Macedonian First League (basketball)

This article is about the basketball competition. For the association football competition, see Macedonian Prva Liga.

Macedonian First League

Founded	1992
Country	North Macedonia
Confederation	FIBA Europe
Number of teams	12
Level on pyramid	1
Domestic cup	Macedonian Cup
Current champions	MZT Skopje (12th title)
Most championships	Rabotnički (15 titles)
CEO	Tomica Glavčev
TV partners	MRT
Website	mkf.mk

The Macedonian First League (Macedonian : Македонска прва лига, Makedonska prva liga) is the top-tier basketball competition in the Republic of North Macedonia organized by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia. Until 1992 it was called Macedonian Republic League after which it was transformed into top division level Macedonian Basketball First League. After the transformation, teams from the dissolved Yugoslav Federal Leagues (MZT Skopje and Rabotnički) joined the Macedonian First League.

Teams

MZT Skopje
Rabotnicki
Feniks 2010
TFT Mozzart
Çair 2030
Vardar

Tikvesh

Kumanovo

Pelister

Kozuv

Gostivar

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Location of teams in the 2024–25 Macedonian First League

Team	Home City	Arena	Colour	Coach
Tikvesh	Kavadarci	Jasmin
Gostivar 2015	Gostivar	Mladost Gostivar
Kožuv	Gevgelija	26-ti April
MKK Kumanovo	Kumanovo	Sports Hall Kumanovo
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Skopje	Jane Sandanski Arena
Çair 2030	Skopje	Sport Hall Shaban Trstena
Pelister	Bitola	Sports Hall Mladost
Rabotnički	Skopje	Gradski Park
TFT Mozzart	Skopje	Forza Sport Center
Feniks 2010	Skopje	Jane Sandanski Arena
Vardar	Skopje	Mala sala Kale
Shkupi	Skopje	Sport Hall Shaban Trstena

Champions

Season	Champions [1]	Score	Runner-up	MVP
1992–93	Godel Rabotnički	3–2 (five game series)	MZT Skopje Hepos
1993–94	Godel Rabotnički	3–2 (five game series)	Kočani Delikates
1994–95	Godel Rabotnički	3–2 (five game series)	Kočani Delikates
1995–96	Godel Rabotnički	3–0 (five game series)	MZT Skopje
1996–97	Godel Rabotnički	4–1 (seven game series)	Žito Vardar
1997–98	Godel Rabotnički	3–2 (five game series)	MZT Boss Skopje
1998–99	Godel Rabotnički	3–2 (five game series)	MZT Boss Skopje
1999–00	Nikol Fert	3–2 (five game series)	Godel Rabotnički
2000–01	Rabotnički	3–0 (five game series)	MZT Skopje 2000	Gjorgji Čekovski (1)
2001–02	Feršped Rabotnički	4–2 (seven game series)	Kumanovo	Gjorgji Čekovski (2)
2002–03	Feršped Rabotnički	4–0 (seven game series)	Polo Trejd	Aleksandar Dimitrovski
2003–04	Feršped Rabotnički	4–1 (seven game series)	MZT Skopje 2000	Todor Gečevski (1)
2004–05	Feršped Rabotnički	4–2 (seven game series)	Vardar Osiguruvanje	Toni Simić
2005–06	Feršped Rabotnički	4–1 (seven game series)	Vardar Osiguruvanje	Dime Tasovski (1)
2006–07	Strumica 2005	4–1 (seven game series)	Feršped Rabotnički	Zlatko Gocevski
2007–08	Feni Industries	4–3 (seven game series)	Strumica 2005	Donald Cole
2008–09	Rabotnički	4–2 (seven game series)	Feni Industries	Dime Tasovski (2)
2009–10	Feni Industries	4–3 (seven game series)	Vardar Osiguruvanje	Damjan Stojanovski (1)
2010–11	Feni Industries	4–1 (seven game series)	Rabotnički	Vojdan Stojanovski
2011–12	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	4–1 (seven game series)	Feni Industries	Todor Gečevski (2)
2012–13	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	4–0 (seven game series)	Kozuv	Gjorgji Čekovski (3)
2013–14	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–1 (five game series)	Rabotnički	Damjan Stojanovski (2)
2014–15	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–0 (five game series)	Kumanovo	Marko Simonovski – Sead Šehović
2015–16	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–1 (five game series)	Kumanovo	Damjan Stojanovski (3)
2016–17	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–2 (five game series)	Karpoš Sokoli	Charlon Kloof
2017–18	Rabotnički	3–0 (five game series)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Russell Robinson
2018–19	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–0 (five game series)	Rabotnički	Damjan Stojanovski (4)
2019–20	MZT Skopje Aerodrom finished 1st /Play Off cancelled due covid-19
2020–21	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–0 (five game series)	EuroNickel 2005	Andrej Magdevski
2021–22	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–1 (five game series)	Pelister	Nemanja Milošević
2022–23	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–0 (five game series)	Pelister	Vojdan Stojanovski (2)
2023–24	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–0 (five game series)	Pelister	Damjan Stojanovski (5)
2024-25	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3–1 (five game series)	TFT	Deon Edwin

