St Joseph's F.C.
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| Full name | St Joseph's Football Club Gibraltar | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Saints | ||
| Founded | 20 January 1912 | ||
| Ground | Victoria Stadium, Winston Churchill Avenue, Gibraltar | ||
| Capacity | 2,000 | ||
| Owner | Mike Garlick | ||
| Head coach | Abraham Paz | ||
| League | Gibraltar Football League | ||
| 2023–24 | GFL, 2nd | ||
| Website | http://www.stjosephsfcgib.co.uk | ||
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St Joseph's Football Club is a professional football club based in Gibraltar. Founded in 1912, it currently plays in the Gibraltar Football League. The club also has two futsal teams and more than 10 youth teams.
History
[edit]Formed in 1912, St Joseph's are Gibraltar's oldest still existing football club, with the next oldest, Manchester 62, formed 50 years later. They have consistently competed in the Gibraltar Premier Division in that time. However, they have only won the title once: in the 1995–96 season. They have seen considerably better fortunes in the Rock Cup, however, with 10 titles in their history, including a league and cup double in 1996. Their last Rock Cup triumph came in 2013. In 2013, they established links as a feeder club to Real Balompédica Linense.
Since Gibraltar became a member of UEFA, the Saints initially endured more mixed fortunes, including narrowly avoiding relegation in the 2013–14 season, ending up in the relegation play-off and narrowly beating Mons Calpe to retain their Premier Division status. Since that near miss, they have consistently finished in the top half of the league, and in 2017 qualified for the UEFA Europa League for the first time with a 3rd-place finish, after Gibraltar had been given an additional spot in the competition. However, their maiden campaign would be short-lived as they suffered a resounding 10-0 aggregate defeat to AEL Limassol of Cyprus. In August, the club were hit when two players, club captain Esteban Montes and Alberto Montaño, were imposed with five and three year bans from football in Gibraltar, respectively, for breaching rules on betting. Both players were immediately released from the club.[1]
The club quickly established themselves at one of the "Big Three" of Gibraltarian football in the UEFA era before running into financial difficulties in early 2022. As a result of this, in June that year, former Burnley owner and chairman Mike Garlick purchased the club, with Weymouth owner Mark Palmer also joining the board.[2]
Achievements
[edit]- 1995–96
- Rock Cup Titles: 10
- 1956, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2012, 2013
- 2013, 2024
- 2007
Current squad
[edit]First team
[edit]- As of 10 July 2024[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club staff
[edit]| Position | Name |
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| Club Management | |
| Manager |  Abraham Paz
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| Assistant coach | Eloy Bolaños
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| Fitness coach | Juan Carlos Galindo
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| Goalkeeping coach | Félix Romero
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| Head physio | Jaime Rojas Boy
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| Head Analyst Coach |
Fernando Rosado
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| Kit manager |  Christian Hook
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| Board | |
| Chairman |  Mike Garlick
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| President | Stuart Rodriguez
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| Technical Director | John Paul Hendrick
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| Secretary | David O'Flaherty
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| Head of Youth |  Kane Forster Chisum Sanchez
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| Youth co-ordinator | Christopher Gonzalez
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European record
[edit]- Accurate as of match played 18 July 2024
| Competition | Played | Won | Drew | Lost | GF | GA | GD | Win% |
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| UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 25 | −19 | 11.11 |
| UEFA Conference League | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 14.29 |
| Total | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 42 | −33 | 12.50 |
Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2017–18 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  AEL Limassol
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0–4 | 0–6 | 0–10 |
| 2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | PR |  B36 Tórshavn
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1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2, 2–4 (p) |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | PR |  Prishtina
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2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| 1Q |  Rangers
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0–4 | 0–6 | 0–10 | ||
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | PR | B36 Tórshavn
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1–2 | — | — |
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1Q |  FCI Levadia
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1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 |
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1Q |  Larne
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0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| 2Q |  Slavia Prague
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0–4 | 0–7 | 0–11 | ||
| 2024–25 | UEFA Conference League | 1Q | Shelbourne
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1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 |
- Notes
- PR: Preliminary round
- 1Q: First qualifying round
References
[edit]- ^ Official St Joseph's Statement Re: GFA Betting Rule Breaches GibFootballTalk. 17 August 2017.
- ^ Former Burnley FC chairman takes over St Joseph Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar Chronicle. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ 2023/24 Squad Archived 2 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine St Joseph's FC. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
External links
[edit]| National teams | |
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| League system | |
| Domestic cups | |
| Defunct competitions | |
| Futsal | |