Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
It was alleged that last night (March 21) during the England - Albania match, valid for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, English fans chanted "Kosovo is Serbia".
This claim was originally published on X (formerly Twitter) by the account “FantomBelgrade"(Archive). While it was later published as an article by online media in Serbian "Telegraf.rs"(Archive), "B92.net"(Archive) and "Republika.rs"(Archive).
After an analysis conducted by hibrid.info, it was found that in the video posted in the article no such cheering is heard from the English fans. Instead, in a 27-second recording, the cheering appears to have been made by the fans of the Albanian national team, who were chanting "Albania, champion". (see here).
Also, a Google search with the keywords in English "The English fans shout 'Kosovo is Serbia' to the Albanians" did not yield any results that support this claim. No Albanian online media outlet has reported such a cheer from English fans (see here).
Albania lost the match against England with a score of 2:0, in its first qualifying match for the 2026 World Cup. (here)
Analyze:
Claims that English fans chanted "Kosovo is Serbia" during the England-Albania match on March 21 proved to be untrue.
After verification by hibrid.info, the shared video features Albanian fans chanting "Albania, champion", not English fans. Google searches and Albanian-language media have not found any evidence to support this claim.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.