Macedonia to visit Bulgaria on June 2 - venue confirmed
The Macedonian national football team will start the game cycle for the new edition of the Nations League for the 2022/2023 season at the beginning of June. Our A-Team, led by Blagoja Milevski, is in Group C where they will face the national teams of Bulgaria, Georgia and Gibraltar. Macedonia will play their first game on June 2 on the away field against the national team of Bulgaria. It will be the first competitive game between the two neighboring countries. The match was scheduled at the Huvepharma Arena in Razgrad. This was recently offic…
Handball EURO 2022: Before departure, five people tested positive in team Macedonia
Today the Macedonian handball team is leaving for Debrecen (Hungary), where they will take part in the European Handball Championship 2022. Shortly before leaving, there was the first bad news for Team Macedonia. So far, they have been spared, but now the pandemic has hit the team. The coronavirus occurred in our camp at the last moment in five people, which had an impact on the squad selection of coach Kiril Lazarov. The goalkeepers suffered from the positive tests by Nikola Mitrevski and Marko Kizic, so a solution had to be found and Gradim…
Macedonia's women will again face Germany in Eurobasket 2023 qualifier
The Macedonian women's senior team plays in the upcoming qualification for the final round - the Eurobasket 2023 - in group "A". The draw in Munich decided that our women had to compete against the national teams from Belgium, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In terms of the number of registered teams, the competition, i.e. the qualification for the next Women's European Championship in 2023, will be held in ten qualification groups. Eight of these consist of four participants each and two with three participants each. Th…
Churlinov moves on loan to Schalke 04
Both VfB Stuttgart and FC Schalke 94 confirmed the season-long loan of Macedonian winger Darko Churlinov on Wednesday afternoon. One loan-deal reported on earlier has been confirmed. Twenty-one-year-old Macedonian prospect Darko Churlinov should get plenty of playing time at FC Schalke 04 in the 2. Bundesliga, where he will wear the no. 7. " Darko is an attacking all-rounder, " S04 sporting director Rouven Schröder noted when announcing the deal on the club's website, " through his speed and one-on-one abilities, he's …
Curtis Jones signs with KK Feniks Skopje
A former Penn State player will officially begin his professional career overseas. KK Feniks Skopje in Macedonia announced the signing of former Nittany Lion guard Curtis Jones via Instagram Wednesday. In the 2019-20 season, Jones’ only campaign in the blue and white, he appeared in 31 games and averaged 6.2 points per contest. Jones spent two seasons at Indiana and transferred to Oklahoma State for his junior season before spending his final year in Happy Valley. KK Feniks Skopje plays in the Macedonian First League, the top division of prof…
Macedonia revealed squad for EURO 2020
Macedonian national team coach Igor Angelovski called up the squad for the upcoming EURO2020. The first ever final tournament Macedonia will take part. Three upcoming talents for the June 11-July 11 European championship were called as Macedonia aims to make an impact in their maiden appearance on the big stage. Two of them, make their debut for Macedonia: Uncapped 22-year-old goalkeeper Riste Jankov and 23-year-old forward Milan Ristovski made it to the Macedonian squad alongside midfielder Darko Churlinov, who made his debut in a 2017 frie…
History! Macedonia will play Euro after beating Georgia
History is made! Macedonia qualified for the football Euro 2021, the first-ever major tournament in the team’s 27-year history, when a second-half goal from 37-year-old forward Goran Pandev gave them a 1-0 win away to Georgia in the playoff final game on Thursday. Macedonia’s forward Goran Pandev from italian Genoa scored on a counter-attack in the 56th minute at Tbilisi's Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena. It was a perfect play of the "Italian connection" in Macedonia's team. The score was intitalized by youngster Elif Elmas (SSC…
Stamkos wins NHL Stanley Cup
The Tampa Bay Lightning won the NHL Stanley Cup. For the second time. For the first time, the current and long-time captain of the team lift the prestigious trophy: The Canadian Steven Stamkos - Macedonian on his father's side, Scot on his mother's side. The Tampa Bay Lightning have won the championship in the "best ice hockey league in the world" NHL for the second time in their franchise history. In the sixth game of the best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup, the Florida based team defeated the Dallas Stars 2-0 and deci…
ADAC eSports Hockenheimring - Macedonian Jajovski victorious
ADAC eSports: Macedonian Erhan Jajovski wins the sim racing at Hockenheimring There were high-class sim racing duels on the virtual Hockenheimring. The next virtual run of the ADAC eSports championship will take place at the Sachsenring. From pole position to sovereign victory: Macedonian Erhan Jajovski, who competes in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean's eSports team, wins round three of the ADAC GT Masters eSports Championship powered by EnBW Mobility + on the virtual Hockenheimring. Euronics Gaming driver Tim Ja…
Macedonia took home one point from Georgia - UEFA Nations League
Yesterday, Tuesday, exactly on Macedonias Independence Day, Macedonia visited Georgia for the second matchday of the UEFA Nations League. Macedonia took home one point from Georgia, numerically outnumbered in thirty minutes of the game. Macedonia fell behind early on. In the twelfth minute, Tornike Okriashvili converted a foul penalty for the hosts. Ezgjan Alioski had illegally brought down a Georgian in the penalty area. Stefan Ristovski compensated for Macedonia. He was served by the captain Goran Pandev in the 32nd minute, and Ristovski sco…
Macedonia wins over Armenia
First win in the first game for Macedonia over Armenia, in the season opnener of the second ever season of the UEFA Nations League. Two goals from Ezgjan Alioski and Ilija Nestorovski in the first half sealed the 2:1 win. Both were scored from penalties after Elif Elmas was fouled while in action in front of the Armenian goal. Armenia also scored from a penalty in the delay minutes (90+4) of the game that was played at the Philip II stadium in Skopje. Coach Igor Angelovski said that he is satisfied with the outcome, especially as it comes afte…
Handball: Suisse against Macedonia scheduled in Zug
According to the requirements of the European Handball Federation (EHF), the SHV has scheduled the first home game of the men's European Championship qualification against Macedonia. In accordance with the requirements of the European Handball Federation (EHF), the Swiss Handball Federation (SHV) has scheduled the first home game of the men's European Championship qualification against Macedonia: It should take place on Saturday, November 7th, 2020 at 6.30 p.m. in the Bossard Arena in Zug - normally a ice hockey venue. With regard to …
U16: Macedonia wins two games against Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Macedonian U16 national team had a successful visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina considering the fact that they won both friendly games against the home team.
