European Competitions: 2023-24 Edition

[Plako]

Struga will play its playoff match at "Elbasan Arena"

https://www.koha.net/en/sports/388981/S ... san-Arena/

And Ballkani flew to Gibraltar with Air Albania from Rinas and trained in Vora's stadium. Mother Albania helping out

Making Albania Great Again!!!

[MercedesBenz240]

Struga will play its playoff match at "Elbasan Arena"

https://www.koha.net/en/sports/388981/S ... san-Arena/

So turns out they will play in Ohrid instead. The Northern Maqedonian federation probably pushed hard until the last minute for UEFA to accept the village stadium of Ohrid. Imagine what embarrassment would be to not be able to find a proper stadium in the entire country for your champion team. Meanwhile the news that Struga will play in Elbasan is still up on FSHF's website

[artan]

Struga will play its playoff match at "Elbasan Arena"

https://www.koha.net/en/sports/388981/S ... san-Arena/

So turns out they will play in Ohrid instead. The Northern Maqedonian federation probably pushed hard until the last minute for UEFA to accept the village stadium of Ohrid. Imagine what embarrassment would be to not be able to find a proper stadium in the entire country for your champion team. Meanwhile the news that Struga will play in Elbasan is still up on FSHF's website

It will make more sense in Ohrid. Ohrid is only like a 10 min drive from Struga and they would probably be able to get better support there. I doubt in Elbasan Arena much spectators would attend

[Princ]

What a story line from the opap arena in Greece as AEK knocks out Dinamo Zagreb in CHL qualifiers..

Trailing 2-3 on aggregate and facing elimination, AEK put it on Dinamo late in the match. The home team scored 2 90th minute goals to honour their late fan Michalis Katsouris and secure a playoff spot against Royal Antwerp.

Former Dinamo Zagreb defender and Croatian international Domagoj Vida had the winning goal, a header off a missed penalty right before the final whistle. AEK will be looking to make CHL group stage for the first time since 2018-19!

[artan]

Ballkani put a hurting on BATE winning 4-1. The same team Partizani couldn't score a goal against in two legs. Pretty much guaranteed to the group stages of the Conference league again.

Partizani and Struga both lost 1-0. It will be tough for Partizani to win at home as Astana is a somewhat professional club and Partizani just seem helpless in scoring. Struga is a village club and not much should be expected.

[Redijupison]

Watched Ballkani's game, they could've scored way more than only four goals

[Dallku]

Ballkani put a hurting on BATE winning 4-1. The same team Partizani couldn't score a goal against in two legs. Pretty much guaranteed to the group stages of the Conference league again.

Partizani and Struga both lost 1-0. It will be tough for Partizani to win at home as Astana is a somewhat professional club and Partizani just seem helpless in scoring. Struga is a village club and not much should be expected.

Partizani is 100% getting eliminated. That 1-0 is deceiving. Astana could've won by 5 or 6 easily. There was a big difference.

Conference League is begging for Albanian clubs to join it but they are beyond amateurish. Don't be surprised if the new project Dinamo Durres will be the one that will start qualifying for tournaments. They seem more serious compared to the rest.

[artan]

Ballkani put a hurting on BATE winning 4-1. The same team Partizani couldn't score a goal against in two legs. Pretty much guaranteed to the group stages of the Conference league again.

Partizani and Struga both lost 1-0. It will be tough for Partizani to win at home as Astana is a somewhat professional club and Partizani just seem helpless in scoring. Struga is a village club and not much should be expected.

Partizani is 100% getting eliminated. That 1-0 is deceiving. Astana could've won by 5 or 6 easily. There was a big difference.

Conference League is begging for Albanian clubs to join it but they are beyond amateurish. Don't be surprised if the new project Dinamo Durres will be the one that will start qualifying for tournaments. They seem more serious compared to the rest.

Apparently Partizani lost possession 75% to 25%. Imagine getting that outclassed from a team from Kazakhstan lol.

With the new format, it's not all that difficult for a team to qualify via Champions path. It's very embarrassing for a team like Partizani that represents a city with a metro population of nearly 1 million and in a football crazed country to be this bad (same with all Tirana teams). With all things considered probably the worst capital in Europe football wise. The best player produced is Ernest Muci? Such wasted potential.

It's even more embarrassing when KF Ballkani are able to qualify consecutive years and be competitive despite representing a small town.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

At least Partizani and Tirana won't get caught fixing matches. They're the only teams I trust not to pull off shit like that.

[Redijupison]

At least Partizani and Tirana won't get caught fixing matches. They're the only teams I trust not to pull off shit like that.

Lol, wouldn't trust Albanian clubs. It's weird though how much money both of these clubs spend compared to other Albanian teams only to underperform in Europe year after year.