Sport in Kosovo

[17] Distria Krasniqi won silber in the Women's 52 kg category her second medal at the Summer Olympics losing the finals close against Diyora Keldiyorova after golden score.

[26] After the successful Nations League encounter, Kosovo entered the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying in Group A facing England, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Montenegro respectively.

[30][deprecated source] The game against England away even saw the Kosovars took an early lead in the surprise, despite that they would lose 3–5 away, ending the longest unbeaten run in the football history of Kosovo.

[37] FC Prishtina is the following team that qualified to the Yugoslav First League in 1983–84 finishing in 8th place that saison and runners up that year to Eisenstadt in the Mitropa Cup.

[38] They would play four more saison's in the highest division of Yugoslavia, before being relegated in 1987-88, also being able to reach in the same year the Semifinals of the Yugoslav Cup in which they lost close to Borac Banja Luka after penalty's.

[57] Ballkani also secured its first ever win for the Country in the UEFA Champions League qualifying after beating in the first leg Bulgarian side Ludogorets Razgrad with 2–0 in Pristina.

[64] In Europe their best result came at the previous season, as they nearly overcome the well known side Feyenoord Rotterdam in two legs, losing away with 2-3 despite leading with goals from Marko Simonovski and Astrit Fazliu in the process.

Fc Drita impress recently again, as they draw away from home against the well known Czech Republic side of Viktoria Plzeň in the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying.

The declaration was also signed by eight other Albanian footballers hailing from Kosovo as Ahmed Januzi, Alban Meha, Armend Dallku, Burim Kukeli, Etrit Berisha, Fatmire Bajramaj, Lorik Cana, Mërgim Mavraj and Samir Ujkani.

[81] After this Qualification Albert Bunjaki were sacked and replaced by Swiss coach Bernard Challandes[82] for the newly upcoming UEFA Nations League competition.

Following the failure to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup, Kosovo participated in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D Group 3 against Azerbaijan, Faroe Islands, and Malta.

[88] In the final match of the Group, the Kosovans faced Azerbaijan this time at home, beating them with a stellar performance with 4–0 in which Arber Zeneli scored a hattrick for his Country.

[26] After a successful Nations League, campaign Kosovo entered the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying in which they were placed in Group A against Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Montenegro, and the well known side of England.

[94] The game against England away even saw the Kosovars took an early lead in the surprise, despite that they would lose 3–5 away, ending the longest unbeaten run in the football history of Kosovo.

There is often a fierce rivalry between one of the two strongest teams in the national league and that is particularly the case in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, where the game between Drita and Gjilani is known as the Gjilan derby.

They divide the streets from where they will go to the stadium, which is good, because the Kosovo Police organised themselves in a way to avoid the breakdown of this holiday and the much-anticipated confrontation in Gjilan.

After failing to qualify for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Kosovo participated in the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying, together with Estonia, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey and 2019 World Cup runners-up finisher Netherlands,[107] the Kosovars created their first big surprise, defeating Turkey in a 2–0 home win, which was also the team's first-ever competitive win,[108] victory which increased the enthusiasm which unfortunately did not last long and after the positive results began to experience a decline which resulted in disqualification.

[119] The next success came by FC Prishtina who competed in the UEFA Futsal Champions League for the first time in the 2020–21 season, entering at the preliminary round.

[139] KB Prishtina successfully won twice the Balkan International Basketball League first in 2014–15 against BC Rilski Sportist and for the second time in 2015–16 after beating in the finals Mornar Bar.

[144] KB Prishtina also made its debut by taking place into the young founded European North Basketball League also called ENBL.

[157] Notable players born in Kosovo who played for the very successful Yugoslavia national basketball team including Zufer Avdija, Marko Simonović, and Dejan Musli.

Ferit Zekolli were the only Kosovan of Albanian descent, who played in the First Federal Basketball League in the late 1970s for KK Zadar from Croatia in the 1977–78 Saison.

[173] Kosovo finished its European Judo Championship Open with success as Akil Gjakova won the maiden Gold medal in the Lightweight (−73 kg) discipline with fellow country college Dardan Cena getting bronze, followed by Nora Gjakova and Distria Krasniqi who getting the bronze medal aswell in the Lightweight category, by the females.

Kelmendi gave Kosovo its first judo world title on 27 August 2013, as she beat Érika Miranda, a Brazilian judoka in the 52-kilogram gold medal match in Rio de Janeiro.

Many Kosovan boxers competed with success, in the past for Yugoslavia and for other nations in fact such as Luan Krasniqi being the 1996 European Boxing Champion and Olympic Bronze medalist for Germany,[192] or Arnold Gjergjaj.

Besim would then beat Yahya Gülay in the fourth round to become WKA World Heavyweight in 2008 he would defend his title three more years, before his death in 2011.

Participating clubs in the super league are: Besa Famgas, Prishtina, Kosova, Kastrioti, Zhegra, Drenica, Vëllaznimi, Trepça, Samadrexha, Llapi, and Drita.

Although having a 3–1 lead he could not hold on to it, as he lost just seconds before the end of this match with 3–4 finishing this championship in a 4th place, so far the best result for Kosovo in Karate at the European Games.

Annual events organized by the federation include the Kosovan Chess Championship and the traditional Java e Minatoreve, Pervjetori i Pavaresis, and Hyzri Talla tournaments.

[283] In which the female Tennis players from Kosovo would prevail, as they won two matches in this phase against Ireland 2-1 and South Africa 3–0 to secure another stay in the second Division.