Vardar Skopje victorious in Champions League season opener vs Montpellier
The reigning EHF Champions League winners from Macedonia, RK Vardar Skopje has opened the new season in the best possible way with a victory in Montpellier, the french team won the Champions League a year before in 2018. The champion RK Vardar Skopje defeated Montpellier 33:31 (16:17) in the first match of the VELUX handball EHF Champions League 2019/20. The French team had the lead as the final of the game approached, but the defending champion was able to turn the match around. Even with one player less, as german import player …
Macedonian Marvel Elif Elmas joins italian SSC Napoli
The young macedonian marvel Elif Elmas joins italian Serie A club SSC Napoli. The 19-year-old midfielder Elmas had been sold to Napoli for 16 million euros ($17.9 million). The Istanbul club stated that Napoli would pay a maximum bonus of 1.5 million euros to Fenerbahçe upon the club's success and the player's performance in his new club. In addition, Fenerbahçe could see another bonus of up to 1.5 million euros if Elmas signs to another club in the future. Elmas signed a five-year contract with about 1.3 million euros pe…
Vardar Skopje beats Barcelona for Handball Champions League final
Macedonian handball champion Vardar again qualified for Champions League final after knocking out Spain’s Barcelona 29-27 in Kologne on Thursday evening. In Sunday’s final, the “red and black” team will play against Hungarian Veszprém. Vardar made an incredible turn in the match against Barcelona and scored a victory over the favorite Spanish champion (29:27) in the second semifinal of the Final Four tournament of the handball Champions League. Although the Macedonian champion was trailing by 7 in the second half, Roberto GarcÃa Parro…
Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro to host women's European Handball Championship
EHF confirmed at the meeting in Glasgow that Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro will organize the women's European Handball Championship in 2022. This outcome was already known before, because the joint candidacy of Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro was the only organization for the European Women's Championship in 2022. But from today it is officially. The original plan is for four groups to play in Skopje, Podgorica, Ljubljana and Celje. And the whole finish will be in Ljubljana. This means that Macedonia would only hos…
Pandev may return to Inter
Newspaper sport reported that the captain of Macedonia could re-dress Inter's shirt. Newspaper sport writes that the best Macedonian player, 34-year-old Goran Pandev, who has not yet extended his contract with Genoa, could return to Inter. According to information transmitted by the Italian media, Pandev is mentioned as the ideal solution for reinforcing the reserve striker options for the Milan team, for Mauro Icardi. However, we will emphasize that Inter's priority is Nikolas Gonzalez of Argentinos Juniors, and if he doe…
FIFA rankings: Macedonia jumps 6 places
The Macedonian national team did not play any matches but still recorded increase in points which resulted into moving up six places on the newest FIFA world ranking list for June. Macedonia now marks the 71st rank in the list with 451 points, right after the host of the upcoming World Cup - Russia (457 points). In this pre World Cup period when all national teams play friendly matches, Macedonia was inactive. The football federation failed to find an opponent after St. Kitts and Nevis cancelled their visit to Skopje and later the neg…
Jani Atanasov signs for Bursaspor
The young and talented product of Akademija Pandev made a transfer to the Turkish club following the footsteps of Elif Elmas. The Strumica based club confirmed that midfielder Jani Atanasov has passed the medical test on Monday and later in the evening has signed a four year long contract with Bursaspor. According to local media, Bursaspor payed €600.000 to Akademija Pandev for the transfer. Eighteen-year-old Atanasov is one of the brightest young Macedonian players. He has been capped for the U17, u18, U19 and U21 national teams …
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