Sliema Wanderers F.C.

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Sliema Wanderers

Full name	Sliema Wanderers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Blues The Wanderers
Founded	1909
Ground	Ta' Qali Stadium, Ta' Qali, Malta (Capacity: 17,000)
Chairman	Steve Abela
Manager	Stephen Azzopardi
League	Maltese Premier League
2007/08	Maltese Premier League, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Sliema Wanderers Football Club are a Maltese football team from the town of Sliema, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League.

Contents 1 History 2 Players 2.1 Current Squad 3 Transfers for 2009/10 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 5 UEFA Intertoto Cup 6 UEFA Cup 7 UEFA Champions League 8 Notable Players 9 Achievements 10 External links 10.1 Official Website 10.2 Unofficial Websites 10.3 Media Websites

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1909. The club competed in the first ever Maltese Premier League season in 1909-10 and finished in second position to Floriana after the five game season came to an end.

Ten years down the line Sliema Wanderers finally made their mark in Maltese football by winning the Maltese Premier League title in the 1919-20 season, since then the team have gone on to win the title 26 times; a record for Malta; the last three being in 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Sliema Wanderers also hold the record for the most FA Trophy wins, with their first coming in 1935, when they overpowered Floriana with a 4-0 victory. The club have gone on to win this particular honour 19 times, the last three of which came in 1990, 2000 and 2004.

With all these honours, along with many others, the fact is that Sliema Wanderers are currently the most successful team in the history of Maltese football.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Henry Bonello 2 DF Alex Muscat 3 DF Ian Azzopardi 4 DF Kane Paul Farrugia 5 DF Josef Mifsud 7 MF Noel Turner (captain) 8 MF Mark Scerri 10 FW Miguel Ciantar 11 MF Matthew Bartolo 13 DF Jeffrey Chetcuti 14 FW Ivan Woods

No. Position Player 15 DF Lucian Dronca 19 DF Ian Ciantar 20 MF Julian Vella 22 MF Roderick Bajada 23 MF John Mintoff 77 DF Clayton Failla DF Clifton Ciantar MF Ryan Fenech (on loan from Ħamrun Spartans) DF Clifford Gatt Baldacchino FW Jean Pierre Mifsud Triganza

[edit] Transfers for 2009/10

In
#	Pos	Nat	Player	From
77	DF		Clayton Failla	Hibernians
	DF		Josef Mifsud	Valletta
	FW		Jean Pierre Mifsud Triganza	Birkirkara
Out
#	Pos	Nat	Player	To
33	DF		Sam Siro Furfaro	Released
21	MF		Victor Coto	Released
18	MF		Daniel Severino	Bankstown City Lions
Out On Loan
#	Pos	Nat	Player	To

For recent transfers, see List of Maltese football transfers summer 2009.

[edit] UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1963-64	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary Round		Borough United	0-0	0-2	0-2
1968-69	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		US Rumelange	1-0	1-2	2-2(a)
		2. Round		Randers Freja	0-2	0-6	0-8
1969-70	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		IFK Norrköping	1-0	1-5	2-5
1974-75	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		FC Lahti	2-0	1-4	3-4
1979-80	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		Boavista FC	2-1	0-8	2-9
1982-83	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		Swansea City FC	0-5	0-12	0-17
1987-88	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		KS Vllaznia Shkodër	0-4	0-2	0-6
1990-91	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		Dukla Prague	1-2	0-2	1-4
1993-94	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying Round		Degerfors IF	1-3	0-3	1-6

[edit] UEFA Intertoto Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1. Round		Diósgyőri VTK	2-3	0-2	2-5

[edit] UEFA Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1970-71	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1. Round		Akademisk BK	2-3	0-7	2-10
1973-74	UEFA Cup	1. Round		PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0-2	0-1	0-3
1975-76	UEFA Cup	1. Round		Sporting CP	1-2	1-3	2-5
1977-78	UEFA Cup	1. Round		Eintracht Frankfurt	0-0	0-5	0-5
1980-81	UEFA Cup	1. Round		FC Barcelona	0-2	0-1	0-3
1981-82	UEFA Cup	1. Round		Aris FC	2-4	0-4	2-8
1988-89	UEFA Cup	1. Round		Victoria Bucureşti	0-2	1-6	1-8
1995-96	UEFA Cup	Preliminary Round		AC Omonia	1-2	0-3	1-5
1996-97	UEFA Cup	Preliminary Round		FC Zestaponi	1-3	3-0	4-3
		Qualifying Round		Odense BK	0-2	1-7	1-9
1999-00	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		FC Zürich	0-3	0-1	0-4
2000-01	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		FK Partizan	2-1	1-4	3-5
2001-02	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		FK Matador Púchov	2-1	0-3	2-4
2002-03	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		Polonia Warszawa	1-3	0-2	1-5
2006-07	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		Rapid Bucureşti	0-1	0-5	0-6
2007-08	UEFA Cup	1. Qualifying Round		PFC Litex Lovech	0-3	0-4	0-7

