2006–07 Maltese Second Division

The Maltese Second Division 2006-07 (known as BOV Second Division 2006-07 due to sponsorship reasons) started on 23 September 2006 and ended on 6 May 2007. Lija Athletic and St.Andrews were the relegated teams. The promoted teams were Birzebbuga St.Peters, Santa Venera Lightning and Rabat Ajax. Dingli Swallows finished the league as champions. Therefore, they were promoted to 2007–08 Maltese First Division. They were joined with Mellieha who finished as runner-up. Gudja United and Gozo FC were relegated to 2007–08 Maltese Third Division. Zebbug Rangers were also relegated as they lost the relegation-playoffs.

Maltese Second Division

Season	2006–07
Champions	Dingli Swallows
Promoted	Dingli Swallows Mellieha
Relegated	Zebbug Rangers Gudja United Gozo FC
Goals scored	358
Average goals/game	2.71
Top goalscorer	Malcolm Tirchett (16)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Participating teams

• Balzan Youths
• Birzebbuga St.Peters
• Dingli Swallows
• Gozo FC
• Gudja United
• Lija Athletic
• Melita
• Mellieha
• Rabat Ajax
• St.Andrews
• Santa Venera Lightning
• Zebbug Rangers

Changes from previous season

• Qormi and Vittoriosa Stars were promoted to 2006–07 Maltese First Division. They were replaced with Lija Athletic and St.Andrews, both relegated from 2005–06 Maltese First Division.
• Gzira United, Attard and Gharghur were relegated to 2006–07 Maltese Third Division. They were replaced with Birzebbuga St.Peters, Santa Venera Lightning and Rabat Ajax, all promoted from 2005–06 Maltese Third Division.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Dingli Swallows (C)	22	14	5	3	47	15	+32	47	Champions and promotion to 2007–08 Maltese First Division
2	Mellieha	22	12	6	4	38	25	+13	42	Promotion to 2007–08 Maltese First Division
3	Rabat	22	11	6	5	36	24	+12	39
4	Birzebbuga St.Peters	22	10	5	7	31	25	+6	35
5	Balzan Youths	22	10	4	8	38	25	+13	34
6	Melita	22	10	4	8	38	28	+10	34
7	Lija Athletic	22	8	6	8	27	25	+2	30
8	Santa Venera Lightning	22	9	3	10	27	32	−5	30
9	St.Andrews	22	7	5	10	21	28	−7	26
10	Zebbug Rangers (R)	22	5	8	9	18	29	−11	23	Relegation playoffs
11	Gudja United (R)	22	4	3	15	17	50	−33	15	Relegation to 2007–08 Maltese Third Division
12	Gozo FC (R)	22	2	5	15	20	52	−32	11

Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Relegation playoffs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zurrieq	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9
2	Fgura	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Zebbug	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Qrendi	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0

Source:

13 May 2007
Zebbug	1 – 0	Qrendi
Zurrieq	2 – 0	Fgura
17 May 2007
Qrendi	0 – 1	Zurrieq
Fgura	1 – 0	Zebbug
20 May 2007
Fgura	3 – 0	Qrendi
Zebbug	0 – 2	Zurrieq

• Zurrieq promoted to Maltese Second Division
• Zebbug relegated to Maltese Third Division
• Fgura and Qrendi remain in Maltese Third Division

Top scorers

Goals	Player	Team
16	Malcolm Tirchett	Balzan
	Chris Ciappara	Dingli
14	Matthew Borg I	Melita
	Aldrin Muscat	Birzebbuga
13	Adam Smeir	Rabat

Results

Home \ Away	BAL	BIR	DIN	GOZ	GUD	LIJ	MLT	MLL	RAB	STA	STV	ZEB
Balzan		1–2	0–4	6–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	3–1	1–3	0–0	3–0	1–1
Birzebbuga	0–2		2–3	4–3	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	3–0	1–0
Dingli	3–1	2–1		5–3	5–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0
Gozo	0–4	1–2	1–1		0–4	1–1	0–4	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–2
Gudja	2–3	0–4	0–0	0–1		1–0	1–4	0–2	0–4	0–4	2–5	1–0
Lija	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–0		3–2	1–3	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1
Melita	3–1	0–0	3–2	3–0	2–4	3–1		1–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–2
Mellieha	0–2	1–1	0–3	4–1	2–0	3–2	3–2		1–1	0–0	3–1	3–0
Rabat	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–1	2–3	1–0	1–1		0–1	2–1	2–0
St.Andrews	0–2	2–2	0–4	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–2	0–2		2–1	0–1
S.Venera	2–1	0–1	0–5	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	3–0	2–0		0–1
Zebbug	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–4	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–3

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

See also

• 2006–07 Maltese Second and Third Division Knock-Out