The Macedonian football champions ( mk, Македонски Фудбалски Шампион, Championship: ''Шампионат'', single: "Шампион", plural: ''Шампиони'') are the annual winners of
Macedonian First Football League,
North Macedonia's premier annual
football
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league competition. The title has been contested since 1929 in varying forms of competition.
History
In 1923 it was organised the first edition of leagues in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia where, beside the top-level national
Yugoslav Football Championship, regional championships were also played. The clubs of the
Vardarska Banovina, territorially similar to present day Macedonia, played within the
Belgrade Football Subassociation League until 1927, when a separate
Skoplje Football Subassociation League was formed. The champions of Subassociation Leagues were granted a place in the qualifiers to the Yugoslav Championship, a top national level.
Gragjanski Skopje became the only club to menage to participate in the national league, first in
1935–36 when the championship was played in a cup system, and in
1938–39, when it was played in normal league system with Gragjanski finishing 10th out of 12 teams. In 1939 the Yugoslav league system was changed, with the creation of separate Serbian and Croato-Slovenian Leagues which will serve as qualifying leagues for the final phase of the Yugoslav Championship. The clubs from the Skopje Subassociation played their qualifications to the
Serbian League, however only Gragjanski managed to participate, and it did it in both occasions, in
1939–40 (5th place) and
1940–41 (8th place). That became the last season before the beginning of the
Second World War in which the region Vardarska Banovina was invaded by
Axis allies
Albania and
Bulgaria.
During the war period, 1941 to 1945, the region became part of Bulgaria, and most of the clubs were incorporated into the Bulgarian league system. Four seasons were played, in which FK Makedonija, a club from Skopje formed by the Bulgarian authorities by merging the previously existing clubs Gragjanski, SSK Skopje and ŽSK into one, became the most prominent.
After the liberation of Yugoslavia and the creation of the
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
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within the
socialist Yugoslavia, Macedonian clubs participated in the Yugoslav League system that consisted of two or three, depending on time period, national leagues. Below the national leagues, the Republic Leagues were created in each one of the 6
Yugoslav Socialist Republics
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. The Republic League of SR Macedonia was played between 1945 and 1992, and the top placed teams had access to the Yugoslav national leagues. The most successful clubs from this period were
FK Vardar
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,
FK Rabotnički and
FK Pobeda, which only don´t count more regional titles because they usually competed in higher national leagues. In 1992 Macedonia declared independence and formed its own league system.
Royal League
The clubs from the territory of
Vardarska Banovina (belonging to the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia) had a league organised by the
Skoplje Football Subassociation The Skoplje Football Subassociation (Serbo-Croatian: ''Skopski loptački podsavez'' / Скопски лоптачки подсавез) was one of the regional football governing bodies under the tutorial of the Football Association of Yugoslavia. I ...
. The winner had direct access to the
Yugoslav Championship.
*1929 - Pobeda Skopje
*1930 - Jug, SSK and Sparta, all clubs from Skopje, finished the season with eaqual number of points.
*1931 - Not finished.
*1932 - SSK Skopje
*1933 - SSK Skopje
*1934 - SSK Skopje
*1935 - Not Finished
*1936 -
Gragjanski Skopje
*1937 - Not Finished
*1938 - Gragjanski Skopje
*1939 - Gragjanski Skopje
*1940 - SSK Skopje
*1941 - SSK Skopje
WWII Regional League
During WWII the region was occupied by Bulgarian Axis forces. The clubs from the region were incorporated into the Bulgarian league system.
* 1942 Makedonija Skopje
* 1943 ZhSK Skopje
* 1944 ZhSK Skopje
Republic League
In the period between 1945 and 1992 the clubs from
SR Macedonia
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(part of
SFR Yugoslavia
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) competed in the Macedonian Republic League that was part of the Yugoslav league system and corresponded to a 3rd or 4th (depending on period) national tier.
Mostly without the presence of the major clubs that competed at national level (in particular
Vardar Skopje).
* 1944–45 Makedonija
*
1945–46 Pobeda Skopje ( Vardar )
* 1946–47 Makedonija Skopje ( Vardar )
* 1947–48 Dinamo Skopje
* 1948–49 11 Oktomvri Kumanovo
* 1949–50 Rabotnik Bitola
* 1950–51 Rabotnik Bitola
* 1951–52 Rabotnicki Skopje
* 1952–53 Pobeda Prilep
* 1953–54 Pobeda Prilep
* 1954–55 Metalec Skopje
* 1955–56 Belasica Strumica
* 1956–57 Pelister Bitola
* 1957–58 Belasica Strumica
* 1958–59
Pobeda Prilep
* 1959–60
Pelister Bitola
* 1960–61 Pelister Bitola
* 1961–62 Pobeda Prilep
* 1962–63 Pobeda Prilep
*
1963–64 Bregalnica Štip
* 1964–65
Teteks Tetovo
*
1965–66 Rabotnički Skopje
* 1966–67 Bregalnica Štip
*
1967–68 Rabotnički Skopje
*
1968–69 Teteks Tetovo
*
1969–70 MIK Skopje
* 1970–71
Kumanovo
*
1971–72 Tikveš Kavadarci
*
1972–73 Rabotnički Skopje
*
1973–74 Teteks Tetovo
*
1974–75 Pelister Bitola
* 1975–76 Bregalnica Štip
* 1976–77 Rabotnički Skopje
* 1977–78
Tikveš Kavadarci
* 1978–79 Pobeda Prilep
*
1979–80 Rabotnički Skopje
*
1980–81 Pobeda Prilep
*
1981–82 Pelister Bitola
*
1982–83 Belasica Strumica
*
1983–84 Bregalnica Štip
* 1984–85 Teteks Tetovo
* 1985–86 Pobeda Prilep
* 1986–87
Metalurg Skopje
* 1987–88 Belasica Strumica
* 1988–89 Borec Veles
* 1989–90 Balkan Skopje
* 1990–91 Makedonija Skopje
*
1991–92 Sasa Makedonska Kamenica
National competition
Macedonian First League
In 1992 the Macedonian Republic League, joined by the Macedonian clubs that played in the
Yugoslav First and
Second League, formed the
Macedonian First Football League, the first time Macedonia had its own top-level national championship.
* Semi Professional league since 1992
Performances
Most titles
The titles won by clubs since independence are shown in the following table:
Cities
The following table lists the Macedonian football champions by city
References
External links
Football Federation of Macedonia Official Site First League Current Stats MacedonianFootball.com
{{UEFA national champions
List of Champions
List of Champions
Macedonia
Macedonia most commonly refers to:
* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...