2022–23 Gibraltar National League

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Gibraltar Football League 2022–23
Season information
Dates	30 September 2022–TBC
Winners	Lincoln Red Imps 3rd GFL title 27th overall
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Lincoln Red Imps
Europa League
Conference League	Europa Bruno's Magpies
Season statistics
Matches played	105
Goals scored	360
Top goalscorer	Juanfri (21 goals)
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The 2022–23 Gibraltar Football League season is the fourth season of the Gibraltar Football League in Gibraltar (first under its current name), and the 124th season of football on the territory overall. The league is due to kick off in Autumn 2022. Lincoln Red Imps are the reigning champions, winning their second title in April 2022. Due to the league's fall down the UEFA coefficient rankings, this season only 2 teams will qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Format

The structure of the league is expected to follow that of the previous three seasons. Teams will play 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 will receive the GFA Challenge Trophy and receive a bye to the second round of the next season's Rock Cup.

Teams

The Gibraltar FA announced the clubs who had obtained licences to compete in the 2022–23 season on 17 May 2022. Six clubs were granted UEFA club licences: Bruno's Magpies, Glacis United, Lincoln Red Imps, Lions Gibraltar, Europa and St Joseph's. 5 clubs were granted Gibraltar FA Domestic 'Gold' Licenses: College 1975, Europa Point, Lynx, Manchester 62 and Mons Calpe, who lost their UEFA license. As such, the league is unchanged from the previous season.

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	2021–22
Bruno's Magpies	Rooney, NathanNathan Rooney	Casciaro, KyleKyle Casciaro	Macron	Chestertons	4th
College 1975	Blanco, Luis ManuelLuis Manuel Blanco	Gracia, AdamAdam Gracia	Joma		8th
Europa	Berlanga, Miguel ÁngelMiguel Ángel Berlanga	Olivero, JayceJayce Olivero	Kappa	Situs Construction	2nd
Europa Point	Lowe, GarryGarry Lowe	Tudela, DanielDaniel Tudela	Xtreme Sports China	BLOKK	10th
Glacis United	Di Piedi, MicheleMichele Di Piedi	Fernández, NachoNacho Fernández	Macron	LOBO	5th
Lincoln Red Imps	Muñoz, JaviJavi Muñoz	Chipolina, RoyRoy Chipolina	Givova	damex.io	1st
Lions Gibraltar	Parral, AdrianAdrian Parral	Cintas, AntonioAntonio Cintas	Macron		11th
Lynx	Parody, AlbertAlbert Parody	Victory, JesseJesse Victory	Givova	Grupo Casais	9th
Manchester 62	McDonough, JamieJamie McDonough	Garcia, KieronKieron Garcia	Macron	GADS	7th
Mons Calpe	Guti, DavidDavid Guti	Ojeda, EmanuelEmanuel Ojeda	Givova	FanPlay 365	6th
St Joseph's	Paz, AbrahamAbraham Paz	Mouelhi, AymenAymen Mouelhi	Legea		3rd

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Mons Calpe	Fuentes, Leo ! Leo Fuentes	Mutual consent	1 May 2022	Pre-season	Bula, Allen ! Allen Bula	17 May 2022
St Joseph's	Molina, Jaime ! Jaime Molina				Paz, Abraham ! Abraham Paz	8 June 2022
Lions Gibraltar	Luna, Paco ! Paco Luna				Parral, Adrian ! Adrian Parral	17 June 2022
Europa Point	Taylor, Tommy ! Tommy Taylor				Lowe, Garry ! Garry Lowe	1 July 2022
Lincoln Red Imps	McElwee, Mick ! Mick McElwee	Resigned	9 May 2022		Castillo, Raúl ! Raúl Castillo	18 May 2022
Europa	Arteaga ! Arteaga	Sacked	2 September 2022		Cummings, Steven ! Steven Cummings	2 September 2022
Mons Calpe	Bula, Allen ! Allen Bula		9 October 2022	8th	Guti, David ! David Guti	12 October 2022
Manchester 62	Wilson, David ! David Wilson		11 October 2022	11th	McDonough, Jamie ! Jamie McDonough	11 October 2022
Lincoln Red Imps	Castillo, Raúl ! Raúl Castillo	Resigned	31 December 2022	2nd	Muñoz, Javi ! Javi Muñoz	31 December 2022
College 1975	Espinosa, Ángel ! Ángel Espinosa	Sacked	9 January 2023	11th	Blanco, Luis Manuel ! Luis Manuel Blanco	16 January 2023
Europa	Cummings, Steven ! Steven Cummings	Mutual consent	1 March 2023	3rd	Berlanga, Miguel Ángel ! Miguel Ángel Berlanga	2 March 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Europa	10	8	1	1	34	4	+30	25	Qualification for the Championship Group
2	Lincoln Red Imps	10	8	1	1	36	8	+28	25
3	Bruno's Magpies	10	8	1	1	24	5	+19	25
4	St Joseph's	10	6	1	3	26	10	+16	19
5	Lynx	10	6	1	3	19	9	+10	19
6	Glacis United	10	4	0	6	14	20	−6	12
7	Lions Gibraltar	10	3	2	5	11	20	−9	11	Qualification for the Challenge Group
8	Mons Calpe	10	3	1	6	6	17	−11	10
9	Manchester 62	10	2	1	7	12	23	−11	7
10	Europa Point	10	1	1	8	7	45	−38	4
11	College 1975	10	1	0	9	4	32	−28	3

