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2023–24 Albanian Cup
The 2023–24 Albanian Cup () was the seventy-second season of Albania's annual cup competition, the Albanian Cup. There were 44 participating teams. The winners qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League first qualifying round. Egnatia were the defending champions, and retained their title after defeating Kukësi 1–0 in the final. It was the club's second Albanian Cup title overall. Participating teams Format and seeding Teams will enter the competition at various stages, as follows: * First phase (one-legged fixtures) ** Preliminary round: eight teams from Kategoria e Dytë will start the tournament ** Round of 64: the four winners will be joined by 14 Kategoria e Dytë teams, 12 Kategoria e Parë teams, and 2 teams from Kategoria Superiore ** Round of 32: the 16 winners will face each other * Second phase ** Round of 16 (one-legged): the eight winners will be joined by Kategoria Superiore clubs, seeded 1–8 ** Quarter-finals (two-legged): the eight winners will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Egnatia
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KF Erzeni
Klubi i Futbollit Erzeni Shijak is an Albanian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... club based in Shijak. They currently compete in the Kategoria e Dytë, which is the third tier of Albanian football, and they play their home games at the Tefik Jashari Stadium. History Founded in 1931, Erzeni had three seasons in the Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of the Albanian football pyramid, between 2000 and 2003. Erzeni was always top of second league, but comunism didn’t know them as winners because of Shijak was part of Durres and they were not allowed in Superliga Return to Kategoria Superiore The club was promoted back to the top tier of Albanian Football after finishing as runners-up in the 2021–22 Kategoria e Parë, behind winners Bylis. Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KS Kastrioti
Klubi Sportiv Kastrioti is an Albanian football club based in the city of Krujë. The club's home ground used to be the Kastrioti Stadium, but after the stadium got closed and demolished, Kastrioti decided to move to the Kamëz Stadium in Kamëz, which has a capacity of 5,500 spectators and they currently compete in the Kategoria e Parë. History Early years The club was founded in 1926 as the city of Krujë's main sports club. During a brief spell in 1949, the club was dissolved, but was quickly re-established under the name of the city, Krujë. Two years later in 1951, the club was renamed Puna Krujë before reverting it back to simply Krujë again in 1958, which they later added Kastrioti to, in honour of the noble Kastrioti family of which Albania's national hero Skanderbeg hailed from. Rise and fall (1989–2006) For many years the club only competed in the lower divisions of Albanian football, but they managed to achieve promotion to the top tier Albanian Superliga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flamurtari FC
Flamurtari Football Club is an Albanian professional football club based in Vlorë, Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria Superiore, which is the first tier of football in the country. Founded in 1923, the club is one of the oldest in Albania, also being one of its most successful clubs, having won one Albanian Superliga title in 1991, four Albanian Cups, and two Albanian Supercups. Flamurtari is also known for their European runs in the 1980s, where they famously reached the last sixteen in the 1987–88 UEFA Cup, where they beat Spanish giants Barcelona in Vlorë but lost on aggregate. History Early years KS Flamurtari Vlorë were founded on 23 March 1923, as ''Shoqeria Sportive Vlorë'' with Milto Korçari as the club's first ever President, while Malo Ismaili held the role of the secretary and Faslli Zoga that of the financier. The club was created to make sports more organised and popular, with a focus on football. Its financial needs were covered by donations from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AF Elbasani
AF Elbasani (), is an Albanian professional football club based in Elbasan. The club competes in Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is Elbasan Arena. History In 2021, the club was formed by the Elbasan Municipality after the disagreements with businessman Arben Laze who was the owner of the first football club KF Elbasani. Due to financial bankruptcy, Elbasani was seized by the Directorate of Taxes in Elbasan. So with the initiative of the fans they found the way and with the cooperation of Elbasan Municipality, AF Elbasani was created. In the 2021–2022 season, they competed in the fourth tier of Albanian football, Kategoria e Tretë. In their first season, they achieved first place, gaining promotion to Kategoria e Dytë. In the 2022–2023 season, AF Elbasani finished first in the Group B of the Kategoria e Dytë, which gained them promotion for the first time to the Kategoria e Parë. In their first season, they finished in 1st pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Bylis
Klubi i Futbollit Bylis is an Albanian professional football club based in Ballsh, part of Mallakastër municipality. They compete in the Abissnet Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is the Adush Muça Stadium. History Early years The club was formed on 14 July 1972 as Ballshi i Ri, and they played in the Albanian Third Division between 1973 and 1976. But between 1976 and 1981, they were not allowed to participate in Albanian football due to laws restricting a single team from each district. They began playing once again in the Third Division in 1981, which they eventually won in 1986 and were promoted to the Albanian Second Division. The club played in the Second Division for 10 years between 1986 and 1996, where they were promoted following a successful 1995–96 season which saw the club score 124 goals and concede just 21, as the best goal scorer was Agim Metaj, making it a national record which was even noted by the prestigious French magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Burreli
