2016–17 Albanian Cup

2016–17 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqipërisë) was the sixty-fifth season of Albania's annual cup competition. Tirana won the title for the 16th time, becoming the most successful club in cup's history.

2016–17 Albanian Cup

Kupa e Shqipërisë
Country	Albania
Teams	36
Champions	Tirana
Runners-up	Skënderbeu
Matches played	58
Goals scored	172 (2.97 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Bruno Aquino Ben Azubel Bakary Nimaga Afrim Taku Myrto Uzuni (4 goals each)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Ties are played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregate score is tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advances. If the number of away goals is equal in both games, the match is decided by extra time and a penalty shoot-out, if necessary.

Preliminary round

In order to reduce the number of participating teams for the first round to 32, a preliminary tournament is played. In contrast to the main tournament, the preliminary tournament is held as a single-leg knock-out competition.^[1] Matches were played on 25 September 2016 and involved the teams from Albanian Second Division.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Butrinti (III)	4–3	Naftëtari (III)
Ada (III)	0–3	Kevitan (III)

First round

All 28 teams of the 2016–17 Superliga and First Division entered in this round along with the two qualifiers from the preliminary round. The first legs were played on 28 September 2016 and the second legs took place on 5 October 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Butrinti (III)	1–9	Skënderbeu (I)	1–1	0–8
Tomori (II)	0–4	Kukësi (I)	0–3	0–1
Sopoti (II)	1–8	Tirana (I)	1–1	0–7
Turbina (II)	0–5	Laçi (I)	0–2	0–3
Shkumbini (II)	1–7	Bylis (II)	1–3	0–4
Elbasani (II)	2–3	Luftëtari (I)	0–1	2–2
Dinamo Tirana (II)	3–2	Pogradeci (II)	2–1	1–1
Lushnja (II)	1–4	Apolonia (II)	1–3	0–1
Shënkolli (II)	0–2	Teuta (I)	0–0	0–2
Adriatiku (II)	0–7	Vllaznia (I)	0–3	0–4
Iliria (II)	1–6	Flamurtari (I)	1–0	0–6
Besa (II)	2–5	Tërbuni (II)	1–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Kamza (II)	3–1	Korabi (I)	1–1	2–0
Burreli (II)	4–5	Kastrioti (II)	3–1	1–4
Erzeni (II)	3–5	Besëlidhja (II)	1–3	2–2
Kevitan (III)	1–9	Partizani (I)	1–5	0–4

Second round

All 16 qualified teams from First round progressed to the second round. The first legs were played on 26 October 2016 and the second legs took place on 16 November 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Apolonia (II)	2–4	Skënderbeu (I)	2–1	0–3
Dinamo Tirana (II)	0–2	Kukësi (I)	0–2	0–0
Luftëtari (I)	1–5	Tirana (I)	1–4	0–1
Bylis (II)	1–4	Laçi (I)	1–1	0–3
Besëlidhja (II)	2–1	Partizani (I)	1–0	1–1
Kastrioti (II)	3–4	Teuta (I)	2–1	1–3
Kamza (II)	0–8	Vllaznia (I)	0–2	0–6
Tërbuni (II)	3–5	Flamurtari (I)	3–3	0–2

Quarter-finals

All eight qualified teams from the second round progressed to the quarter-finals. The first legs were played on 1 February 2017 and the second legs took place on 15 February 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Laçi (I)	1–2	Skënderbeu (I)	1–1	0–1
Tirana (I)	2–1	Kukësi (I)	2–1	0–0
Besëlidhja (II)	2–1	Flamurtari (I)	2–1	0–0
Teuta (I)	2–1	Vllaznia (I)	2-0	0–1

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 5–6 April and the second legs were played on 19 April 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Besëlidhja (II)	1–3	Tirana (I)	1–1	0–2
Skënderbeu (I)	2–0	Teuta (I)	1–0	1–0

Final

Main article: 2017 Albanian Cup final

31 May 2017

19:00

Skënderbeu	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Tirana
Radaš   86'	Report	Edeh   20' Nkounkou   102' Ndockyt   112' (pen.)

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Kridens Meta^[2]

References

1. Official website 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Albanian)
2. "FIFA Referees News: Albania: 2017 Albanian Cup Final". 31 May 2017.

External links

• (in Albanian)
• Albanian Cup at soccerway.com