Pietà Hotspurs F.C.

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Pietà Hotspurs FC
Full name	Pietà Hotspurs FC
Founded	1968
Ground	Ta'Qali Stadium, Attard, Malta (Capacity 17,000)
Chairman	Edward Schembri
Manager	Carmel Busuttil
League	Maltese Football League
2006-07	Maltese Football League
Home colours 　 Away colours

Pietà Hotspurs FC is a Maltese football club based in Pietà which was founded in 1968. They play in the Maltese Football League, the top division in Maltese football.

Contents 1 History 2 Players 2.1 Current squad 2.2 Famous players 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Pietà Hotspurs had their league debut on October 23, 1934^[1], but any success the club had hoped to achieve was postponed due to the outbreak of World War II. After the war's end, Pietà took part in the Anglo Maltese Football League, before joining the Third Division of the National Championships, where they spent ten seasons^[1]. Pietà Hotspurs, however, were replaced in the league with Pietà Atlanta in 1962, a team which later changed their name to Pietà Hotspurs in 1973, joining the Fourth Division in 1974. The team won the league and promotion, but spent ten years in the Third Division. They eventually won promotion in 1985, but were soon relegated again. However, they bounced back up and won promotion again in 1988. In 1994 they finally won promotion to the Premier Division.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Miguel Montfort 12 GK Mark Vella 13 DF Carl Sammut 5 DF Bernard Sciberras 19 DF Edward Herrera 22 DF Rumen Galabov 20 DF Ryan Camilleri 8 MF Silvan Cascaldi 18 MF Dominic Mifsud 16 MF Svetlan Kondev 11 MF Daniel Gatt 10 MF Carl Pulo 26 MF Christopher McKay

No. Position Player 23 MF Sheldon Grech 7 FW Martin Deanov 21 FW Dylan Kokavessis 9 FW Quilin Refalo 17 FW Glanville Goodlip 28 GK Kersten Vella 2 DF Pierre Aquilina 3 DF Peycho Deliminkov 4 DF Chris Okoh 15 DF David Camenzuli 24 MF Claudio Calleja 6 MF Gary Busuttil 27 FW Francesco Sulas

[edit] Famous players

• Valeri Bojinov
• Saviour Darmanin
• Joe Debono
• Attila Filkor
• Cleaven Frendo
• Andrew Hogg
• Malcolm Licari
• Jamie Pace

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Pietà Hotspurs at Maltafootball.com

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