Vardar Skopje

This article is about the football club FK Vardar Skopje . For the handball club from Skopje see RK Vardar Skopje .

FK Vardar Skopje
Basic data
Surname	Fudbalski Club Vardar Skopje
founding	1947
president	Sergei Samsonenko
Board	Mirko Spaseski
Website	fkvardar.mk
First soccer team
Head coach	Aleksandar Vasoski
Venue	Toše Proeski Arena
Places	36,400
league	Prva Makedonska Liga
2019/20	1st place (master)
home Away

FK Vardar Skopje (officially: Fudbalski Klub Vardar Skopje) is a North Macedonian football club from the capital Skopje . The club was created in 1947 through a merger of the local football clubs FK Pobeda and FK Makedonija . Vardar Skopje is currently the record champion in North Macedonia with ten championships and five cup wins. The club colors are red and black.

history

The eponymous river Vardar in front of the Toše Proeski Arena

The greatest successes in the club's history were winning the Yugoslav Cup in 1961 and the Yugoslav championship title in the 1986/87 season. This season, ten clubs started with a deduction of six points due to match-fixing in the previous season. Vardar was not affected and won the championship. The runner-up Partizan Belgrade appealed to the association and, with political support, obtained the cancellation of the point deduction. However, UEFA did not recognize the politically motivated judgment , so that Vardar took up the Yugoslav championship in the European Cup.

In recent history, winning the Macedonian Championship in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2015 and the Macedonian Cup in 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2007 are among the greatest successes. In the first football season in independent Macedonia 1992/93 Vardar Skopje was Macedonian champion without losing a game with 27 wins and 7 draws.

The club's home games take place in the Toše Proeski Arena . This seats 33,460 spectators.

The club is by far the best-known and most popular football club in the country, which is also due to the fact that Vardar was the only North Macedonian representative in the 1st division of the former Yugoslavia and was therefore regarded as a kind of North Macedonian national team.

There is a friendship with the fans of the FK Teteks Tetovo and the ultras of FC Schalke 04 .

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1961/62	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2nd round	Dunfermline Athletic	2: 5	0: 5 (A)	2: 0 (H)
1985/86	Uefa cup	1 round	Dinamo Bucharest	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Dundee United	1: 3	0: 2 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1987/88	European Champions Cup	1 round	FC Porto	0: 6	0: 3 (A)	0: 3 (H)
1994/95	Uefa cup	1 round	Békéscsabai Előre FC	1: 2	1: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1995/96	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	FC Samtredia	3-0	1: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		1 round	Girondins Bordeaux	1: 3	0: 2 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1996/97	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	ND Gorica	3: 1	1: 0 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		qualification	Halmstads BK	0: 1	0: 0 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1998/99	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	FC Spartak Trnava	0: 3	0: 1 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1999/2000	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Legia Warsaw	0: 9	0: 5 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2001/02	Uefa cup	qualification	Standard Liege	1: 6	0: 3 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2002/03	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	F91 Dudelange	4: 1	1: 1 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Legia Warsaw	2: 4	1: 3 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2003/04	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Barry Town	4: 2	3: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	CSKA Moscow	3: 2	2: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Sparta Prague	4: 5	2: 3 (H)	2: 2 (A)
2003/04	Uefa cup	1 round	AS Roma	1: 5	0: 4 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Ethnikos Achnas	10: 20	5: 1 (A)	5: 1 (H)
		2nd round	KAA Gent	1: 1 (4: 3  i.E. )	1: 0 (H)	0: 1 a.d. (H)
		3rd round	FC Schalke 04	1: 7	0: 5 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2005/06	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	KF Elbasani	( a ) 1: 1(a)	1: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Rapid Bucharest	1: 4	0: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2006/07	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	KSV Roeselare	2: 7	1: 2 (H)	1: 5 (A)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Anorthosis Famagusta	0: 2	0: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2012/13	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	BATE Baryssau	2: 3	2: 3 (A)	0: 0 (H)
2013/14	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Steaua Bucharest	1: 5	0: 3 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2015/16	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	APOEL Nicosia	(a)1: 1 ( a )	0: 0 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2016/17	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Dinamo Zagreb	3: 5	1: 2 (H)	2: 3 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Malmö FF	4: 2	1: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	FC Copenhagen	2: 4	1: 0 (H)	1: 4 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	4: 1	2: 0 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		Group stage	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1: 7	0: 5 (H)	1: 2 (A)
			Rosenborg Trondheim	2: 4	1: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
			Real Sociedad San Sebastian	0: 9	0: 6 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FC Pyunik Yerevan	0: 3	0: 1 (A)	0: 2 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 70 games, 14 wins, 17 draws, 39 defeats, 64: 128 goals (goal difference −64)

successes

• Macedonian champion (11): 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020
• Macedonian Cup (5): 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2007
• Yugoslav Cup (1): 1961
• Macedonian Supercup (2): 2013, 2015

Web links

• ФК Вардар / FC Vardar (Official Website)
• Information about the club on weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/FirstDiv/uefaorg/Publications/01/67/03/93/1670393_DOWNLOAD.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeg87.html