Hibernians Paola

Hibernians FC
Basic data
Surname	Hibernians Football Club
Seat	Paola , Malta
founding	1922/1931
president	Tony Bezzina
Website	hiberniansfc.org/
First soccer team
Head coach	Stefano Sanderra
Venue	Hibernians Football Ground , Paola
Places	8,000
league	Maltese Premier League
2019/20	3rd place
home Away

The Hibernians Football Club is a Maltese football club from Paola .

The club has its own stadium, the Hibernians Football Ground , which has a capacity of 8,000 spectators. Not only games of the Hibs are played there; the Hibernians, for their part, often play at Ta 'Qali Stadium .

history

In 1922 supporters of the Strickland's Constitutional Party formed a soccer team that began playing in a lower-class amateur league that same year. After initially there was hardly any competition character, Constitutionals FC succeeded in becoming one of the leading amateur clubs from 1928.

After the championship in the amateur league was successful in 1931, it was decided to join the professional football movement. According to the statutes, a new name had to be found and the club gave itself its current name.

Between 1946 and 1949 the club had merged with the Little Rainbows from neighboring Tarxien .

In the 1930s, the club made it to a few runners-up, but had to wait until 1961 before the first success in the club's history. This title was to be followed by eleven other championships, the last one in 2017. In addition, the club achieved nine cup successes in the national cup competition.

successes

• Maltese champion (12): 1961, 1967, 1969, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2009, 2015, 2017
• Maltese Cup (9): 1962, 1970, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013
• Maltese Supercup (3): 1994, 2007, 2015

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1961/62	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Servette Geneva	1: 7	0: 5 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1962/63	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Olympiacos Piraeus	1
		2nd round	Atlético Madrid	0: 5	0: 4 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1967/68	European Champions Cup	1 round	Manchester United	0: 4	0: 4 (A)	0: 0 (H)
1968/69	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Aris Saloniki	0: 7	0: 1 (A)	0: 6 (H)
1969/70	European Champions Cup	1 round	Spartak Trnava	2: 6	2: 2 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1970/71	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	real Madrid	0: 5	0: 0 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1971/72	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	Fram Reykjavík	03: 2 2	3: 0 (A)	0: 2 (H)
		1 round	Steaua Bucharest	0: 1	0: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1974/75	Uefa cup	1 round	FC Amsterdam	00:12	0: 5 (A)	0: 7 (H)
1976/77	Uefa cup	1 round	Grasshopper Zurich	0: 9	0: 7 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1978/79	Uefa cup	1 round	Sporting Braga	3: 7	0: 5 (A)	3: 2 (H)
1979/80	European Champions Cup	1 round	Dundalk FC	1: 2	0: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
1980/81	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Waterford FC	1: 4	1: 0 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1981/82	European Champions Cup	1 round	Red Star Belgrade	02:10	1: 2 (H)	1: 8 (A)
1982/83	European Champions Cup	1 round	Widzew Łódź	2: 7	1: 4 (H)	1: 3 (A)
1986/87	Uefa cup	1 round	Trakia Plovdiv	00:10	0: 2 (H)	0: 8 (A)
1990/91	Uefa cup	1 round	Partizan Belgrade	0: 5	0: 3 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1994/95	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	Dinamo Minsk	5: 6	1: 3 (A)	4: 3 a.d. (H)
1995/96	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	Chornomorets Odessa	2: 7	2: 5 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group stage	Uralmash Yekaterinburg	1: 2	1: 2 (H)
			CSKA Sofia	1: 4	1: 4 (A)
			Racing Strasbourg	0: 2	0: 2 (H)
			Kocaelispor	3: 5	3: 5 (A)
1997/98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar	0: 4	0: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
1998/99	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	Amica Wronki	0: 5	0: 4 (A)	0: 1 (H)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Zagłębie Lubin	1: 4	0: 4 (A)	1: 0 (H)
2002/03	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Shelbourne FC	3: 2	2: 2 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Boavista Porto	3: 7	0: 4 (A)	3: 3 (H)
2003	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	AC Allianssi	1: 2	0: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Slaven Belupo Koprivnica	2: 4	2: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2005/06	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Omonia Nicosia	0: 6	0: 3 (A)	0: 3 (H)
2006/07	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Dinamo Bucharest	1: 9	0: 4 (H)	1: 5 (A)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Vojvodina Novi Sad	1: 7	1: 5 (A)	0: 2 (H)
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	ND Gorica	0: 3	0: 3 (H)	0: 0 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	FK Mogren	0: 6	0: 2 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FK Sarajevo	6: 9	2: 5 (A)	4: 4 (H)
2013/14	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Vojvodina Novi Sad	3: 7	1: 4 (H)	2: 3 (A)
2014/15	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Spartak Trnava	2: 9	2: 4 (H)	0: 5 (A)
2015/16	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3: 6	2: 1 (H)	1: 5 (A)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FC Spartak Trnava	0: 6	0: 3 (A)	0: 3 (H)
2017/18	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	FC Infonet Tallinn	3-0	2: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	FC Salzburg	0: 6	0: 3 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk	0: 2	0: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 82 games, 11 wins, 9 draws, 62 defeats, 56: 233 goals (goal difference −177)

