The tournament below was reported in "Sport Ekspres" (not available anymore at that location; it can still be found thanks to the Wayback Machine; the relevant article appears on page 7 of the magazine, top right corner) and reprinted in "Pehsku pa ujë" (meanwhile also disappeared but also still retrievable through the Wayback Machine) and wikipedia.
The tournament is considered a hoax by http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/albania-1911.html, partially because the photograph accompanying the article in "Pehsku pa ujë" was actually that of an American football team. However, that photograph was an addition by "Pehsku pa ujë" and did not appear in the original "Sport Ekspres" article, which gave as its source an article from the magazine "Zgim e C`qipërispë" published on 21 April 1911 (page 2), which is not available online (as far as the authors are aware).
Albania was part of the Ottoman empire at the time and its football federation was not founded until 1930. That of course does not preclude the possibility that football was played there, in more or less informal fashion (it appears no football club was founded in Tirana before 1913, although there is a vague mention of one in Korçë in 1909).
NB: all matches played in Fier, at the occasion of a local Fair;
all entrants were town selections.
Quarterfinals
[Apr 7]
Tirana 9-4 Elbasani
[Apr 8]
Kavaja 8-2 Berati
[Apr 9]
Peqini 11-3 Vlora
[Apr 10]
Fieri 6-2 Lushnja
Semifinals
[Apr 11]
Tirana 4-0 Kavaja
[Apr 12]
Fieri 2-16 Peqini
Final [Apr 14]
Tirana 6-1 Peqini
1930.
Thanks to Peter Walker
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