Sliema Wanderers

Sliema Wanderers
Basic data
Surname	Sliema Wanderers Football Club
founding	1909
president	Steve Abela
First soccer team
Head coach	Alfonso Greco
Venue	Ta 'Qali Stadium
Places	17,000
league	Maltese Premier League
2019/20	10th place
home Away

The Sliema Wanderers Football Club is a Maltese football club from Sliema .

history

Founded in 1909 as Sliema Wanderers FC , the club briefly called itself Sliema Amateurs in 1918 before reverting to its old name. The 1919/20 season brought the club the first Maltese championship. Several championships followed and in 1935 he won the national cup for the first time. In 1939 Sliema Rangers FC joined the club. In 1944, the club called itself Sliema Athletic for one season , and since 1945 it has been back to its current name.

The club was able to celebrate a total of 26 championship titles, making it the record champions on the island. In addition, they won 20 cups. In addition, you have been runner-up 30 times and can still book 19 finals in which you were defeated. The last cup win came in 2009 after a penalty shoot-out against Valletta , and in 2005 they won their last championship title with a six-point lead over Valletta . Internationally, the club made history in 1996 when, after 35 years of European Cup history, they won the first Maltese away win against Georgian runner-up Margveti Sestaponi .

The Wanderers' greatest rival is FC Floriana . In reference to the rivalry between the two Glasgow clubs Celtic and Rangers , the duels between the two clubs are referred to as the “Maltese Old Firm ”.

successes

• Maltese champion (26): 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2017
• Maltese Cup (21): 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1990, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2016
• Maltese Supercup (3): 1996, 2000, 2009

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1963/64	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Borough United	0: 2	0: 0 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1964/65	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Dinamo Bucharest	0: 7	0: 2 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1965/66	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Panathinaikos Athens	2: 4	1: 4 (A)	1: 0 (H)
1966/67	European Champions Cup	qualification	CSKA Sofia	1: 6	1: 2 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1968/69	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	US Rumelange	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
		2nd round	Randers Freja	0: 8	0: 6 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1969/70	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	IFK Norrköping	2: 5	1: 5 (A)	1: 0 (H)
1970/71	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Akademisk BK Gladsaxe	02:10	0: 7 (A)	2: 3 (H)
1971/72	European Champions Cup	1 round	ÍA Akranes	4-0	4: 0 (A)	0: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Celtic Glasgow	1: 7	0: 5 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1972/73	European Champions Cup	1 round	Górnik Zabrze	00:10	0: 5 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1973/74	Uefa cup	1 round	Locomotive Plovdiv	0: 3	0: 2 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1974/75	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Lahden Reipas	3: 4	2: 0 (H)	1: 4 (A)
1975/76	Uefa cup	1 round	Sporting Lisbon	2: 5	1: 2 (H)	1: 3 (A)
1976/77	European Champions Cup	1 round	Turun Palloseura	(a)2: 2 ( a )	2: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1977/78	Uefa cup	1 round	Eintracht Frankfurt	0: 5	0: 5 (A)	0: 0 (H)
1979/80	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Boavista Porto	2: 9	2: 1 (H)	0: 8 (A)
1980/81	Uefa cup	1 round	FC Barcelona	0: 3	0: 2 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1981/82	Uefa cup	1 round	Aris Saloniki	2: 8	0: 4 (A)	2: 4 (H)
1982/83	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Swansea City	00:17	00:12 (A)	0: 5 (H)
1987/88	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Vllaznia Shkodra	0: 6	0: 2 (A)	0: 4 (H)
1988/89	Uefa cup	1 round	Victoria Bucharest	1: 8	0: 2 (H)	1: 6 (A)
1989/90	European Champions Cup	1 round	Nëntori Tirana	1: 5	1: 0 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1990/91	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Dukla Prague	1: 4	1: 2 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1993/94	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	Degerfors IF	1: 6	1: 3 (H)	0: 3 (A)
1995/96	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	Omonia Nicosia	1: 5	0: 3 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1996/97	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	Margveti Sestaponi	4: 3	1: 3 (H)	3: 0 (A)
		qualification	Odense BK	1: 9	0: 2 (H)	1: 7 (A)
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Diósgyőr FC	2: 5	0: 2 (A)	2: 3 (H)
1999/2000	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	FC Zurich	0: 4	0: 3 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2000/01	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	Partizan Belgrade	3: 5	2: 1 (H)	1: 4 (A)
2001/02	Uefa cup	qualification	Matador Púchov	2: 4	0: 3 (A)	2: 1 (H)
2002/03	Uefa cup	qualification	Polonia Warsaw	1: 5	1: 3 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2003/04	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Riga discount	( a ) 3: 3(a)	2: 0 (H)	1: 3 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	FC Copenhagen	01:10	1: 4 (A)	0: 6 (H)
2004/05	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	FBK Kaunas	1: 6	0: 2 (H)	1: 4 (A)
2005/06	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Sheriff Tiraspol	1: 6	1: 4 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2006/07	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Rapid Bucharest	0: 6	0: 5 (A)	0: 1 (H)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Litex Lovech	0: 7	0: 3 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Maccabi Netanya	0: 3	0: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	HNK Šibenik	0: 3	0: 0 (A)	0: 3 (H)
2013/14	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Xəzər Lənkəran	1: 2	1: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2014/15	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Ferencváros Budapest	2: 3	1: 1 (H)	1: 2 (A)

