Eternal derby (North Macedonia)

Eternal derby (Macedonian: Вечно дерби), also known as the Macedonia derby (Macedonian: Македонско дерби), is the name given to matches between the two most popular clubs from North Macedonia, the Skopje-based FK Vardar and Bitola-based FK Pelister,[1] supported by Komiti and Čkembari respectively, with fans at times infamously engaging in hooliganism during the derby.[2][3]

Eternal derby
Macedonian derby

Other names	Вечно дерби Македонско дерби
Locale	North Macedonia (Skopje and Bitola)
Teams	Vardar Pelister
First meeting	5 August 1990 (official)
Latest meeting	Pelister 1–1 Vardar (Macedonian First League) (4 October 2020)
Next meeting	14 February 2021
Stadiums	Toše Proeski Arena (Vardar) Tumbe Kafe (Pelister)
Statistics
Meetings total	73
Most wins	Vardar (41)
Largest victory	Vardar 7–0 Pelister (8 May 1996)

Vardar

Pelister

The rivalry can be traced back to the 1989–90 season and a match in Skopje, between FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade. A conflict occurred between the "Skopje fans" and a few Bitola fans who went to cheer for Vardar, who at that time was the most popular Macedonian football club in the former Yugoslavia. On 5 August 1990 in Bitola, Pelister and Vardar met in the Yugoslav second league and the first incident occurred. From that day forward, started the big rivalry between Komiti and Chkembari along with the Vardar-Pelister match becoming the Eternal derby of Macedonia.

However, the rivalry is playing at the stands but not much at the ground because Vardar there are many more honours than a rival from Bitola. In a present time there is a small number of attendance and Pelister were many times relegated to the Macedonian Second League so the rivalry has lost its formerly importance.[4] As of May 2018, there have been 68 derbies played in total since the establishment of the Macedonian championship in 1992, with Vardar winning 38 and Pelister 14 games, while 16 matches ended in a draw.

Vardar

Pelister

Location of both teams

Statistics

The records does not include the awarded matches and a matches decided by a one goal difference.

Head-to-head

Competition	Played	Vardar wins	Draws	Pelister wins	Vardar goals	Pelister goals
Yugoslav championship (1990–1992)
First League	2	2	0	0	5	1
Second League	2	1	1	0	2	1
Yugoslavia totals	4	3	1	0	7	2
Macedonian championship (1992–present)
First League	56	30	15	11	87	59
Macedonian Cup	13	8	2	3	21	11
Macedonia totals	68	38	16	14	107	69
All Time	73	42	17	15	115	72

Last updated on 4 October 2020.

Records

Record League win Vardar Home: Vardar – Pelister 7–0, Gradski stadion, 8 May 1996 (Karadzhov, Markovski, Nikolovski, Trajchev, Serafimovski, Stojkoski, Stanić) Away: Pelister – Vardar 0–2, Stadion Tumbe Kafe, 13 April 2003 (Vasoski, Bozhinovski) Pelister Away: Vardar – Pelister 1–3, Gradski stadion, 26 April 2008 (Peev – Miranda (3))

Record Cup win Vardar Home: Vardar – Pelister 4–1, Philip II Arena, 30 September 2015 (Dashyan, Velkovski, Hambardzumyan, Grncharov – Nedanoski) and Vardar – Pelister 3–0, Gradski stadion, 17 April 1996 (Shakiri, Serafimovski, Petreski) Away: Pelister – Vardar 0–2, Stadion Goce Delchev, 21 October 2015 (Trajkovski o.g., Stojkov)

Longest sequence of League wins Vardar: 7, 17 August 2002 – 11 October 2007 Home: 4, 23 August 2008 – 30 September 2012 Away: 6, 1 April 2001 – 29 April 2007 Pelister: 2, 16 March 2008 – 26 April 2008 Home: 3, 29 October 1995 – 14 March 1998 Away: 1

Longest sequence of Cup wins Vardar: 4, 7 November 2012–present Home: 4, 11 April 2007–present Away: 2, 7 November 2012–present Pelister: 3, 15 March 2000 – 25 February 2001 Home: 2, 15 March 2000 – 25 February 2001 Away: 1

Longest sequence of unbeaten League matches Vardar: 15, 3 October 1998 – 11 October 2007 Home: 15, 24 February 1991 – 11 October 2007 Away: 8, 3 October 1998 – 29 April 2007 and 6 March 2013–present Pelister: 4, 8 September 1996 – 14 March 1998 Home: 5, 7 November 1993 – 14 March 1998 and 16 March 2008 – 28 March 2010 Away: 3, 13 April 2013 – 23 April 2014

