Klubi Futbollistik Trepça, commonly known as KF Trepça, is a football club based in the southern part of Mitrovica, Kosovo.^[a] The club was founded in 1932.[1]

Trepça

Full name	Klubi Futbollistik Trepça
Nickname(s)	Xehetarët (The Miners)
Founded	1932; 90 years ago (1932)
Ground	Adem Jashari Olympic Stadium
Capacity	18,500
Coordinates	42°53′0″N 20°52′0″E
President	Nexhmedin Haxhiu
Manager	Sheremt Isufi
League	First Football League of Kosovo
2020–21	First Football League of Kosovo – Group A, 6th of 10
Home colours Away colours

KF Trepça is the first Kosovo Football club to gain promotion in to the Yugoslav First League) in 1977-78 after winning the Yugoslav Second League in 1976–77 as the first Club in Kosovo to do so. Trepça was one of only two Clubs in Kosovo with KF Prishtina who competed in the Yugoslav First League. They also reached the Finals off the 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup in which they lost against HNK Rijeka with 0-1 being also the first and only Kosovo Football Club to achieve this success.

History

Trepça was founded in 1932 by workers of the Trepça Mines in Mitrovica during the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From the founding year until 1938, the club did not have an own venue, so coached and played on a playing field in the neighboring town Zveçan. In 1938, a small field was built where they played until the Second World War. Later they received its own stadium, the Trepça Stadium, which offered then about 30,000 spectators. Both Albanians and serbs played for the club, Albanian players that marked the pre-WWII period were Mazllum Grushti, Hasko Bula, Gota Sezair, Ejup Kerveshi, Adnan Mustafa, Ahmed and Qamil Zajmi, Hysen Murati, Xhati Zhubi, Sali Pllana, Bedri Hamza, Shinasi Rizanolli, Ahmet Shukriu, Burhan Kurkuqi, Jakup Berisha, Qazim Pllana, Sami Konjusha, Agim Deva, Ekrem Neziri, Riza Gashi, etc.[2] Gota Cezair was a Prizren-born player who, after playing with Trepça, went to Italy to study Economy at the University of Firenze, and, while there, he played for Carrarese Calcio.[3][4] and later returned to Yugoslavia and played with FK Vardar in Yugoslav First and Second Leagues.[5]

During the Second World War, the Kosovo Albanian players of Trepça, played for the Albanian football club called KF Skënderbeu, which was active during the war and the fascist occupation. After the end of the war, Trepça was long in the shadow of numerous Yugoslav clubs. However, in 1977 came the first major success for the club, when they achieved the promotion to the Yugoslav First League.^{[citation needed]}

In the following 1977–78 season, the club relegated in the Yugoslav Second League, but managed to achieve the 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup final, where they lost against NK Rijeka by 0–1 after extra time. During this period, the club's nickname Xehetarët (The Miners) was especially popular, and the Trepça players Dragan Mutibarić, Dragan Simeunović and Vladan Radača became members of the Yugoslav national football team. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the players that emerged in the club were Sali Qubreli, Jakup Abrashi, Ajet Shosholli, Hysni Maxhuni, Luan Prekazi, Rexhep Xhaka, Erdogan Celina, Esat Mehmeti, Ramadan Cimili, Fisnik Ademi, Adnan Zeqiri, Ibrahim Prekazi, Faruk Domi, Aqif Shehu, Mensur Nexhipi, Rafet Prekazi, Genc Hoxha, Avni Juniku, Bakir Burri, Hasan Shasivari, Shemsedin Ajeti, Vahedin Ajeti, Ahmet Turku, Gani Llapashtica, Isa Sadriu, Bardhec Seferi, Sadik Rrahmani, among others.[2]

The main supporters of KF Trepça are TORCIDA 1984 which were formed on 20 March 1984. Their biggest rival is KF Prishtina.

Stadium

After the Kosovo war in 1999, the city was divided into a southern part with an almost exclusively Kosovo Albanian population and a northern part with a non-Albanian or predominantly Serb population.[6] During the war, many Serbs and non-Albanians fled to the northern part of the city or were expelled. The 2004 unrest in Kosovo reinforced the ethnic division of the city.

The home ground of the club is now the Trepča Stadium, the same stadium where the Serbian club FK Trepča played until 1999.[6] The stadium is located in the southern part of the city, but FK Trepča is based in North Kosovska Mitrovica, in North Kosovo; it is not currently possible for them to play their home matches in their former home stadium.[7][6] Currently, only Albanian teams play in Trepča Stadium, including the KF Trepça.[6] The Trepča Stadium is now called Olympik Stadiumi Adem Jashari by the Kosovo Albanian population, after Adem Jashari, a former leader of the Albanian paramilitary rebel organisation UÇK; the non-Albanian population still uses the name Stadion Trepča.[1] The stadium is the largest in Kosovo with a capacity of 18,200.

Honours

Kosovar Superliga

• Winners (2): 1993, 2010

Kosovo Province League

• Winners (5): 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955

Kosovar Cup

• Winners (1): 1992

Yugoslav Second League (1):

• Champion: 1976–77 (promoted to Yugoslav First League)

Yugoslav Cup (1):

• Runner-up: 1978

Players

Current squad

As of 1 September 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  KOS Arben Beqiri 2 DF  KOS Fetah Ibrahimi 3 DF  KOS Urim Veliu 4 MF  KOS Arlind Syla 5 DF  KOS Dren Idrizi 6 FW  KOS Fatjon Bunjaku 7 FW  ARG Rodrigo Nahuel Zalazar 8 MF  KOS Diar Mustafa 9 FW  KOS Edis Ahmeti 10 MF  KOS Ardian Neziri 11 MF  KOS Endrit Emini 12 GK  GHA Silas Opuku 13 DF  KOS Sinan Gegollaj 14 FW  KOS Florent Hyseni 15 DF  GHA Theophilus Kojo Ogoe 16 MF  KOS Lekë Babaj

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  KOS Gentian Ibishi 18 DF  KOS Kushtrim Haxha 19 MF  KOS Edvin Çeshko 20 MF  KOS Edmond Turku 21 DF  KOS Liridon Voca 22 FW  KOS Halil Gucati 23 DF  KOS Amir Prishtina 24 GK  KOS Çlirim Zeneli 25 FW  KOS Bleond Rexhepi 26 MF  KOS Kadri Hoti 27 FW  KOS Deniz Sadiku 28 DF  KOS Qazim Baliu 29 DF  KOS Valon Voca 30 FW  KOS Enis Zabërgja 33 DF  KOS Alban Kelmendi 99 FW  KOS Sead Isufi

Notes

References

На других языках

[de] KF Trepça

[ru] Трепча (футбольный клуб)