Valletta F.C.
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| Full name | Valletta Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Lily Whites |
| Founded | 1943 as Valletta F.C |
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Hibernians Stadium, Ta' Qali, Malta |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman | Victor Sciriha |
| Coach | Paul Zammit |
| League | Maltese Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Maltese Premier League, 1st |
| Website | Club home page |
Valletta Football Club is a Maltese football club based in Valletta, the capital city of Malta.
Valletta Football Club was founded in 1943, as a merger of Valletta Prestons, Valletta St. Paul's and the extinct Valletta United which had won two league championships before World War II. Valletta also have a futsal team which participates in Malta's top futsal league.
There is no clear evidence on when Valletta F.C. started, hence the fact that Valletta possessed two clubs at that era. The foundation of Valletta F.C. was laid with the creation of the Valletta United team. Valletta United was known as the 'team of the square' since the club was located in St. George's Square. Valletta United represented the city from 1904 to 1932.
The city of Valletta in Malta has a long footballing history, between 1886 and 1919 at some point or another, around fourteen teams had competed representing the city. Amongst these early teams included the popular Boys Empire League, Valletta College, St. George's Square, Dockyard Albion and Malta Athletic Club.
A very important early step in the history of the current club, was the founding of Valletta United Football Club in 1903 by local youngsters. Despite their enthusiasm for the game which had been brought to the island by the British, the youngsters had a rough start with limited supplies. They cut their white trousers into long shorts and dyed their shirts into that of the club colours (brown, with yellow sleeves) for their uniforms.
The Ditch at Porte des Bombes, which itself had been the scene of the first ever recorded Maltese football match in 1886, was chosen to host Valletta United's first match on 9 January 1904. United faced off against a team from the Collegiate School and won 1–0 with a strike from a forward named L. Agius. The full Valletta United team that day included;
The club soon found a more permanent home at St. George's Square, just opposite the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta; they gained the nickname "the team of the square" because of this. Valletta first gained silverware during the 1914–15 season, when they won both the Cousis Shield and the Maltese League championship, it was only the fifth season the league had been competed in Malta.
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