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Miss Universe Malta Organization
Formation	2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Type	Beauty pageant Organization
Headquarters	Valletta
Location	Malta
Membership	Miss Universe
Official language	Maltese English
President / CEO	Alan J. Darmanin

The Miss Malta Universe or Miss Universe Malta (MUM) is a beauty pageant competition. The contest selects the country representative for Miss Universe.^[1] The Maltese titleholder for 2023 is Ella Portelli of St. Julian's and will represent Malta at Miss Universe 2023, to be held in El Salvador.

History

The Maltese beauty pageant held for the first time in 1963 called Miss Malta beauty pageant or Star of Malta. In the beginning the Miss Universe representatives from Malta selected by Miss Malta pageant until 2001. George & Deggie Gatt Mangion as the founder of Miss Malta took over the franchise so many years until 2016 Alan J. Darmanin looked forward to take the license of Miss Universe back in Malta. Began in 2016 the new creation of Miss Universe Malta Organization created. The winner is expected to be the representative of Malta at Miss Universe pageant.

National franchise holders

George & Deggie Gatt Mangion (1968―2001)^[2]
Alan J. Darmanin (2016―Present)^[3]

Titleholders

Year	Miss Malta Universe	Local Council	First Runner-up	Local Council	Second Runner-up	Local Council
2016	Martha Fenech	St. Julian's	Christine Mifsud	Fgura	Dajana Laketic	Swatar
2017	Tiffany Pisani	Attard	Caricia Sammut	Rabat	Alexia Pauline Tabone	Tarxien
2018	Francesca Mifsud	Żejtun	Lyann Llies	Qawra	Marilena Gauci	Mellieħa
2019	Teresa Ruglio	Sliema	Nicola Grixti	Gżira	Nicole Mallia	Naxxar
2020	Anthea Zammit	Żebbuġ	Madeline Baldacchino	Qrendi	Jasmine Camilleri	Mosta
2021	Jade Cini	Valletta	Michela Galea	Mġarr	Maxine Formosa	St. Julian's
2022	Maxine Formosa^[4]	St. Julian's	Not awarded
2023	Ella Portelli^[5]	St. Julian's	Julie Ann Cluett	Floriana	Ntombi Malinga	San Gwann
2024	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

International pageants

Miss Universe Malta 2016—Present

: Declared as Winner
: Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
: Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
: Ended as special awards winner

Below is Miss Malta Universe since 2016. The winner goes to Miss Universe. On occasion, when the winner does not qualify (due to age) for either contest, a runner-up is sent.

Year	Local Council	Miss Universe Malta	Placement at Miss Universe	Special Awards	Notes
2024	TBA
2023	St. Julian's	Ella Portelli	Unplaced
2022	St. Julian's	Maxine Formosa	Unplaced	Miss Congeniality	Appointed — The 2nd Runner-up of 2021 crowned as the Miss Universe Malta 2022.
2021	Valletta	Jade Cini	Unplaced		Miss Malta 2013
2020	Żebbuġ	Anthea Zammit	Unplaced		Miss World Malta 2016
2019	Sliema	Teresa Ruglio	Unplaced		The 1st Venezuelan-Maltese in Miss Malta history.
2018	Żejtun	Francesca Mifsud	Unplaced
2017	Attard	Tiffany Pisani	Unplaced		The winner of the cycle 6 of Britain's Next Top Model 2010.
2016	St. Julian's	Martha Fenech	Unplaced		Alan J. Darmanin directorship.

Star of Malta / Miss Malta 1968—2001

Main article: Miss Malta

: Declared as Winner
: Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
: Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
: Ended as special awards winner

Below is Miss Malta who was sent the winners to Miss Universe between 1968 and 2001.

