Season 2016–17 Location Malta Matches played 132 | Dates 19 Aug 2016 – 3 May 2017 Goals scored 363 | |
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Similar 2016–17 Austrian Football, 2016–17 First Professio, 2015–16 Maltese Premier L, 2016 League of Ireland Pr | ||
The 2016–17 Maltese Premier League will be the 102nd season of the Maltese Premier League. The season will begin on 20 August 2016 and end in April/May 2017. Valletta are the defending champions, having won their 23rd title the previous season.
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Format
For this season, in a change from recent previous seasons, points earned in the first 22 matches are no longer halved. Each team will therefore play 33 matches, home-and-away against each other team (22 matches), and then one more match (either home or away) against each other team.
Teams and stadiums
Naxxar Lions and Qormi were relegated after they finished eleventh and twelfth, respectively, the previous season. They are replaced by Gżira United, the 2015–16 Maltese First Division champions, and Hamrun Spartans, the 2015–16 Maltese First Division runners-up.
Source: Scoresway
Relegation play-offs
A play-off match will take place between the eleventh-placed team from the Premier League and the fourth-placed team from the First Division for a place in the 2017–18 Maltese Premier League.
Top goalscorers
As of pre-seasonSource: MFA