Valletta F.C.
The Valletta Football Club is a Maltese football club based in Valletta, the capital of Malta.
History
On January 9, 1904 Valletta United was founded. In the 1914/1915 season the club was champion for the first time. After 1928, only the runner-up had managed the club in 1932 celebrated his second title. In the same year was renamed in Valletta City, which should have seven years inventory was made. 1939, the club in Valletta St Paul's AFT has been renamed. As part of the gaming operations had come to a halt during the Second World War, the club merged with local rivals 1944 Valletta Prestons to Valletta FC.
The newly founded association was successful in his first season and took the Maltese Cup, which could be defended the following year. In the following years the Valletta FC was, together with the Sliema Wanderers, and Floriana FC Hibernians Paola to the dominant teams of the Maltese Championship. But even in the Maltese Cup, the club was successful: since 1960 he with a 3-0 final win against FC Floriana won the title for the first time, followed by ten more titles.
Since 2001, when the club won the double, had to wait on a title before, in May 2008, the championship was secured two games remaining, could not win against Birkirkara as Marsaxlokk.
Current equipment of the FC Valletta is Nike, the main sponsor is Mare Blu, a tuna farm.
Achievements
- Maltese Championship: 1915, 1932, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2011, 2012.
- Maltese Cup: 1960, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2010.
- Maltese Super Cup: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001.
- Reaching the second qualifying round of the Champions League qualifiers 2011/12 by a 3:0 and 2:1 against SP Tre Fiori of San Marino.