Klubi Sportiv Burreli is an Albanian football club based in Burrel. Their home ground is the Liri Ballabani Stadium and they compete in the Kategoria e Parë. History The club was founded in 1928, but was not an organised club until 1935 under the name ''Deja Burrel''. The name was changed in 1945 to ''31 Korriku Burreli'', which was again changed in 1951 to ''Puna Burrel''. Between 1958 and 1991 the club was renamed ''31 Korriku Burrel'' before changing to its current name ''Burreli''. The club competed in the lower leagues of Albania until 1981 when they participated in the Albanian National Championship for the first time. But they were relegated in their first top flight season after finishing bottom of the table during the 1981–82 season. They were back in the top division after just one season in the Kategoria e Parë and were part of the 1983–84 Albanian National Championship. They were relegated again for the second time in the space of just two-years after fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Besa Kavajë
Klubi i Futbollit Besa Kavajë is an Albanian professional association football, football club based in Kavajë. They are currently competing in Kategoria e Parë, the second tier of Football in Albania, Albanian football. Their home ground is Besa Stadium. History Early years (1925–44) Klubi Sportiv Besa was founded on 25 October 1925 as "Shoqata Kulturore Sportive Adriatiku", which was a multi-disciplinary sports club based in Kavajë, Albania. In 1930, the club changed its name to "Sport Klub Kavajë". That same year the football team played its first ever friendly at Mali i Robit, Golem, Kavajë, Golem, against an amateur team formed of students from the Albanian-American Institute of Agriculture. A short time later, SK Kavajë joined the newly formed Albanian Football Federation and participated in the 1930 second tier championship where they would repeat their participation for the next two seasons, before joining the top tier Abissnet Superiore, Kategoria e Parë in 1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FK Apolonia Fier
Futboll Klub Apolonia Fier is an Albanian football club based in Fier. The club was founded on 17 June 1925 and took its name from the nearby ruins of the ancient city of Apollonia. The club currently competes in Kategoria e Parë, the second tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is the Loni Papuçiu Stadium. History Early years During the early 1920s, sports activities began being organised in the city of Fier, much like other cities in Albania at the time. Students from the region returning from their studies in larger Albanian cities and abroad had learned about football, which they then played back in Fier, which soon became so popular that almost every neighbourhood in the city had children and adults alike playing football. The first official football game to be held in Fier was organised by the Bashkimi Culturual Society on 17 July 1924, which was played between a selection of players from Fier and neighbouring city Vlorë. The following summer in 1925, a grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Vllaznia Shkodër
Klubi i Futbollit Vllaznia Shkodër, commonly known as Vllaznia is an Albanian football (soccer), football club based in the city of Shkodër. It is the association football branch of the Vllaznia Sports Club, which was founded on 16 February 1919. It is also the oldest club in Albania which means it is the first club created in Albania. The club have competed in every edition of Kategoria Superiore since 1930, which is the top tier of football in Albania, besides in the 1956–57, 1961–62 and 2018–19 football seasons. Vllaznia is one of the most successful football clubs in Albania, having won nine Kategoria Superiore titles, eight Albanian Cups and two Albanian Supercups. They have only been relegated from the Kategoria Superiore three times in 1956 due to a disqualification, in 1961, and for the last time in decades in 2018. The club's ground has been the Loro Boriçi Stadium since it was built in 1952, which is named after former Vllaznia and Albania national football t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Tirana
Klubi i Futbollit Tirana is an Albanian professional football club based in the country's capital city, Tirana, that competes in the Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. The men's football club is part of the multi-disciplinary sports club SK Tirana, and is the most successful in Albania, having won 54 major domestic trophies. They are the only football club in Albania with two stars in their crest after winning their 20th league championship in 2003 (each star corresponds to ten championships), making them the first and only Albanian club to have achieved this feat to date. They play their home games at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana. The club was founded on 15 August 1920Official webpage of KF Tirana as Sport Klub Tirana, but were renamed to Shoqata e Futbollit Agimi (English: Agimi Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Teuta Durrës
Klubi i Futbollit Teuta, commonly referred to as ''Teuta'', is an Albanian professional football club based in Durrës Durrës ( , ; sq-definite, Durrësi) is the List of cities and towns in Albania#List, second most populous city of the Albania, Republic of Albania and county seat, seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest .... The club competes in the Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is the Niko Dovana Stadium. The club was founded on 29 January 1920 as ''Klubi Sportiv Urani'' (Uranium Sport Club), and they were a founding member of the Albanian National Championship in 1930, as well as runners-up in the 1931 National Championship. They have won the Kategoria Superiore twice in 1994 and in 2021, and they have also won the Albanian Cup four times, as well as finishing runners-up in three Albanian Supercups. History Early years The club was founded on 29 January 1920 as Klubi Sportiv Urani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
