Football Association of Albania

National football association

Founded = 1930
FIFA affiliation = 1932
Region = UEFA
Region affiliation = 1954
President = Armand Duka
Coach = Arie Haan

The Football Association of Albania (F.SH.F.) ( _sq. Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit) is the governing body of football in Albania. It organizes the football's the league Albanian Superliga, Albania national football team, and Albania national under-21 football team. It is based in Tirana.

The Football Association of Albania was established on 6 June 1930, joined FIFA in 1932, and was one of the founding members of UEFA in 1954.

On the 14th of March, 2008, the FSF were suspended by FIFA for "heavy political interference." This means their national teams were banned from playing official matches, representitives banned from official events and referees unable to officiate FIFA-sanctioned matches. [http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=673894.html] . The ban was subsequently lifted as the political interferences were clarified, and in May 27, 2008 Albania played a friendly against the Poland national football team.

External links

* [http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/AssociationWeeks/Association=2/newsid=133392.html/ A UEFA.com article about the history of Albania football]
* [http://www.fshf.org/ National Football Association]
* [http://www.fifa.com/en/organisation/confederations/associationdetails/0,1483,ALB,00.html?countrycode=ALB/ FIFA]
* [http://www.albaniasoccer.com/en/index.php/ Albaniasoccer]
* [http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/countries/association=2/index.html/ UEFA]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/albsoccer/ Albanian Soccer News]
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/country.php?id=2/ National football teams]
* [http://www.eufo.de/football/nat/2005/alb.htm/ EUFO]
* [http://www.weltfussball.de/teams.php?m_id=1/ Weltfussball]
* [http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/nationalmannschaft/3561/albanien/kader/transferdaten.html/ Transfermarkt]