KF Selenica is an

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club that is based in

Selenicë Selenicë ( rup, Selenitsã "Selițcă") is a municipality in Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Armen, Brataj, Kotë, Selenicë, Sevaster and Vllahin ...

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. Their home ground is the Selenicë Stadium which had a capacity of around 4,000. The club was founded in 1930 as KS 21 Shkurti and they typically competed in the lower divisions of Albanian football, but they did compete in the 1991–92 Albanian National Championship under manager Sotir Seferaj as well reach the quarter-finals of the Albanian Cup in the same season.

History

The club was founded in 1930 as ''KS 21 Shkurti Selenicë'' and they competed as an amateur team for the majority of their early history, playing against teams representing other towns and cities in Albania at the time. The club first competed in a national competition during the 1949 Albanian Second Division under the name SK Selenicë, where they competed in Group 11 of a 57-team tournament. They faced local sides Mifoli, Ndërmarrja Bujqësore e Shtetit Llakatundi and Narta in Group 11, but none of these sides progressed through to the next round. They competed in the same competing the following season where they were knocked out in the first round by Narta in the first round after losing 1–0 and then 3–0 in a two-legged tie. In 1951, the club was forced by the ruling communist party to change its name to ''Puna Selenicë''; Puna literally translates to 'work'.

Honours

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*Winners (1): 1988–89

References

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