KS Flamurtari
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| Full name | Klubi Sportiv Flamurtari Vlorë |
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Flota Kuqezi (The Red and Black Fleet) Kuqezinjte (The Red and Black) |
| Founded | March 23, 1923 as Shoqeria Sportive Vlorë |
| Ground | Flamurtari Stadium, Vlorë, Albania |
| Capacity | 8,500 |
| Owner | Bashkia Vlorë TRK & Atlasjet |
| President | Sinan Idrizi |
| Head Coach | Shpëtim Duro |
| League | Albanian Superliga |
| 2015–16 | Albanian Superliga, 8th |
| Website | Club home page |
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| Football | Basketball | Futsal |
Flota Kuqezi (The Red and Black Fleet)
Klubi Sportiv Flamurtari Vlorë is an Albanian football club based in the southern city of Vlorë. The club's home ground is the Flamurtari Stadium and they compete in the Albanian Superliga, the highest tier of Albanian football.
Founded in 1923, the club is one of the oldest in Albania, and it is also one of the most successful clubs, having won two Albanian Superliga title in 1991, 2011 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.
KS Flamurtari Vlorë were founded on March 23, 1923 as Shoqeria Sportive Vlorë with Milto Korcari as the club's first ever President, while Malo Ismaili held the role of the secretary and Faslli Zoga that of the financier. The club was created to make sports and especially football more organized and more popular. Its financial needs were covered by donations from the members or from different activities organized in the city of Vlorë. Shoqeria Sportive played their first football match against Shoqëria Sportive Jeronim de Rada, a local team created from students from Vlorë. The match ended in a 2–2 draw. The goals for Shoqeria Sportive were scored by Adem Gavani and Hazbi Tepelena. During the 1920s the club played several friendlies with other Albanian and foreign teams. Interesting were the matches against SK Crnogorac Cetinje and the football team of the Livorno Naval Institute which the Red and Black Fleet both won 1–0 and 3–2 respectively. Shoqeria Sportive Vlorë were a founder member of the Football Association of Albania and participated in the first championship. Its first official match was against Skënderbeu Korçë in Vlorë and ended with a 2–0 win. The team's first captain in an official match was Jani Kosta. In the first championship Shoqeria Sportive finished bottom of the table with two wins (vs. Skënderbeu at home, 2–0, and vs. Urani Elbasan away, 2–1), two draws (vs. KS Skënderbeu Korca away, 0–0, and vs. Bashkimi Shkodran at home, 1–1) and six losses.
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