FK Skopje

Skopje

Full name	Fudbalski Klub Skopje
Nickname(s)	Пирати (The Pirates)
Founded	1921 fusion 1960;65 years ago (1960)
Ground	Železarnica Stadium
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Tome Trenevski
Manager	Slavco Georgievski
League	Macedonian Second League
2023–24	9th
Home colours Away colours

FK Skopje (Macedonian : ФК Скопје) is a football club from Skopje, the capital of the North Macedonia. They are currently competing in the Macedonian Second League.

History

Fudball club SSK an acronym for Skopski sportski klub(Sports Club Skopje), later Metalec Skopje, was a Macedonian football club based in the city of Skopje. Between 1921 and 1941 it was known as SSK.The club was founded as Skopski sportski klub in 1921 and was incorporated into Skopje parish, one of the districts into which the subfederation was divided. In December 1927 the club joined the newly formed Subfederation.

The Glory Days

The best period for the club were the 1930s.It started in 1930 when they've won their first title, all though the autumn part of the season was canceled.In 1931 ^[1] they've managed to compete in the qualifiers for the Jugoslav championship. SSK lost in the play off against Soko Belgrade (2–3 and 1–4). In the following 3 seasons they've won the championship each time, but never managed to qualify for the Jugoslav championship. In 1932 they've finished fifth, ahead of Gragjanski. In 1933 they've tried again, but they've lost in the 2nd qualifying round against Jedinstvo Parachin (0–4 and 2–0), while in 1934 they've finished fifth in the 2nd qualifying group. They became champions twice more in 1939 and 1940, but still failed to reach the Jugoslav championship. In 1939 they were defeated in the play-off final by FK Vojvodina (2–2 and 1–4), only to be eliminated in the repechage by Balshich (0–1 and 1–2). In 1940, after eliminating Zheleznichar Nish and Jedinstvo Chachak,they've lost the final against Jugoslavija Jabuka (2–4 and 2–4), and later in the play-off by BASK Belgrade (3–2 and 0–3). In 1941 SSK made fusion with Gragjanski and formed FK Makedonija.

New Beginning

In 1946 SSK was re-established as FK Dinamo Skopje, and entered the Macedonian Republic League championships. In 1948 they've won the championship and played qualification for second federal division. Later on the Metal Industry Cooperation became main sponsor of the team and the name Dinamo was changed with Metalec Skopje.They've won the championship in 1955 and got promoted to the second federal division at the time divided into 5 zones, where it remained for two seasons. In 1960 it merged with FK Industrijalec(known as former JUG Skopje) to form MIK Skopje, acronym for "Metalska Industrija Kale". They won the Macedonian Republic League,the last time in 1970. As FK MIK, the club competed for two seasons in the Yugoslav Second League East where they played with teams from federal Republics of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.FK MIK (Metalska Industrija Kale) later changed their name to FK Skopje during the 1973–74 season.

All-Time Table, Federal 2nd League 1947–1992 (Macedonian teams only) ^[2]

	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	FK Pobeda Prilep	662	245	160	257	893	930	−37	650
2	FK Teteks Tetovo	560	209	140	211	629	680	−51	558
3	FK Rabotnichki Skopje	414	146	83	185	577	687	−110	375
4	FK Vardar Skopje	286	156	57	73	485	281	+204	369
5	FK Pelister Bitola	350	143	69	138	456	408	+48	355
6	FK Bregalnica Shtip	358	100	96	162	351	554	−203	296
7	FK Belasica Strumica	174	54	46	74	186	246	−60	154
8	FK 11 Oktomvri Kumanovo	156	47	36	73	144	259	−115	130
9	GFK Tikvesh	124	23	35	66	119	221	−102	81
10	FK Skopje	64	21	8	35	78	114	−36	50
11	FK Metalurg Skopje	34	9	12	13	34	45	−11	30
12	FK Balkan Skopje	36	9	8	19	23	57	−34	26

Recent period

Since season 1992/93 of the Macedonian First League FK Skope mainly competed in the Second division.They had two great sesons in the Macedonian Second League winning two times in the season 1996–97,and in 2020–21 when they've qualified for the First league.Also they have qualified 4 times as runner ups. They have managed to qualify and play in the First Division for 6 seasons: 1997/98, 1998–99, 2010–11, 2017–18, 2021–22 and 2022–23.In the top division they didn't manage to have good results and they were dropping back to the Second league for several times .

Home Ground

The home ground of FK Skopje is Zelezarnica Stadium ( Iron-Steel Stadium ) is a stadium located in Avtokomanda Skopje, mainly used for football matches. The capacity of the stadium is 4,000 spectators.

Colours

The club's colours have traditionally been blue and white. In the early years Skopje played in blue and white striped shirts just like today, but for much of its history they played in blue shirts with white collar or white V-neck. In the mid-90s Skopje played a many seasons in red and white hooped shirts as well.

