FK Vardar:
Founded: July 22 1947
Colors: red, black
Ground: Tose Proeski National Arena
Chairman: Mirko Spaseski
Head coach: Aleksandar Vasoski
Current position in domestic league table: 1
Lineup average age: 22,65 years
Titles:
Macedonian First League: 10 titles
Macedonian Cup: 5
Macedonian Super Cup: 2
Macedonian Republic Cup: 1
Yugoslavian Cup: 1
Yugoslavian Second League: 6
Current season
Vardar are domestic league leaders after 18 matchdays (W-10, D-6, L-1). They’re 8 points ahead of their closest opponents. Vardar have the second best attack in the league (28 goals) and the best defense (11 goals conceded).
They’ve been outplayed in the national cup round of 16 by KF Shkendija (2:2, 0:1).
Although Vardar finished second in 2018/19 domestic league, they weren’t licensed by UEFA and thus can’t participate in 2019/20 euro cups.
Lineup:
FK Vardar are quite young team. The average age of their lineup is 22,65 years. Goalkeeper and defenders are experienced performers, but midfielders and forwards are young. The oldest halfback Darko Micevski is 27. The best striker of the team and Macedonian league in general is 24-year-old Daniel Avramovski (10 goals in 18 matches).
There’s also Ukrainian trace in Vardar. One of the leading players of the team is Dynamo trainee Yevhen Novak. This 30-year-old defender has already won Macedonian league twice. Besides, after the end of 2018/19 season, Goran Popov, who used to feature for Dynamo, finished his career in Vardar.
Coach:
40-year-old Aleksandar Vasoski used to be a famous player. In Macedonia he featured for FK Vardar and FK Cementarnica 55. Then he performed for Eintracht Frankfurt (3 goals in 98 matches). He has 33 appearances and 2 goals for Macedonia national team to his name.
Aleksandar Vasoski took charge of Vardar in 2018.