2021–22 Gibraltar National League

Gibraltar National League
	The Victoria Stadium where the matches were played
Season	2021–22
Dates	16 October 2021 – 30 April 2022
Champions	Lincoln Red Imps; 2nd National League title; 26th overall
Champions League	Lincoln Red Imps
Europa Conference League	Europa; St Joseph's; Bruno's Magpies
Matches played	105
Goals scored	366 (3.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juanfri (14 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Alan Martin (8 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Bruno's Magpies 5–0 Europa Point; (17 October 2021)
Biggest away win	Europa Point 0–10 Mons Calpe; (8 January 2022)
Highest scoring	Europa Point 0–10 Mons Calpe; (8 January 2022)
	← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 5 May 2022.

The 2021–22 Gibraltar National League season was the third season of the Gibraltar National League in Gibraltar, and the 123rd season of football on the territory overall. The league kicked off on 16 October 2021. Lincoln Red Imps were the reigning champions, winning the title on the final day of the 2020–21 season.

Format

The structure of the league was expected to follow that of the previous two seasons.^[1] Teams played one round of games as a single league, before splitting into two groups: the Championship Group contested by the top 6 sides, and the Challenge Group between the bottom 5 sides. The winners of the Challenge Group received the GFA Challenge Trophy and a bye to the second round of the next season's Rock Cup.

Teams

Victoria Stadium

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Location of the stadium where all teams play

The following 11 teams competed in the 2021–22 season. Boca Gibraltar were expelled from the league in December 2020 and did not return.

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

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Club sponsor	2020–21
Bruno's Magpies	Nathan Rooney	Rubén Díaz	VIVE	Rosso Corsa	7th
College 1975	Ángel Espinosa	Dani Guerrero	Joma		10th
Europa	Arteaga	Juampe	Kappa		2nd
Europa Point	Tommy Taylor	Aiman Mkerreff	Xtreme Sports China		11th
Glacis United	Michele Di Piedi	Marcos Zappacosta	Macron		8th
Lincoln Red Imps	Mick McElwee	Roy Chipolina	Givova	Mansion.com	1st
Lions Gibraltar	Paco Luna	Shea Breakspear	Macron		6th
Lynx	Albert Parody	Brad Power	Givova	Grupo Casais	5th
Manchester 62	David Wilson	Scott Ballantine	Joma	CEPSA GIB	9th
Mons Calpe	Leo Fuentes	Andre Dos Santos	Givova	FanPlay 365	4th
St Joseph's	Jaime Molina	Aymen Mouelhi	Legea		3rd

Managerial Changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
St Joseph's	Raúl Procopio Baizán	Mutual consent^[2]	8 June 2021	Pre-season	Jaime Molina	30 June 2021^[3]
Bruno's Magpies	Johnny Parrado		1 September 2021		José Alba Heredia	5 September 2021
Glacis United	Javier Sánchez Alfaro		1 September 2021		Michele Di Piedi	1 September 2021
Europa Point	Craig Cowell	Resigned	11 October 2021		Paco Luna	11 October 2021
Europa Point	Paco Luna	Sacked	8 November 2021	11th	Sean Reyes	26 November 2021
Bruno's Magpies	José Alba Heredia		8 December 2021	6th	Nathan Rooney	13 January 2022^[4]
Lions Gibraltar	Albert Ferri		9 January 2022	11th	Adrian Parral (interim)	9 January 2022
Europa Point	Sean Reyes	Mutual consent	31 January 2022	10th	Tommy Taylor	18 February 2022
Mons Calpe	César Vega	Health concerns	4 March 2022	6th	Leo Fuentes	4 March 2022
Lions Gibraltar	Adrian Parral	End of interim spell	2 March 2022	11th	Paco Luna	2 March 2022
Europa	Rafa Escobar	Sacked	29 March 2022	2nd	Arteaga	29 March 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Lincoln Red Imps	10	10	0	0	40	5	+35	30	Qualification for the Championship Group
2	Europa	10	9	0	1	36	7	+29	27
3	St Joseph's	10	7	1	2	25	9	+16	22
4	Glacis United	10	6	1	3	26	14	+12	19
5	Mons Calpe	10	5	1	4	25	13	+12	16
6	Bruno's Magpies	10	4	2	4	18	15	+3	14
7	Manchester 62	10	4	1	5	11	21	−10	13	Qualification for the Challenge Group
8	Lynx	10	3	1	6	15	25	−10	10
9	College 1975	10	2	0	8	5	21	−16	6
10	Europa Point	10	1	0	9	8	49	−41	3
11	Lions Gibraltar	10	0	1	9	6	36	−30	1

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play
Notes:

^ Teams play each other once (10 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom five) for the last 10 respectively 8 matches.

