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The Albania national football team has represented Albania in international association football since 1946. The Albanian Football Association (Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit; FSHF) [1] was founded in 1930 and became a member of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association two years later.
The Albania national football team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futbollit të Shqipërisë) represents Albania in men's international football. It is governed by the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF), the governing body for football in Albania. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions.
The List of Albania international footballers includes all the individual players who made between 1 and 24 appearances for Albania in the qualifiers of the UEFA European Football Championship, the FIFA World Cup, friendly matches as well as its participation in the Balkan Cup and in the Malta (Rothmans) International Tournament, from 1946 to the present.
This category contains past and present players of the senior Albania national football team (but not players who have only been capped at Olympic, Under-21 or other junior levels). Players in this category should also be left in category:Albanian men's footballers .
The following is a list of the Albania national football team's competitive records and statistics. The page is updated where necessary after each Albania match, and is correct as of 19 November 2024.
Albania men's international footballers (4 C, 413 P) E. Albanian expatriate men's footballers (561 P) Pages in category "Albanian men's footballers"
As mentioned above, the Republic of Albania and the Albanian Football Association opened their ways to footballers of Albanian descent even born outside the territories. In fact the first footballer born outside Albania to represent the national side was Italian ethnic goalkeeper Giacomo Poselli which was born in Greece and debuted in the 1946 ...
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 15, 2024 Beyond being record-breaking, the Albanian goal was a big underdog blow to the Italians. For context, in the current FIFA rankings , Italy is ranked ninth ...