2019–20_Gibraltar_National_League

Gibraltar National League
	The Victoria Stadium where each match is played
Season	2019–20
Dates	12 August 2019 – 3 May 2020
Champions	No champion
Champions League	Europa
Europa League	St Joseph's; Lincoln Red Imps
Matches played	104
Goals scored	481 (4.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juanfri (24 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Jamie Robba; Dayle Coleing (7 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Lincoln Red Imps 9–1 College 1975; (19 September 2019)
Biggest away win	College 1975 0–12 Europa; (1 November 2019)
Highest scoring	College 1975 0–12 Europa; (1 November 2019); Boca Gibraltar 7–5 College 1975; (20 February 2020); Manchester 62 1–11 Mons Calpe; (12 March 2020)
	← 2018–19 Premier Division 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 12 March 2020.

2019–20 Gibraltar National League

Football league season

The 2019–20 Gibraltar National League season is the first season of the new Gibraltar National League in Gibraltar, and the 121st season of football on the territory overall. The league was announced in June 2018 when the Gibraltar Football Association decided to merge the Gibraltar Premier Division and Gibraltar Second Division at the conclusion of the 2018–19 season.^[2]

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On 1 August 2019, it was confirmed that the league would be contested by 16 teams.^[3] Eleven days later, the GFA revealed that two teams had withdrawn and the league would be contested by 14 teams.^[4] That number was reduced to 13 the following day when Leo also withdrew from the league.^[5]

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was suspended in March 2020. The Challenge Group was abandoned, while the Gibraltar FA looked to conclude the Championship Group in some form. On 1 May 2020, the Gibraltar Football Association announced that the domestic football season had been terminated.^[6] After the league had discussions of whether the title would be awarded,^[7] the Gibraltar FA announced on 7 May 2020 the season was declared null and void and the title would remain vacant.^[1]

Teams

Victoria Stadium

Location of the stadium where all teams play

16 teams were initially expected to participate in the inaugural National League, with Hound Dogs dropping down to the 2019–20 Gibraltar Intermediate League, having been granted special dispensation by the GFA.

On 9 August, Gibraltar Phoenix withdrew from the league.^[9] Two days before, Gibraltar United were threatened with expulsion if they failed to repay debts by 12 August.^[10]

On 12 August, the GFA confirmed the withdrawal of Gibraltar Phoenix and Gibraltar United.^[4] The day after, Leo withdrew from the league too, after a takeover by King's Lynn Town owner Stephen Cleeve was blocked by the GFA.^[11] On 22 August, it was reported that Olympique 13 were at risk of withdrawing from the league, having forfeited their game against Europa due to a shortage of players.^[12] They were expelled on 11 September.

Teams with a blue background played in the 2018–19 Gibraltar Premier Division. Teams with a red background played in the 2018–19 Gibraltar Second Division.

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

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Managerial changes

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Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Boca Gibraltar	Allen Bula	End of contract	20 May 2019	Pre-season	Christian Ressa	24 July 2019
Europa Point	José Ramón Rojas		25 May 2019		Allen Bula	20 June 2019^[13]
Glacis United	Jesús Napolitano		25 May 2019		Bennie Brinkman	1 July 2019
College 1975	Nolan Bosio	Resigned	25 May 2019		Jesús Cano	1 June 2019
Mons Calpe	Luis Manuel Blanco	Resigned	28 May 2019		William	11 June 2019^[14]
Leo	Paco Sánchez	Moved to Assistant Manager	15 June 2019		Dani Amaya	15 June 2019^[15]
Manchester 62	Jonathan Sodi	Resigned	19 June 2019		Jeff Wood	19 June 2019^[16]
Mons Calpe	William		10 July 2019		David Sanz	19 July 2019^[17]
Mons Calpe	David Sanz		30 July 2019		Lorenzo Morón	1 August 2019^[18]
Lynx	Carlos Gobantes	Signed by Mons Calpe U23	1 August 2019		Albert Parody	2 August 2019
Glacis United	Bennie Brinkman	Mutual consent	3 September 2019	11th	Michele Di Piedi	3 September 2019
Bruno's Magpies	David Wilson	Sacked	3 October 2019	5th	Alfonso Cortijo	18 October 2019
Mons Calpe	Lorenzo Morón	Sacked	11 October 2019	6th	Leonardo Vela	18 October 2019
Boca Gibraltar	Christian Ressa	Moved to Assistant Manager	18 October 2019	11th	Juan Maria Sánchez	18 October 2019
Manchester 62	Jeff Wood	Mutual consent	21 October 2019	8th	David Wilson	5 November 2019^[19]
Europa Point	Allen Bula	Resigned	8 November 2019	10th	Ian Hendon	26 November 2019
Boca Gibraltar	Juan Maria Sánchez	Resigned	8 November 2019	8th	Juan Carlos Camacho	12 November 2019
Lincoln Red Imps	Víctor Afonso	Mutual consent	19 December 2019^[20]	3rd	Germán Crespo	4 January 2020
Mons Calpe	Leonardo Vela	Mutual consent	1 January 2020	7th	Luis Manuel Blanco	1 January 2020
Bruno's Magpies	Alfonso Cortijo	Resigned	3 January 2020	5th	Juan Maria Sánchez	3 January 2020
Boca Gibraltar	Juan Carlos Camacho	Mutual consent	9 January 2020	9th	Craig Cowell	9 January 2020
College 1975	Jesús Cano	Sacked	1 February 2020	12th	Ángel Espinosa	1 February 2020

