2008–09 Maltese First Division

Maltese First Division

Season	2008–09
Champions	Dingli Swallows
Promoted	Dingli Swallows Vittoriosa Stars
Relegated	Rabat Ajax Senglea Athletics
Goals scored	276
Average goals/game	3.06
Top goalscorer	Simon Shead and Anthony Eviparker (15)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The Maltese First Division 2008-09 season (known as BOV First Division 2008-09 for sponsorship reasons) started in October 2008 and ended in May 2009. Pieta Hotspurs and Mqabba were relegated from the Premier League. The promoted teams were San Gwann and Rabat Ajax. Dingli Swallows and Vittoriosa Stars finished the league as joint first with the same number of points. Both were promoted but a decider had to be played to decide who the champions would be. The decider was won by Dingli by the score of 2-1. At the other end Rabat Ajax and Senglea Athletics were relegated to the Second Division.

Participating teams

These teams will contest the Maltese First Division 2008-09 season:

• Dingli
• Mosta
• Mqabba
• Pieta
• Rabat
• San Gwann
• St. George's
• Senglea
• St. Patrick
• Vittoriosa

Changes from previous season

• Tarxien Rainbows and Qormi were promoted to the Premier League.They were replaced with Pieta Hotspurs and Mqabba,both relegated from Maltese Premier League 2007-08
• Mellieha and Marsa were relegated to the Maltese Second Division 2008-09.They were replaced with San Gwann and Rabat Ajax.

League Table 2008/09

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Dingli Swallows (C)	18	10	4	4	33	17	+16	34
2	Vittoriosa Stars	18	10	4	4	34	20	+14	34
3	Pieta Hotspurs	18	9	6	3	34	23	+11	33
4	St. George's	18	8	3	7	34	32	+2	24
5	St. Patrick	18	7	6	5	24	24	0	24
6	Mqabba	18	5	9	4	28	24	+4	24
7	Mosta	18	6	4	8	20	22	−2	22
8	San Gwann	18	6	4	8	31	38	−7	22
9	Rabat Ajax (R)	18	5	2	11	20	36	−16	17
10	Senglea Athletics (R)	18	2	2	14	18	40	−22	8

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
C = Champions; R = Relegated; RP = Relegation playoffs

	Championship play-offs. Both teams promoted to Maltese Premier League 2009-10
	Relegation to Maltese Second Division 2009-10

Championship Decider

Championship Decider

Team #1	Result	Team #2
Dingli Swallows	2-1	Vittoriosa Stars

• Dingli Swallows champions.Vittoriosa Stars runners-up.

2008/2009 Results

To read this table, the home team is listed in the left-hand column.

	Dingli	Mosta	Mqabba	Pieta	Rabat	S.Gwann	Senglea	St.Georges	St.Patrick	Vittoriosa
Dingli		1-0	1-0	1-1	4-1	2-2	3-1	3-1	0-1	2-0
Mosta	0-1		3-1	1-3	1-0	2-1	1-0	0-1	0-1	0-2
Mqabba	3-0	1-1		2-2	1-1	2-1	2-0	4-4	0-0	1-1
Pieta	1-3	2-2	2-1		3-0	3-3	4-2	1-2	2-2	0-3
Rabat	0-4	0-4	2-0	0-1		1-2	2-0	1-2	2-1	1-3
San Gwann	4-3	0-2	1-1	0-1	3-3		4-2	0-3	4-1	1-2
Senglea	0-5	2-2	1-3	1-1	0-2	0-1		2-1	3-0	0-1
St.Georges	2-1	1-0	2-2	1-4	1-2	7-2	2-0		3-3	0-4
St. Patrick	0-0	4-0	1-1	1-3	1-0	2-0	3-2	1-0		1-3
Vittoriosa	1-1	1-1	1-3	0-1	5-2	1-2	3-2	2-1	1-1

Top scorers

Goals	Player	Team
15	Simon Shead	Pieta Hotspurs
	Anthony Eviparker	Vittoriosa Stars
13	Uchenna Anyanwu	Dingli Swallows
11	Martin Deanov	Pieta Hotspurs
10	John Nwoba	St.Georges