2009–10 Maltese First Division

Maltese First Division
Season	2009–10
Champions	Marsaxlokk
Promoted	Marsaxlokk; Vittoriosa Stars
Relegated	St. Patrick; San Gwann
Goals scored	276
Average goals/game	3.06
Top goalscorer	Simon Shead
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The Maltese First Division 2009–10 season will start in October 2009 and end in May 2010. Vittoriosa Stars (2008–09 Maltese First Division Runners up) and Marsaxlokk (2008–09 Maltese Premier League 4th place) were both found guilty of corruption and demoted into the First Division. Balzan Youths and Melita were promoted from 2008–09 Maltese Second Division.

Teams[]

These teams will contest the 2009–10 season:

Balzan Youths
Marsaxlokk
Melita
Mosta
Mqabba
Pieta Hotspurs
San Gwann
St. George's
St. Patrick
Vittoriosa Stars

Changes from previous season[]

Dingli Swallows and Vittoriosa Stars were promoted to the Premier League and were initially replaced with Hamrun Spartans and Msida St Joseph, both relegated from 2008–09 Maltese Premier League.

However, Vittoriosa Stars and Marsaxlokk (who finished 4th place on the Premier Division) were both found guilty of corruption and demoted from the Premier Division into the First Division. Msida SJ and Hamrun Spartans were therefore reinstated in the Maltese Premier League.

Rabat Ajax and Senglea Athletic were relegated to the 2009–10 Maltese Second Division. They were replaced with Balzan Youths and Melita.

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Marsaxlokk (C)	18	12	5	1	42	14	+28	41	Champions and promotion to 2010–11 Maltese Premier League
2	Vittoriosa Stars (P)	18	11	3	4	28	13	+15	36	Runners-up and promotion to 2010–11 Maltese Premier League
3	Balzan Youths	18	9	4	5	26	18	+8	31
4	St. George's	18	9	2	7	28	32	−4	29
5	Mosta	18	7	6	5	31	28	+3	27
6	Mqabba	18	5	6	7	30	30	0	21
7	Melita	18	5	4	9	21	31	−10	19
8	Pieta Hotspurs	18	4	5	9	15	25	−10	17
9	St. Patrick (R)	18	5	2	11	14	34	−20	17	Relegation to 2010–11 Maltese Second Division
10	San Gwann (R)	18	2	5	11	21	30	−9	11	Relegation to 2010–11 Maltese Second Division

Source:^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results[]

Home \ Away	BAL	MAR	MEL	MOS	MQA	PIE	SĠW	STG	STP	VIT
Balzan		0–2	2–1	2–2	3–2	3–1	3–2	3–0	2–0	0–2
Marsaxlokk	1–1		2–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	4–4	1–2	2–1	2–0
Melita	3–0	1–4		1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	0–2	2–4
Mosta	0–3	2–2	2–2		2–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–2
Mqabba	1–0	1–1	4–4	2–5		1–3	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–1
Pieta Hotspurs	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–3	0–4		0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1
San Gwann	0–0	0–3	2–3	0–1	2–2	0–3		1–2	0–1	0–1
St. George's	0–2	0–5	1–0	1–4	2–1	0–2	3–0		6–1	2–1
St. Patrick	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–6	3–3		0–1
Vittoriosa	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	5–0	4–0

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers[]

Goals	Player	Team
13		Balzan Youths
10	Malcolm Licari	Marsaxlokk
9	Leontin Chitescu	Vittoriosa
8		Mqabba
7		St.Georges

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