2022–23 Kategoria e Parë

The 2022–23 Kategoria e Parë was the 75th official season of the Albanian football second-tier since its establishment. The season began on 3 September 2022 and ended on 18 May 2023.^[1] There were 14 teams competing this season. The winning and runner-up teams gained promotion to the 2023–24 Kategoria Superiore. The promotion play-offs winner will play a promotion play-off match against the 8th ranked team of the 2022–23 Kategoria Superiore. Dinamo Tirana and Skënderbeu were promoted to the 2023–24 Kategoria Superiore. Besëlidhja, Oriku, Tërbuni and Turbina were relegated to the 2023–24 Kategoria e Dytë.

Kategoria e Parë

Season	2022–23
Champions	Skënderbeu 4th title
Promoted	Skënderbeu Dinamo Tirana
Relegated	Oriku Turbina Tërbuni Besëlidhja
Matches played	182
Goals scored	416 (2.29 per match)
Top goalscorer	Abdul Temitope Denisson Silva (12 goals each)
Biggest home win	Dinamo 5−0 Burreli (18 September 2022) Dinamo 5−0 Lushnja (10 December 2022)
Biggest away win	Besëlidhja 0−4 Dinamo (4 March 2023) Dinamo 1−5 Flamurtari (24 October 2022) Turbina 0−4 Skënderbeu (23 April 2023)
Highest scoring	Apolonia 5−2 Turbina (10 September 2022)
Longest winning run	4 matches Luzi 2008
Longest unbeaten run	15 matches Skënderbeu
Longest winless run	12 matches Besëlidhja
Longest losing run	7 matches Tërbuni
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

Changes from last season

Team changes

From Kategoria e Parë

Promoted to Kategoria Superiore:

• Bylis
• Erzeni

Relegated to Kategoria e Dytë:

• Butrinti
• Maliqi
• Pogradeci
• Shkumbini
• Vora

To Kategoria e Parë

Relegated from Kategoria Superiore:

• Dinamo Tirana
• Skënderbeu

Promoted from Kategoria e Dytë:

• Flamurtari
• Luzi 2008
• Oriku

Locations

 

 

Burreli

 

Besëlidhja

 

Besa

 

Lushnja

 

Turbina

 

Tomori

 

Tërbuni

 

Dinamo

 

Skënderbeu

 

Luzi 2008

 

Oriku

 

Flamurtari

 

Apolonia

 

Korabi

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2022–23 Kategoria e Parë teams.

Stadia by capacity and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Apolonia	Fier	Loni Papuçiu Stadium	6,800
Besa	Kavajë	Shkumbini Stadium	9,000
Besëlidhja	Lezhë	Brian Filipi Stadium	5,000
Burreli	Burrel	Liri Ballabani Stadium	3,000
Dinamo Tirana	Tirana	Selman Stërmasi Stadium	9,500
Flamurtari	Vlorë	Flamurtari Stadium	8,200
Korabi	Peshkopi	Korabi Stadium	6,000
Lushnja	Lushnjë	Roza Haxhiu Stadium	8,500
Luzi 2008	Luz i Vogël	Luz i Vogël Stadium	600
Oriku	Orikum	Orikum Stadium
Skënderbeu	Korçë	Skënderbeu Stadium	12,343
Tërbuni	Pukë	Ismail Xhemali Stadium	1,950
Tomori	Berat	Tomori Stadium	17,890
Turbina	Cërrik	Nexhip Trungu Stadium	6,600

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Skënderbeu (C, P)	26	13	10	3	37	13	+24	49	Promotion to 2023–24 Kategoria Superiore
2	Dinamo Tirana (P)	26	14	5	7	48	23	+25	47
3	Flamurtari	26	13	7	6	40	16	+24	46	Promotion play-off to 2023–24 Kategoria Superiore
4	Tomori	26	13	4	9	29	27	+2	43
5	Korabi	26	10	9	7	32	24	+8	39
6	Apolonia	26	10	8	8	31	30	+1	38
7	Luzi 2008	26	10	8	8	31	26	+5	38
8	Besa	26	10	7	9	32	26	+6	37
9	Lushnja (O)	26	8	8	10	30	42	−12	32	Relegation play-out to 2023–24 Kategoria e Dytë
10	Burreli (O)	26	7	10	9	22	29	−7	31
11	Oriku (R)	26	9	3	14	27	33	−6	30	Relegation to 2023–24 Kategoria e Dytë
12	Turbina (R)	26	7	5	14	24	45	−21	26
13	Tërbuni^[a] (D, R)	26	6	6	14	16	41	−25	24	Excluded from the league
14	Besëlidhja^[b] (R)	26	3	8	15	17	41	−24	14	Relegation to 2023–24 Kategoria e Dytë

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Tërbuni was excluded from the league and relegated to the Kategoria e Dytë for the next season, after a violent incident during a match against Turbina in the 21st round.
2. Besëlidhja was deducted 3 points after failing to show up in an away match against Korabi.