Longest sequence of unbeaten Cup matches Vardar: 7, 4 April 2001–present Home: 4, 4 April 2001–present Away: 3, 2 May 2007–present Pelister: 4, 1 May 1996 – 25 February 2001 Home: 4, 1 May 1996 – 2 May 2007 Away: 1

• Bigger grade difference
  • Vardar
    • Point system 3–1–0: +44 (72 vs 28), 2002–03
  • Pelister
    • Point system 3–1–0: +18 (47 vs 29), 1999–2000

List of matches

Yugoslav leagues

	Vardar – Pelister							Pelister – Vardar
Season	Div.	Rou.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	Rep.	Rou.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score		Rep.
1990–91	Div 2	20	24–02–1991	Gradski stadion	12,000	1–0	[5]	1	05–08–1990	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	6,000	1–1	2–4 p.	[5]
1991–92	Div 1	4	01–09–1991	Gradski stadion	N/A	2–1		21	08–03–1992	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	0–3^1

¹ Match suspended after 45 minutes (score: 0–0) due to the crowd trouble. Vardar were awarded a 0–3 win.

Macedonian league

	Vardar – Pelister						Pelister – Vardar
Season	Rou.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	Rep.	Rou.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	Rep.
1992–93	17	28–11–1992	Gradski stadion	N/A	1–1		34	13–06–1993	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,500	0–3^1	[6]
1993–94	27	22–05–1994	Gradski stadion	N/A	4–0		12	07–11–1993	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	2–1
1994–95	22	15–04–1995	Gradski stadion	N/A	6–3		7	02–10–1994	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	0–0
1995–96	25	08–05–1996	Gradski stadion	N/A	7–0		10	29–10–1995	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	2–1
1996–97	4	08–09–1996	Gradski stadion	N/A	0–0		17	23–03–1997	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	500	1–0	[7]
1997–98	3	31–08–1997	Gradski stadion	N/A	1–1		16	14–03–1998	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	3–2
1998–99	21	30–04–1999	Gradski stadion	N/A	2–1		8	03–10–1998	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	1–2
1999–00	13	21–11–1999	Gradski stadion	1,000	3–2	[8]	26	28–05–2000	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	1–1
2000–01	5	24–09–2000	Gradski stadion Vinica	1,500	3–1	[9]	18	01–04–2001	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,000	0–1	[10]
2001–02	16	25–11–2001	Gradski stadion	500	2–2	[11]	5	23–09–2001	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,500	1–2	[12]
2002–03	13	03–11–2002	Gradski stadion	300	3–1	[13]	2	17–08–2002	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,000	1–2	[14]
							24	13–04–2003	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	0–2
2006–07	18	17–12–2006	Gradski stadion	700	2–1	[15]	7	01–10–2006	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	7,000	1–2
							28	29–04–2007	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,500	1–2	[16]
2007–08	10	11–10–2007	Gradski stadion	3,000	1–0	[17]	21	16–03–2008	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	5,000	2–1	[18]
	29	26–04–2008	Gradski stadion	N/A	1–3	[19]
2008–09	3	23–08–2008	Gradski stadion	5,000	3–0	[20]	14	16–11–2008	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,000	0–0	[21]
							24	12–04–2009	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	5,000	0–0	[22]
2009–10	21	21–03–2010	Philip II Arena	1,500	1–0	[23]	10	25–10–2009	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	1,500	1–0	[24]
							23	28–03–2010	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,500	1–0	[25]
2010–11	5	28–08–2010	Philip II Arena	4,000	1–0	[26]	16	27–11–2010	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	200	1–2	[27]
							32	21–05–2011	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	200	1–0	[28]
2012–13	8	30–09–2012	Philip II Arena	5,000	3–1	[29]	19	06–03–2013	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,000	0–0	[30]
	25	13–04–2013	Philip II Arena	3,000	0–1	[31]
2013–14	21	09–03–2014	Philip II Arena	4,000	1–1	[32]	10	06–10–2013	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	7,000	1–2	[33]
	29	23–04–2014	Philip II Arena	2,000	0–0	[34]
2014–15	10	04–10–2014	Stadion Gjorche Petrov	500	1–0	[35]	1	03–08–2014	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	6,000	0–1	[36]
	21	22–03–2015	Philip II Arena	2,000	1–1	[37]
2016–17	8	28–09–2016	Stadion Boris Trajkovski	500	1–1	[38]	17	30–11–2016	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	3,000	0–1	[39]
	26	09–04–2017	Philip II Arena	1,000	3–1	[40]	35	28–05–2017	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,000	2–3	[41]
2017–18	16	19–11–2017	Philip II Arena	4,000	1–0	[42]	7	24–09–2017	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	5,000	0–1	[43]
	34	13–05–2018	Philip II Arena	300	2–3	[44]	25	01–04–2018	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,000	0–0	[45]
2020–21	19	14–02–2021	Toshe Proeski Arena				8	04–10–2020	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	0	1–1	[46]

¹ Match suspended before the kick-off due to the crowd trouble when Čkembari burned seats, collapsed the protective fence and clashed with the police. Vardar were awarded a 0–3 win.

