Albania national football team

**Albania national football team** is the national football team of Albania. Although it never played any matches, the Albanian national football team existed before FSHF was created. This is witnessed by the registration of the team in the Balkan Cup tournament of 1929-1931, which started in 1929 (although Albania eventually retired from the competition, before the competition started).[4] FSHF was founded on June 6, 1930, and Albania had to wait 16 years to play its first international match, debuting against Yugoslavia in 1946. In 1932, Albania joined FIFA (during the congress June 12 — June 16) and in 1954, it was one of the founding members of UEFA.

## Most appearances

|Pos|Player|Apps|Goals|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Foto Strakosha|73|0|1990-2005|
|2|**Altin Lala**|70|3|1998-present|
|3|Igli Tare|68|10|1997-2007|
|4|Alban Bushi|67|14|1995-2007|
|5|Altin Haxhi|65|3|1995-2007|
|6|Altin Rraklli|63|11|1992-2005|
|7|Rudi Vata|59|5|1990-2001|
|8|**Ervin Skela**|53|9|2000-present|
|9|**Klodian Duro**|50|3|2000-present|
|10|Arjan Xhumba|48|0|1992-2002|

## Top scorers

|Pos|Player|Goals|Apps|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|6|Erjon Bogdani|19|79|1996-present|
|1|Alban Bushi|14|67|1995-2007|
|2|Altin Rraklli|11|63|1992-2005|
|3|Igli Tare|10|68|1997-2007|
|4|Sokol Kushta|10||1987-1996|
|5|**Ervin Skela**|9|53|2000-2011|
|6|Adrian Aliaj|8||2002-2006|
|8|Loro Borici|6||1946-1958|
|9|Bledar Kola|6||1994-2001|
|9|Edmond Kapllani|6||2004-present|

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Albania
- **nickname**:

- **badge size**: 150
- **association**: _Albanian Football Association, Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit_ (FSHF)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Sylvinho
- **captain**: Mërgim Mavraj
- **most caps**: Lorik Cana (93)
- **top scorer**: Erjon Bogdani (18)
- **home stadium**: Arena Kombëtare
- **fifa trigramme**: ALB
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- **fifa max**: 22
- **fifa max date**: August 2015
- **fifa min**: 124
- **fifa min date**: August 1997
- **elo max**: 34
- **elo max date**: 13 October 1946
- **elo min**: 118
- **elo min date**: 14 & 18 December 1994
- **first game**: **Unofficial**
 5–0 Montenegro national football team, Montenegro
(Shkodër, Albania; 22 August 1946)
**Official**
 2–3
(Tirana, Albania; 7 October 1946)
- **largest win**: 6–1
(Tirana, Albania; 12 August 2009)
- **largest loss**: 12–0
(Budapest, Hungary; 24 September 1950)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 2
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 2016, 2016
- **regional cup best**: Group stage (UEFA Euro 2016, 2016)