Background The first game of football to be played in
Kamëz took place on 26 July 1908, as a celebration of the
Young Turk Revolution which was triggered 16 days earlier by
Ahmed Niyazi Bey, who was Albanian. The game was organised by Refik Toptani of the noble
Toptani family and it featured two groups of youths from Kamëz and Tiranë, named Tërkuzaj and
Agimi respectively. The game took place on a field near Toptani's home, which is the current location of the Sevasti & Parashqevi Qirjazi University, near the
Agricultural University of Tirana in
Kodër Kamez. Around 1,200 people gathered from across Tiranë area in order to celebrate as well as watch the game, which started at 17:00 and ended in a 3–3 draw. Although the game was not played according to the rules, as there were no field markings or cross bars, it is still considered to be the first game of football to be played in Kamëz, as well as the first ever
Tirana derby. The two sides met each other five times in friendlies held between 1908 and 1916, with Terkuzaj Kamëz winning once and Agimi Tiranë winning three times, with the two sides having drawn the first game. Terkuzaj is considered to be the current FC Kamza's preceding club, as it is the first recorded side to have represented Kamëz in a football match, over 28 years before the establishment of Kamza.
Early history The club was founded on 10 September 1936 and was named Kamza until 1949, when the club's name was changed to
Ndërmarrja Bujqësore e Shtetit Ylli Kuq Kamëz, before being reverted to Kamza in 1950. Between 1953 and 1993, the club was called
Dajti Kamëz, after
Mount Dajt. Between 1993 and 2001, the club was called Kamza, before being renamed Dajti Kamëz in 2001. In 2009, the club reverted to Kamza.
Recent history In November 2006, local businessman Naim Qarri became the president and primary investor of the club, while they were competing in the
Albanian Second Division, the third tier of Albanian football. The club finished top of the table in Group B and reached the championship final against
Bylis Ballsh, which ended in a 5–3 loss in a penalty shootout following a 1–1 draw over 120 minutes. They were promoted to the
Kategoria e Parë for the 2007–08 campaign, where they finished comfortably in mid table with the help of
Julian Malo's 14 league goals. The following season proved to be similarly comfortable, as the club finished 6th out of 16 sides. The 2009–10 season proved to be their best to date, as they finished 3rd and qualified for the promotion playoff, but they narrowly missed out on automatic promotion to the
Kategoria Superiore on goal difference, with
KF Elbasani pipping them to 2nd place. The club faced
Skënderbeu Korçë in the promotion playoff on 26 May at the
Ruzhdi Bizhuta Stadium in
Elbasan, where they lost 1–0 to a 2nd minute
Klodian Asllani goal. Kamza continued their good run of form into the following campaign and once again finished 3rd, but due to a change of format they achieved automatic promotion. They sealed promotion to the
Kategoria Superiore for the first time in its 75-year history following a 4–1 victory over local rivals
Partizani Tirana on 4 May 2011. The following day at the
Kamëz Stadium promotion was celebrated, commemorating the history of the club and the historic achievement. The club's first win came in the following game against
Vllaznia Shkodër, as
Eleandro Pema's 47th-minute goal was enough to secure the club's first win in its first top flight home game.
Expulsion from Kategoria Superiore On 6 March 2019,
Albanian Football Association expelled Kamza from Kategoria Superiore and relegated them to
Albanian Second Division after the incidents that occurred during the league match against
Laçi three days earlier, when its president Naim Qarri and several fans assaulted match referee Eldorjan Hamiti for giving a 95th-minute penalty in favour of Laçi. Kamza was banned from playing their remaining league matches of the 2018–19 season and was fined 1 million
Leks ($9,000). Three Kamza club officials were banned from all sport activities for up to three years. ==Stadium==