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Albanian Cup

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ116805 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Albanian 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"). The cup was suspended for the next eight years as the Second World War started. It started again in 1948 as "Kupa e Republikës" (English: "Republic Cup") and from 1991 as "Kupa e Shqipërisë" (Albanian Cup). Today it is the second most important competition in Albania after the Kategoria Superiore.

The winners of the Cup automatically earn the right to participate in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League.

Finals results

Performances by club

Appearances

At least 20 Cup appearances.

See also

Albanian Supercup

References

RSSSF

Albania Cup

External links

League321.com – National cup results. (in English)

https://www.calciomondialeweb.it/EUR/ALB/AlbaniaCoppa.htm

SOCCERWAY– Albanian Cup summary.

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“Albanian Cup” enters the record as football tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Albanian, football and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1948, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Albanian, football and tournament.
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“Albanian Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Albanian, football and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116805. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1948 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albanian Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.