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Full name | Hibernians Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Hibs Raħal Ġdid (Paola) The Peacocks | ||
Founded | 1922[1] | ||
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 | ||
Hibernians Football Club is a Maltese professional football club based in the town of Paola.
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 ]
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.
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