Results

Home \ Away	BRU	COL	EFC	EPO	GLA	LIN	LGI	LYN	MAN	MON	SJO
Bruno's Magpies				5–0	2–3			0–1	4–0		0–0
College 1975	0–2			2–1	0–2			0–2			0–3
Europa	3–1	2–0			2–1			4–0			4–1
Europa Point			0–6			1–5	3–2		1–2	0–10
Glacis United				5–0		2–4		3–1	1–1	1–0
Lincoln Red Imps	5–0	4–0	3–1				1–0			3–0
Lions Gibraltar	2–3	0–3^[a]	0–9		0–7						1–2
Lynx				6–2		1–7	0–0		1–2	2–3
Manchester 62		2–0	0–2			0–7	3–0			0–2
Mons Calpe	1–1	3–0	1–3				5–1				0–2
St Joseph's				6–0	4–1	0–1		4–1	3–1

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Lions Gibraltar vs College 1975 initially finished 1–0, however the result was overturned and awarded 0–3 to College 1975 after Lions violated substitution rules.

Championship and Challenge groups

Championship Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lincoln Red Imps (C)	20	19	1	0	65	17	+48	58	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Europa	20	15	2	3	57	21	+36	47	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
3	St Joseph's	20	11	2	7	45	27	+18	35
4	Bruno's Magpies	20	10	3	7	36	25	+11	33
5	Glacis United	20	7	1	12	32	36	−4	22
6	Mons Calpe^[a]	20	6	2	12	34	36	−2	20

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Mons Calpe will be banned for 1 season from all UEFA club competitions for the 2022–23 season by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body on 11 March 2022 due to breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations.^[5]

Championship Group results

Home \ Away	BRU	EFC	GLA	LIN	MON	SJO
Bruno's Magpies		1–1	3–0	2–4	1–0	1–0
Europa	3–1		1–0	0–2	3–2	2–3
Glacis United	0–3	1–2		1–3	1–0	2–5
Lincoln Red Imps	1–0	3–3	1–0		4–2	3–2
Mons Calpe	0–3	0–4	2–0	1–2		1–4
St Joseph's	1–3	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–1

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Challenge Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Manchester 62	18	7	5	6	25	28	−3	26	GFA Challenge Trophy and bye in 2022–23 Rock Cup
2	College 1975	18	6	2	10	17	28	−11	20
3	Lynx	18	6	1	11	25	38	−13	19
4	Europa Point	18	4	2	12	17	65	−48	14
5	Lions Gibraltar	18	1	5	12	13	45	−32	8

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Fair Play

Challenge Group results

Home \ Away	COL	EPO	LGI	LYN	MAN
College 1975		5–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
Europa Point	2–1		1–1	0–3	0–4
Lions Gibraltar	1–1	0–1		4–2	0–0
Lynx	0–2	0–2	2–0		1–4
Manchester 62	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–2

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

As of 25 April 2022

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Juanfri	St Joseph's	14
2	Antonio Pino	Europa	12
3	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	11
4	Liam Walker	Lincoln Red Imps	10
5	Juampe	Europa	9
5	John-Paul Duarte	Mons Calpe	9
7	Adrián Gallardo	Europa	7
	Stefano Borghi	Glacis United
	Javi Moreno	Mons Calpe
	Boro	St Joseph's

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Javi Casares	Bruno's Magpies	Europa Point	5–0 (H)	17 October 2021
Antonio Pino	Europa	Lions Gibraltar	9–0 (A)	17 December 2021
Ayoub El Hmidi⁵	Mons Calpe	Europa Point	10–0 (A)	8 January 2022
Kike Gómez⁴	Lincoln Red Imps	Europa Point	5–1 (A)	22 January 2022
Jaiden Bartolo	Manchester 62	Lynx	4–1 (A)	5 March 2022

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Alan Martin	Bruno's Magpies	8
2	Christian Lopez	Europa	6
3	Jamie Robba	St Joseph's	4
3	Edu Oliva	College 1975	4
5	Marcos Zappacosta	Glacis United	3
	Christian Arco	Lincoln Red Imps
	Dayle Coleing	Lincoln Red Imps
	Borja Valadés	Lions Gibraltar
	Bradley Avellano	Lynx
	Adam Stevens	Manchester 62
	Christian Fraiz	Mons Calpe
	Jordan Perez	Glacis United

References

^ Restructuring of the Domestic Men's Senior League Archived 1 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar FA. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
^ Club Statement St Joseph's FC. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^ BREAKING: MOLINA APPOINTED AS MANAGER St Joseph's FC. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ Rooney joins Bruno Magpies as Head coach Gibraltar Chronicle. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^ "CFCB First Chamber issues orders". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

External links

Gibraltar Football Association

[5] Teams play each other once (10 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom five) for the last 10 respectively 8 matches.

[table_note_1_LGI_COL0.070637435219547-6] Lions Gibraltar vs College 1975 initially finished 1–0, however the result was overturned and awarded 0–3 to College 1975 after Lions violated substitution rules.

[table_note_MON0.63750500494498-8] Mons Calpe will be banned for 1 season from all UEFA club competitions for the 2022–23 season by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body on 11 March 2022 due to breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations.^[5]

[1] Restructuring of the Domestic Men's Senior League Archived 1 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar FA. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

[2] Club Statement St Joseph's FC. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.

[3] BREAKING: MOLINA APPOINTED AS MANAGER St Joseph's FC. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[4] Rooney joins Bruno Magpies as Head coach Gibraltar Chronicle. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[7] "CFCB First Chamber issues orders". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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