1988–89 Albanian Cup

1988–89 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqipërisë) was the thirty-seventh season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began in August 1988 with the First Round and ended in May 1989 with the Final match. The winners of the competition qualified for the 1989-90 first round of the UEFA Cup. Flamurtari were the defending champions, having won their second Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by Dinamo Tirana.^[1]

1988–89 Albanian Cup

Kupa e Shqipërisë
Tournament details
Country	Albania
Final positions
Champions	Dinamo Tirana
Runner-up	Partizani
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The first round was played in a single round-robin matches within 4 qualifying groups. The other rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.

First round

Games were played on August & September 1988

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	17 Nëntori	5	3	2	0	8	3	+5	8	Advance to quarter-finals
2	Skënderbeu	5	2	2	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Ballshi i Ri	5	1	2	2	8	8	0	4
4	Luftëtari	5	1	2	2	5	7	−2	4
5	Labinoti	5	2	0	3	4	6	−2	4
6	Minatori Tepelena	5	1	2	2	8	11	−3	4

Source: Calciomondialeweb.it
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Partizani	5	3	2	0	13	6	+7	8	Advance to quarter-finals
2	Vllaznia	5	2	2	1	13	9	+4	6
3	Lokomotiva Durrës	5	2	2	1	6	5	+1	6
4	Korabi	5	2	1	2	6	6	0	5
5	Përparimi	5	2	1	2	5	8	−3	5
6	Turbina	5	0	0	5	4	13	−9	0

Source: Calciomondialeweb.it
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Besëlidhja	5	4	0	1	13	4	+9	8	Advance to quarter-finals
2	Traktori	5	3	1	1	7	7	0	7
3	24 Maji	5	3	0	2	8	7	+1	6
4	Ylli i Kuq	5	1	2	2	3	4	−1	4
5	Apolonia	5	1	1	3	5	8	−3	3
6	5 Shtatori	5	0	2	3	8	14	−6	2

Source: Calciomondialeweb.it
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dinamo Tirana	5	2	3	0	10	4	+6	7	Advance to quarter-finals
2	Tomori	5	2	3	0	4	2	+2	7
3	Flamurtari	5	3	1	1	8	7	+1	7
4	Erzeni	5	1	2	2	4	6	−2	4
5	Besa	5	1	1	3	5	6	−1	3
6	Kastrioti	5	1	0	4	5	11	−6	2

Source: Calciomondialeweb.it
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Quarter-finals

In this round entered the 8 winners from the previous round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vllaznia	2–5	Dinamo Tirana	1–1	1–4
Skënderbeu	3–5	Besëlidhja	1–0	2–5
Traktori	1–4	Partizani	1–1	0–3
17 Nëntori	1–1 (a)	Tomori	0–0	1–1

Semi-finals

In this round entered the four winners from the previous round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Partizani	5–0	Besëlidhja	1–0	4–0
17 Nëntori	0–1	Dinamo Tirana	0–1	0–0

Final

Dinamo Tirana	0–0	Partizani

31 May 1989

17:00

Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: P. Aliko

Replay

Dinamo Tirana	3–1	Partizani
Abazi 4' Demollari 49', 90'		Shehu 43'

2 June 1989

17:00

Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Besnik Kaimi