadium
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	Mario Borg
Manager	Vincent Carbonaro
League	Maltese National Amateur League
2022–23	Maltese Challenge League 16th (relegated)
Website	Club website

Mqabba F.C. is a Maltese football club from Mqabba, a small village in south-western Malta. They were founded in 1957, and currently play in the Maltese Challenge League

History[edit]

During the First World War, some Maltese soldiers brought football to the village but only after the Second World War a club was first established. Mqabba Ramblers played their first game in 1953 and they joined the Maltese Amateur FA in 1955. At the end of the 1950s, two clubs from Mqabba, Mqabba Rovers and Mqabba Ħajduks played in the Maltese amateur league and they decided to merge and take the name of the latter.^[1]

Mqabba Ħajduks[edit]

The merger club played its first game in 1958 and four years later they were allowed to the Maltese Third Division by the Maltese FA. In 1978 they clinched promotion to the Second Division for the first time but they were relegated again in the year after that. In 1982 Ħajduks won promotion again and in 1984 they reached the First Division for the first time in their history. ^[2] They even went one better when they made their debut in the Maltese Premier League in 1985, but they only amassed a meagre 6 points to end up bottom of the table.^[3]

Following the re-organisation of the Maltese football leagues and the creation of the Premier League, they gained promotion to this division in 1990–1991, 1992–1993 and 2006–2007. Mqabba F.C. has the merit of being one of the smallest Maltese localities to feature in the highest level of Maltese football.

Current squad[edit]

As of 29 July 2022^[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  MLT Craig Abdilla — GK  MLT Jordan Agius — GK  MLT Darshton Grech — DF  MLT Jeremy Azzopardi — DF  MLT Jeremy Busuttil — DF  MLT Arsene Rye Cilia Mumford — DF  MLT Neil Falzon — DF  MLT Leonard Farrugia — DF  ARG Gabriel Mannino — DF  MLT Luke Musu — DF  ITA Thomas Veronese — MF  MLT Kurt Agius

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  MLT Lee Agius — MF  MLT Joseph Attard — MF  MLT Karl Ghigo — MF  MLT Omar Khatib — MF  MLT Brooklyn Sciberras — MF  MLT Jacques Vella Critien — MF  MLT Ian Caruana — MF  MLT Christophe Cutajar — MF  BRA Ronald Melo — MF  SRB Luka Mijić — MF  MLT Ryan Spiteri

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official Web Site

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