Performance by club

Club	Winner	Year	Runner up	Year
Rabotnički	15	1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018	5	2000, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2019
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	12	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025	7	1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2018
Feni Industries	3	2008, 2010, 2011	2	2009, 2012
Strumica 2005	1	2007	2	2003, 2008
Nikol Fert Gostivar	1	2000	/	/
Kumanovo	/	/	3	2002, 2015, 2016
Vardar	/	/	2	2005, 2006
Kočani Delikates	/	/	2	1994, 1995
Pelister	/	/	3	2022, 2023, 2024
Karpoš Sokoli	/	/	1	2017
Kožuv	/	/	1	2013
Vardar Osiguruvanje	/	/	1	2010
Žito Vardar	/	/	1	1997

Records and statistics

Head coaches with two or more titles

Titles	Head coach	Seasons
7	Marin Dokuzovski	1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2018
3	Vasko Atanasov	2023, 2024, 2025
	Steruli Andonovski	2001, 2002, 2004
	Emil Rajković	2008, 2010, 2011
2	Aleksandar Knjazev	1993, 1994
	Jordančo Davitkov	2005, 2006
	Aleš Pipan	2013, 2015

Players with three or more titles

Note: This table is incomplete

Titles	Player	Seasons
10	Damjan Stojanovski	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
	Ognen Stojanovski	2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
	Marjan Gjurov	1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
9	Goran Veselinovski	1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
	Goran Samardziev	2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
	Gjorgji Čekovski	1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018
8	Toni Simić	1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
7	Jordančo Davitkov	1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000
	Srdjan Stanković	1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005
	Gjorgi Kočov	2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012
6	Dejan Jovanovski	1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2006
	Bojan Krstevski	2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
5	Vojdan Stojanovski	2011, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
	Gjorgje Vojnović	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
	Emil Rajković	1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002
	Kiril Pavlovski	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
	Aleksandar Dimitrovski	2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
	Bojan Trajkovski	2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
	Dime Tasovski	2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011
	Todor Gečevski	2000, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014
	Gorjan Markovski	2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
	Ljubomir Mladenovski	2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
	Adem Mekić	2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022
4	Dušan Bocevski	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
	Pero Blazevski	1993, 1994, 1995, 1998
	Kiril Nikolovski	2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
3	Riste Stefanov	2003, 2004, 2005
	Dejan Vegov	2003, 2005, 2006
	Slobodan Mihajlovski	2008, 2010, 2011
	Toni Grnčarov	2007, 2009, 2012
	Eftim Bogoev	2007, 2010, 2013
	Darko Sokolov	2010, 2011, 2019
	Marko Simonovski	2015, 2017, 2019
	Damjan Robev	2022, 2023, 2024

References

1. "Macedonia – List of First League Champions". basketball.org.mk. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

External links

• Macedonian Basketball Federation (in Macedonian)
• Macedonian Superleague at Eurobasket (in English)
• Macedonian Premier League, Macedonian Basketball Federation website (in Macedonian)