Albanian Cup

Albanian Cup
Founded	1938
Region	Albania
Number of teams	34
Qualifier for	UEFA Europa League
Domestic cup(s)	Albanian Supercup
Current champions	Skënderbeu; (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	KF Tirana (16 titles)
Television broadcasters	TVSH; SuperSport
Website	FSHF
	2018–19 Albanian Cup

The Albanian Football Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqipërisë) is the main "knockout" competition in Albanian football. The competition started in 1939 as Kupa e Mbretit (English:"The King's Cup"). Just after a year the cup was suspended as the Second World War started. It started again in 1948 as "Kupa e Republikes" (English:"Republic Cup") and from 1991 as "Kupa e Shqipërisë" (Albanian Cup). Today it is the second most important competition in Albania after Albanian Superliga. The winners of the Cup automatically earn the right to participate in the 1st qualifying round of Europa League. Runners-up do not earn any European participation.

Results of the Finals

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1938–39	Tirana	RR	Vllaznia
1940–47	No Cup Competition played
1948	Partizani	5–2	Tirana
1949	Partizani	1–0	Tirana
1950	Dinamo Tirana	2–1	Partizani
1951	Dinamo Tirana	3–2	Partizani
1952	Dinamo Tirana	4–1	Tirana
1953	Dinamo Tirana	2–0	Partizani
1954	Dinamo Tirana	2–1	Partizani
1955–1956	No Cup Competition played
1957	Partizani	2–0	Lokomotiva Durrës
1958	Partizani	4–0	Skënderbeu
1959	No Cup Competition played
1960	Dinamo Tirana	2–0 Agg.	Flamurtari
1961	Partizani	2–1 Agg.	Besa
1962	No Cup Competition played
1962–63	Tirana	3–3 Agg. 4–2 (p)	Besa
1963–64	Partizani	3–0	Tomori
1964–65	Vllaznia	1–0	Skënderbeu
1965–66	Partizani	6–4 Agg.	Vllaznia
1966–67	No Cup Competition played
1967–68	Partizani	4–1	Vllaznia
1968–69	No Cup Competition played
1969–70	Partizani	4–1 Agg.	Vllaznia
1970–71	Dinamo Tirana	2–0	Besa
1971–72	Vllaznia	2–2 Agg. 4–3 (p)	Besa
1972–73	Partizani	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
1973–74	Dinamo Tirana	1–0	Partizani
1974–75	Elbasani	2–0 Agg.	Lokomotiva Durrës
1975–76	Tirana	4–1 Agg.	Skënderbeu
1976–77	Tirana	3–3 Agg. 4–3 (p)	Dinamo Tirana
1977–78	Dinamo Tirana	1–0 Agg.	Lushnja
1978–79	Vllaznia	3–2 Agg.	Dinamo Tirana
1979–80	Partizani	2–1 Agg.	Elbasani
1980–81	Vllaznia	6–3 Agg.	Besa
1981–82	Dinamo Tirana	3–3 Agg. (a)	Tirana
1982–83	Tirana	1–0	Flamurtari
1983–84	Tirana	2–1	Flamurtari
1984–85	Flamurtari	2–1	Partizani
1985–86	Tirana	3–1	Vllaznia
1986–87	Vllaznia	4–3 Agg.	Flamurtari
1987–88	Flamurtari	1–0	Partizani
1988–89	Dinamo Tirana	1–1 (aet) 3–1 (p)	Partizani
1989–90	Dinamo Tirana	1–1 (aet) 4–2 (p)	Flamurtari
1990–91	Partizani	1–1 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Flamurtari
1991–92	Elbasani	2–1	Besa
1992–93	Partizani	1–0	Albpetrol
1993–94	Tirana	1–0 Agg.	Teuta
1994–95	Teuta	0–0 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Tirana
1995–96	Tirana	1–1 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Flamurtari
1996–97	Partizani	2–2 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Flamurtari
1997–98	Apolonia	1–0	Lushnja
1998–99	Tirana	0–0 (aet) 3–0 (p)	Vllaznia
1999–00	Teuta	0–0 (aet) 5–4 (p)	Lushnja
2000–01	Tirana	5–0	Teuta
2001–02	Tirana	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
2002–03	Dinamo Tirana	1–0	Teuta
2003–04	Partizani	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
2004–05	Teuta	0–0 (aet) 6–5 (p)	Tirana
2005–06	Tirana	1–0	Vllaznia
2006–07	Besa	3–2	Teuta
2007–08	Vllaznia	2–0	Tirana
2008–09	Flamurtari	2–1	Tirana
2009–10	Besa	2–1 (aet)	Vllaznia
2010–11	Tirana	1–1 (aet) 4–3 (p)	Dinamo Tirana
2011–12	Tirana	1–0 (aet)	Skënderbeu
2012–13	Laçi	1–0 (aet)	Bylis
2013–14	Flamurtari	1–0	Kukësi
2014–15	Laçi	2–1	Kukësi
2015–16	Kukësi	1–1 (aet) 5–4 (p)	Laçi
2016–17	Tirana	3–1 (aet)	Skënderbeu
2017–18	Skënderbeu	1–0	Laçi

Performances

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
KF Tirana	16	8	1939, 1963, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2017
Partizani	15	8	1948, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2004
Dinamo Tirana	13	6	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1990, 2003
Vllaznia	6	8	1965, 1972, 1979, 1981, 1987, 2008
Flamurtari	4	8	1985, 1988, 2009, 2014
Teuta (also Lokomotiva Durrës)	3	6	1995, 2000, 2005
Besa	2	6	2007, 2010
KF Elbasani (also Labinoti)	2	1	1975, 1992
KF Laçi	2	2	2013, 2015
Skënderbeu	1	5	2018
FK Kukësi	1	2	2016
Apolonia	1	–	1998
KS Lushnja (also Traktori)	–	3	–
Tomori	–	1	–
Albpetrol	–	1	–
Bylis	–	1	–

Appearances

At least 20 Cup appearances.

Club	Appearances	Winners	Runners-up	Semi-finals	Quarter-finals
KF Tirana	66	16	8	36	55
Vllaznia	66	6	8	28	50
Teuta	66	3	6	19	40
Partizani	64	15	8	31	48
Flamurtari	64	4	8	20	37
Skënderbeu	63	1	5	14	29
KS Elbasani	62	2	1	9	31
KS Dinamo Tirana	61	13	6	30	44
Besa	61	2	6	11	21
Apolonia	53	1	—	8	17
Luftëtari	46	—	—	2	10
Besëlidhja	45	—	—	2	7
Kastrioti	33	—	—	1	3
Shkumbini	30	—	—	3	10
KF Laçi	27	2	2	2	5

Last 14 Cup seasons

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Semi-finals
KF Tirana	4	3	1
KF Laçi	2	2	—
Flamurtari	2	—	3
Besa	2	—	1
Skënderbeu	1	2	4
Vllaznia	1	2	3
Teuta	1	2	2
KS Kukësi	1	2	2
KS Dinamo Tirana	—	1	2
Bylis	—	1	—
Shkumbini	—	—	3
KS Elbasani	—	—	2
Partizani	—	—	2
Kastrioti	—	—	1
Besëlidhja	—	—	1

References

RSSSF
Albania Cup^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

League321.com – National cup results. Template:En icon
http://www.calciomondialeweb.it/EUR/ALB/AlbaniaCoppa.htm

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