Tag: FFM
Sport 15.08.23 | 18:46

Football: Milevski will remain coach until November

The board of the Football Federation of Macedonia met today and decided not to remove coach Blagoja Milevski, despite recent disappointing results and the withdrawal of captain Stefan Ristovski from the team. FFM decided that Milevski has not proven himself recently, but that, given the difficult schedule...

Sport 31.10.22 | 10:32

UEFA fined the Macedonian Football Federation after fans booed the Bulgarian national anthem

The Macedonian Football Federation (FFM) is fined 10,000 EUR for the actions of the fans during the match against Bulgaria. The home crowd loudly booed the Bulgarian national anthem – which is the result of the steadily worsening relations between the two countries. FFM will also have to pay 4,500...

Sport 14.04.22 | 22:47

Football Federation of Macedonia approves building a large new stadium in Skopje’s Aerodrom district

Aerodrom Mayor Timco Mucunski announced that the board of the Football Federation of Macedonia has decided to build a large new stadium. The site is the existing football stadium and FFM office along the Vardar river. The stadium will seat at least 12,000 spectators and will meet all FIFA and UEFA standards...

Macedonia 09.07.21 | 19:09

Zaev’s loyalist in the Interior Ministry unilaterally renamed the Football Federation of Macedonia

Interior Ministry official and top Zaev loyalist Saso Tasevski met with the ex Macedonian football coach Igor Angelovski to give him a certificate of gratitude for the team’s run at the European Championship. Tasevski altered the name of the Football Federation of Macedonia in the document, declaring...

Macedonia Sport 08.07.21 | 21:35

Zaev renews his attack against the Football Federation of Macedonia, will stop all public funds transfers to football clubs

Naumce Mojsoski, Zoran Zaev’s director of the Youth and Sports Agency, announced that he will stop any transfers of public funds to football clubs, due to the refusal of the Football Federation of Macedonia (FFM) to add “North” to its name. The law applies to all. We can’t have...

Macedonia 18.06.21 | 14:25

Zaev assures Greece that the Macedonian football team represents “North Macedonia”

Zoran Zaev assured Greece that the Macedonian national football team playing at the European championship represents “North Macedonia” and not Macedonia. Greek press pressed Zaev on the issue after Greece formally protested the fact that the Football Federation of Macedonia hasn’t changed...

Macedonia 14.06.21 | 17:17

Kotzias, Zaev and Dimitrov’s friend demands that FFM adds “North” to their name

Nikos Kotzias, former Greek Foreign Minister and signatory to the Prespa Agreement, called on the Greek government to press the “Football Federation of Macedonia” to change its name, because if “North Macedonia” did not exist as a state, the national football team would not play...

Macedonia 12.06.21 | 17:43

Minister Osmani tells Greece that the football federation is not obligated to change its name

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani rejected demands from Greece that the Macedonian Government forces the Football Federation of Macedonia to change the national team’s jersey. The team uses the logo of the Federation, which did not adopt the imposed name “North Macedonia”, and continues to call itself...

Macedonia 12.06.21 | 09:49

Greece protests the lack of “North” on the Macedonian football team jerseys

Greece has been largely quiet on the implementation of the Prespa Treaty front for months, leaving it to Bulgaria to block Macedonia’s EU accession and to demand concessions on historic issues. But yesterday, it showed that it is following closely developments in Macedonia and will make new demands...

Macedonia Sport 14.03.21 | 12:35

Muamed Sejdini re-elected as head of the Football Federation of Macedonia

Muamed Sejdini was re-appointed as head of the Macedonian Football Association (FFM) today, for a second four year term. He won the unanimous support of the 52 FFM delegates, after being put under pressure from the Zaev regime over the past years. Sejdini recently turned to UEFA which called on the Government...

Macedonia Sport 01.02.21 | 17:15

FIFA and UEFA express support for the Macedonian Football Federation as it faces pressure from the Government

The Football Federation of Maceodnia (FFM) presented letters from FIFA and UEFA, signed by their general secretaries, expressing support to FFM as it faces pressure from the Macedonian Government. FFM President Muamed Sejdini (pictured) is facing attempts by the Government’s Youth and Sports Agency...

Football 23.01.21 | 13:04

Zaev pressures the Football Federation of Macedonia to add adjective “North”

The Football Federation of Macedonia (FFM) has been under pressure from the government for a long time. The disagreement between FFM and the Agency of Youth and Sports is due to the fact that the Macedonian federation refuses to change its Statute, which is supposed to be harmonized according to the...

Football 17.03.19 | 16:09

Muamed Sejdini elected new FFM president

Muamed Sejdini was elected Sunday new president of the Football Federation of Macedonia (FFM). In the attendance of UEFA and FIFA representatives, 82 out of the 90 FFM General Assembly members voted in favor of Sejdini. “It is a great honor to be the president of FFM and fight for the Macedonian football....