Kosovo Football Federation

Kosovo's Football Federation has expressed a willingness to try to integrate clubs from the Serbian community - but says political pressure from Serbia is keeping young Serbs from joining official football activities

With its stadiums not meeting UEFA requirements, Kosovo's national team embarrassingly has been forced to play World Cup Qualification host matches in neighbouring Albania.

However, on his first visit to Kosovo since his September election as UEFA's new president, Aleksandar Ceferin on Thursday offered a helping hand while observing the renovation works at Pristina City Stadium.

Tens of thousands of football fans in Kosovo crowded the Adem Jashari stadium in South Mitrovica for an unprecedented event on Tuesday evening.

They had come to see the first team from Kosovo ever to play in the Champions League qualifiers since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008.

FIFA on Thursday fined the Croatian and Kosovo's soccer federations a total of 80,000 Swiss francs for anti-Serbian chants by fans of both countries at a World Cup qualifying match in Shkodra, Albania in October. Kosovo was fined 30,000 francs.

BELGRADE - The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne against Kosovo's admission to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Serbian news web portal Politika reported on Thursday.

Exactly 30 years after he signed a professional contract to play for one of the most prominent Serbian football teams, Fadil Vokrri headed to Budapest on Monday to witness a vote that could yield recognition for Kosovo's football club in the international arena.

In a chat show Tema [The Topic], which serves as television bridge for Kosovo and Serbia, on Kosovo public television, contributors from Belgrade and Pristina mulled the violent scenes at the Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade's Partizan stadium, after a drone flew over the pitch carrying Albanian symbols.