Ategoria e Parë 1997/98

Ategoria e Parë 1997/98
master	KS Vllaznia Shkodra
Champions League qualification	KS Vllaznia Shkodra
Uefa cup	SK Tirana
Cup winners	KF Apolonia Fier
European Cup Winners' Cup	KF Apolonia Fier
Relegated	Shqiponja Gjirokastra , KS Sopoti Librazhd , KS Albpetrol Patos
Teams	18th
Games	306  (including 1 criminally verified)
Gates	781  (ø 2.56 per game) (excluding criminally verified games)
Top scorer	Dorian Bubeqi ( KS Shkumbini Peqin )
←ategoria e Parë 1996/97 Categoria Superiore 1998/99 →

The Kategoria e Pare 1997/98 (mutatis mutandis: First League ) was the 59th staging of the Albanian football championship and was the National Football Association Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit aligned. The season began on September 14, 1997 and ended on May 30, 1998.

Season course

As in the previous year, the league comprised 18 teams. In the 1996/97 season there had been neither relegated nor promoted due to the delayed end of the season, so that exactly the same teams as in the previous season participated in the game operations of the categoria e Parë. KS Olimpik Tirana had given back its original name Dinamo Tirana before the start of the season . The defending champion was SK Tirana .

The championship was played in a regular season with a round trip. Each team competed twice against each other team. The last three teams relegated to the then still second-rate category e dytë , in the following season the league was reduced to 16 teams. The champions qualified for the UEFA Champions League , the runners-up in the UEFA Cup .

A total of 781 goals were scored, which corresponds to an average of 2.6 goals per game. The top scorer with 26 goals was Dorian Bubeqi from KS Shkumbini Peqin .

After three titles in a row, SK Tirana had to be content with second place for the first time in 1997/98. Instead, Vllaznia Shkodra, the vice champion of the previous year, took the lead and won his eighth Albanian championship. For the lead of seven points, 42 hits in 34 games were enough. Partizani Tirana finished third right behind SK Tirana, narrowly missing out on making it into the UEFA Cup. Behind Shkumbini Peqin and Teuta Durrës , KF Elbasani took sixth place, 13th in the previous season, ahead of cup winner Apolonia Fier . This was followed by KF Laçi , KS Lushnja , Tomori Berat , Skënderbeu Korça , Dinamo Tirana , Bylis Ballsh and Besa Kavaja . Flamurtari Vlora , who was third a year earlier, found himself in the table cellar this time and was able to secure relegation with a lead of three points. On the other hand, Shqiponja Gjirokastra , the still beaten Sopoti Librazhd and Albpetrol Patos , who only scored 24 goals and conceded 93 goals, had to go into the second division .

societies

Durrës Kavaja Elbasan Shkodra Patos Tirana  ( Partizani ,  Dinamo ,  SK ) Vlora Gjirokastra Fier Advises Lushnja Laç Peqin Ballsh Librazhd Korça

Participant in the Katategoria e Parë 1997/98

society	logo	city
KS Teuta Durrës		Durrës
KS Albpetrol Patos		Patos
KF Elbasani		Elbasan
KS Vllaznia Shkodra		Shkodra
SK Tirana		Tirana
KS Flamurtari Vlora		Vlora
FK Partizani Tirana		Tirana
KS Dinamo Tirana		Tirana
KS Besa Kavaja		Kavaja
KS Bylis Ballsh		Ballsh
KF Apolonia Fier		Fier
Shqiponja Gjirokastra		Gjirokastra
KF Laçi		Laç
FK Tomori Berat		Advises
KS Shkumbini Peqin		Peqin
KF Skënderbeu Korça		Korça
KS Lushnja		Lushnja
KS Sopoti Librazhd		Librazhd

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	KS Vllaznia Shkodra	34	22nd	6th	6th	042:240	+18	72
2.	SK Tirana (M)	34	19th	8th	7th	054:190	+35	65
3.	FK Partizani Tirana (P)	34	20th	4th	10	062:270	+35	64
4th	KS Shkumbini Peqin	34	17th	3	14th	056:490	+7	54
5.	KS Teuta Durrës	34	17th	3	14th	039:390	± 0	54
6th	KF Elbasani	34	16	4th	14th	048:310	+17	52
7th	KF Apolonia Fier	34	15th	7th	12	038:340	+4	52
8th.	KF Laçi	34	15th	3	16	047:490	−2	48
9.	KS Lushnja	34	14th	5	15th	054:380	+16	47
10.	FK Tomori Berat	34	15th	2	17th	037:450	−8	47
11.	KS Skënderbeu Korça	34	13	7th	14th	040:500	−10	46
12.	KS Olimpik Tirana	34	12	9	13	042:360	+6	45
13.	KS Bylis Ballsh	34	13	6th	15th	041:390	+2	45
14th	KS Besa Kavaja	34	13	5	16	048:470	+1	44
15th	KS Flamurtari Vlora	34	12	7th	15th	038:410	−3	43
16.	Shqiponja Gjirokastra	34	12	4th	18th	034:580	−24	40
17th	KS Sopoti Librazhd	34	10	5	19th	039:640	−25	35
18th	KS Albpetrol Patos	34	5	4th	25th	024:930	−69	19th

