FC Prishtina#Prishtina in Europe

Prishtina

Full name	Football Club Prishtina
Nickname	Plisat (The Clods)
Short name	PRI, FCP
Founded	21 April 1922; 103 years ago (1922-04-21) (as KF Kosova Prishtinë)[1] 15 July 1957; 68 years ago (1957-07-15) (as KF Prishtina)
Ground	Fadil Vokrri Stadium
Capacity	13,980
Owner(s)	Rrahman Haradini (92%) Other owners (8%)
President	Rrahman Haradini
Manager	Arsim Thaqi
League	Kosovo Superleague
2024–25	Kosovo Superleague, 6th of 10
Website	prishtinafc.com
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Football Club Prishtina (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Prishtina, IPA: [ˈklubi futboɫisˈtik ˈpɾiʃtina]), commonly known as Prishtina, is a professional football club based in Pristina, Kosovo. The club plays in the Kosovo Superleague. It is the most successful domestic club.

The club was founded in 1922 under the name Kosova. Later on their name changed to Proleter, Bashkimi, Kosova and finally Prishtina.

Football began to be played and developed in Kosovo shortly after the end of the First World War, around 1919. Many demobilized soldiers, officers, and students returning from universities in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, England, Bucharest, Budapest, and elsewhere brought with them an interest in the sport. One student from Samerslen College in Grenoble (France) is recorded as having brought the first football to Prishtina in 1919, a gift he had received from a doctor he had met there.

With the introduction of the first football in Prishtina, many young people began playing informally, though no organized structure existed at the time. Only friendly matches were played, primarily between school youth and the local military garrison.

As time passed, the need for a formally organized club grew stronger. In 1922, when Prishtina was a small town of roughly 16,000 inhabitants, local high school students took the initiative to form the first organized football club, named Kosova. Although the club did not participate in official competitions due to not being registered with any sporting authority, it regularly played friendly matches. The team was composed mainly of high school students and was occasionally reinforced by soldiers from the Prishtina Garrison.

These friendly matches were commonly played against other newly formed teams both within Kosovo and in nearby Macedonia.

In 1926, another football club was established in Prishtina: Gragjanski, which primarily gathered the town’s artisan youth. Unlike Kosova, Gragjanski was financially stronger and more structurally consolidated. The club took advantage of this and succeeded in registering with the Banovina Skopje Football Sub-League, although detailed records of the level of competition are not available.^[2]

In the beginning the club competed in Yugoslav lower leagues all the way until the beginning of World War II when the region was annexed to Albania. In 1942 Prishtina competed in the North group of the 1942 Albanian Championship finishing in fourth and bottom place of their group.^[3]

After the end of the war the club returned to the Yugoslav league system and played for mostly in the Yugoslav Second League. FC Prishtina won in 1945 and 1946 they won the Kosovo Province Title and are the first Kosovar to do so but the success did not end there. In the 1947 season Prishtina wrote history for being one of the founder clubs in the new SFR Yugoslavia Cup in this Season. In their first ever Cup match they played against Goce Delcev from Prilep. Prishtina won this match with 1–0 and qualify for the next Round. In the second round Prishtina had a harder tie against Rabotnicki Skopje from the second League, but Prishtina did not give up and won this Match away in Skopje with 1–2 and became the first Albanian club to ever reach the round of 16 in a regional competition in their first ever Cup Season. In the round of 16 Prishtina had to play away against Partizan despite a good performance they lost this match 2–0.

Prishtina also were close to qualify for their first time in the Yugoslav First League in the season 1972–73 but they lost the playoffs games against NK Osijek from Croatia and could not Progress in the Main division. After losing in the home in Prishtina the leg with 1–2 and away with 0–1 in Osijek.

S.Šujica

S.Shengyli

P.Gruevski

F.Rama

F. Domi

F.Domi

R.Mehinović

F.Muriqi

A.Cana

F.Vokrri

Z.Batrović

1983–84 Yugoslav First League starting lineup vs. Red Star Belgrade (4–4–2)

FC Prishtina was now stabilized and a scary team had been created and only its explosion was expected. The 1980–81 season was difficult both for Pristina and for the entire population of Kosovo due to the political situation that had been created. From March (1981), Dimoski will be replaced by another coach, the Hungarian from Vojvodina, Béla Pálfi (March 1981 – July 1983), who has great merit for qualifying the team in the elite and creating a great team. The team this season was forced to spend almost the entire spring season outside the city (in Kragujevac, Serbia) due to the ban on sports activity in Kosovo. Prishtina with Pálfi, in the 1981/82 season finishes in 8th place. In the 1982/83 season, the white and blue team had finally started to make history and after 60 years of its creation, and after 20 years of struggling in the Second League, a generation, called Golden, was finally created that violated all in front of him, who had extraordinary leaders and an army of fans with an average of 30,000 per match.

