St Joseph's F.C.

St Joseph's

Full name	St Joseph's Football Club Gibraltar
Nickname(s)	The Saints
Founded	20 January 1912;113 years ago (20 January 1912)
Ground	Victoria Stadium, Winston Churchill Avenue, Gibraltar
Capacity	2,000
Owner	Mike Garlick
Head coach	Abraham Paz
League	Gibraltar Football League
2023–24	GFL, 2nd
Website	http://www.stjosephsfcgib.co.uk
Home colours Away colours

St Joseph's Football Club is a professional football club based in Gibraltar. Founded in 1912, it currently plays in the Gibraltar Football League. The club also has two futsal teams and more than 10 youth teams.

History

Formed in 1912, St Joseph's are Gibraltar's oldest still existing football club, with the next oldest, Manchester 62, formed 50 years later. They have consistently competed in the Gibraltar Premier Division in that time. However, they have only won the title once: in the 1995–96 season. They have seen considerably better fortunes in the Rock Cup, however, with 10 titles in their history, including a league and cup double in 1996. Their last Rock Cup triumph came in 2013. In 2013, they established links as a feeder club to Real Balompédica Linense.

Since Gibraltar became a member of UEFA, the Saints initially endured more mixed fortunes, including narrowly avoiding relegation in the 2013–14 season, ending up in the relegation play-off and narrowly beating Mons Calpe to retain their Premier Division status. Since that near miss, they have consistently finished in the top half of the league, and in 2017 qualified for the UEFA Europa League for the first time with a 3rd-place finish, after Gibraltar had been given an additional spot in the competition. However, their maiden campaign would be short-lived as they suffered a resounding 10-0 aggregate defeat to AEL Limassol of Cyprus. In August, the club were hit when two players, club captain Esteban Montes and Alberto Montaño, were imposed with five and three year bans from football in Gibraltar, respectively, for breaching rules on betting. Both players were immediately released from the club. ^[1]

The club quickly established themselves at one of the "Big Three" of Gibraltarian football in the UEFA era before running into financial difficulties in early 2022. As a result of this, in June that year, former Burnley owner and chairman Mike Garlick purchased the club, with Weymouth owner Mark Palmer also joining the board. ^[2]

Achievements

• Gibraltar Football League: 1

1995–96

• Rock Cup Titles: 10

1956, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2012, 2013

• Pepe Reyes Cup: 2

2013, 2024

• Gibraltar Women's Football League: 1

2007

Current squad

First team

As of 10 July 2024 ^[3]

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   GIB Bradley Banda 2 DF   GIB Ethan Jolley 3 DF   GIB Jayce Olivero 4 DF   ESP Javi Paul 5 MF   ESP Marco Rosa 6 MF   ESP Manolín 7 FW   BRA Lucas Gaúcho 8 MF   ESP Bauti 9 FW   ESP Pablo Rodríguez 10 FW   ESP Álvaro Rey 11 MF   GIB Liam Walker 12 MF   ESP Christian Aznar 13 GK   ARG Marcos Zappacosta

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF   GIB Erin Barnett 15 DF   GIB Ethan Santos 16 FW   GIB Michael Yome 17 MF   GIB Mitch Gibson 18 MF   SWE Hugo Jesslén 19 FW   ESP Juanfri 20 DF   URU Gabri Cardozo (vice-captain) 21 DF   GIB Alain Pons 22 MF   ESP Juanma González(captain) 23 FW   ARG Facu Álvarez 24 MF   ESP Cristian Orihuela 25 FW   ESP Adrián Armental 30 GK   ARG Gonzalo Paz

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.

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW   ANG Alberto Lubango(at Europa)

Club staff

Position	Name
Club Management
Manager	Abraham Paz
Assistant coach	Eloy Bolaños
Fitness coach	Juan Carlos Galindo
Goalkeeping coach	Félix Romero
Head physio	Jaime Rojas Boy
Head Analyst Coach	Fernando Rosado
Kit manager	Christian Hook
Board
Chairman	Mike Garlick
President	Stuart Rodriguez
Technical Director	John Paul Hendrick
Secretary	David O'Flaherty
Head of Youth	Kane Forster Chisum Sanchez
Youth co-ordinator	Christopher Gonzalez

European record

Accurate as of match played 18 July 2024

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	9	1	3	5	6	25	−19	011.11
UEFA Conference League	7	1	2	4	3	17	−14	014.29
Total	16	2	5	9	9	42	−33	012.50

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	AEL Limassol	0–4	0–6	0–10
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	B36 Tórshavn	1–1	1–1	2–2, 2–4 (p)
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	PR	Prishtina	2–0	1–1	3–1
		1Q	Rangers	0–4	0–6	0–10
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	PR	B36 Tórshavn	1–2	—	—
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	FCI Levadia	1–1	1–3	2–4
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	Larne	0–0	1–0	1–0
		2Q	Slavia Prague	0–4	0–7	0–11
2024–25	UEFA Conference League	1Q	Shelbourne	1–1	1–2	2–3

Notes

• PR: Preliminary round
• 1Q: First qualifying round

References

1. Official St Joseph's Statement Re: GFA Betting Rule Breaches GibFootballTalk. 17 August 2017.
2. Former Burnley FC chairman takes over St Joseph Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar Chronicle. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
3. 2023/24 Squad Archived 2 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine St Joseph's FC. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

External links

• Official website