FK Bregalnica Štip

FK Bregalnica Štip

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Full name	Football Club Bregalnica Stip
Nickname(s)	Сини (The Blues)
Founded	1921 (1921)
Ground	Gradski stadion Štip
Ground Capacity	4,000
Owner	Štip Municipality
Chairman	Mite Mitev
Manager	Toni Jakimovski
League	Macedonian First League
2014–15	7th
Home colours Away colours

FK Bregalnica Štip (Macedonian: ФК Брегалница Штип) is a football club based in Štip, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.

History

FK Bregalnica is a football club based in Shtip, Republic of Macedonia. They were formed in 1921 and currently play in the Macedonian First League.Bregalnica has always been among the best clubs, and has always been a good representative of Macedonian football. FK Bregalnica for citizens is not just a football club its something more through decades of its existence are quite intertwined life stories.The club is a symbol of Shtip and part of his life and soul have entered many citizens.Always will remain an institution that tied citizens. Their nickname is The Blues because the club colors are all blue. They play their games at Ground Bregalnica Arena Shtip with Capacity of 4,000 sits.The club's most successful years were those between 1964 and 1984 when the club was champion of Macedonia for 4 times and won the Macedonian cup in 1981.The good times did not last however,the next few years saw the decline of FK Bregalnica, distinguished by the loss of star players, like the best attacking tandem of the league and top team and league scorers from the previous seasons.Despite a wealth of home grown talent and some well known signings Bregalnica never broke into the top four and therefore failed to qualify for European competition.

Supporters

FK Bregalnica Štip supporters are called Falanga.

Honours

Macedonian Republic League:

• Winners (4): 1964, 1967, 1976, 1984

Macedonian Republic Cup:

• Winners (1): 1981

Macedonian Second League:

• Winners (2): 1995–96, 2003–04

Current squad

As of 25 August 2015

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

No. Position Player 30 GK Ljupcho Kolev 31 GK Pepi Davitkov TBA GK Dushan Pavlov TBA GK Davor Taleski 5 DF Dean Mitrev 14 DF Tomislav Blazheski 22 DF Stefan Kocev 23 DF Zvonimir Stanković 25 DF Darko Stojanov 27 DF Stefan Ristovski 4 MF Nikolay Hristov 7 MF Dushko Andonov

No. Position Player 8 MF Goran Zdravkov (Captain) 13 MF George Nikovski 16 MF Oliver Aleksandrov 17 MF Stefan Kostov 18 MF Mihajlo Mihailov TBA MF Ivan Mitrov TBA MF Gjorgji Tanushev 3 FW Mario Filipovski 9 FW Angel Nacev 10 FW Lazar Iliev 99 FW Stefan Mishev TBA FW Stojanche Velinov

Managers

Nationality	Name	Arrived	Departed
	Ilija Mitrov	Jan 2011	May 11
	Nikola Spasov	July 1, 2011	Oct 19, 2011
	Vlatko Davitkov (caretaker)	Oct 19, 2011	Oct 27, 2011
	Trajče Senev	Oct 27, 2011	June 30, 2012
	Nikola Spasov	July 1, 2012	Dec 11, 2012
	Nikola Kuzmanov	Dec 2012	Jan 13
	Dobrinko Ilievski	Feb 3, 2013	Dec 20, 2013
	Ali Güneş	Dec 23, 2013	June 2014
	Gjore Jovanovski	July 3, 2014	Nov 4, 2014
	Dragan Hristovski (interim)	Nov 5, 2014	Jan 12, 2015
	Vlatko Kostov	Jan 12, 2015	Aug 29, 2015
	Toni Jakimovski	Sep 15, 2015

External links

• Bregalnica Štip blog (Macedonian)
• Club info at MacedonianFootball (English)
• Football Federation of Macedonia (Macedonian)