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[21] Teams play each other once (11 matches), before the league splits into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) for the last 10 matches.

[23] Includes 2 clean sheets for Europa Point.

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Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Club sponsor	2018–19
Boca Gibraltar	Craig Cowell	Julio Bado	ES	Coral Kids Come First	10th
Bruno's Magpies	Juan Maria Sánchez	Brian Perez	Joma	GVC Holdings Chestertons	1st
College 1975	Ángel Espinosa	Nazim Hughes	Joma		5th
Europa	Rafa Escobar	Liam Walker	Jako	La Parrilla Betfred	2nd
Europa Point	Ian Hendon	Antony Moulds	Admiral	Isolas	2nd
Glacis United	Michele Di Piedi	Michele Di Piedi	Nike		8th
Lincoln Red Imps	Germán Crespo	Roy Chipolina	adidas	Mansion.com	1st
Lions Gibraltar	Albert Ferri	Alberto Caravaca	Givova		9th
Lynx	Albert Parody	Mohamed Badr	Givova (home) Zaror (away)	Resolve Salvage & Fire	7th
Manchester 62	David Wilson	Robert Montovio	Joma	CEPSA GIB	4th
Mons Calpe	Luis Manuel Blanco	Kivan Castle	Joma		4th
St Joseph's	Raúl Procopio Baizán	Boro	Joma	M Price	3rd

Home \ Away	BOC	BRU	COL	EFC	EPO	GLA	LIN	LGI	LYN	MAN	MON	SJO
Boca Gibraltar		1–2			1–1		1–8		1–3		1–1
Bruno's Magpies				0–6			0–3	2–0			1–3	0–3
College 1975	0–4	1–3		0–12				1–6		0–3	1–9
Europa	6–1				1–0	6–2	4–1		2–0			2–2
Europa Point		2–3	6–1			0–3			0–5	1–3
Glacis United	0–2	0–9	4–0					1–3		2–3	0–5
Lincoln Red Imps			9–1		3–0	8–0			4–0	2–0
Lions Gibraltar	6–4			2–5	0–0		1–7		0–0			0–4
Lynx		2–0	4–0			3–2				5–0	5–1
Manchester 62	0–0	0–2		0–7				0–3			1–4
Mons Calpe				0–7	0–2		0–2	1–1				0–6
St Joseph's	2–0		7–0		5–0	8–1	2–1		1–1	3–0

2019–20_Gibraltar_National_League

2019–20 Gibraltar National League

Format

Teams

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean Sheets

Awards

Player of the week

Monthly awards

End-of-season awards

References

External links

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^{[lower-alpha 1]}
1	Europa	17	16	1	0	85	9	+76	49	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	St Joseph's	17	14	2	1	58	15	+43	44	Qualification to the Europa League preliminary round
3	Lincoln Red Imps	17	13	0	4	68	15	+53	39	Qualification to the Europa League preliminary round
4	Lynx	17	9	2	6	37	30	+7	29
5	Bruno's Magpies	17	7	0	10	29	41	−12	21
6	Lions Gibraltar	17	4	3	10	30	55	−25	15

