Kosovo national football team

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Major successes in only a few years

Kosovo football fans celebrate the win against Bulgaria ibn Prishtina bars, on 10 June 2019. Photo: Atdhe Mulla

Along with tiny Gibraltar, the Kosovo team is the youngest in Europe, having been admitted to the world football federation, FIFA, and to Europe's UEFA, only three years ago.

Kosovo Celebrates Historic World Cup Football Debut

Fans gathered in Pristina on Monday evening to watch the Kosovo team kick off its inaugural World Cup qualifying campaign with an important 1-1 away draw in Turku in Finland.

Kosovo's scorer was Valon Berisha, who earned the point with a penalty kick just hours after football's world governing body FIFA cleared him to play for the country.

Kosovo becomes 210th member of FIFA

BELGRADE - The Football Federation of Kosovo has joined the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), TASS reports. The decision was made following a vote at FIFA's congress underway in Mexico City.

A total of 141 votes were given for Kosovo's membership in FIFA, 23 were against.

The Football Federation of Kosovo has thus become FIFA's 210th member.