Skopjes kit

Casual kit

Mid-90s

Current squad

As of 15 February 2025.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 MF   MKD Petar Aleksovski 6 DF   MKD Matej Mitrevski 7 FW   MKD Erion Shuku 8 MF   MKD Petre Tasevski 9 FW   MKD Stefan Bogdanovski 10 MF   NZL Kostantino Alex Gorgiovski 11 FW   MKD Hristijan Kirovski 12 GK   MKD Luka Stojanovski 13 MF   MKD Slavko Ristoski 14 MF   MKD Ivo Janakievski 16 MF   MKD Armend Ademi

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF   MKD Hristijan Kocev 20 MF   MKD Ivan Pasharikovski 22 MF   MKD Tino Spasikj 29 MF   MKD Hristijan Denkovski 30 MF   MKD Merdian Ramadani 34 DF   MKD Dino Najdoski 44 GK   MKD Aleksandar Igeski 47 DF   MKD Vlatko Kulukovski 99 FW   MKD Borjan Nakov — MF   MKD Leon Selimi

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   MKD Dimitri Kochoski 77 GK   MKD Naum Angelov — MF   MKD Anid Abazi — MF   MKD Marko Andonovski — MF   MKD Maksim Bundaleski

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   MKD Leonid Stojanovski — FW   MKD Izet Ajrulahu — FW   MKD Dino Miholov —   MKD David Pandilovski —   MKD Tomislav Petkoski

Honours

• Domestic League
  • Winners : 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1940,1947-48, 1954-55,1969–70
• Macedonian Second League
  • Winners: 1996–97, 2020–21

Recent seasons

Season	League									Cup
	Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos
1992–93	2. MFL	38	21	9	8	73	32	51	3rd
1993–94	2. MFL West	26	11	4	11	54	42	26	5th
1994–95	2. MFL West	32	13	1	18	48	63	40	12th
1995–96	2. MFL West	30	13	5	12	58	48	44	6th
1996–97	2. MFL West	29	21	4	4	68	23	67	1st ↑	R2
1997–98	1. MFL	25	9	3	13	31	45	30	10th	SF
1998–99	1. MFL	26	5	2	19	25	59	17	13th ↓
1999–00	2. MFL West	30	14	2	18	63	59	44	12th ↓	R1
2000–01	3. MFL North	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	PR
2001–02	3. MFL North	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	R1
2002–03	3. MFL North	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st ↑	PR
2003–04	2. MFL	32	17	2	13	46	45	53	3rd	PR
2004–05	2. MFL	33	11	8	14	46	49	41	7th	R1
2005–06	2. MFL	33	11	7	12	30	36	40	6th	R1
2006–07	2. MFL	33	13	10	10	32	21	49	4th	PR
2007–08	2. MFL	32	16	6	10	53	44	54	5th	QF
2008–09	2. MFL	29	12	4	13	38	38	40	8th	PR
2009–10	2. MFL	26	17	6	3	49	22	57	2nd ↑	SF
2010–11	1. MFL	33	9	10	14	36	39	37	9th ↓	R1
2011–12	2. MFL	30	17	5	8	50	26	56	3rd	R2
2012–13	2. MFL	33	19	6	5	59	18	63	3rd	PR
2013–14	2. MFL	33	16	5	8	48	32	53	3rd	PR
2014–15	2. MFL	27	10	9	8	27	19	39	5th	PR
2015–16	2. MFL	27	9	9	9	27	23	36	6th	R2
2016–17	2. MFL	27	16	6	5	43	26	54	2nd ↑	R1
2017–18	1. MFL	36	7	14	15	24	43	35	9th ↓	QF
2018–19	2. MFL West	27	10	7	10	32	24	37	6th	R2
2019–201	2. MFL West	16	9	2	5	21	14	29	2nd	PR
2020–21	2. MFL West	27	18	6	12	50	20	60	1st ↑	R1
2021–22	1. MFL	33	9	8	16	27	45	35	9th	R2
2022–23	1. MFL	30	4	10	16	17	44	22	10th ↓	R2
2023–24	2. MFL	30	11	8	11	29	30	41	9th	R1

¹The 2019–20 season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia. ^[3]

Supporters

FK Skopje supporters are known as Pirati (Pirates), mostly coming from the Skopje settlement Avtokomanda. ^[4]

References

1. "1930-1931".
2. "All-time Yugoslav Second League (1947–1992)". RSSSF (in Serbian). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
3. "Вонредна седница на Управен одбор на Фудбалска федерација на Македонија: Прекин на натпреварувачката сезона 2019/2020". Фудбалска Федерација на Македонија. 4 June 2020.
4. "Pirati1992 – YouTube" – via YouTube.

External links

• Club info at MacedonianFootball (in English)
• Football Federation of Macedonia (in Macedonian)