Two players have tested positive for doping after the BOV Division One match between Melita and St George’s, played on April 7.
Bjorn Vassallo, the Malta FA general secretary, told the association’s council members that the two players, one from each team, have been suspended provisionally pending the outcome of the Malta FA’s disciplinary proceedings.
The players have not been named.
During yesterday’s meeting, Michael Cutajar, who represents St George’s in the Malta FA council, proposed a motion whereby club committee members who were handed a minimum one-year ban for violent conduct under provocation benefit from the amnesty approved by the Malta FA council as long as they have served three months of their sentence.
This came about after the Malta FA council recently agreed to reduce the minimum punishment from one year to three months as the blanket ban was deemed too harsh when dealing with minor offences.
Cutajar’s motion was approved by the council.
Chris Bonett, the Malta FA vice-president, recommended that Maltese clubs change their status in the FIFA hierarchy to category four.
Such move would exempt them from having to pay training compensation when signing Under-23 players on a professional contract, thus avoiding disputes like those faced by Ħamrun Spartans in the case of Dutch forward Sylvano Comvalius and Birkirkara who have been hit with a compensation claim by Ukrainian club Dynamo Kiev over Nigerian striker Frank Temile.
The latter spent only one season with the Stripes after returning to Maltese football five years after his breakthrough season with Valletta.
It was also announced yesterday that Malta FA president Norman Darmanin Demajo has been appointed on the board of the newly-launched UEFA Foundation for Children.
The UEFA foundation, the brainchild of president Michel Platini, aims to support youngsters through sport and football in particular..
The Malta FA have imposed a transfer prohibition on Gżira United over payments owed to former coach Michael Woods.
Msida St Joseph have been ordered to settle their dues with former coach Saviour Debono Grech.
The Malta FA warned the club that failure to honour their obligations to Debono Grech by May 31 would result in a transfer ban.