{"id":84451,"date":"2026-05-23T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/mfa-rejects-marsaxlokk-protest-officially-confirming-floriana-fc-as-premier-league-champions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:36:00","slug":"mfa-rejects-marsaxlokk-protest-officially-confirming-floriana-fc-as-premier-league-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/mfa-rejects-marsaxlokk-protest-officially-confirming-floriana-fc-as-premier-league-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA rejects Marsaxlokk protest, officially confirming Floriana FC as Premier League champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MFA rejects Marsaxlokk protest, officially confirming Floriana FC as Premier League champions<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The Malta Football Association&#8217;s Protests Board has officially rejected Marsaxlokk FC&#8217;s complaint regarding their Premier League final defeat, cementing Floriana FC as the league champions.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The dispute stemmed from the final match on May 16, 2026, which ended in a 2-1 victory for Floriana. Marsaxlokk filed a formal protest earlier this week, arguing that Floriana&#8217;s decisive 92nd-minute goal should have been disallowed. They claimed the ball entered the net directly from a throw-in without touching any other player, which violates the Laws of the Game.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Representatives from both clubs presented their arguments before the independent judicial body on Thursday. Following deliberations, the board ruled against Marsaxlokk&#8217;s appeal and sustained the original match result.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The MFA announced on Friday that the board&#8217;s decision is final, takes immediate effect, and has been communicated to both clubs, adding that no further comments will be made.<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-05-23\/football\/MFA-rejects-Marsaxlokk-protest-officially-confirming-Floriana-FC-as-Premier-League-champions-6736289955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MFA rejects Marsaxlokk protest, officially confirming Floriana FC as Premier League champions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFA rejects Marsaxlokk protest, officially confirming Floriana FC as Premier League champions The Malta Football Association&#8217;s Protests Board has officially rejected Marsaxlokk FC&#8217;s complaint regarding their Premier League final defeat, cementing Floriana FC as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-84451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}