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Malta National Football Team

Head coach: Dusan Fitzel
Captain: Gilbert Agius
Top scorer: Carmel Busuttil
FIFA ranking: 117

The Malta national football team is the national football team of Malta and is controlled by the Malta Football Association. It has never advanced to the finals of any major international competition and as of 12 October 2006 has won only four competitive matches. The first two wins were victories of 2-0 and 2-1 at home to Greece and Iceland in European Championship qualifiers in 1975 and 1982 respectively, and the third came with a 1-0 victory away to Estonia in a 1993 World Cup qualifier.

On 11 October 2006, Malta managed a fourth competitive victory - a 2-1 triumph over Hungary in the European Championship qualifying with Andre Schembri scoring twice.

Other important results were the two draws, 1-1 and 2-2, against Hungary during the qualification for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

During 2005 the Malta national football team obtained some home positive results. Both were 1-1 draws against Croatia and Bulgaria. Another positive result was the 1-1 home draw in a friendly match against Northern Ireland . In 2006, in a friendly against Japan, played for the World Cup Finals preparation in Germany, managed to keep the score to 0-1 despite conceding an early goal.

On 7 February 2007, Malta managed another prestigious draw against one of the hosts of Euro 2008, Austria. The game was played to commemorate the 50th. anniversary of the first international match played by the Maltese national team. The final result was 1-1.

The team is sponsored by Diadora.

Malta Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
1	Mario Muscat	G	-	-	30
12	Justin Haber	G	-	-	26
2	Josef Mifsud	D	-	-	-
3	Ian Azzopardi	D	-	-	-
4	Brian Said	D	-	-	34
6	Luke Dimech	D	5-11	174	30
8	Roderick Briffa	D	-	-	-
15	Stephen Wellman	D	-	-	-
17	Kenneth Scicluna	D	-	-	-
2	Peter Pullicino	M	-	-	-
7	Gilbert Agius	M	-	-	-
14	Etienne Barbara	M	-	-	25
16	Roderick Bajada	M	-	-	-
17	Kevin Sammut	M	-	-	-
18	Jamie Pace	M	-	-	-
5	Daniel Bogdanovic	S	-	-	-
9	Michael Mifsud	S	5-5	137	26
10	Ivan Woods	S	-	-	-
11	George Mallia	S	-	-	28
13	Andre Schembri	S	-	-	-
17	Andrew Cohen	S	-	-	-

Group C
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Greece	7	6	0	1	12	5	7	18
Bosnia-Herzegovina	7	4	1	2	14	14	0	13
Turkey	6	4	1	1	16	6	10	13
Norway	7	4	1	2	17	6	11	13
Hungary	7	2	0	5	7	14	-7	6
Malta	7	1	1	5	5	15	-10	4
Moldova	7	0	2	5	4	15	-11	2