Gramshi

Eighteen wins, four draws and no defeats carried Gramshi through Group B of the 2014-15 Kategoria e Dytë, and on 23 May 2015 the club beat Korabi 3-1 in the final at the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana to take the title. Promotion to the Kategoria e Parë followed automatically — and Gramshi turned it down, choosing to stay put rather than step up a division.

The club took the field in 1965 as '10 Korriku', a name it kept until 1992, when it became KF Gramshi. Its nickname, Demat e Kuq — the Red Bulls — points back to that earlier era and to the red long associated with communist Albania, even though the club now plays in grey and blue.

Lorenc Trashi came up through the youth ranks between 2002 and 2008 and stayed on for the first team until 2013, making 90 appearances and scoring eight goals. The Gramsh municipality named him Pride of the City in February 2013, shortly before he moved on to Lushnja and then Partizani Tirana, where he won the Albanian championship. He also played for Albania at senior level, earning 15 caps and a goal, after a single U21 appearance.

Home games are played in front of no more than 3,100 people at the Mislim Koçi Stadium. In the same 2014-15 season that brought the title, the women's side reached the semi-finals of the Albanian Cup.

More than a decade on from that unbeaten run to the Group B title, Gramshi are back in the Kategoria e Dytë, now playing in Group A — the step up they were offered in 2015 still not taken.