Klubi i Futbollit Turbina Cërrik is an

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n professional football club based in

Cërrik Cërrik (; sq-definite, Cërriku ) is a municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Gostimë, Klos, Mollas, Shalës with Cërrik constituting its seat. As of the Institute of Stat ...

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that competes in the

Kategoria e Parë Kategoria e Parë is the second level of professional football in Albania, behind the Kategoria Superiore and above the Kategoria e Dytë. Format Kategoria e Parë was founded in 1930. It is made up of 14 teams. The 2 best ranked teams gain prom ...

, the second tier of Albanian football. Founded in 1956 as Puna Cërrik, it was renamed to Turbina Cërrik in 1958. The club's home ground is the

Nexhip Trungu Stadium Nexhip Trungu Stadium ( sq, Stadiumi Nexhip Trungu) is a multi-use stadium in Cërrik, Elbasan County, Albania which is used as the home ground of local football club KF Turbina Cërrik, Turbina Cërrik. In 2015, Turbina Cërrik were promoted to ...

History

The club was founded in 1956 as Puna Cërrik, during a period in which the majority of clubs in Albania were instructed to be named Puna, meaning work in

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, by the ruling

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. The club was renamed Turbina Cërrik in 1958 and was an amateur club for much of its early history, playing in the lower leagues before finishing runners-up in the 1982–83

Kategoria e Dytë Kategoria e Dytë is the third professional level of football in Albania. It was called the ''Second Division'' until 2003. Kategoria e Dytë has two groups, A and B. which are divided geographically. It is made up of 23 teams. The winners of each ...

season and achieving promotion to the

, the second tier, for the first time in the club's history. They finished 7th out of 14 in their debut season in the Kategoria e Parë, but were subsequently relegated the following season after finishing bottom of the league the following season. Turbina returned to the second tier after winning the 1987–88

, the club's first-ever trophy. The club became a regular in the second-tier and consistently finished mid-table before suffering relegation after finish bottom of Group C of the 1997–98 Kategoria e Parë. The club spent four years in the

before achieving promotion to the second-tier again in 2002, but they were relegated at the end of the 2002–03 season back to the third-tier. Turbina won the Kategoria e Dytë for the second time in 2005 and were promoted back to the Kategoria e Parë ahead of the

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season.

Stadium

The stadium of KS Turbina Cërrik is named Nexhip Trungu Stadium. It is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...

. It has a capacity of 6,600 seats.

References

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