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Luqa St Andrews will be playing in next season’s Challenge League for the first time in 45 years after earning promotion as champions with a 2-1 win over Melita in the Championship playoffs last weekend at the Victor Tedesco Stadium.
Luqa were the last group winners from the three National Amateur League sections but made up for it in the round-robin playoffs against Mgarr United and eventually Melita in the final.
Following their victory, the club had said in a post on their social media that the success “was not a flash-in-the-pan occurrence, but an accumulation of years of work by various people”.
Mgarr United, Melita FC and Luqa St Andrews have all secured historic promotions to the second tier of Maltese football this month.
This season, the Malta FA launched a new format which saw the formerly known second and third divisions amalgamated into three groups within one division called the National Amateur League.
When contacted by The Sunday Times of Malta, Mġarr United captain Clayton Borg, who has been part of the squad since the club was at the bottom of Maltese football, referred to the club’s promotion as “a dream come true”.
“When I joined Mgarr, the club was in the third division and two years later, we made it into second. At that time, we would only see the first division (Challenge League) as a dream but because we have such a strong committee and squad, we’ve managed to write history,” Borg explained.