KF Trepça
association football club
Klubi Futbollistik Trepça, commonly known as KF Trepça, is a professional football club based in the southern part of Mitrovica, Kosovo. The club currently plays in the First Football League of Kosovo in Group A. KF Trepça was founded in 1932.
During the Yugoslav era it was the first football club from SAP Kosovo to gain promotion to the First Federal League, Yugoslavia's top football division, in 1977–78, after winning the Second Federal League title in 1976–77. Trepça was one of only two clubs from Kosovo, along with KF Prishtina, who competed in the Yugoslav top level. Trepça also hold the distinction as the only Kosovar club which reached the Yugoslav national cup final, in their first top-level season, losing the 1978 Marshal Tito Cup final to Croatian side Rijeka.
History
Early years (1932–1945)
Trepça was founded in 1932 by workers of the Trepça Mines in Mitrovica during the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From the founding year until 1938, the club did not have an own venue, so coached and played on a playing field in the neighboring town Zveçan. In 1938, a small field was built in "Lugu i Çesmës" where they played until the Second World War. Later they received its own stadium, the Trepça Stadium, which offered then about 30,000 spectators. Both Albanians and Serbs played for the club, Albanian players that marked the pre-WWII period were Mazllum Grushti, Hasko Bula, Gota Sezair, Ejup Kerveshi, Adnan Mustafa, Ahmed and Qamil Zajmi, Hysen Murati, Xhati Zhubi, Sali Pllana, Bedri Hamza, Shinasi Rizanolli, Ahmet Shukriu, Burhan Kurkuqi, Jakup Berisha, Qazim Pllana, Sami Konjusha, Agim Deva, Ekrem Neziri, Riza Gashi, etc.
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