FC Prishtina after entering the first Federal League has competed for five consecutive seasons in it. In her first year in the elite, she also played in the Central European Cup where she took second place among the four teams. In the same year, two players from Prishtina, in the same match, make their debut for the then Yugoslav national team, the strikers: Fadil Vokrri and Zoran Batrović. Meanwhile, in five years of competitions in the First League, Prishtina was led by well-known Yugoslav football names. Fuad Muzurović had been the first Pristina coach to lead the team to the highest level of the country, which had the league among the four or five strongest in Europe. Muzurović, later the coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had led the team from July 1983 until the same time in 1984. Then he returned in July 1985 and led the capital from Prishtina to in August 1986.

After Muzurović, the bench was taken over by the other great strategist of the former Yugoslavia, Vukašin Višnjevac, who, however, had not been so dear to some key players of the team, as he had withstood the pressure and his adventure in Prishtina had ended. in November 1984. Then, quite successfully for three months, the team was led by the Albanian coach, Ajet Shosholli. Shosholli until that time had been only the second Albanian coach, after Mensur Bajrami (January–April 1977), who had led the team. Meanwhile, the position in the table had been aggravated and the leaders of the club had been forced to find a famous coach and the solution was with Miroslav Blažević. The lease that later with the Croatian Representative reaches the third place in "France '98", contributes to the merits of the club remaining in the First League. The lease had only lasted for two months, long enough for him to remain one of the most memorable of that time. Prishtina continues for another three seasons in the collection of the best and in its ranks gravitate two other well-known strategists of the time, Milovan Đorić (October 1986 – September 1987) and Josip Duvančić (September 1987 – June 1988) with whom eventually Prishtina falls out of the league. The team had left some of its stars, some had now retired, while the tense political situation and the decline of interest of Kosovo's political and social structures had made Pristina no longer able to stay in the first federal League. With the relegation from the League, Prishtina brings together the next generation of talented people from Kosovo who are first led by another well-known name in former Yugoslav football, Milan Živadinović (July 1988 – March 1989). In the first season since the fall (1988/89) Prishtina played with minus 6 points and again fought and achieved culminating results, but did not manage to climb back into the elite.

Notes

¹ Prishtina were docked six points due to match fixing in the last round of the previous season.
² Two points for winners. If the game finished as a draw, penalty kicks were taken and only the winner gained one point. In brackets are those penalty-kick points.
³ Championship abandoned officially on 14 May 1999 due to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Due to UNMIK, FC Prishtina were able to play in the Kosovan league system only.

After Kosovo self-proclaimed independence from Serbia, FC Prishtina left the Yugoslav football league system and became part of the Independent League of Kosovo, which became the highest football division of Kosovo and would be renamed to the Football Superleague of Kosovo after the Kosovo War in 1999. As the Kosovar club with most successful results in the past and the best infrastructure, FC Prishtina won the first edition of the competition in the 1991–92 season. Afterwards, it won the competition again in the 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons.

Since 1991, FC Prishtina has been Kosovo champion 11 times, making it the most successful Kosovar club since Kosovo left the Yugoslav football league system.^[5] Between 1945 and 1991 the Kosovar league was a regional league of the Yugoslav league system, and FC Prishtina did not gather many titles in that league because it usually competed in higher national levels.

Prishtina is an Albanian supported club with fans around Albanian communities in the Balkans and in Diaspora.^[6] The fans sing the Albanian National Anthem before every game and only affiliate with the Albanian nation and identity.^[7]

Plisat
Founded	1987; 38 years ago (1987)
Type	Supporters' group
Motto	Rrugës sypatrembur (On the fearless road)
Location	Pristina, Kosovo
Arena	Fadil Vokrri Stadium
Stand	East (until 2019) South (since 2019)
Affiliations	Tifozat Kuq e Zi

Plisat are the ultras group of Prishtina. They stand in the South part of the stadium.^[8] In the late eighties, there were quite a few small groups with different group names. It was in those years that most of the fans of Prishtina chose to identify as "Plisat". "Plisat" have never been separated from the club even during Yugoslavia's anti-Albanian policies.^[6] In addition to football, they started to follow and support the basketball club with the same fervour. As the organisation grew, it began to resemble some of the other large fan groups in the region and the rest of Europe. They also support the Albania National Team.^[9][10]

KF Prishtina competed for the Mitropa Cup finals in the 1983–84 season. Being Runner Up in this competition by a single point to Eisenstadt from Austria. Also being the first Kosovan Football side to compete in a UEFA Football competition and also the only Kosovan Football club that would reach a final in a UEFA Competition so far.

