Season 2016–17 Goals scored 304 (3.38 per match) | Matches played 90 | |
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Top goalscorer Enrique Gomez Bernal (21 goals) Biggest away win Europa Point 0–15 Lincoln Red Imps(23 January 2017) | ||
The 2016–17 Gibraltar Premier Division (known as the Argus Insurance Premier Division for sponsorship reasons) is the 118th season of the national amateur and semi-professional football league in Gibraltar since its establishment - the highest level of football in Gibraltar. The league will be contested by ten clubs, the top eight clubs from last season and two promoted clubs from 2015–16 Gibraltar Second Division. Lincoln Red Imps are the reigning champions, sealing a record 22nd title last season. The season began on 21 September 2016 and will end in May 2017.
Contents
Format
As with the previous season, each of the ten Premier Division teams will play each other three times for a total of 27 matches each. The tenth-placed team will be relegated while the ninth-placed team from the Premier Division will enter a playoff with the second-placed team from the Second Division for a spot in the 2017–18 Premier Division.
Starting from this season, Gibraltar are granted two spots instead of one in the Europa League. The season also saw the introduction of a Home Grown Player (HGP) rule, forcing clubs in both of Gibraltar's divisions to have at least 3 Gibraltarian players in their matchday squads, with at least one on the field of play at all times.
Teams
After the previous season, Angels and Britannia XI were both relegated to the Second Division; Europa Point and Mons Calpe were promoted in their places.
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Matches 1–18
Teams play each other twice.
Source: uefa.com
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Matches 19–27
Teams play each other once.
Source: uefa.com
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
As of 27 February 2017Promotion/Relegation play-off
At the end of the season, the ninth-placed team from the Premier Division will enter a play-off with the second-placed team from the Second Division for a spot in the 2017–18 Premier Division.