Vujadin Stanojković ( Macedonian: Вујадин Станојковиќ; born 10 September 1963) is a Yugoslav and Macedonian former professional

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and current manager.

Club career

Born in

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, Stanojković made his

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

debuts with

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in the 1985–86 season. He won the Yugoslav Championship in

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with them, before the title was given to

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

after their six points deduction was reversed. He spent three more years at the club, before transferring to Partizan in the summer of 1989. He appeared in more than 100 official games over the next four seasons, winning

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national championship and

national cup. In 1993, Stanojković moved abroad to Sweden and signed with

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, staying there for three years. He also spent two seasons at Trelleborgs FF, before retiring from the game in 1998.

International career

Between 1988 and 1992, Stanojković was capped 21 times for

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, scoring once. He took part at the

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, appearing in two games, as the team were eliminated in the quarter-finals by

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after penalties. Even after Macedonian independence, he was included in the Yugoslav squad for

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, but the nation would be suspended due to the

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. Following the

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, Stanojković represented his native

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, collecting seven caps from 1994 to 1995. His final international was a June 1995

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match against

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Managerial career

From 2004 to 2005, Stanojković was manager of

. He subsequently served as an assistant to

manager Srečko Katanec between 2006 and 2009.

Honours

;Partizan *

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro () was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed as the First League of FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, ef ...

: 1992–93 *

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: 1991–92 * Yugoslav Super Cup: 1989–90

References

External links

Profile at MacedonianFootball.com
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanojkovic, Vujadin 1963 births Living people Sportspeople from Kumanovo Macedonian people of Serbian descent Men's association football fullbacks Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia 1990 FIFA World Cup players Macedonian men's footballers North Macedonia men's international footballers Dual internationalists (men's football) FK Vardar players FK Partizan players Degerfors IF players Trelleborgs FF players Yugoslav First League players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Allsvenskan players Macedonian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Macedonian football managers FK Makedonija G.P. managers FK Vardar managers North Macedonia national under-21 football team managers