Flamurtari FC

Flamurtari
Full nameFlamurtari Football Club
Nickname(s)Kuq e Zinjtë
Flota Kuq e Zi
Founded23 March 1923; 101 years ago (1923-03-23) as Shoqëria Sportive Vlorë
GroundFlamurtari Stadium
Capacity8,500[1]
OwnerBashkia Vlorë, TRK MW Group
PresidentSinan Idrizi
ManagerAndrea Agostinelli
LeagueKategoria e Parë
2023–24Kategoria e Parë, 3rd

Flamurtari FC is an Albanian professional football club based in Vlorë, Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria e Parë, which is the second tier of football in the country.

Founded in 1923, the club is one of the oldest in Albania, also being one of its most successful clubs, having won one Albanian Superliga title in 1991, four Albanian Cups, and two Albanian Supercups. Flamurtari is also known for their European runs in the 1980s, where they famously reached the last sixteen in the 1987–88 UEFA Cup, where they beat Spanish giants Barcelona in Vlorë but lost on aggregate.

  1. ^ "World Stadiums". Archived from the original on 2017-07-25. Retrieved 2014-01-25.