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: 86 games, 12 wins, 7 draws, 67 defeats, 52: 235 goals (goal difference −183)

Stations in the European Cup

In their total of 39 appearances in the European Cup, the Sliema Wanderers were able to prevail four times against another team and in the 1968/69 season were the first Maltese club team to qualify for the second round in a European competition by sporting means. At that time, the Wanderers eliminated the Luxembourg Cup winner US Rumelange due to the away goals rule (1-0 and 1: 2) and three years later (1971/72) they impressively beat Icelandic champions ÍA Akranes (4-0 and 0-0) by. In the 1996/97 season, the Wanderers prevailed against the Georgian representative Margveti Sestaponi, which was no longer to be expected after the 1: 3 home defeat. But the second leg was won 3-0. For the last time Sliema Wanderers FC knocked out an opponent in the 2003/04 season with the Latvian champions Skonto Riga, benefiting from the away goals rule (2: 0 and 1: 3).

Other positive outstanding results were home wins like the 1-0 win against Panathinaikos Athens (1965) and two 2-1 successes against Boavista Porto (1979) and Partizan Belgrade (2000), but also the narrow 0-1 defeat at FC Barcelona ( 1980). The Wanderers were eliminated several times due to narrow results, such as 1974 against Lahden Reipas (2: 0 and 1: 4), 1976 against TPS Turku (2: 1 and 0: 1 due to the away goals rule), in 2013 against Xəzər Lənkəran (1: 1 and 0: 1) and in 2014 against Ferencváros Budapest (1: 1 and 1: 2).

Apart from that, however, substantial overall defeats (from the first and second leg) were not uncommon, for example against Randers Freja in 1968 (0: 8), 1970 against AB Copenhagen (2:10), 1972 against Górnik Zabrze (0:10), 1996 against Odense BK (1: 9) and 2003 against FC Copenhagen (1:10), just to name the overall results with at least eight goals difference. But the bitterest of all defeats was the 0:17 (0:12 in the first leg and 0: 5 in the second leg) against Swansea City in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1982/83.

The biggest win was the 4-0 against ÍA Akranes in the 1971/72 season and the biggest defeat the 0:12 at Swansea City in the 1982/83 season; the highest defeat ever that a Maltese club team had to accept in a European competition.

player

• Ruggieru Friggieri (1922-1925)
• Tony Nicholl (1932-1956)
• Joe Cini (1960–1973)
• Carmel Busuttil (1994-2002)
• Luke Dimech (1995-2001)
• Michael Mifsud (1997-2001, 2004)

Club presidents

Final training of the Sliema Wanderers immediately before a league game of the 2014/15 season .

• 1908-1922: F. Schembri Zarb
• 1922-1925: AW Azzopardi
• 1925-1927: C. Cassar Torreggiani
• 1927-1950: AW Azzopardi
• 1950-1951: J. Calascione
• 1951-1953: EJ Scicluna
• 1953-1955: J. Bonnici Soler
• 1955-1959: E. Meli
• 1959-1961: A. Stagno Navarra
• 1961-1962: E. Meli
• 1962–1987: G. Bonello du Puis
• 1987-1993: H. Messina Ferrante
• 1993-1995: J. Sullivan
• 1995-2008: Robert Arrigo
• 2008-2011: Steve Abela
• since 2011: Keith Perry

Web links

Commons : Sliema Wanderers FC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the club on weltfussball.de