Loro Boriçi Stadium

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Loro Boriçi National Stadium
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Former names Vojo Kushi Stadium (1953–1990)
Location Albania Shkodër, Albania
Coordinates 42°04′12″N 19°30′24″E / 42.07000°N 19.50667°E / 42.07000; 19.50667Coordinates: 42°04′12″N 19°30′24″E / 42.07000°N 19.50667°E / 42.07000; 19.50667
Owner Shkodër Municipality
Operator KF Vllaznia
Capacity 16.000[1]
Field size 105 x 68 m
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground 1939
Opened 1953
Renovated 2001, 2016
Demolished 2015
Construction cost 17 million (only the reconstruction in 2016)
Architect Bolles+Wilson
Tenants
KF Vllaznia
Albania national football team
Kosovo national football team (only 2018 FIFA World Cup's qualifying matches)

The Loro Boriçi Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Shkodër, Albania, currently used mostly for football matches and home ground of KF Vllaznia. After the 2016 renovation, it has an all-seater capacity of 16.000.[2] The stadium is also the second largest stadium in Albania behind the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana.[3]

After the communist era, in 1990, the name of the stadium was changed in honour of Loro Boriçi, who played for KF Vllaznia and briefly in Italian club SS Lazio.

History[edit]

Built in 1953 and named after Vojo Kushi, a World War II hero, it was renamed in the 1990s after Loro Boriçi, a famous player from the city in the 1940s and 1950s, who notably was the reserve of Silvio Piola at SS Lazio.

The stadium hosted the Albania national football team in a 29 March 2003 match against Russia, for the UEFA Euro 2004 qualifiers. The match ended in a 3-1 win for Albania.

2015 Reconstruction[edit]

In October 2014, Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania, promised the reconstruction of the stadium, which was last renovated in 2001.[4] He said that the stadium will be with a renewed capacity of about 20.000 seats. On 3 May 2015, construction works officially started, bringing the stadium to a renewed capacity of 15.993[5]

Loro Boriçi Stadium as Kosovo national football team stadium[edit]

Loro Boriçi Stadium is expected to be the Kosovo national football team stadium during the qualifying matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, because the two Kosovo national football stadiums are under renovation,[6][7] while Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania in a post in Facebook, he says that new Kosovo national football team will play qualifying matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the Loro Boriçi Stadium.[8]

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