THE MAGNIFICENT 1987

FC Vardar Skopje its first and the only one championship title in former Yugoslavia won in the season 1986/87. That season the team leaded by Darko Pancev, Ilija Najdoski and the coach Andon Doncevski reached ist maximum with winning the so much waited championship title. In that season full of problems and misunderstandings, Vardar ended on the first place at the final standings.



ALWAYS IN FRONT OF FULL STANDS - the generation 1986/87 pictured at the 15th anniversary testimonial game on 27th April 2002 against the team of stars of former Yugoslav League in front of 25,000 spectators at the City Stadium in Skopje


FC VARDAR SKOPJE 1986/87

Goalkeepers Matches Goals
Momcilo Grosev 13 /
Ljupco Lazarov 22 /
Slobodan Mutibaric / /
Defenders    
Vujadin Stanojkovic 29 /
Vencislav Simonovski 29 /
Dragan Kanatlarovski 28 5
Cedomir Janevski 31 4
Ilija Najdoski 30 /
Jovko Bizimovski 2 /
Boban Babunski 19 /
Nikolco Filipov 5 /
Ljupco Markovski 3 /
Midfielders    
Toni Savevski 33 1
Nikola Avramovski 24 /
Toni Anastasovski 8 /
Milko Simovski 1 /
Mirko Petrov 30 6
Blagoja Todorovski 12 /
Zoran Trajcevski 13 1
Goce Dimovski 7 /
Tomce Trajanovski 3 /
Ajro Subi 3 /
Forwards    
Darko Pancev 32 18
Jovce Dzipunov 27 2
Vasil Ringov 4 1
Goran Stojanovic 11 /
Zoran Boskovski 1 /
Sasa Ciric / /
Head coach    
Andon Doncevski    
Assistant coaches    
Koco Dimitrovski    
Metodija Spasovski    


FINAL STANDINGS 1986/87

    G W D L Goal-diff. PTS
1 VARDAR Skopje 34 15 8 11 40 : 39 38
2 PARTIZAN Belgrade (-6) 34 16 11 7 58 : 29 37
3 VELEZ Mostar (-6) 34 19 4 11 63 : 46 36
4 HAJDUK Split 34 14 8 12 41 : 41 36
5 RED STAR Belgrade (-6) 34 16 9 9 57 : 37 35
6 OSIJEK 34 15 4 15 40 : 44 34
7 RIJEKA (-6) 34 14 10 10 44 : 42 32
8 DINAMO Zagreb (-6) 34 14 9 11 49 : 43 31
9 BUDUCNOST Titograd (-6) 34 14 9 11 40 : 36 31
10 PRISTINA 34 11 7 16 35 : 48 29
11 SUTJESKA Niksic (-6) 34 12 10 12 50 : 52 28
12 RADNICKI Nis 34 9 10 15 29 : 39 28
13 ZELJEZNICAR Sarajevo (-6) 34 14 6 14 35 : 46 28
14 SLOBODA Tuzla 34 9 10 15 38 : 44 28
15 DINAMO Vinkovci 34 10 8 16 29 : 51 28
16 CELIK Zenica (-6) 34 14 5 15 48 : 52 27
17 SARAJEVO (-6) 34 12 9 13 39 : 49 27
18 SPARTAK Subotica 34 5 9 20 30 : 49 19

10 teams had -6 points deducted