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The Maltese football champions are the winners of the primary football competition in Malta, the Premier League. The league is contested on a round-robin system and the championship is awarded to the highest ranked team at the end of the season. Originally known as the First Division, it started with a disparate number of participating teams.
The league was first contested in 1909 as the First Division, before switching to its current name in 1980; [2] the First Division in turn replaced the Second Division. Sliema Wanderers and Floriana have won the title a record 26 times. The current champions are Ħamrun Spartans who won their 10th title in the 2023–24 season.
The first Maltese championship in the 1909-1910 season was won by Floriana. The league regularly changed in numbers as teams changed administrators, dropped out of the league, and new teams re-entered. Up until the season of 1939-1940 this first league remained the only league in Maltese football, and was called the Maltese division one.
[2] [3] This was to host the first football league campaign contested by Maltese teams and selections from the military service; the Royal Malta Artillery selection won the competition. This led to the set up of the first league season with all games to be played at the Lyceum Ground. [2]
The women's team of Mosta plays in the country's top division, the Maltese First Division. In 2010–11 it won its first championship and thus qualified to the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. [6] The team was runners-up in the 1998 and 1999 Maltese Women's Cup and recently won the 2012 cup. [7]
The 2014–15 Maltese First Division (referred to as the BOV First Division due to sponsorship reasons) began on 12 September 2014 and finished with a play-off match on 3 May 2015. Teams [ edit ]
The 1963–64 Maltese First Division was the 49th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 8 teams, and Sliema Wanderers F.C. won the championship. League standings
The 1919–20 Maltese First Division was the ninth season of the Maltese First Division and was won for the first time by Sliema Wanderers. League table