Maltese Second Division 2006–07

Maltese Second Division

Season	2006–07
Champions	Dingli Swallows
Promoted	Dingli Swallows Mellieha
Relegated	Zebbug Rangers Gudja United Gozo FC
Goals scored	358
Average goals/game	2.71
Top goalscorer	Malcolm Tirchett (16)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The Maltese Second Division 2006-07 (known as BOV Second Division 2006-07 due to sponsorship reasons) started on 23 September 2006 and ended on 6 May 2007.Lija Athletic and St.Andrews were the relegated teams.The promoted teams were Birzebbuga St.Peters, Santa Venera Lightning and Rabat Ajax. Dingli Swallows finished the league as champions.Therefore they were promoted to Maltese First Division 2007-08.They were joined with Mellieha who finished as runner-up.Gudja United and Gozo FC were relegated to Maltese Third Division 2007-08. Zebbug Rangers were also relegated as they lost the relegation-playoffs.

Participating Teams

The Maltese Second Division 2006-07 was made up of these teams:

• Balzan Youths
• Birzebbuga St.Peters
• Dingli Swallows
• Gozo FC
• Gudja United
• Lija Athletic
• Melita
• Mellieha
• Rabat Ajax
• St.Andrews
• Santa Venera Lightning
• Zebbug Rangers

Changes from previous season

• Qormi and Vittoriosa Stars were promoted to Maltese First Division 2006-07.They were replaced with Lija Athletic and St.Andrews,both relegated from Maltese First Division 2005-06.
• Gzira United, Attard and Gharghur were relegated to Maltese Third Division 2006-07.They were replaced with Birzebbuga St.Peters, Santa Venera Lightning and Rabat Ajax, all promoted from Maltese Third Division 2005-06.

2006-07 standings

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Dingli Swallows (C)	22	14	5	3	47	15	+32	47
2	Mellieha	22	12	6	4	38	25	+13	42
3	Rabat	22	11	6	5	36	24	+12	39
4	Birzebbuga St.Peters	22	10	5	7	31	25	+6	35
5	Balzan Youths	22	10	4	8	38	25	+13	34
6	Melita	22	10	4	8	38	28	+10	34
7	Lija Athletic	22	8	6	8	27	25	+2	30
8	Santa Venera Lightning	22	9	3	10	27	32	−5	30
9	St.Andrews	22	7	5	10	21	28	−7	26
10	Zebbug Rangers (R)	22	5	8	9	18	29	−11	23
11	Gudja United (R)	22	4	3	15	17	50	−33	15
12	Gozo FC (R)	22	2	5	15	20	52	−32	11

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

	Champions and promotion to Maltese First Division 2007-08
	Runners-up and promotion to Maltese First Division 2007-08
	Relegation playoffs
	Relegation to Maltese Third Division 2007-08

Relegation Playoffs

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zurrieq	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9
Fgura	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Zebbug	3	1	0	2	1	3	-2	3
Qrendi	3	0	0	3	0	5	-5	0

13 May 2007
Zebbug	1 – 0	Qrendi
Zurrieq	2 – 0	Fgura
17 May 2007
Qrendi	0 – 1	Zurrieq
Fgura	1 – 0	Zebbug
20 May 2007
Fgura	3 – 0	Qrendi
Zebbug	0 – 2	Zurrieq

• Zurrieq promoted to Maltese Second Division
• Zebbug relegated to Maltese Third Division
• Fgura and Qrendi remain in Maltese Third Division

Top Scorers

Goals	Player	Team
16	Malcolm Tirchett	Balzan
	Chris Ciappara	Dingli
14	Matthew Borg I	Melita
	Aldrin Muscat	Birzebbuga
13	Adam Smeir	Rabat

2006/2007 Results

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

	Balzan	Birzebbuga	Dingli	Gozo	Gudja	Lija	Melita	Mellieha	Rabat	St.Andrews	S.Venera	Zebbug
Balzan		1-2	0-4	6-0	3-0	2-0	1-2	3-1	1-3	0-0	3-0	1-1
Birzebbuga	0-2		2-3	4-3	2-0	0-1	0-2	1-0	2-2	1-2	3-0	1-0
Dingli	3-1	2-1		5-3	5-0	1-0	1-0	0-1	1-1	2-0	2-0	2-0
Gozo	0-4	1-2	1-1		0-4	1-1	0-4	1-2	0-0	0-1	1-2	0-2
Gudja	2-3	0-4	0-0	0-1		1-0	1-4	0-2	0-4	0-4	2-5	1-0
Lija	0-0	0-0	1-0	2-0	3-0		3-2	1-3	0-1	3-1	1-1	1-1
Melita	3-1	0-0	3-2	3-0	2-4	3-1		1-1	3-1	1-1	0-1	2-2
Mellieha	0-2	1-1	0-3	4-1	2-0	3-2	3-2		1-1	0-0	3-1	3-0
Rabat	2-1	1-2	1-1	2-1	4-1	2-3	1-0	1-1		0-1	2-1	2-0
St.Andrews	0-2	2-2	0-4	1-1	1-0	0-2	3-0	1-2	0-2		2-1	0-1
S.Venera	2-1	0-1	0-5	1-1	1-1	1-0	1-0	1-3	3-0	2-0		0-1
Zebbug	0-0	2-0	0-0	1-4	0-0	2-2	0-1	2-2	1-3	2-1	0-3