Sport in Malta

Sports in Malta include association football, basketball, athletics, rugby, tennis, cycling, and others.

The national football team has won several matches over big opponents that reached the final phases in World Cups, such as Belgium and Hungary.

[citation needed] Boċċi is the Maltese version of the Italian game of bocce, French pétanque and British bowls.

Even the emigrants to Canada, Australia, and The United States have taken the game with them and now forms an important part of their social scene.

They have recently been achieving success, defeating teams including Sweden, Croatia and Latvia.

[4] Rugby league is also played in Malta, primarily due to return migration of Maltese Australians bringing it back with them.

The national team are known as the Malta Knights, and boast players currently playing in the Super League in England such as Jarrod Sammut, Jake Mamo, the most famous player to come from Malta would be former South Sydney Rabbitohs, Mario Fenech.

There is also autocross (ASMK), hill climb (Island Car Club), motocross, karting and banger racing championships.

[6] In 2020, Malta got its first-ever female head coach leading a men’s Division One basketball team.

[citation needed] Malta are an affiliate member of the ICC & has full Twenty20 International status.

The country has claimed seven medals at the Paralympics, seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and nine at the Mediterranean Games Marsamxett Birżebbuġa Cox Floriana AFC Floriana Bocci Club Exiles S.C. Paola Kordin Paola Downtown Futsal Club (defunct) Neptunes WPSC Mosta Vikings AFC Mosta Gunners ZC Excess Futsal Club (defunct) (Bidnija) Naxxar Lions FC Futsal Ħamrun Bayern Bugibba Whyte Harte Qormi Eagles St. Sebastian Boċċi Club Qormi Wasps Marsa St. Michael's Marsa St. Michael Junior College Futsal (defunct) Żejtun Lacci St. Andrews F.C.