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Albania Gift - Tirana Football Team Fridge Magnet earlier period

KF Tirana (Albanian: Klubi i Futbollit Tirana, in English Football club Tirana) is the most successful Albanian football club. It is also the most popular football club in the country with a considerable number of supporters. 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 August 16, 1920 under the name of "Agimi Sports Association". In 1927 the club was renamed to SK Tirana (Albanian: Sportklub Tirana), in 1947, to "17 Nëntori Tirana", from 1952 to 1956 to "Puna Tirana", and in 1991 the club was renamed KF Tirana. Tirana won its first title of Albanian champions in the first Albanian Football Championship. KF Tirana is also the only club in Albania to have played all the championships of the Albanian Superliga since 1930 and all the Albanian Cups started in 1938. The club participated in a European cup competition in 1965-66 for the first time. The club also has women's football team called Tirana AS who have won both of the official organised events held so far in Albania. They also have a futsal called Futsal Klub Tirana who have won the Albanian Mini-Football Championship 5 times out of a possible 7, and they have competed in the UEFA Futsal Cup on four occasions.

Even though KF Tirana shone through the last 20 years, the last three recent seasons displayed instability. Despite the fact that most of the key players remained in the team, other factors affected negatively the presentation, not only in the domestic league, but also the international appearances. KF Tirana's last solid dominating season was the one 2006/07, when the title was easily achieved. However,since the team failure in Champions League qualifications (two losses against Slovenians of NK Domzale) which interrupted the chain of successes in first leg's European league matches, KF Tirana started an unexplainable downfall. The season 2007/08 found them in 6-th spot, an unusual position for this team for last 18 years.

Although Tirana won the title in 2008/09, it was a glowless season. The problems started again in 2009/10 where the club just couldn't be a match for champions KS Dinamo in Superior League and were eliminated early in the Cup from KS Besa.

The only consolation of another failed season was the achievement of Europa League first qualifying round participation. Having a coefficient of 1.799 KF Tirana ranked among seeded teams on the first round. The draw goggles in Nyon revealed Zalaegerszegi TE as first round opponent. Having drawn goalless at the first leg in home soil, KF Tirana won their second away match 1-0 in 107' of extra time via a marvellous free kick from Erindo Karabeci and KF Tirana qualified with a scoreline 1-0 in aggregates. The following round gave Tirana a much tougher opponent, FC Utrecht. The Dutch team beat the white and blues 4-0 in the first away leg, as the second leg ended 1-1 draw.Thus KF Tirana were eliminated with a 1-5 aggregate scoreline, focusing the attention in the incoming Domestic League which starts on August, 21-st

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