Year	Local Council	Miss Malta	Placement at Miss Universe	Notes
2001	Città Victoria	Rosalie Theuma	Unplaced
2000	St. Julian's	Jolene Arpa	Unplaced
1999	Qormi	Dorianne Muscat	Unplaced
1998	Valletta	Carol Cassar	Unplaced
1997	San Ġwann	Claire Grech	Unplaced
1996	Lija	Roseanne Farrugia	Unplaced
1995	Fleur-de-Lys	Sonia Massa	Unplaced	Miss Malta returned wearing the sash of Malta.
Miss Republic of Malta
1994	Fleur-de-Lys	Paola Camilleri	Unplaced
1993	Qormi	Roberta Borg	Unplaced
1992	Città Victoria	Julienne Camilleri	Unplaced
1991	Qormi	Michelle Zarb	Unplaced
1990	Msida	Charmaine Farrugia	Unplaced
1989	Città Victoria	Sylvana Sammut Pandolfino	Unplaced	Miss Malta wore the Republic of Malta name on her sash.
Miss Malta / Star of Malta
1988	Santa Venera	Stephanie Spiteri	Unplaced
1987	Mdina	Kristina Apap Bologna	Unplaced
1986	Mosta	Antoinette Zerafa	Unplaced
1985	Pembroke	Fiona Micallef	Unplaced
1984	Sliema	Marisa Sammut	Unplaced
1983	Sliema	Christine Bonnici	Unplaced
1982	Gzira	Rita Falzon	Unplaced
1981	St Julian's	Susanne Galea	Unplaced
1980	Valletta	Isabelle Zammit	Unplaced
1979	Città Victoria	Dian Borg Bartolo	Unplaced
1978	Żebbuġ	Pauline Lewise Farrugia	Unplaced
1977	Żurrieq	Jane Benedicta Saliba	Unplaced
1976	Kalkara	Mary Grace Ciantar	Unplaced
1975	Valletta	Frances Pace Ciantar	Unplaced
1974	Valletta	Josette Pace	Unplaced
1973	Msida	Marthese Vigar	Unplaced
1972	Paola	Doris Abdilla	Unplaced
1971	Valletta	Felicity Celia Carbott	Unplaced
1970	Birkirkara	Tessie Pisani	Unplaced
1969	Gżira	Natalie Quintana	Unplaced
1968	Qormi	Kathlene Farrugia	Unplaced	George & Deggie Gatt Mangion directorship.

References

^ "Miss Universe Home". Miss Universe. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
^ "Miss Malta Founder". timesofmalta.com. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "Miss Universe Malta Organization". independent.com.mt. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ Aquilina, Wayne (10 April 2022). "Miss Universe Malta 2022 titħabbar b'mod differenti. Maxine ser tirrapreżenta lil Malta!". One. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^ "Ella Portelli crowned Miss Universe Malta 2023". Times of Malta. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

Miss Universe participant countries and territories

Active
(1952–present)

Africa	Angola Cameroon Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ghana Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Seychelles South Africa Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bahamas Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Bahrain Bhutan Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Armenia Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Russia Slovakia Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Inactive since 2022 (under JKN Metaverse Inc.)

Africa	Benin (1962) Botswana (2013) Cote d'Ivoire (1986) Democratic Republic of the Congo (1986) Ethiopia (2017) Eswatini (1994) Gabon (2015) Kenya (2021) Lesotho (1978) Liberia (1977) Madagascar (1961) Morocco (2021) Senegal (1987) Sierra Leone (2019) Tanzania (2019) The Gambia (1986) Tunisia (1971) Zambia (2018)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2008) Barbados (2020) Bermuda (1997) Cuba (1967) Dominica (1985) Grenada (1964) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1981) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2006) Sint Maarten (2006) Suriname (1999) Turks and Caicos (2014) US Virgin Islands (2019)
Asia	Bangladesh (2019) Chinese Taipei (2004) Iraq (2017) Israel (2021) Jordan (1960) Sri Lanka (2018)
Europe	Austria (2017) Azerbaijan (2013) Cyprus (2013) Estonia (2013) Georgia (2019) Lithuania (2019) Luxembourg (1994) Montenegro (2015) Romania (2021) Serbia (2015) Slovenia (2017) Sweden (2021)
Oceania	American Samoa (1978) Cook Islands (1999) Fiji (1981) Guam (2019) Northern Marianas (2006) Papua New Guinea (1986) Samoa (1986) Vanuatu (1978)

Inactive territories and dependencies
(1952–2006)

Disputed Parts and SAR's of China	Taiwan (1961–1964) Hong Kong (1952–2000)
Constituent country of Denmark	Greenland (1987–1990)
Overseas regions and collectivities of France	French Guiana (1977–1984) Guadeloupe (1977–1984) Martinique (1957–1984) New Caledonia (1982) Réunion (1977–1986) Tahiti (1962–1985)
Constituent countries of Great Britain	England (1955–1990) Scotland (1961–1990) Wales (1961–1990)
British Overseas City of Great Britain	Gibraltar (1981–1990)
Prefecture of Japan	Okinawa (1963–1968)
Region of the Netherlands	Bonaire (1967–1999)
Bantustans of South Africa	Bophuthatswana (1979) Transkei (1979–1983)
States of the United States	Alaska (1952–1958) Hawaii (1952–1959)
Former entities (1952–2006)	Commonwealth of Independent States (1992) Czechoslovakia (1970–1992) Micronesia (1975) Southern Rhodesia (1961) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Soviet Union (1990–1991) West Indies (1954–1958) Yugoslavia (1968–2002)