[edit] UEFA Champions League

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1964-65	European Cup	Preliminary Round		Dinamo Bucureşti	0-2	0-5	0-7
1965-66	European Cup	Preliminary Round		Panathinaikos FC	1-0	1-4	2-4
1966-67	European Cup	Preliminary Round		PFC CSKA Sofia	1-2	0-4	1-6
1971-72	European Cup	1. Round		ÍA Akranes	0-0	4-0	4-0
		2. Round		Celtic Glasgow	1-3	0-3	1-6
1972-73	European Cup	1. Round		Górnik Zabrze	0-5	0-5	0-10
1976-77	European Cup	1. Round		TPS Turku	2-1	0-1	2-2(a)
1989-90	European Cup	1. Round		KF Tirana	1-0	0-5	1-5
2003-04	UEFA Champions League	1. Qualifying Round		Skonto Riga	2-0	1-3	3-3(a)
		2. Qualifying Round		FC Copenhagen	0-6	1-4	1-10
2004-05	UEFA Champions League	1. Qualifying Round		FBK Kaunas	0-2	1-4	1-6
2005-06	UEFA Champions League	1. Qualifying Round		FC Sheriff Tiraspol	1-4	0-2	1-6

[edit] Notable Players

See Sliema Wanderers F.C. Players

Andrei Agius Murphy Akanji Orosco Anonam Ian Azzopardi Roderick Bajada Etienne Barbara Ernest Barry Matthew Bartolo Cristiano Bergodi Daniel Bogdanovic Henry Bonello Roderick Briffa Joe Brincat Richard Buhagiar Carmel Busuttil John Buttigieg Ian Ciantar David Carabott David Camilleri Jeffrey Chetcuti Joe Cini Reginald Cini

Jason Cordina Darren Debono Mauro Di Lello Luke Dimech Danilo Doncic Duda Dean Edwards Augustin Eguavoen Joseph Farrugia Kane Paul Farrugia Ivan Gajer Lino Galea Stefan Giglio Martin Gregory Massimo Grima Lee Lombardi Aleksandar Madzar George Mallia Carlo Mamo Kevin Mamo Claude Mattocks Adrian Mifsud Derek Collins

Josef Mifsud Michael Mifsud Nesko Milovanovic Valerio Mottola Alex Muscat Chucks Nwoko Chris Okoh Jamie Pace André Rocha da Silva Brian Said Kevin Sammut Joe Sant Fournier Carl Saunders Mark Scerri Salvinu Schembri Hubert Suda Zdeněk Svoboda Shawn Tellus Trevor Templeman Noel Turner Nenad Veselji Ivan Woods

Etienne Barbara Chucks Nwoko

[edit] Achievements

Maltese Premier League Champions: 26
1919/20, 1922/23, 1923/24, 1925/26, 1929/30, 1932/33, 1933/34, 1935/36, 1937/38, 1938/39, 1939/40, 1948/49, 1953/54, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1963/64, 1964/65, 1965/66, 1970/71, 1971/72, 1975/76, 1988/89, 1995/96, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05

Maltese Premier League Runners-Up:
1909/10, 1916/17, 1921/22, 1924/25, 1926/27, 1928/29, 1930/31, 1931/32, 1934/35, 1944/45, 1945/46, 1954/55, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1972/73, 1974/75, 1976/77, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82, 1987/88, 1989/90, 1994/95, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2005/06

Maltese Cup Champions: 20
1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1990, 2000, 2004, 2009

Maltese Cup Runners-Up:
1938, 1939, 1945, 1949, 1953, 1958, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2003

Maltese First Division Champions:
1983/84

MFA Super Cup: 2
1996, 2000

Löwenbräu Cup Champions
1999, 2001, 2002

Super 5 Cup Champions
1990/91, 2001/02, 2003/04

Cassar Cup Champions
1923/24, 1924/25, 1933/34, 1934/35, 1937/38, 1938/39, 1945/46, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1959/60, 1966/67

Scicluna Cup Champions
1949/50, 1950/51, 1953/54, 1954/55, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1965/66

Cousis Shield Champions
1917/18, 1919/20, 1923/24, 1925/26

Christmas Cup Champions
1966/67, 1967/68, 1970/71

Independence Cup Champions
1964/65, 1969/70, 1971/72, 1973/74, 1981/82

Testaferrata Cup Champions
1964/65, 1974/75

MFA Cup Champions
1931/32

Sons of Malta Cup Champions
1972/73, 1979/80

Euro Cup Champions
1982, 1987, 1990, 2004, 2005

Christmas Tourney Cup Champions
1936/37, 1948/49

Schembri Shield Champions
1955/56, 1957/58

Empire Sports Ground Cup Champions
1923/24

MFA League Cup Champions
1965/66, 1969/70, 1978/79, 1984/85

MPFA Shield Champions
1954/55

[edit] External links

[edit] Official Website

• Official website
• Supporters Club Official website

[edit] Unofficial Websites

• Nursery Webpage
• Fanzine Webpage Maltese Football
• Supporters Forum

[edit] Media Websites

• MaltaFootball Club Profile
• SoccerWay Club Profile

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