Boban Grncharov ( mk, Бобан Грнчаров; born 12 August 1982) is a

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retired

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who played as a central defender.

Club career

OFK Beograd

Born in Skopje (

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), Grnčarov began his career playing with

FK Vardar FK Vardar Skopje ( mk, ФК Вардар Скопје), or simply Vardar, is a football club based in the capital city of Skopje, North Macedonia, North Macedonia. The club was founded in 1947 and currently competes in the Macedonian Second Foo ...

. After playing in their youth team, he made his senior debut in the 1998–99 season of the First Macedonian Football League. In 2000, he moved to Serbia and signed with OFK Beograd. By then he had already been a regular in the U-16, U-18 and U-21 national team levels his regular appearances in the First League of FR Yugoslavia at his first season with OFK made him earn his debut for the

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at the young age of 20. Despite his age, he has been a regular in the league starting line-up during those seasons in Belgrade, and following the success of his signing, OFK had turned their attention to the Macedonian market and, by the 2002–03 season, 5 other Macedonians were playing in OFK along Grnčarov: Bajevski, Despotovski, Fakić,

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and Panov.OFK Beograd
at National-Football-Teams.com During the previous seasons the club had been struggling to maintain consistency and Grnčarov became one of the fundamental players in the 2002–03 season when OFK finished the season in 3rd place and archive to qualify for European competitions after exactly 30 years of their last continental competition appearance. Boban Grnčarov had played a total of 53 league matches, and scored 2 goals, at the time he left OFK Beograd. In 2003, he moved to Ukraine and signed with

Metalurh Donetsk Football Club Metalurh Donetsk ( uk, Футбо́льний клуб «Металу́рг» Доне́цьк, ) was a Ukrainian professional football club based in Donetsk that went bankrupt in July 2015. History Club predecessor Football ...

where he played until 2006. After spending the first half of the 2006–07 season on loan to FC Stal Alchevsk, Grncarov signed a deal with KAA Gent in the Belgian Jupiler League. The season 2008–09 he moved on loan to Maccabi Petah Tikva.

APOEL

In June 2009, the board of

APOEL APOEL FC ( el, ΑΠΟΕΛ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") ...

announced that the player signed a two-year contract with the club. In his first season in Cyprus, he won the

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(he scored a goal in the

final) and he also appeared in four official group stage matches of the

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with

. The next season, he became an essential member of

and – although he played in all matches as a central defender – he scored 6 goals in the

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(all goals scored by head), helping his team to win the

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. In May 2011, Grnčarov left

after two years, when the club and the player did not agree on signing a new contract due to financial reasons.

Lierse

On 5 July 2011, Grnčarov signed a one-year deal with

Lierse Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring (), often simply known as Lierse, was a Belgian professional football club from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse have won four championship titles and two Belgian Cups. Lierse was one of the six Be ...

with an option for an additional season.

Botev Plovdiv

On 3 July 2012, Grncharov signed a three-year contract with

Botev Plovdiv Profesionalen Futbolen Klub Botev, commonly referred to as Botev Plovdiv ( bg, „Ботев“ Пловдив, ) or simply Botev (within its associated city), is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, that competes ...

of the

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. On 9 March 2013, he scored the opening goal for Botev Plovdiv in the 2:0 milestone home win (the first one in 16 years) over Levski Sofia. In the end of 2013 Grncarov was removed from the first team after a scandal with the sports director of Botev Aleksandar Aleksandrov. During the winter break Grncharov's contract was mutually terminated and after spending some time as a free agent, in mid January 2014 he joined Tavriya Simferopol in the Ukrainian Premier League.

International career

He made his senior debut for

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in a December 2001 friendly match against Oman and has earned a total of 34 caps, scoring 1 goal against Norway on 9 September 2009. His final international was a May 2014 friendly against Qatar.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Macedonia's goal tally first.''

Honours

* Cypriot First Division:

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* Cypriot Super Cup: 2009

References

External links

Profile at Macedonian Football
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