2022–23 Maltese Challenge League


The 2022–23 Maltese Challenge League is the second-level league football in Malta. It is the third season that the competition has been running in its present form.

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2021–22 season:

To Maltese Challenge League

Promoted from Maltese National Amateur League
Relegated from the Maltese Premier League

From Maltese Challenge League">2021–22 Maltese Challenge League">Maltese Challenge League

Promoted to the Maltese Premier League
Relegated to Maltese National Amateur League

Teams

Eighteen teams will compete in the league which will include the Four teams promoted from the Amateur League and one team relegated from the Premier League. This Season will be playing only one round. After the first round, the top six will play each other twice to determine whether to win the Challenge League, be promoted, or stay in Challenge League next season. And those who finish seventh till eighteenth in the first round will play once in Play-Out to determine who will stay in Challenge League or have either been relegated.
TeamLocation
AttardAttard
Fgura UnitedFgura
Lija AthleticLija
MarsaMarsa
MarsaskalaMarsaskala
MelitaSan Ġiljan
MqabbaMqabba
MtarfaMtarfa
Naxxar LionsNaxxar
QrendiQrendi
San ĠwannSan Ġwann
Sliema WanderersSliema
St. AndrewsSt. Andrew's, Malta
Swieqi UnitedSwieqi
Tarxien RainbowsTarxien
Vittoriosa StarsBirgu
Żejtun CorinthiansZejtun
ŻurrieqŻurrieq

Venues

On 21 December 2022. The Malta Football Association introduce another stadium at Luxol Stadium in Pembroke due to the final fixture of the first round that played three matches at the same time. On 21 December 2022. The Malta Football Association introduce another stadium at Sirens Stadium in San Pawl il-Baħar due to the final fixture of the season that is playing four matches at the same time.
Ta' QaliHamrunPembrokeSan Pawl il-Baħar
Centenary StadiumVictor Tedesco StadiumLuxol StadiumSirens Stadium
Capacity: 3,000Capacity: 1,962Capacity: 600Capacity: 800

League table


Promotion or Relegation play-offs

A play-offs match shall be played between the twelfth-placed team in the Premier League, Santa Lucia, and the third-placed team in the Maltese Challenge League, Żejtun Corinthians. The winner will play in the 2023-24 Maltese Premier League.

Season statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultStadiumDate

Discipline

Club