FK Vardar is a professional football club based in Skopje, North Macedonia, which competes in the Macedonian First League. They are the most successful football club in North Macedonia, having won eleven Macedonian First League titles, five Macedonian Cups, two Macedonian Super Cups and one Yugoslav Cup. In 2017, they became the first Macedonian club to qualify for the group stage of a European competition.
FK Rabotnichki or more commonly Rabotnički and Rabotnicki is a professional football club that plays at the Toshe Proeski Arena in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently compete in the Macedonian First League.
National Arena Toše Proeski is a sports stadium in Skopje, North Macedonia. It is currently used mostly for football matches, but also for concerts or athletics. It is the home stadium of Vardar and Rabotnichki from Skopje, who compete in the Macedonian First League, as well as the home ground of the North Macedonia national football team on almost all occasions.
Vlatko Grozdanoski is a Macedonian retired footballer who finished his career with FK Vardar in the First Macedonian Football League and was also a player on the Macedonia national team.
Ljupčo Kmetovski is a Macedonian football coach and former player. He is the goalkeeping coach for Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League.
Nikola Gligorov is a Macedonian football manager and former professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. He was a recently the head coach of FK Vardar.
Ertan Demiri is a retired Macedonian footballer. He belongs to the ethnic Albanian minority in the country.
Minas Osmani is a midfielder from North Macedonia of Albanian ethnicity. He currently plays for FK Drita.
The 1996–97 Macedonian First League was the 5th season of the Macedonian First Football League, the highest football league of Macedonia. The first matches of the season were played on 16 August 1996 and the last on 1 June 1997. Sileks defended their championship title, having won their second title in a row.
Filip Despotovski is a Macedonian football midfielder who plays for Gostivar.
Bojan Markoski is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is currently the assistant manager of AEL Limassol.
Gjorgji "Gjore" Jovanovski[a] is a Macedonian football manager and former player.
Marjan Gerasimovski is a Macedonian professional football manager and former player. He is currently the assistant manager of Vardar.
Borče Manevski is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a striker or left winger.
Blagoja "Bobi" Milevski-Kiceec ; born 25 March 1971) is a Macedonian football manager and former player who is coaching the Macedonia national football team.
Pavel Nedelkovski is a Macedonian football manager and retired player.
Ramiz Muarem Muarem is a Macedonian association footballer. Muarem plays as a midfielder. He most recently played for the Macedonian First Football League side Shkupi and has played for Qarabağ in Azerbaijan, Eskişehirspor, Orduspor in Turkey and FK Rabotnički in North Macedonia at club level as well as the North Macedonia national football team, for whom he has three caps, all won in 2011. He has also represented Macedonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. Muarem is right-footed.
Darko Micevski is a Macedonian footballer, who plays for Vardar.
Toni Jakimovski is a Macedonian football manager and former player.
Football is the most popular sport, both in terms of participants and spectators, in Skopje. Skopje has several of North Macedonia's significant football clubs.
