Kosovan Football – Some Football Clubs & Misc Info

Established: 1991 (34 years old) – The Football Superleague of Kosovo (Albanian: Superliga e Futbollit të Kosovës) 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.

FC Prishtina

Established: 1922 (103 years old)
Football Club Prishtina (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Prishtina), commonly known as Prishtina, is a professional football club based in Pristina, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, and is the most successful club in Kosovo.

FC Dukagjini

Established: 1958 (67 years old)
KF Dukagjini (Klubi Futbollistik Dukagjini Klinë) is a professional football club based in the city of Klina, Kosovo. The club compete in the top tier of football in Kosovo the Football Superleague of Kosovo.

FC Drenica

Established: 1958 (67 years old)
KF Drenica (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Drenica), commonly known as Drenica is a professional football club based in Skenderaj, Kosovo. The club plays in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country.

FC Drita

Established: 1947 (78 years old)
Football Club Drita (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Drita), commonly known as Drita, is a professional football club based in Gjilan, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo .
The club’s home ground is the Gjilan City Stadium. It was built in 1967 at time the club played within Yugoslav league system. However, from 1990 until the end of the Kosovo War, the club split in two different clubs with one team staying as the official club, playing in the home stadium and league system it completed, and another, formed by a group of rebel pro-Albanian independence players, forming a parallel club which started competing in the unrecognised Kosovar championship.
After the Kosovo War, it was the rebel team that took over the club facilities, including stadium, and has been playing since 1999 as the “official” Drita.

FC Malisheva

Established: 2016 (9 years old)
KF Malisheva (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Malisheva) is a professional football club from Kosovo which competes in the First League. The club is based in Malishevë. Their home ground is the Liman Gegaj Stadium which has a seating capacity of 1800.

FC Llapi

Established: 1932 (93 years old)
Klubi Futbollistik Llapi (Football Club Llapi), commonly known as Llapi, is a professional football club based in Podujevo, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country.

FC Ferizaj

Established: 1923 (102 years old)
Football Club Ferizaj (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Ferizaj), commonly known as Ferizaj, is a professional football club based in Ferizaj, Kosovo. The club plays in the First Football League of Kosovo, which is the second tier of football in the country.

SC Gjilani

Established: 1945 (80 years old)
Sport Club Gjilani (Albanian: Klubi Sportiv Gjilani), commonly known as Gjilani, is a professional football club based in Gjilan, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country.

Current League Position – 1
Established – 1947 (78 years old)
Stadiumi i Qytetit të Suharekës – (1,500 Capacity)

Football Club Ballkani (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Ballkani), commonly known as Ballkani, is a professional football club based in Suharekë, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country.
The club was established in 1947 under the name Rinia by some athletes whose purpose was to participate in various competitions and tournaments that were organized at that time. In 1952, the club was registered and started competing in official championships. In 1965, it changed the name from KF Rinia to KF Ballkani after Suva Reka Chemical and Rubber Industry took the ownership of the club.
The club progressively climbed the Yugoslav league system reaching the Kosovo Provincial League in the season 1973–74. They were relegated, but will return in 1977 and become regular member until the 1990s. Ballkani was one of the first clubs in Kosovo to league the league system managed by the Football Association of Yugoslavia, and will play instead in the unrecognised parallel First League of Kosovo until 2000.
In the league organised by the Football Federation of Kosovo, Ballkani played its first match against Liria at Studençan. In the youth levels of Balkani, many prominent players from Suva Reka started their careers, such as Ali Elshani, Arsim Llapatinca,Bekim Suka, Dervish Shala, Esheref Berisha,Avni Bytyçi, Fillim Guraziu, Gafurr Kabashi, Hajrush Berisha, Hevzi Shalaj, Isuf Asllanaj, Isuf Kolgeci, Lulzim Kolgeci, Musli Bylykbashi, Naser Berisha, Nexhat Elshani, Osman Ramadani, Rexhep Kuçi, Salih Hoxha, Urim Bylykbashi, Visar Berisha and many others who made a valuable contribution to the affirmation of football as well as other human values and some still give their contribution to football pitches as managers and in various sports posts.

Established: 2017 (8 years old)
Klubi Futbollistik Prishtina e Re (transl. Football Club Prishtina e Re), is a professional football club based in the village Hajvalia of Pristina, Kosovo. From the 2025–26 season the club will play in the Kosovo Superleague, which is the top tier of football in the country.
KF Prishtina e Re was founded in 2017 under the name SHF Shkëndija Hajvali (Shkolla e Futbollit Shkëndija Hajvali). The club took its original name from the local primary school in the village of Hajvalia, located near Pristina. In the 2020–21 season, the club decided to expand its activities beyond youth levels and enter senior competitions. This decision came after securing a permanent sponsorship deal with M-Technologie, a company that is part of the Mabetex Group that had previously sponsored football in this village by sponsoring Hajvalia.
The club initially competed in the third league, which is the fourth tier of football in Kosovo and in its inaugural season, the club earned promotion to the second league (third tier). On 11 August 2023, following promotion to the first league (second tier), the club changed its name to KF Prishtina e Re. Although initially thought to be a breakaway from the historic FC Prishtina, the name actually derives from a nearby residential complex of the same name.