Goce Sedloski ( mk, Гоце Седлоски; born 10 April 1974) is a Macedonian professional

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and former

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. He is the current manager of

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club Shkupi. He earned 100 caps for the Macedonia national team.

Club career

Sedloski started his professional career at Pobeda Prilep in 1994 and played two seasons for the club before leaving it for

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from

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. After a season and half, he moved to

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club

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and returned to Croatia after two half-seasons by signing with

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...

in January 1999. He played for Dinamo until June 2004 and moved then to

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ese club

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, where he spent one half-season before returning to Dinamo in January 2005. In July 2005, he signed with

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club Diyarbakirspor and spent one season with the club before leaving it for

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, where he signed a two-year contract. After leaving Mattersburg after 5 years in 2011, he finished his playing career. He had the biggest success while playing for Dinamo Zagreb, winning the

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3 times, the

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3 times and the

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2 times.

International career

Sedloski made his debut for the Macedonia national team in a March 1996

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against

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, earning a total of 100 caps and scoring 8 goals from then until 2010. On 16 August 2006, Sedloski became the first player to score a goal in the

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qualifying tournament, when Macedonia beat

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1–0 in

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. His final international was a May 2010 friendly against

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Managerial career

Early career

Sedloski was assistant and interim coach for the Macedonian national team and also assistant coach at

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club

Turnovo

In 2013 he became the new manager of

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club Turnovo. In his only season with the club he guided them to the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round eliminating

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n club Sūduva Marijampolė in the

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and after they were eliminated by

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in the

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. He also guided the club to a 2nd-place finish in the

Vardar

Sedloski coached Macedonian club

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, joining the club in 2015 and resigning in August 2017. With Vardar he won two league titles and one supercup.

Riga

Sedloski was the manager of Latvian club

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from January to May 2018. While at Riga, in 9 matches Sedloski won 4 matches, drew 1 and lost 4.

Široki Brijeg

Sedloski was named new the manager of

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club

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on 31 August 2018 where he currently still is the manager. His first league win as Široki Brijeg's manager came on 23 September 2018, a 2–0 home win against newly promoted

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. In the 2018–19 season, Sedloski led Široki Brijeg all the way to the 2018–19 Bosnian Cup final, where the club lost to

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in the two legged cup final 3–1 on aggregate (Sarajevo won 3–0 in

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and Široki Brijeg won 1–0 in

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). In the league, Široki Brijeg qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds by finishing on 3rd place. On 23 July 2019, after a 0–1 home league loss against

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the day before, and after 2 consecutive UEFA Europa League losses against

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club

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in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round, Sedloski decided to resign from the manager position of Široki Brijeg.

Career statistics

Club

International

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Dinamo Zagreb *

: 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2002–03 *

: 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04 *

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Manager

Vardar *

: 2015–16, 2016–17 * Macedonian Supercup:

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Široki Brijeg *

Bosnian Cup The Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kup Bosne i Hercegovine, Куп Босне и Херцеговине) is a knock-out football competition contested annually by clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winner ...

runner up: 2018–19

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Club career

International career

Managerial career

Early career

Turnovo

Vardar

Riga

Široki Brijeg

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Managerial statistics

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See also

References

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