Albanian champion and participant in the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League qualifying round

Albanian cup winner and participant in the 1998/99 European Cup Winners' Cup

Participant in the 1998/99 UEFA Cup

Descent into the categoria e dytë

(M)	reigning Albanian champion
(P)	reigning Albanian cup winner

Crosstab

1997/98
KS Vllaznia Shkodra		0-0	1-0	3: 2	3-0	3-0	1-0	1-0	3: 2	1-0	2-0	1: 1	2-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	2-0
SK Tirana	1: 2		1-0	4: 2	2-0	3: 1	0-0	1-0	0: 1	1-0	3-0	2-0	2: 0 1	1: 1	1-0	5-0	1-0	8-0
FK Partizani Tirana	3-0	0-0		1-0	3-0	2-0	0-0	3-0	1-0	3: 1	2: 1	2: 3	3: 1	3-0	8: 3	1: 1	5-0	5-0
KS Shkumbini Peqin	1-0	1: 1	1-0		3: 1	2-0	2-0	2: 1	3: 1	3-0	1-0	3: 2	3-0	2-0	3: 2	2-0	4-0	3: 1
KS Teuta Durrës	2: 1	2: 1	1-0	2: 1		1-0	2: 1	0-0	1-0	3-0	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	1-0	1-0	4: 1	4-0	6: 1
KF Elbasani	2-0	0-0	1-0	1-0	2-0		3-0	5: 2	2: 1	5-0	4: 1	0-0	0-0	0: 1	1-0	3-0	5-0	1-0
KF Apolonia Fier	3-0	0: 1	2: 1	1-0	1-0	1-0		4-0	1-0	1-0	5: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	5: 2	2: 2	1-0
KF Laçi	0-0	0: 3	3-0	1-0	4: 1	1-0	4-0		2-0	2: 1	1: 2	1-0	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	4: 1	1-0	7-0
KS Lushnja	1: 1	1-0	2: 1	4-0	2-0	1: 3	0-0	2-0		5-0	3: 1	0: 1	1: 3	3: 1	2: 1	4-0	3-0	5-0
FK Tomori Berat	0: 1	1-0	0: 2	2: 1	3-0	1-0	1-0	2-0	3: 3		1-0	2-0	1-0	1: 2	2-0	1-0	2: 1	5-0
KS Skënderbeu Korça	3: 2	1-0	0-0	1-0	1-0	3-0	2-0	1: 1	2-0	1-0		0-0	0-0	3: 3	6: 1	2: 1	3-0	1-0
KS Dinamo Tirana	0: 1	1: 4	0: 1	4-0	0-0	0: 4	1: 1	7: 1	3: 1	0: 2	3: 1		1-0	2: 2	1-0	0-0	2-0	5-0
KS Bylis Ballshi	2: 2	0-0	0: 1	2-0	0: 1	2: 1	3: 1	1-0	2: 1	1-0	2-0	0-0		2: 1	1-0	5: 1	5-0	4-0
KS Besa Kavaja	0: 1	2: 4	0: 1	2-0	0: 1	1-0	1-0	2: 1	0: 4	2: 1	6: 1	0: 1	4: 1		1-0	5-0	3: 2	4-0
KS Flamurtari Vlora	0-0	2-0	2: 1	2: 2	2-0	1-0	0: 1	3: 1	0-0	0-0	2-0	0-0	2: 1	2-0		2-0	1-0	4-0
Shqiponja Gjirokastra	0: 1	0: 1	0: 1	3: 1	2-0	1-0	3-0	0: 2	1-0	4-0	2: 1	1-0	1-0	2: 2	3: 2		0: 2	2: 1
KS Sopoti Librazhd	0: 1	0-0	1: 3	5: 6	2-0	2: 2	1-0	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	4-0	2: 1	3-0	3: 2	0: 1	0-0		4-0
KS Albpetrol Patos	1: 2	1: 3	2: 5	2: 2	1-0	1: 2	1: 3	3-0	1-0	1: 3	0-0	1: 2	2: 1	0-0	1: 1	0: 2	3-0

¹ Rating

The team of the master Vllaznia Shkodra

1.	Vllaznia Shkodra
	Armir Grima, Ermal Devishi, Pjerin Martini, Alban Noga, Ilir Dibra, Luan Zmijani, Ilir Ymeri, Suat Lici, Safet Osja, Kreshnik Osmani, Gjergj Shllaku, Altin Xhahysa, Astrit Premçi, Armando Cungu, Edi Kraja, Alban Jumi , Vioresin Sinani, Elvin Beqiri, Shpetim Gruda, Blendi Hoxha, Brikeno Bizi, Aldiron Mustafa - Trainer: Hysen Dedja.

literature

• Giovanni Armillotta: Almanaku i kategorisë së dytë (1930 / 2008-09) dhe i futbollit shqiptar . Aracne Editrice Srl, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-548-2585-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giovanni Armillotta: Albanian Football Season 1997-98. In: RSSSF - The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 2009, accessed September 12, 2014 . 
2. ^ Albania domestic football championship 1997/98. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved February 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Florent Hoxha, Dr. Fatjon Pandovski: Albania - Championship Winning Teams. In: RSSSF - The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 .