Newly-promoted Zabbar St. Patrick secured the services of Brazilian twenty eight year old defensive midfielder Wallace Bonilha Felix.

Bonilha started his career at Fluminense and following a spell with FC Lahti in Finland, played for Tupi FC and Oeste FC in Brazil followed by another spell in Europe, at FC Nitra in Slovakia. He returned to Brazil where he played for Figueirense FC, EC Lemense, America FC and Goiânia EC.

Zabbar, who have appointed Portuguese coach João Pedro de Oliveira Janeiro as their new coach, had earlier signed João Pedro de Sá Mendonça, Vinícius de Paiva, 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.