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Association football, commonly known as football, or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
- Ball (Association Football)
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- History of Association Football
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- Soccer (Disambiguation)
Soccer or association football is a team sport in which...
- Albanian Football Federation
The Albanian Football Federation ( Albanian: Federata...
- Ball (Association Football)
Futbolli. Loja e futbollit. Në futboll, qëllimi themelor i tifozëve është të inkurajojnë skuadrën e tyre gjatë ndeshjes. Futbolli i shoqatës, njohur zakonisht si futboll, është një lojë sportive midis dy skuadrave të përbëra me njëmbëdhjetë lojtarë (10 lojtarë dhe nga një portier) me një top sferik për 90 minuta apo ...
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Early history
Football was first introduced to Albania by an English-Maltese priest named Gut Ruter, who visited the Saverian college in Shkodër in 1908. The first football club in Albania was Indipendenca, founded in Shkodër in 1912 by Palokë Nika. The first 90-minute game to be played with two 45 minute halves took place in October 1913 between Indipendenca Shkodër and the occupying Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy. The game is considered to be the first international game to be played in Albania, and it e...
1911 Fier Fair Football Tournament
In 2012 historians discovered that a football tournament had taken place in Albania in 1911, some 19 years before the establishment of the Albanian National Championship and the Albanian Football Association. The Fier Fair Football Tournament (Albanian: Turneu Futbollistik i Panairit të Fierit) took place in Rahije, Fier while Albania was still under the administration of the Ottoman Empire and it consisted of 8 teams which were Tirana, Elbasani, Kavaja, Berati, Peqini, Vlora, Fieri and Lushn...
World War II championships
Albania was invaded by Italy in April 1939 and World War II soon broke out, meaning the Albanian Football Association, much like the other organisations in the country, ceased operating. Despite the war, three championships were held between 1939 and 1942, with Tirana winning the championships in 1939 and 1942 and Shkodra winning in 1940. Despite calls to recognise these championships, the Albanian Football Associationmaintains the position that the championships were not organised by them an...
Since the 2014–15 Kategoria Superiore, the league consists of 10 clubs, who face each other four times in a conventional round-robin tournament for a total of 36 matches. At the end of the season, the two lowest-placed teams are relegated to the Kategoria e Parë, while two highest-placed teams of the Kategoria e Parë are promoted in their place. Th...
Current members
The following teams are competing in the Kategoria Superiore during the 2021–22season.
Since 1930, the competition has not been played a total of 9 times: 1935, 1938–44, 1949, 1962. Furthermore, the champion award was not given during the 1968–69 season.
Tirana and Vllaznia would have accordingly 27 and 10 titles, if the three seasons played during WW2 are officially recognised from AFA.
The all-time table of football clubs that have participated in the Kategoria Superiore, prior to the 2021–2022 season. The ranking is based on the total accumulated points by each club. Teams in boldare part of the 2021-22 season.
Current rankings
UEFA Country Ranking for league participation in 2021–22 European football season(Previous year rank in italics). 1. 34 (43) Luxembourg National Division 2. 35 (41) A Lyga 3. 36 (44) Armenian Premier League 4. 37 (42) Latvian Higher League 5. 38 (36) Kategoria Superiore 6. 39 (34) Macedonian First Football League 7. 40 (40) Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina 8. 41 (35) Moldovan National Division 9. 42 (37) League of Ireland Premier Division
The grand final of "Final 4" in the "Abissnet Superiore" championship will be judged by a foreign referee with a lot of experience in the European arena The Department of Communication in the Albanian Football Association informs that an agreement has been reached, that the grand final of "Final...
Football is the most popular sport in Albania, both at a participatory and spectator level. [1] [2] The sport is governed by the Football Association of Albania (FSHF) ( Albanian: Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit ).
The Albania national football team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futbollit të Shqipërisë) represents Albania in men's international football, and is governed by the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF), the governing body for football in Albania.
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