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KF Tirana (Albanian: Klubi i Futbollit Tirana, in English Football Club Tirana) are the most successful Albanian football club, earning 49 major trophies in the country and are (Football Men’s) branch of multi-disciplinary Sport Klub of Tirana (SK Tirana). KF Tirana are one of the most popular football clubs in Tirana, with a considerable number of supporters in Albania and worldwide. KF Tirana team plays its home games in the capital of Albania, Tirana, at the Selman Stërmasi Stadium or at the Qemal Stafa stadium. The club was founded on 16 August 1920 under the name of “Agimi Sports Association”. In 1927 the club was changed to SK Tirana (Albanian: Sportklub Tirana), in 1947 to “17 Nëntori Tirana”, in 1952 to “Puna Tirana”, in 1956 again to “KS 17 Nëntori”, and in 1991 the club was divided into two branches, the multi-disciplinary branch named “KS Tirana” and the footballing branch named as “KF Tirana”. Tirana have won their first title of Albanian championship in the first Albanian Football Championship. KF Tirana are the only club in Albania to have participated at all the championships (74) of the top flight since 1930 as well as all the Albanian Cups started in 1938. Additionally, “white and blues” represent the most successful Albanian team in Europe having passed 11 times the first round along their 46-year history. The club participated in the European Cup competition in 1965–66 for the first time. KF Tirana have been appointed an ECA member.

On 16 August 1920, Albanian patriot P. Nika altogether with A. Erebara, P. Jakova, A. Hoxha, A. Koja, P. Berisha, A. Zajmi, H. Fortuzi, B. Pazari, L. Berisha, S. Frasheri, H. Alizoti, A. Gjitomi and V. Fekeci founded the “Agimi Sports Association”. The association’s favourite sport was football. In October of that same year the newly founded team played the first match against “Juventus” Shkodra. In 1925 the association’s governing council was elected. Its members were A. Zajmi, S. Stermasi, B. Toptani, I. Gjinali and A. Koja. The team also played its first international match against the Montenegrin team “Crnogorac” Cetinje the same year. In 1927 on the initiative of Mr S. Stermasi, Mr A. Erebara, Mr A. Zajmi and Mr A. Koja, “Agimi” changed its name to Sportklub Tirana (SK Tirana). During the period 1927–1930 SK Tirana played many friendly matches against other Albanian teams.

Still an unofficial event of Albanian Football, recently revealed by historians to be the very first championship ever played in Albania. All rounds were played in a one-legged format, similar to those of European competitions. Event started on April, 7th with quarter-finals, semi-finals were played out on April, 11th & 12th, then ended on April, 14th, 1911 with the final match. All matches, including the final have been played in Fier. It was contested by 8 teams, and KF Tirana won the championship.

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The onset of the Albanian national football championship was on 6 April 1930. At the end of the first championship the white-and-blue team finished at the leading position, thus becoming the first Albanian champions. Later on they won the championship six times out of seven during the pre-World War 2 period, convincingly dominating the Albanian football scene. Tirana were the first Albanian football team to introduce the permanent role of a regular coach and also the first to secure the services of a foreign coach, the Hungarian Samo Singer, in 1934.

From 1939 to 1942, KF Tirana won two more national championships (out of 3 organized by the AFA during that period, the third won by KS Vllaznia), however, despites being official, these trophies are still not added to Tirana’s palmares by AFA. Although these championships were played right after King’s Cup was concluded (an event officially recognized from AFA) and the 1942 championship had a massive nationwide participation (the first and the only time in Albanian football history so far in which Kosovo teams compete alongside Albanian teams as a Nationwide League), it’s meaningless why AFA are still hesitating to add these events as well, considering the fact that AFA are the official organizers!

The AFA finally made a decision in February 2013 that, according to them, although AFA admits the WWII Championships have indeed been played correctly and rightfully, are not legitimate and won’t be recognized since they weren’t organized by the AFA, but by the Fascist regime.

After the war, KF Tirana made a good start reaching the second spot in 1945, after losing to Vllaznia Shkodër in the final. But soon the club would become a victim of the reigning communist regime in Albania. At the beginning of March 1946, at the “Nacional” movie theater in Tirana, as a result of instructions coming from the communist politburo, KF Tirana was forced to change its name to “17 Nentori”. The club was thus denied its own name. The following decade would unroll in the same suffocating atmosphere, becoming even heavier after the foundation of two system-privileged teams that would follow the experiences of their sisters in the former USSR, former Yugoslavia, and the other eastern European countries: Partizani, the Defense Ministry team and Dinamo, the Internal Affairs Ministry team. Dozens of Tirana’s talented players were “convinced”, against their will, to play for either Partizani or Dinamo. As a result “17 Nentori” struggled to stay at the top during the years 1947–1957, however the team managed to gain some of the lost groung during the second part of the 50′s after replacing in part some of the first choice players of its line up.

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