Macedonian Cup

Season	Round	Vardar – Pelister					Pelister – Vardar					Winner
		Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	Rep.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	Rep.
1992–93	Final	23–05–1993	Gradski stadion	20,000	1–0	[47]						Vardar
1995–96	Semi-final	17–04–1996	Gradski stadion	N/A	3–0		01–05–1996	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	1–1		Vardar
1999–00	Quarter-final	22–03–2000	Gradski stadion	N/A	1–2		15–03–2000	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	N/A	1–0		Pelister
2000–01	Quarter-final	04–04–2001	Gradski stadion	2,500	3–2	[48]	25–02–2001	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,500	2–1	[49]	Pelister
2006–07	Semi-final	11–04–2007	Stadion Mladost	N/A	2–1	[50]	02–04–2007	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	4,000	1–1	[51]	Vardar
2012–13	Quarter-final	21–11–2012	Philip II Arena	1,500	2–0	[52]	07–11–2012	Stadion Tumbe Kafe	1,700	0–1	[53]	Vardar
2015–16	Round of 16	30–09–2015	Philip II Arena	300	4–1	[54]	21–10–2015	Stadion Goce Delchev	1,000	0–2	[55]	Vardar

Players who have played for both clubs (senior career)

Goce Aleksovski Jovica Anđelković Nikola Avramovski Almir Bajramovski Dejan Blazhevski Dragan Bocheski Radenko Bojović Zoran Boshkovski Vladica Brdarovski Antonio Bujchevski Saša Ćirić Matej Cvetanovski Mile Dimov Ilir Elmazovski Simeon Hristov Kire Grozdanov Marko Jovanovski

Dragi Kanatlarovski Nikola Karchev Pece Korunovski Vlatko Kostov Blagoja Kuleski Blagoja Ljamchevski Borche Manevski Toni Meglenski Gorazd Mihajlov Petar Miloshevski Sasho Miloshevski Gjorgji Mojsov Zlatko Nastevski Tome Pachovski Igor Pavlović Zoran Paunov Oliver Peev

Filip Petrov Mirko Petrov Jovan Popzlatanov Bogoljub Ranđelović Vasko Raspashkovski Zhanko Savov Stefan Spirovski Kire Sterjov Boško Stupić Goce Todorovski Milan Todorovski Kristijan Toshevski Aco Vasilevski Toni Veljanovski Dragan Veselinovski

Players who have scored for both clubs in the derby

• Dejan Blazhevski (4 goals, 2 for Pelister and 2 for Vardar)
• Saša Ćirić (2 goals, 1 for Pelister and 1 for Vardar)
• Mile Dimov (2 goals, 1 for Pelister and 1 for Vardar)

Managers who have worked at both clubs

• Ilija Dimovski
• Kiril Dojchinovski
• Perica Gruevski
• Gjoko Hadjievski
• Alekso Mackov

Honours

These are the major football honours of Vardar and Pelister.

Competition	Vardar	Pelister
Yugoslav Championship (1947–1992)	0(1)	0
Macedonian Championship (1992–present)	11	0
Yugoslav Cup (1947–1992)	1	0
Macedonian Cup (1992–present)	5	2
Macedonian Supercup (2011–present)	2	0
Total	19(20)	2

Head-to-head league results

The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons.

	90–91^1	91–92^2	92–93	93–94	94–95	95–96	96–97	97–98	98–99	99–00	00–01	01–02	02–03	06–07	07–08	08–09	09–10	10–11	12–13	13–14	14–15	16–17	17–18
No. of teams	19	18	18	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	10	10	10
Vardar	2	6	1	1	1	3	4	4	4	10	2	1	1	4	4	5	6	11	1	5	1	1	2
Pelister	6	15	4	4	5	5	9	6	10	4	8	10	11	6	3	10	4	12	10	6	9	4	10

¹Second Yugoslav division; ²First Yugoslav division;
Source: rsssf.com

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External links

• Macedonian derbies article on MacedonianFootball.com