Miss Grand Albania is an Albanian female beauty pageant founded in 2014. The pageant winner represents Albania at its international parent contest, Miss Grand International.
Since its first participation at the Miss Grand International pageant in 2014, Albanian representatives never placed in the competition.
History The pageant was founded in 2014 by a Pristina-based event organizer chaired by Sherif Pacolli, of Lens Production. In 2018, the competition license was transferred to the modeling agency managed by Aleks Tanushi, Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.), and its headquarters was also relocated to Tirana. Albania participated in the Miss Grand International pageant for the first time in 2014, represented by Vivian Canaj, who won the Miss Grand Albania 2014 title after competing at the Miss Grand Albania & Kosovo 2014 pageant held by Sherif Pacolli, a chairperson of the Kosovan event organizer in Pristina, Lens Production.
The first edition of Albania's Miss Grand National was held on July 20, 2014, at the California Resort in Pristina; the event was broadcast live nationwide on a Kosovan satellite television channel, RTK Live, and featured twenty national finalists, of whom a model from Tirana, Vivian Canaj, was elected the winner.
From 2014 to 2018, the pageant was held in parallel with Miss Grand Kosovo as Miss Grand Albania & Kosovo. The Miss Grand Albania pageant was held as a stand-alone pageant for the first time in 2019 when Aleks Tanushi of Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.) took over the Albanian franchise from Lens Production.
Editions
Edition Date Final venue Entrants 1st 20 July 2014 California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina 2nd 31 May 2015 Objekti i First Channel Studio, Pristina 3rd 1 July 2016California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina 4th 28 February 2017 5th 26 May 2018 6th 23 June 2019Teater Tirana Kinostudio, Tirana 7th 16 September 2020 8th 26 June 2021
International competition The following is a list of Albanian representatives who competed at the Miss Grand International pageant. Color keys
YearTownMiss Grand AlbaniaNational titlePlacementSpecial AwardsNational Director2026 Tirana Sara Shehu AppointedTBAArjeta Osmani2025 Mirditë Dajana Gjoka Finalist - Miss Universe Albania & Kosovo 2022 Unplaced2024 Laç Elsa Alijaj Top 6 - Miss Universe Albania & Kosovo 2020 Unplaced2023 Krujë Angela Tanuzi Miss World Albania 2022 Unplaced colspan="8" 2021 Tirana Hygerta Hidri Miss Grand Albania 2021 colspan="2" Aleks Tanushi 2020 Tirana Fjorela Lezo Miss Grand Albania 2020 Unplaced 2019 Tirana Xhensila Shaba Miss Grand Albania 2019 Unplaced2018 Tirana Klaudia Kalia Miss Grand Albania 2017 Unplaced Pristina Dashuria Bilaj Miss Grand Albania 2018 colspan="2" rowspan="4" Sherif Pacolli2017 Tirana Klaudia Kalia Miss Grand Albania 20172016 Tirana Esterina Xhaurri Miss Grand Albania 2016 Tirana Paula Preci Appointed2015 Tirana Enkelejda Lajci Miss Grand Albania 2015 Unplaced2014 Tirana Vivian Canaj Miss Grand Albania 2014 Unplaced2013 Tirana Dajana Luga Appointed colspan=2 Notes
Winners gallery
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