Kosovar Superliga

The Football Superleague of Kosovo (), also known as the ALBI MALL Superleague of Kosovo () for sponsorship reasons with Albi Mall, is the top level of the Kosovar football league system. The Superleague is organized by the Football Federation of Kosovo and the division currently has a 10-team format. The clubs play each other four times during the season for a 36-match schedule. At the end of the season, the bottom two teams in the division are relegated to the second tier, First Football League of Kosovo.

The Superleague ran outside FIFA and UEFA until Kosovo was admitted to both organizations, on 3 May 2016.

History

Prior to World War II, within Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kosovan clubs competed in the provincial leagues of the Belgrade Football Subassociation. During World War II, between 1941 and 1944, when most of the region became part of the Albanian Kingdom, numerous Kosovan clubs played in the Albanian league system. In 1945, Kosovo was reincorporated to Serbia, and subsequently, into the SFR Yugoslavia. The league has its origins in 1945 when it became one of the subdivisions of the 5th level in the Yugoslav football league system. It gathered the best clubs from the SAP Kosovo except for those clubs competing in higher levels. In 1991, an unrecognised parallel league gathering ethnic Albanian pro-independence clubs was set, and was run till 1999. Some phantom clubs like FK Crvena Zvezda Gnjilane, Trepča, Priština or FK Kosovo Polje, which were formed by Serbs in 1992 as a result of the cultural oppression of the ethnic Albanian population , continued to play in the leagues of FR Yugoslavia. On the contrary side the Albanian clubs like Gjilani, Trepça, Prishtina or Fushë Kosova played in the Independent League of Kosovo as successors of the Yugoslav clubs. In 1999, after the Kosovo War, a separate Kosovar league system was formed and the majority of the Serbian phantom clubs were dissolved. The Kosovar league system included most clubs from Kosovo except those from Serbian-dominated North Kosovo which remained in the Serbian football league system. Since 2000, the competition has been running continuously, and by 2017, after Kosovo gained membership in FIFA and UEFA, began acting as the national league of Kosovo, providing clubs for international tournaments.

Names

Previous winners

This is a list of winners of Football Superleague of Kosovo since 1945.

Clubs (2024–25)

The leаgue consisted of ten teams – the top eight teаms from the previous season and two teams promoted from the 2023–24 Kosovo First League.

The two directly promoted teаms were Suhareka and Ferizaj, winners of the 2023–24 Kosovo First League groups A and B, respectively. They replaced the 2023–24 Kosovo Superleague bottom two teams, Liria Prizren and Fushë Kosova.

Seasons in Football Superleague of Kosovo

There are 37 teams that have taken part in the Football Superleague of Kosovo since 1999. Prishtina is the only team that has played in every season since 1999. As of 2024/25 season; teams in bold are part of current season.

Titles by club

Number of titles since Independent League of Kosovo became the first tier of Kosovar league system.

Kosovo football clubs in European competitions

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

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League summary
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Sports leagues established in 1945
1945 establishments in Kosovo