[2] In January 2014, later allowed Kosovo to play games against FIFA member associations at full international.

[4] Kosovo's President Atifete Jahjaga and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci were both in attendance.

[5] The game was also Frenchman Marc Collat's first in charge of the Haiti national team.

Several players who had played for other countries had chosen to represent the Kosovo national team.

[10] The FSS complained that Kosovo's players were wearing national symbols on the shirts, that the crowd were chanting anti-Serb songs and that Serbian flags had been burned outside of the ground, and that football was being used political purposes to promote Kosovo as an independent state.