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Florim Malicaj
- 19 January 2022 09:00
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The three-time champion of Kosovo in football, Feronikeli, is going through the most difficult moments since joining the Super League, almost a decade ago.
Feronikeli was the last in the autumn season and will appear with juniors in the spring. This makes it almost impossible for Feronikeli to survive in the elite of Kosovar football.
Feronikeli can follow the path of several other Kosovar clubs that have won the title of champion and then had a big decline.
The champion teams that have fallen to the First League have never been able to fully sing and win the title.
Besa e Peja competes in the First League and is fighting for the rest in this competition category as well. Besa had won three championship titles in a row (2004, 2005, 2006). But since falling for the first time in the First League in 2018, the Pejans have not been able to sing again despite returning to the elite for one edition (2020/2021).
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Trepça was the champion of Kosovo in 2010. Today it competes in the First League. He had managed to return to the Super League, but he did not stay long.
The same thing happened to Vushtrri (former Llamko Kosova), a team that became champions in 2014. Vushtrri also compete in the First League.
The champion of Kosovo was also Trepça '89, in 2017. The "Miners" this season are competing in the First League, with a real possibility of returning to the Super League.
Even Liria e Prizren, which won the title in 1995, has been competing in the First League for several years.
Coach Gani Sejdiu, who won the title with Trepça in 2010 and with Feronikeli in 2015, mentions several factors that affect the teams not being able to compete.
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"It is true that teams with names that were champions before, but also top-teams, after falling from the Superliga, are hard to beat. Some have not reached the point at all. The only exception here is Trepça '89, which was relegated from the Superliga in 2009, but immediately returned. Even now he is well on his way back. There are several factors that the champion teams that have fallen to the First League have not been able to overcome. The first is the great disappointment which is not managed promptly and properly and has consequences. Then the motivation drops, many quality players leave because they don't want to play at a lower level. Here, the teams are weakened a lot, so they cannot maintain the contingent of players who have the quality to return immediately", said Sejdiu.
He shows how a club should act if it wants to return to the Super League after a year.
"In some clubs, even the main donors leave due to failure, and then the clubs do not have the financial power to return. Over time, the opportunity and ambition to return is lost. "Clubs that fall from the Superliga must immediately save the team, strengthen themselves, maintain financial stability and try with all their might to return immediately, otherwise they will have a hard time," declared Sejdiu.
Coach Sami Sermaxhaj thinks that defining the status of the clubs has a direct impact.
According to him, clubs should have a long-term owner to avoid trouble.
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"I think that defining the status of the club, more specifically defining the ownership of the club is one of the main reasons. If a club has an owner who has owned the club for a duration of 20-30 years, then the owner can make a project of development and stable operation. Clubs that have defined owners such as Drita, Gjilani, Balkani, Prishtina, Llapi are proving very stable, while clubs with names that do not have defined owners such as Vellaznimi e Liria cannot build a functional development project", said Sermaxhaj.
Of the teams that have won the championship title, only Prishtina has never been relegated from the Superliga. Prishtina is the most successful club with 11 titles. Besa, Drita and Feronikeli have three championship titles.