Prishtina competed in the UEFA Europa League for the first time in the 2017–18 season, entering at the first qualifying round. On 19 June 2017, in Nyon, the draw was held and Prishtina were drawn against Swedish side Norrköping.^[12] On 5 July 2018, Prishtina beat the Gibraltarian side Europa at Adem Jashari Olympic Stadium in Mitrovica and became the first Kosovan side to win a UEFA Europa League match.^[13][14]

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
1983–84	Mitropa Cup	RR	Eisenstadt	3–3	2–4	Runners-up[15]
			Vasas	4–2	1–1
			Teplice	2–0	1–1
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Norrköping	0–1	0–5	0–6
2018–19		PR	Europa	5–0	1–1	6–1
		1Q	Fola Esch	0–0	0–0	0–0 (4–5 p)
2019–20		PR	St Joseph's	1–1	0–2	1–3
2020–21		PR	Lincoln Red Imps	0–3 (awarded)
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	PR	Folgore	2–0
			Inter d'Escaldes	2–0
		1Q	Ferencváros	1–3	0–3	1–6
	UEFA Europa Conference League	2Q	Connah's Quay Nomads	4–1	2–4	6–5
		3Q	Bodø/Glimt	2–1	0–2	2–3
2025–26	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	0–4	2–5
	UEFA Conference League	2QR	Larne	1–1	0–0	1–1 (4–5 p)

As of 29 September 2021^[16]

Rank	Team	Points	Country Part
278	Bnei Yehuda	4.350	0.000
279	Hapoel Haifa	4.350	0.000
280	Prishtina	4.250	2.000
281	Partizani	4.250	1.500
282	Stjarnan	4.250	1.000
283	Pyunik	4.250	0.000

As of 14 October 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  KOS Altin Gjokaj 3 DF  KOS Leonat Vitija 4 MF  KOS Dren Zeqiri 5 DF  KOS Ardian Limani (vice-captain) 6 MF  KOS Gentrit Salihu 7 FW  KOS Valmir Veliu 8 MF  KOS Rigon Llugiqi 9 FW  KOS Leotrim Kryeziu (captain) 10 MF  KOS Blendi Baftiu 11 DF  KOS Ardian Muja 12 GK  KOS Ardit Nika (3rd captain) 14 FW  MKD Mario Ilievski 15 DF  KOS Diar Halili 16 MF  KOS Hamdi Namani 17 FW  KOS Alban Shillova

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  KOS Ramiz Bytyqi 22 DF  NIG Philippe Boueye 24 DF  MNE Đorđe Šaletić 25 DF  NED Gladwin Curiel 26 MF  KOS Gjelbrim Taipi 27 MF  KOS Rin Ahmeti 30 DF  KOS Amar Demolli 34 DF  NED Christopher Mamengi 50 GK  KOS Agron Kolaj 29 FW  POR Luís Mota 97 DF  KOS Shkambi Baruti — MF  KOS Rilind Nimani 19 FW  KOS Elton Krasniqi

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  KOS Drin Bajraktari (at Vushtrria until 30 June 2026) 18 DF  KOS Ardi Ajdini (at Liria Prizren until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ALB Flori Spahija (at Vjosa until 31 December 2025) — FW  KOS Sinan Kadiri (at Vëllaznimi Gjakovë until 30 June 2026)

This is a list of FC Prishtina players with senior national team appearances:^[17][18]

Current technical staff
Position	Name
Head coach	Arsim Thaqi
Assistant coach(es)
	Blerim Bunjaku
	Behar Maliqi
Goalkeeping coach	Ahmet Beselica
Sports Director	Driton Krasniqi
Team Manager	Faton Zejnullahu
Office	Name
President	Rrahman Haradini
General Director	Artan Osmani
Secretary	Kushtrim Sopa
Treasurer	Ismet Grainca
Board members
	Hashim Deshishku
	Beqir Cerkezi
	Ragip Mustafa
	Hakif Gashi
Information and media officer	Jon Ajeti

This is the list of coaches of FC Prishtina:^[19]

• ^[1] Esad Ejupi, 100 vjet klubi i futbollit Prishtina 1922–2022, Prishtinë, 2024.