7	Mons Calpe	18	10	3	5	49	29	+20	33
8	Europa Point	18	7	4	7	35	38	−3	25
9	Manchester 62	18	6	1	11	21	49	−28	19
10	Boca Gibraltar	17	4	4	9	30	45	−15	16
11	Glacis United	17	3	1	13	21	56	−35	10
12	College 1975	18	0	1	17	18	99	−81	1

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Juanfri	St Joseph's	24
2	Liam Walker	Europa	21
3	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	15
4	Manu Dimas	Europa	14
5	Germán Cortés	Boca Gibraltar	12
	Juampe	Europa
	Alberto Caravaca	Lions Gibraltar
	Boro	St Joseph's
9	Sergio Molina Rivero	Lincoln Red Imps	9
9	Gato	Lincoln Red Imps	9

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Jamie Robba	St Joseph's	7
1	Dayle Coleing	Europa	7
2	Christian Fraiz	Mons Calpe	6
4	Javi Muñoz	Europa	5
4	Kyle Goldwin	Lincoln Red Imps	5
6	Bradley Banda	Lynx	4
7	Francisco Pérez	Lions Gibraltar	3
	Matt Cafer	Bruno's Magpies
	Frank Warwick	Manchester 62
10	Jordan Perez	Boca Gibraltar	2
	Conor O'Keefe^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Bruno's Magpies
	Ivan Moreno	Glacis United
	Manuel Soler	Lincoln Red Imps

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Reference
August	Albert Parody	Lynx	Alberto Valdivia	Lynx	^[40]
September	Víctor Afonso	Lincoln Red Imps	Sergio Molina Rivero	Lincoln Red Imps	^[41]
October	Víctor Afonso	Lincoln Red Imps	Juanfri	St Joseph's	^[42]
November	Rafa Escobar	Europa	Liam Walker	Europa	^[43]
December	Albert Ferri	Lions Gibraltar	Alberto Caravaca	Lions Gibraltar	^[44]
January	Rafa Escobar	Europa	Julian Del Rio	Lincoln Red Imps	^[45]
February	Rafa Escobar	Europa	Dayle Coleing	Europa	^[46]

Award	Winner	Club	Nominees
Award	Winner	Club	Rank	Player	Club
Manager of the Season	Rafa Escobar	Europa	2	Raúl Procopio Baizán	St Joseph's
			3	Albert Ferri	Lions Gibraltar
			4	Albert Parody	Lynx
Goalkeeper of the Season	Dayle Coleing	Europa	2	Jamie Robba	St Joseph's
			3	Kyle Goldwin	Lincoln Red Imps
			4	Bradley Banda	Lynx
Defender of the Season	Olmo González	Europa	2	Sergio Sánchez	Europa
			3	Ezequiel Rojas	St Joseph's
			4	Bernardo Lopes	Lincoln Red Imps
Midfielder of the Season	Liam Walker	Europa	2	Christian Pecci	St Joseph's
			3	Alejandro Avilés	Europa
			4	Dan Bent	Bruno's Magpies
Striker of the Season	Juanfri	St Joseph's	2	Juampe	Europa
			3	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps
			4	Alberto Caravaca	Lions Gibraltar
Player of the Season	Liam Walker	Europa	2	Juanfri	St Joseph's
Player of the Season	Liam Walker	Europa	3	Juampe	Europa
Young Player of the Season	Jayce Olivero	Europa	2	Ethan Britto	Lincoln Red Imps
Young Player of the Season	Jayce Olivero	Europa	3	Jaron Vinet	Bruno's Magpies
Challenge Group Player of the Season	Andre dos Santos	Mons Calpe	N/A
Challenge Group Young Player of the Season	Ayoub El Hmidi	Mons Calpe	N/A
Fans' Player of the Season	Liam Walker	Europa	2	Dayle Coleing	Europa
Fans' Player of the Season	Liam Walker	Europa	3	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps
Fans' Young Player of the Season	Ayoub El Hmidi	Mons Calpe	2	Jayce Olivero	Europa
Fans' Young Player of the Season	Ayoub El Hmidi	Mons Calpe	3	Ethan Britto	Lincoln Red Imps