Mosta Football Club are a Maltese football club from the town of Mosta. The team played four seasons in Malta's highest league 1974/75, 1987/88, 2002/03 and 2005/06. They achieved promotion to the Maltese Premier League again in 2010/11.
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The women's team of Mosta plays in the country's top division, the Maltese First Division. In 2010–11 it won its first championship and ths qualified to the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. The team was runners-up in the 1998 and 1999 Maltese Women's Cup and recently won the 2012 cup.
Mosta (Maltese: Il-Mosta) is a town in the Northern Region of Malta, to the north-west of Valletta. In 2014, it had an estimated population of 20,241. Mosta celebrates the feast of the Assumption every 15 August, popular among both the locals and the tourists. The town has many legends such as the Mosta Bride (L-Gharusa tal-Mosta) and a lot of historical places such as the Victoria Lines and medieval chapels. Mosta has its own scouts and girl guides as well as two band clubs (Nicolo' Isouard and Santa Marija) and two fireworks factories. A lot of traffic passes through Constitution Street, one of Mosta's main streets which connects the South to the North. The main attraction in Mosta is the Rotunda - a huge round church with the third largest unsupported dome in the world.
Mosta boasts the third largest unsupported dome in the World dedicated to the Assumption. The Feast of the Assumption is held on 15 August and it is a public holiday. The church is also known as the Rotunda of St Marija Assunta. On 9 April 1942, the church was nearly destroyed during World War II. An Axis bomb hit the dome of the church but failed to explode. The detonator was removed and a replica bomb is now displayed as a memorial.