Melita have appointed Neil Zarb Cousin as their new coach. Zarb Cousin replaces Jacques Scerri who led the Amateurs throughout last season.
For Zarb Cousin, this marks a return to the club. With Martin Gregory as coach and Neil Zarb Cousin as assistant coach, Melita won the Third Division Championship and the Second and Third Division Knock-Out. They eventually won promotion from the Second Division to the First Division, going on to win the BOV First Division championship in season 2011/12.
In summer 2012/13, he was appointed coach of Mdina Knights, with whom he won promotion to Division 2 but last December, the two parties decided to terminate the contract by mutual consent.