KF Egnatia
association football club
KF Egnatia (Albanian: Klubi i Futbollit Egnatia) is an Albanian professional football club based in Rrogozhinë. The club competes in Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is Egnatia Arena, which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators.
The club was founded on 15 September 1934 under the name 22 Shtatori Rrogozhinë. In 1991 the name of the club was changed to Vullneti Rrogozhinë, before being renamed to Egnatia, in 1998. The club secured its first championship title in 2024.
The club's name derives from the ancient Via Egnatia, the Roman road that passed through the Rrogozhinë area. The road itself was named after Gnaeus Egnatius, the Roman proconsul of the Roman province of Macedonia who oversaw its construction in the 2nd century BC.
History
Football developed as a popular pastime in Rrogozhinë during the early years of the First World War. Being close to Kavajë, a city with one of Albania’s strongest footballing traditions, the town benefited from its neighbour’s influence and gradually formed an amateur team that would later compete in the country’s second division. The club’s first recorded match took place in 1934, when it faced Besa in a friendly and lost 7–1.
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