Tag: sports
Sport 30.08.24 | 11:29

No more public funds for sportsmen who advertise betting companies

Sports Minister Borko Ristovski announced that sportsmen who receive public funding but also advertise sports betting and booking companies will lose their public funds. The issue is rampant, with a number of very well known and liked sportsmen lending their names and faces to the mushrooming sports...

Sport 03.09.23 | 12:39

Volleyball: Macedonia beat Montenegro, the team are the new national stars

The Macedonian volleyball team defeated Montenegro yesterday 3:0, and practically secured a place at the next stage of the European Championship in Italy. The team was loudly supported by the fans at the Boris Trajkovski arena. Their enthusiastic performance of the national anthem quickly made them the...

Macedonia Economy 05.04.21 | 13:47

Sports betting places say the industry will be destroyed with 8,000 job loses if the proposed ban goes into force

The ASOM association of sports betting places warned that nearly all of their member companies will have to close down their businesses if the proposal to ban such facilities within 500 meters of a school goes into effect. Zaev’s Albanian coalition partners are pushing this request, and also demand...

Macedonia 24.04.20 | 20:31

Sports betting companies are looking into working online

The Association of sports betting companies said that it is in talks with the Government to being online booking. The very popular sports betting stores were forced to close temporarily, due to the coronavirus epidemic. According to the Association, its members continue to hire 8.000 people and to support...

Macedonia 05.01.20 | 19:27

Two guards were shot in a sports betting place in Skopje

An armed incident occurred on Saturday evening, in Topaansko Pole part of Skopje. Two guards who were securing a sports betting place were shot and wounded by a person they had a dispute with. Store employees brought the wounded men for treatment in the St. Naum of Ohrid hospital. The police is reporting...