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

Results

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

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

• The match between St Joseph's and Mons Calpe on 16 December 2022 originally finished 2–2, but was later awarded as a 3-0 win to St Joseph's.

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	17	1	2	68	14	+54	52	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Europa	20	14	2	4	48	15	+33	44	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
3	Bruno's Magpies	20	11	4	5	39	18	+21	37
4	Lynx	20	10	3	7	33	29	+4	33
5	St Joseph's	20	10	2	8	36	25	+11	32
6	Glacis United	20	4	1	15	19	49	−30	13

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

Championship Group results

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

Source: Flashscore
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	Mons Calpe	18	9	1	8	26	26	0	28	GFA Challenge Trophy and bye in 2023–24 Rock Cup
2	Manchester 62	18	9	1	8	34	30	+4	28
3	Lions Gibraltar	18	5	4	9	25	37	−12	19
4	College 1975	18	2	3	13	19	51	−32	9
5	Europa Point	18	1	4	13	12	65	−53	7

Source: Flashscore
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	MAN	MON
College 1975		2–2	4–1	2–4	2–3
Europa Point	1–1		0–5	0–4	1–4
Lions Gibraltar	2–2	0–0		0–4	2–5
Manchester 62	4–1	2–0	2–1		0–2
Mons Calpe	2–1	2–1	0–3	1–2

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

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	21
2	Kike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	17
3	Aldair Ruiz	Lynx	12
	Aodhán O'Hara	Manchester 62
5	Pibe	Bruno's Magpies	11
6	Ibrahima Ndiaye	Europa	8
	Labra	Lions Gibraltar
	Boro	St Joseph's
9	Anthony Hernandez	Europa	7
	Sergio Rivera	Europa
	Xhelal Terziqi	Glacis United
	Liam Walker	Lincoln Red Imps

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Caull, KeganKegan Caull	Europa Point	College 1975	4–0 (A)	02022-10-02-2 October 2022
Gómez, KikeKike Gómez 5	Lincoln Red Imps	Europa Point	10–0 (H)	02022-10-16-16 October 2022
Juanfri, Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	Europa Point	10–0 (H)	02022-10-16-16 October 2022
Rivera, SergioSergio Rivera	Europa	Europa Point	9–0 (A)	02022-10-23-23 October 2022
Pibe, Pibe 4	Bruno's Magpies	Europa Point	7–0 (H)	02022-10-29-29 October 2022
Gómez, KikeKike Gómez	Lincoln Red Imps	Glacis United	4–1 (H)	02022-10-30-30 October 2022
Juanfri, Juanfri	Lincoln Red Imps	College 1975	5–0 (H)	02022-11-26-26 November 2022
Ndiaye, IbrahimaIbrahima Ndiaye	Europa	College 1975	5–0 (H)	02022-12-03-3 December 2022
Terziqi, XhelalXhelal Terziqi	Glacis United	Europa Point	4–0 (A)	02022-12-14-14 December 2022
Storer, JackJack Storer	Bruno's Magpies	Glacis United	3–0 (H)	02023-02-12-12 February 2023

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Jaylan Hankins	Bruno's Magpies	7
	Dayle Coleing	Lincoln Red Imps
3	Bradley Banda	Europa	6
4	Borja Valadés	Lions Gibraltar	5
	Bradley Avellano	Lynx
6	Jordan Perez	Lynx	4
	Alan Martin	St Joseph's
8	Christian Lopez	Europa	3
	Fernando Canto	Manchester 62
10	Daniel Tudela	Europa Point	2
	Quinn Johnson	Glacis United
	Nauzet Santana	Lincoln Red Imps
	Christian Fraiz	Mons Calpe

See also

• 2022–23 Gibraltar Intermediate League
• 2022–23 Gibraltar Women's Football League

External links

• GFL Website
• Gibraltar Football Association

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Football in Gibraltar

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