St Joseph's F.C.

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St Joseph's

Full name	St Joseph's Football Club Gibraltar
Nickname(s)	The Saints
Founded	20 January 1912; 112 years ago (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
Home colours Away colours

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.

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]

• Gibraltar Football League: 1

1995–96

• Rock Cup Titles: 10

1956, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2012, 2013

• Pepe Reyes Cup: 2

2013, 2024

• Gibraltar Women's Football League: 1

2007

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.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GIB Bradley Banda 2 DF  GIB Ethan Jolley 3 DF  GIB Jayce Olivero 4 DF  ESP Javi Paul 5 MF  ESP Marco Rosa 6 MF  ESP Manolín 7 FW  BRA Lucas Gaúcho 8 MF  ESP Bauti 9 FW  ESP Pablo Rodríguez 10 FW  ESP Álvaro Rey 11 MF  GIB Liam Walker 12 MF  ESP Christian Aznar

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ARG Marcos Zappacosta 14 DF  GIB Erin Barnett 15 DF  GIB Ethan Santos 16 FW  GIB Michael Yome 17 MF  GIB Mitch Gibson 18 FW  ANG Alberto Lubango 19 FW  ESP Juanfri 20 DF  URU Gabri Cardozo 21 DF  GIB Alain Pons 22 MF  ESP Juanma González (captain) 23 FW  ARG Facu Álvarez 30 GK  ARG Gonzalo Paz

Position	Name
Club Management
Manager	Abraham Paz
Assistant coach	Eloy Bolaños
Fitness coach	Juan Carlos Galindo
Goalkeeping coach	Félix Romero
Head physio	Jaime Rojas Boy
Head Analyst Coach	Fernando Rosado
Kit manager	Christian Hook
Board
Chairman	Mike Garlick
President	Stuart Rodriguez
Technical Director	John Paul Hendrick
Secretary	David O'Flaherty
Head of Youth	Kane Forster Chisum Sanchez
Youth co-ordinator	Christopher Gonzalez

Accurate as of match played 18 July 2024

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	AEL Limassol	0–4	0–6	0–10
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	B36 Tórshavn	1–1	1–1	2–2, 2–4 (p)
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	PR	Prishtina	2–0	1–1	3–1
		1Q	Rangers	0–4	0–6	0–10
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	PR	B36 Tórshavn	1–2	—	—
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	FCI Levadia	1–1	1–3	2–4
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	Larne	0–0	1–0	1–0
		2Q	Slavia Prague	0–4	0–7	0–11
2024–25	UEFA Conference League	1Q	Shelbourne	1–1	1–2	2–3

Notes

• PR: Preliminary round
• 1Q: First qualifying round

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