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Balzan

Full name	Balzan Football Club
Founded	1937; 81 years ago (1937), as Balzan Youths
Ground	St Aloysius' College (Malta)
Chairman	Anton Tagliaferro
Head Coach	Marko Micovic
League	Maltese Premier League
2017–18	Maltese Premier League, 2nd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Balzan Football Club is a Maltese football club from the village of Balzan, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League. The Club was founded in 1937, and has played top-level football once before in 2003–04.

Balzan FC First Team

Players

Current First Team

As of 5 September 2018^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Sean Mintoff 4 DF Justin Grioli 6 MF Dale Camilleri 7 FW Lydon Micallef 8 MF Nenad Šljivić 9 MF Lecão 10 FW Siraj Arab 11 DF Steve Bezzina 14 DF Harry Ascroft 15 DF Michael Johnson 17 FW Alfred Effiong 18 MF Uroš Ljubomirac

No. Position Player 19 FW Jamie Zerafa 20 DF Ivan Bozovic 23 DF Elkin Serrano 30 MF Cadú 42 MF Ricardo Correa 44 MF Yudai Miyamoto 50 FW Andrija Majdevac 66 DF Daniel Spiteri 83 GK Steve Sultana 88 MF Sean Cipriott 99 MF Miloš Lepović

Club officials and coaching staff

Club facilities

The Club's Administration Building ‘Solerville’ is located at Main Street, Balzan. A bar and garden restaurant on the ground floor are open to the public. The Club’s modern training facilities, located at Robert Mifsud Bonnici Street, Lija, include a clubhouse and a full size pitch with synthetic turf. The clubhouse includes a conference room, a bar and a gymnasium and was officially opened on 13 March 2011. From September 2015, Balzan F.C. teams also commenced training at St Aloysius' College Ground, after this ground underwent a major upgrade.

St Aloysius' College ground

"Solerville"

Training Centre

European record

Balzan F.C. players and supporters celebrate their Club's historic qualification to the UEFA Europa League following a 3 -1 victory over until then unbeaten 14/15 champions Hibernians F.C. on 26 April 2015.

Balzan F.C. players and officials celebrate their Club's historic qualification to the second round of the UEFA Europa League, after winning against Keşla FK 5-3 on aggregate at Dalga Arena, Baku Azerbaijan on 19 July 2018.

Matches

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Željezničar	0–2	0–1	0–3
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Neftçi PFC Baki	0–2	2–1	2–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Videoton	3−3	0−2	3−5
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Keşla FK	4−1	1−2	5−3
		2Q	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	2–1	1−3	3−4

Notes

• 
  1Q: First qualifying round


• 
  2Q: Second qualifying round

Managerial history

Manager	Period
Paul Barbara	1989–90
Jimmy Briffa	1990–93
Alberto Cristiano	1993–94
Ronnie Cocks	1994–95
France Scicluna	1995–97
Joe Attard	1997–98
Stephen Azzopardi	1998–02
Fatos Daja	2002–03
Jimmy Briffa	2003–05
Mario Monreal	2005–06
Charles Borg Sant	2006–07
Alfred Attard	2007–08
Ivan Zammit	2008–13
David Carabott	2009–10
Riccardo Tumiatti	2013
Jesmond Zerafa	2013–14
Oliver Spiteri	2014–17
Marko Mićović	2017

References

External links

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• Official website