Maltese Youth League Section A 2008–09

The Maltese Youth League Section A 2008–09, the highest tier for U19's football, started on October 2, 2008 and is scheduled to end in May.The two lowest finishing teams will be relegated to Youth League Section B. In the previous season Mosta U19's and Hamrun U19's were relegated. Balzan U19's and Mgarr U19's were promoted from Section B. Mgarr United U19's have been promoted for 3 years straight. In the 2005–06 season they were playing in Section D.This is also the first time Mgarr U19's has participated in Section A. They started strongly beating eventual champions Hibernians U19's 2–1, a 0–0 draw with San Gwann U19's and a 3–2 win against Birkirkara U19's. Hibernians U19's finished the league as champions, with Valletta U19's finishing runners-up. Balzan U19's and Lija U19's were relegated to Section B. Lija U19's finished the season without a single point, losing each and every game.

Participating teams

These are the teams that are participating in 2008–09:

• Balzan U19's
• Birkirkara U19's
• Floriana U19's
• Hibernians U19's
• Lija U19's
• Mgarr U19's
• Pieta U19's
• San Gwann U19's
• Sliema U19's
• Valletta U19's

Changes from previous season

• Mosta U19's and Hamrun U19's were relegated to Section B.They were replaced with Balzan U19's and Mgarr U19's,champions of Section B and runner-up respectively.

League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Hibernians U19's (C)	18	12	4	2	47	10	+37	40
2	Valletta U19's	18	11	5	2	36	17	+19	38
3	Sliema U19's	18	10	4	4	44	18	+26	34
4	Pieta U19's	18	9	3	6	35	21	+14	30
5	Birkirkara U19's	18	7	6	5	25	21	+4	27
6	San Gwann U19's	18	6	6	6	27	23	+4	24
7	Mgarr U19's	18	7	2	9	22	28	−6	23
8	Floriana U19's	18	5	5	8	22	25	−3	20
9	Balzan U19's (R)	18	5	1	12	19	35	−16	16
10	Lija U19's (R)	18	0	0	18	4	83	−79	0

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

Relegation to Maltese Youth League Section B 2009-10

2008/2009 Results

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

	Balzan U19's	Birkirkara U19's	Floriana U19's	Hibernians U19's	Lija U19's	Mgarr U19's	Pieta U19's	San Gwann U19's	Sliema U19's	Valletta U19's
Balzan U19's		0–2	3–0	0–3	6–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–3	1–5
Birkirkara U19's	1–0		1–1	0–1	4–0	2–3	2–3	1–1	2–1	1–0
Floriana U19's	0–2	0–0		0–1	4–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	0–0	2–4
Hibernians U19's	6–1	4–0	2–0		6–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–0[1]	0–0
Lija U19's	0–1	0–4	0–6	0–5		1–3	1–5	0–5	0–9	0–3
Mgarr U19's	2–0	0–1	0–2	0–5	5–0		0–2	0–0	2–4	0–3
Pieta U19's	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–5	6–0	1–2		4–0	3–1	0–1
San Gwann U19's	1–0	3–0	3–3	0–1	5–0	0–0	0–1		1–5	1–1
Sliema U19's	6–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–2		2–2
Valletta U19's	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	3–2	0–1

References

1. ^ Sliema U19's won this match 3–1,but Hibernians U19's were given a 2–0 win after protest.