Newly-promoted Zabbar St. Patrick signed Brazilian twenty eight year old defender Vinícius de Paiva.

Throughout his career, Vinicius Paiva was on the books of Moto Club, Marília AC, SE Juventude, Sousa EC, São José EC, AA Altos, Goianésia EC and Centro Oeste FC.

Zabbar, who have appointed Portuguese coach João Pedro de Oliveira Janeiro as their new coach, had earlier signed João Pedro de Sá Mendonça, Zachary Grech, Jake Micallef, Sean Gatt and Luca Camilleri. Meanwhile Leo Agius, Dion Fava and Brian Gambarte signed new deals with the club while Liam Lagana, Matthew Ellul, Owen Magro, Owen Sciberras, James Sclcluna, Samuel Buhagiar, Rowad Benhamed, Brendan Scerri, Rodolfo Soares, Andreas Vella, Hubert Vella, Issah Aliyu and Ezequiel Ruiz moved elsewhere.