Birkirkara F.C.

Birkirkara

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Full name	Birkirkara Football Club
Nickname(s)	Stripes
Founded	1950 (1950)
Chairman	Michael Valenzia
Head Coach	Giovanni Tedesco
League	Maltese Premier League
2021–22	Maltese Premier League, 5th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Birkirkara Football Club is a professional football club based in the town of Birkirkara, on the island of Malta. The club was formed in 1950, following the amalgamation of Birkirkara United and Birkirkara Celtic. Birkirkara currently play in the Maltese Premier League, which it has won on four occasions, most recently in the 2012–13 season.

Birkirkara is one of the founding members of the European Club Association.

Kits

Period	Kit supplier	Shirt Sponsor (Front)
2003–2004	Lotto
2004–2006		McDonald's (Malta), Cisk Export and Team sport (Malta)
2006–2009		McDonald's (Malta) and Team sport (Malta)
2009–2010	Diadora	McDonald's (Malta)
2010–2012	Macron
2012–2021	Adidas
2021–	Nike

Honours

Major

• Maltese Premier League
  • Winners (4): 1999–2000, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2012–13
  • Runners-up (8):1952–53, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2013–14
• Maltese FA Trophy
  • Winners (5): 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (5): 1972–73, 1989–90, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2017–18
• Maltese Super Cup
  • Winners (7): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2014
  • Runners-up (6): 1997, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2015
• Euro Challenge/Lowenbrau Cup
  • Winners (3): 1998, 2003, 2008
• MFA Super 5 Lottery Tournament
  • Winners (4): 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006

Minor

• Sons of Malta Cup (for the Second Division)
  • Winners (3): 1967–68, 1971–72, 1978–79
  • Runners-up (1): 1976–77
• Cassar Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 1952–53

Current squad

As of 13 September 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK ITA Giacomo Nava 2 DF URU Osvaldo Forestero 3 MF MLT Adam Camilleri 5 DF MLT Enrico Pepe 6 MF BRA Diego Dall'Oca 7 FW BRA Lecão 8 MF MLT Yannick Yankam 10 FW MLT Paul Mbong 11 DF MLT Kurt Zammit 12 GK MLT Amara Sylla 15 MF MLT Matteo Gambin 16 FW MLT Jed Valletta

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 GK MLT Sean Cini 20 FW ARG Federico Falcone 21 MF MLT Ryan Scicluna 22 DF MLT Cain Attard 23 FW MLT Jean Paul Farrugia (on loan from Sliema) 24 MF MLT Nathan Cross 25 MF MLT Neil Micallef 30 FW ARG Enzo Cabrera (on loan from Newell's Old Boys) 72 DF ITA Alessandro Coppola (on loan from Triestina) 77 FW BRA Denis Ribeiro 92 MF ITA Kevin Tulimieri

European record

All results (home and away) list Birkirkara's goal tally first.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1Q	Spartak Trnava	0–1	1–3	1–4
1998–99	UEFA Cup	1Q	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–4	1–2	1–6
1999–00	UEFA Cup	QR	Lyngby BK	0–0	0–7	0–7
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	1Q	KR Reykjavík	1–2	1–4	2–6
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	Locomotive Tbilisi	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		1R	Dynamo Moscow	0–0	0–1	0–1
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR	Metalurh Zaporizhya	0–0	0–3	0–3
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Ferencváros	0–5	0–1	0–6
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	FK Partizani	2–1	2–4	4–5
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	APOEL Nicosia	0–2	0–4	0–6
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	1Q	B36 Tórshavn	0–3	2–2	2–5
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Maribor	0–3	1–2	1–5
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Hajduk Split	0–3	0–4	0–7
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Slaven Belupo	0–0	0–1	0–1
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	1Q	FC Santa Coloma	4–3	3–01	7–3
		2Q	MŠK Žilina	1–0	0–3	1–3
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FK Vllaznia	0–1	1–1	1–2
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FK Metalurg	2–2	0–0	2–2 (a)
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Maribor	0–0	0–2	0–2
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Diósgyőr	1–2	1–4	2–6
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Ulisses	0–0	3–1	3–1
		2Q	West Ham	1–0	0–1	1–1 (3–5 p)
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Široki Brijeg	2–0	1–1	3–1
		2Q	Heart of Midlothian	0–0	2–1	2–1
		3Q	Krasnodar	0–3	1–3	1–6
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	KÍ Klaksvík	1–1	1–2	2–3
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	La Fiorita	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2Q	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–0	0–1	1–1 (4–5 p)

Note 1: match forfeited, result set to 3–0 by UEFA.

Coaches

• Frankie Tabone (1951–53)
• Paul Chetcuti (1961–62)
• Emanuel Borg (1964–65)
• Salvu Cuschieri (1965–68)
• Frans Bonnici (1968–69)
• Emmle Saliba (1969–70)
• Salvu Cuschieri (1970–73)
• Tony Buhagiar (1973–74)
• Carmel Galea (1974–76)
• Tony Euchar Grech (1976–78)
• Frankie Zammit (1978–79)
• Marcel Scicluna (1979–84)
• Joe Attard (1984–86)
• Freddie Cardona (1986–87)
• Joe Cilia (1986–88)
• Robert Gatt (1988–89)
• Lolly Aquilina (1989–92)
• Todor Raykov (1992–93)
• Freddie Cardona (1993–94)
• Borislav Giorev (1994–95)
• Lawrence Borg (1995–96)
• Alan Sunderland (1996–97)
• Alfred Cardona (1996–97)
• Alfred Cardona & Robert Gatt (1997–98)
• Vlada Pejović (1998–99)
• Atanas Marinov (1999–00)
• Alfred Cardona (2000 – 1 December 2001)
• Stephen Azzopardi (1 December 2001 – 1 March 2007)
• John Buttigieg (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2009)
• Paul Zammit (1 July 2009 – 30 May 2011)
• Patrick Curmi (22 May 2011 – 28 September 2011)
• Paul Zammit (3 October 2011 – 29 May 2015)
• Giovanni Tedesco (1 June 2015 – 10 December 2015)
• Dražen Besek (31 December 2015 – 30 November 2016)
• Nikola Jaros (6 December 2016 – 1 June 2017)
• Peter Pullicino (1 June 2017 – 6 September 2017)
• Paul Zammit (6 September 2017 – 26 March 2019)
• John Buttigieg (18 April 2019 – 7 September 2019)
• André Paus (10 September 2019 – 20 April 2022)
• Jonathan Holland (20 April 2022 – 18 May 2022)
• Giovanni Tedesco (18 May 2022 – Present)

Futsal

Current squad 2018/19

Number	Player	Pos.	Nat.
4	Jason Mifsud	Sweeper
5	Ryan Xuereb	Winger
6	Alan Galea	Winger
8	Gary Inguanez	Sweeper
10	Marwan Telisi	Winger
11	Ayoub Hamad Ali	Winger
22	Rennie Tanti	Winger
23	Matthew Gatt	Goalkeeper
24	William Barbosa	Sweeper
40	Eslam Khalifa	Pivot
88	Christian Lia	Goalkeeper
99	Glenn Bonello	Pivot

External links

• Official website