Nikola Gligorov (Macedonian: Никола Глигоров; born 15 August 1983) 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.
Club career
Gligorov started his career at Vardar Skopje but was loaned right away to FK Alumina, and later to FK Cementarnica 55 Skopje. At 2004–05 season he was regular at Vardar Skopje and stayed there until the winter-breal of the 2006–07 season. Then he moved to neighbouring Serbia where he joined Serbian SuperLiga side FK Bežanija playing there the second half of the 2006–07 season along his compatriots Mario Đurovski, Bojan Markoski, Perica Stančeski and Aleksandar Donev. They finished the season at 4th place, however, he left the Serbian club at the end of the season. He came back to the Macedonian championship, playing for Rabotnički Skopje, and from there he made a transfer to Vardar Skopje just to get back to Rabotnički Skopje the following season where he stayed till the end of the season 2010/2011. After that he played for a Cypriot club Alki Larnaca for two seasons, before signing for FK Khazar Lankaran on 28 May 2013.[1] He made his debut in the first game of the season in a 1–1 draw against Sliema from Malta in Europa league qualification round.
International career
Gligorov made his senior debut for Macedonian national team on 11 August 2010 in an away friendly game against Malta that finished 1–1. He is yet to score his debut goal. He had previously represented the U-16, U-19 and U-21 teams since 1999.[2] He has earned a total of 25 caps, scoring no goals and his final international was a March 2016 friendly match against Bulgaria.[3]
Career statistics
| Season | Club | League | League | Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||||
| 2002–03 | Cementarnica 55 | 1. MFL | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| 2003–04 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | |||||
| 2004–05 | Vardar | 30 | 1 | 30 | 1 | ||||||
| 2005–06 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | |||||
| 2006–07 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | |||||
| 2006–07 | Bežanija | Serbian SuperLiga | 6 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | ||||
| 2007–08 | Rabotnički | 1. MFL | 27 | 2 | - | 27 | 2 | ||||
| 2008–09 | Vardar | 24 | 3 | - | 24 | 3 | |||||
| 2009–10 | Rabotnički | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 2 | ||||
| 2010–11 | 32 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 38 | 5 | |||||
| 2011–12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2011–12 | Alki Larnaca | Cypriot First Division | 28 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 32 | 3 | ||
| 2012–13 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | 28 | 1 | ||||
| 2013–14 | Khazar Lankaran | Azerbaijan Premier League | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |
| Macedonia | 197 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 216 | 16 | |||||
| Serbia | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Cyprus | 54 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 4 | |||
| Azerbaijan | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |||
| Total | 265 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 294 | 20 | |||
Honours
Player
Club
Cementarnica 55
Rabotnicki Skopje
Khazar Lankaran
Vardar Skopje
References
- ^ "Nikola Gligorov joins Xəzər". macedonianfootball.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- ^ Nikola Gligorov at UEFA.com
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ "Nikola Gligorov". national-football-teams.com/. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ^ "N. GLIGOROV". Soccerway. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
External links
- Nikola Gligorov at National-Football-Teams.com
- Player profile at MacedonianFootball (in English)
- Nikola Gligorov at Soccerway