AF Elbasani

In 2021, the club was formed by the Elbasan Municipality after the disagreements with businessman Arben Laze who was the owner of the first football club KF Elbasani. Due to financial bankruptcy, Elbasani was seized by the Directorate of Taxes in Elbasan. So with the initiative of the fans they found the way and with the cooperation of Elbasan Municipality, AF Elbasani was created.^[1]

In the 2021–22 season, they competed in the fourth tier of Albanian football, Kategoria e Tretë. In their first season, they achieved first place, gaining promotion to Kategoria e Dytë.^[2]

In the 2022–23 season, AF Elbasani finished first in the Group B of the Kategoria e Dytë, which gained them promotion for the first time to the Kategoria e Parë.^[3] In their first season, they finished in 1st place, and were crowned champions and were promoted to the Kategoria Superiore.^[4]

In the 2024–25 season, they narrowly missed out on qualifying to the final four, by finishing 5th on 50 points, 3 points behind Partizani.

• Kategoria e Parë
  • Champions (1): 2023–24
• Kategoria e Tretë
  • Champions (1): 2021-22

Recent seasons

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Season	Division	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Supercup	Europe		Top Scorer
2021–22	Kategoria e Tretë	1st	14	13	1	0	84	4	40	—	—	—	—	Denis Mici 29
2022–23	Kategoria e Dytë	2nd	22	18	4	0	64	12	58	—	—	—	—	Arsen Lleshi 14
2023–24	Kategoria e Parë	1st	33	24	7	2	76	32	79	R16	—	—	—	Bedri Greca 18
2024–25	Kategoria Superiore	5th	36	11	17	8	40	38	50	QF	—	—	—	Arsen Lleshi 7 Emiljano Musta 7
2025–26	Kategoria Superiore									SF	—	—	—

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The club plays its home games at the Elbasan Arena, which was originally built in 1967 and named the Labinot Stadium after the club's name at the time, which was Labinot Elbasan. The stadium was previously called Ruzhdi Bizhuta, after one of the club's most famous players. In January 2014 it was announced that the stadium would take over from the Qemal Stafa Stadium as the home of the Albania national team until Qemal Stafa is reconstructed. Prime minister Edi Rama visited the stadium on 28 January 2014 and he confirmed that work on the stadium would begin shortly, in order for Albania to be able to play their home games in the country as no other stadiums met the minimum requirements for Euro 2016 qualifiers.^[5][6][7] Works on the stadium began in February, and they were completed in time for Albania's opening qualifying fixture against Denmark in October 2014.^[8] The overall reconstruction costs amounted to €5.5 million, which included works being completed on everything from the parking lot to the installation of new floodlights, and the stadium now has an official seated capacity of 12,800.^[9][10][11]