¹ Olympiacos withdrew from participation.

²Both games at the Empire Stadium Gzira

Distinctive stations in the European Cup

In their total of 33 appearances in the European Cup, the Hibernians Paola were able to prevail twice against another team (in the qualifying round for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1971/72 against Fram Reykjavík and in the first qualifying round for the 2002/03 Champions League against Shelbourne FC) and reached the next round once more after their opponent (Olympiacos in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1962/63) withdrew their participation. In the second round of the same tournament, the Hibernians then failed against the eventual finalists Atlético Madrid with an aggregate result of 0: 5, with a respectable 0: 1 at their home Empire Stadium .

They achieved an even better result five years later in the European Cup of National Champions in 1967/68, when they wrested a 0-0 from eventual tournament winners Manchester United at their home Empire Stadium; a success that they were able to repeat three years later (European Cup Winners' Cup 1970/71) against a similarly renowned opponent (the later finalists Real Madrid). In the following season (European Cup Winners' Cup 1971/72), the Hibernians, with Icelandic representative Fram Reykjavík, not only eliminated an opposing team in a sporting way for the first time, but also failed extremely narrowly in the next round (0-0 and 0-1 ) against Steaua Bucharest. After the Hibernians had disastrous defeats in the 1974/75 and 1976/77 UEFA Cup seasons against FC Amsterdam (total score 0:12) and Grasshopper Club Zurich (total 0: 9), they were able to participate in their subsequent three appearances achieve some respectable results again: they won their home game against Sporting Braga 3-2 in 1978/79, only narrowly failed in 1979/80 (0-2 and 1-0) against Dundalk FC and were also able to win in the 1980 / 81 recorded a 1-0 home win against Irish Cup winners Waterford FC. In the preliminary round of the 1994/95 UEFA Cup season, the Hibernians Paola were even able to compensate for a 3-1 first leg defeat at Dynamo Minsk, but then failed in extra time.

The last "big point" so far was the 3-2 aggregate win over Irish champions Shelbourne FC in the first qualifying round for the 2002/03 Champions League. After the 1-0 away win in the second leg, none of the 16 matches played since then could be won and only two of them ended in a draw: 3: 3 against Boavista Porto (2002/03) and 4: 4 against FK Sarajevo (2012/13) .

The biggest win was the 3-0 against Fram Reykjavík in the 1971/72 season and the biggest defeat the 8-0 at Trakia Plovdiv in the 1986/87 season.

player

• Eddie Theobald (1956–1974)
• Mario Muscat (1993-)
• Andrew Cohen (1999-2016)
• Adrian Mifsud (2000-2004)

Trainer

•  Stanley Matthews (1970)

Web links

• Official website of the association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180704/football/stefano-sanderra-named-new-hibernians-coach.683562
2. ↑ Carmel Baldacchino (Times of Malta): Schembri - reliable defender (English; article from October 9, 2009)