Pietà Hotspurs Football Club is a

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club based in

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, founded in 1968, the club currently plays in the

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History

Pietà Hotspurs had their league debut on 23 October 1934, but any success the club had hoped to achieve was postponed due to the outbreak of

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. After the war's end, Pietà took part in the Anglo Maltese Football League, before joining the Third Division of the National Championships, where they spent ten seasons. Pietà Hotspurs, however, were replaced in the league with ''Pietà Atlanta'' in 1962, a team which later changed their name to Pietà Hotspurs in 1973, joining the Fourth Division in 1974. The team won the league and promotion, but spent ten years in the Third Division. They eventually won promotion in 1985, but were soon relegated again. However, they bounced back up and won promotion again in 1988. In 1994 they finally won promotion to the Premier Division. The club's football nursery has acquired a fame of producing talented footballers such as

Cleavon Frendo Cleavon Frendo (born 1 July 1985 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger. Playing career Cleavon started his professional career in 2000 at Pieta Hotspurs, after returning from Torino in Italy. He was loaned to Lij ...

, Massimo Grima,

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, Saviour Darmanin and

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, as well as

Jovica Milijić Jovica Milijić ( sr-Cyrl, Јовица Милијић; born 20 January 1986) is a Serbian-born Malta, Maltese futsal player, currently playing for Valletta FC Futsal, Valletta, the reigning champions of Maltese Futsal League. In 2017 he won the ...

, a

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player of

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n descent.

Players

Current squad

References

External links

* (archived) Football clubs in Malta 1968 establishments in Malta Pietà, Malta Association football clubs established in 1968 {{Malta-footyclub-stub