Results

Home \ Away	APO	BES	BSË	BUR	DIN	FLA	KOR	LUS	LUZ	ORI	SKË	TËR	TOM	TUR
Apolonia	—	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	5–2
Besa	2–1	—	2–0	3–0	0–2	1–4	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	5–1
Besëlidhja	1–2	2–1	—	1–1	0–4	0–3	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–0
Burreli	1–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–1
Dinamo Tirana	2–3	1–0	4–0	5–0	—	1–5	1–0	5–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–0
Flamurtari	3–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	—	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–0
Korabi	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	—	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	2–1
Lushnja	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	3–2	—	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–0
Luzi 2008	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	—	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	0–0
Oriku	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–4	0–1	1–1	4–2	3–2	—	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1
Skënderbeu	4–1	0–1	1–1	4–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	—	2–0	1–0	3–0
Tërbuni	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–3	1–1	—	2–1	0–3
Tomori	0–0	3–3	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	—	2–0
Turbina	1–0	2–4	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–4	3–0	1–2	—

Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Skënderbeu	3	8	12	7	6	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	3	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dinamo	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Flamurtari	13	10	5	5	5	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	4	4	3	3	2	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Tomori	9	5	9	6	8	11	13	13	13	9	8	8	8	8	9	8	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
Korabi	8	7	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	3	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	5
Apolonia	5	1	4	4	4	6	9	11	10	11	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	5	6
Luzi 2008	2	3	10	10	9	8	8	5	6	5	6	7	7	7	7	6	7	8	10	10	9	8	7	7	7	7
Besa	6	11	8	11	10	7	7	6	3	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	8	8	8	8
Lushnja	12	14	6	13	12	13	10	12	11	12	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	9	9	10	9
Burreli	11	9	13	8	11	12	12	9	9	10	10	12	10	10	8	7	8	9	8	8	8	9	10	10	9	10
Oriku	14	12	11	12	7	10	6	8	8	8	11	13	12	13	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	11	11
Turbina	10	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	13	14	13	12	13	13	12	12	11	11	12	12
Tërbuni	4	6	3	3	3	5	5	7	7	7	7	6	5	6	6	9	9	10	9	9	11	11	12	12	13	13
Besëlidhja	7	4	7	9	13	9	11	10	12	13	13	14	14	12	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14

	Leader and promotion to 2023−24 Kategoria Superiore
	Promotion to 2023−24 Kategoria Superiore
	Promotion play-off
	Relegation play-off
	Relegation to 2023–24 Kategoria e Dytë

Source: [2]

Promotion play-offs

	Semi-finals				Final
	Flamurtari	1
	Apolonia	1
					Flamurtari	1
					Korabi	2
	Tomori	0
	Korabi	1

Semi-finals

23 May 2023

16:00

Flamurtari	1−1	Apolonia
Pedro   45+6'		Umejiego   64'

Flamurtari Stadium, Vlorë

Referee: Eldorjan Hamiti

Flamurtari qualified to the final as the team with the higher ranking.

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23 May 2023

16:00

Tomori	0−1	Korabi
		Keko   76'

Tomori Stadium, Berat

Referee: Indrit Myrtja

Final

28 May 2023

17:00

Flamurtari	1−2	Korabi
Kondaj   81'		Keko   45+1', 90+11'

Partizani Complex, Tirana

Referee: Juxhin Xhaja

Korabi qualified to the final play-off match.

Relegation play-offs

23 May 2023

16:00

Lushnja	1−0	Valbona
Pepa   20'

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Referee: Kridens Meta

Both clubs remained in their respective divisions.

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26 May 2023

16:00

Burreli	2−1	Pogradeci
Kurbneshi   56' (pen.) Deivid   70'		Ćirković   41'

Arena Egnatia, Rrogozhinë

Referee: Blerim Ziri

Both clubs remained in their respective divisions.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Abdul Temitope	Skënderbeu	12
	Denisson Silva	Dinamo Tirana
3	Albers Keko	Korabi	11
4	Mikel Canka	Lushnja	10
	Mmesoma Umejiego	Apolonia
	Taulant Marku	Dinamo Tirana
7	Chinonso Onuh	Besa	9

References

1. "Mblidhet Komiteti Ekzekutiv i FSHF, miratohen datat e nisjes së kompeticioneve kombëtare & investime në infrastrukturë". 29 June 2022.