The new Malta Football Association FA Trophy was unveiled during the football awards ceremony last night. 

It is being manufactured by renowned silversmiths Thomas Lyte of London.

The new FA Trophy, which is partly-financed by the English FA, will be presented for the first time to the winners of next season's knockout competition as the old cup, lifted for the last time by Sliema Wanderers last Saturday, is being withdrawn.

The historic silverware had been donated by the British to the Malta FA in 1933.

The cup will be presented to the Maltese association before the October 8 World Cup qualifier between England and Malta at Wembley Stadium.

The proposal for a new trophy was discussed last year by MFA president Norman Darmanin Demajo and his English counterpart Greg Dyke.

He had said the aim was to preserve the old cup, adding that the new trophy would incorporate a lot of features of the original one.

 

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