Kit provider	Period	Shirt sponsor
Nike	2007–08	Eurokoha
LIG	2008–13	zëri
joma	2013–15	germanwings
Hummel	2015–18	Eurokoha
Jako	2019–2022
		RIO mare
Phoenix Sport	2022–present	RIO mare

The all-time list of football clubs that have participated in the Kosovo Superleague, prior to the 2019–2020 season. The ranking is based on the total accumulated points by Prishtina.

The following tables list FC Prishtina’s all-time record appearance makers and goalscorers since 1957, when complete club statistics began to be officially documented. The records include official matches played in the Yugoslav football system (First, Second and Third Divisions) and the Kosovo Superliga. All figures are based on the official club monograph 100 vjet klubi i futbollit Prishtina by Esad Ejupi.^[1] Updated as of 3 October 2025

Rank	Player	NAT	Position	Years	Seasons in Superliga (Kosovo)	Seasons in YU First Division	Seasons in YU Second Division	Seasons in YU Third Division	Total games
1	Danilo Stevanovic		Defender	1964–1977	–	–	12	1	354
2	Dragan Radosevic		Defender	1961–1975	–	–	14	–	272
3	Egedi Reshi		Defensive Midfielder	1957–1970	–	–	13	–	263
4	Marko Cejlovic		Defender	1961–1971	–	–	9	–	257
5	Azem Ahmeti		Midfielder	2006–2015	9	–	–	–	254
6	Fadil Muriqi		Offensive Midfielder	1978–1988	–	5	6	–	241
7	Florim Humolli		Midfielder	1995–2009	12	–	–	–	235
8	Lorik Boshnjaku		Midfielder	2014–2022	8	–	–	–	233
9	Agim Cana		Offensive Midfielder	1973–1985	–	3	6	2	222
10	Besnik Krasniqi		Defender	2008–2022	7	–	–	–	220
11	Petar Mladenovic		Offensive Midfielder	1961–1971	–	–	9	1	216
12	Burim Hatipi		Offensive Midfielder	1963–1976	–	–	11	2	213
13	Gauthier Mankenda		Striker	2015–2022	8	–	–	–	212
14	Ahmet Beselica		Goalkeeper	1991–2004	11	–	–	–	211
15	Erdogan Celina		Defender	1970–1981	–	–	7	–	207
16	Endrit Krasniqi		Midfielder	2014–2023	7	–	–	–	203
17	Leotrim Kryeziu		Striker	2020–present	6	–	–	–	201
18	Afrim Toverlani		Midfielder	1985–2003	9	3	2	–	193
19	Arbnor Morina		Defender	1984–1997	6	4	3	–	188
19	Kushtrim Mushica		Goalkeeper	2001–2015	9	–	–	–	188
21	Liridon Kukaj		Defender	2012–2017	7	–	–	–	185
22	Peter Doncic		Midfielder	1969–1977	–	7	1	–	184
23	Arben Zhjeqi		Defender	1999–2008	7	–	–	–	183
24	Labinot Ibrahimi		Defender	2005–2013	9	–	–	–	175
25	Dushan Shuica		Striker	1966–1973	–	6	–	–	177
26	V. Gjukic		Defender	1963–1970	–	7	–	–	177
27	Mensur Nexhipi		Midfielder	1983–1990	–	5	3	–	176
28	Shfeqet Sinani		Defender	1977–1987	–	4	5	1	175
29	Driton Krasniqi		Midfielder	2003–2015	12	–	–	–	175

Note: Leotrim Kryeziu is an active player still with the club (as of October 2025).

Rank	Player	NAT	Years	Position	Total games	Official goals
1	Dushan Shuica		1966–1973	Striker	177	96
2	Kushtrim Munishi		1991–2008	Striker	105	64
3	Sheremet Isufi		2000–2006	Striker	163	60
4	Lubomir Cvetkovic		1968–1975	Striker	183	55
4	Fadil Vokrri		1980–1986	Striker	173	55
6	Agim Cana		1973–1985	Offensive Midfielder	222	51
7	Petar Mladenovic		1961–1971	Offensive Midfielder	216	50
8	Dragolub Kostic		1971–1976	Striker	159	50
9	Azem Ahmeti		2006–2015	Midfielder	254	46
10	Leotrim Kryeziu		2020–present	Striker	201	42

Note: Leotrim Kryeziu is an active player still with the club (as of October 2025).

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