Loro Boriçi Stadium

KS Vllaznia Shkoder

• Games of Vllaznia Shkoder
• Isolated Internationals

The Loro Boriçi Stadium is a stadium in the Albanian city of Shkodra. It serves the KS Vllaznia Shkoder as homestead. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000 spectators, making it the second largest stadium in Albania behind the Qemal - Stafa Stadium, which offers space for 19,500 spectators.

The stadium was built in 1947. It was opened under the name Vojo - Kushi Stadium. Vojo Kushi was an Albanian football patrons. Meanwhile there but was renamed in Loro Boriçi Stadium. This name is a tribute to Loro Boriçi, one of the most famous football player of Albania in the 1940s and '50s, who completed a total of 23 caps for Albania and had played in the Italian Serie A for AS Roma and Lazio Rome. Moreover born in Shkodra Boriçi was coach of the Albanian team that in 1967 the German national team inflicted the so-called shame of Tirana and this thus qualifying for the European Championship goofed. The home club of Loro Boriçi was KS Vllaznia Shkoder. In 2001, the stadium has been modernized and extended to larger grandstands on the north end and the east side.

Occasionally denies the Albanian national football team in Shkodra their home games, including a nearly historic victory in 2003 against Russia in qualifying for Euro 2004 under Hans -Peter Briegel. 2007 came in qualifying for the 2008 European Championship to a draw against the Slovenian national football team.

Vllaznia bears since the opening of the stadium in 1947 their home games here. Vllaznia was until today Albanian football champions nine times, most recently in 2001. Moreover, six times succeeded in winning the Albanian Cup. Currently the club plays in the Kategoria Superiore, the highest Albanian League. Repeatedly he wore in Loro Brici Stadium from international matches in the UEFA Europa League.