Dragan Stojkov

Dragan Stojkov

Dragan Stojkov playing for FK Jagodina
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-02-23) 23 February 1988
Place of birth Strumica, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2006–2007 Belasica 35 (3)
2008 Egaleo 22 (2)
2008–2010 Ilisiakos 14 (0)
2009–2010 → Napredak Kruševac (loan) 19 (0)
2010–2013 Jagodina 63 (0)
2014 LA Galaxy II 19 (1)
2015 Indy Eleven 21 (0)
National team‡
Macedonia U-17 3 (0)
2005–2006 Macedonia U-19 9 (0)
2006–2009 Macedonia U-21 10 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 July 2015.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 November 2010

Dragan Stojkov (Macedonian: Драган Стојков, born on 23 February 1988) is a Macedonian professional footballer who most recently played for Indy Eleven in the North American Soccer League.

Club career

Born in Strumica, after playing in his homeland club FK Belasica, in January 2008 he moved to Greece, to play the rest of the season in Egaleo F.C.. Next, he moved to Ilisiakos F.C., where he played the 2008-09 season. In summer 2009 he moved to Serbia to play in the Serbian Superliga club FK Napredak Kruševac. At the end of the season, he moved to FK Jagodina where he played total of 63 games making the bigest success of the clubs history, two years in a row finishing 4th and 3rd in the league standings, playing twice in Europa League qualification and winning the Serbian Cup in 2013 for the first time in clubs history. Playing total of 4 seasons in the Serbian Superliga serbian top league, he continued his career in the USA.

After spending 2014 with LA Galaxy II, Stojkov signed for Indy Eleven on November 29, 2014.[1] Stojkov started 18 of 21 games played for the Eleven during the 2015 NASL season, logging 1,412 minutes, 3 assists and 4 yellow cards. He mutually terminated his contract with Indy on March 30, 2016. [2]

International career

Stojkov had played in the Macedonia national under-19 national team[3] before started playing in the Macedonia national under-21 football team in 2006.[4] His last call up was in a convocation for a friendly in January 2009.[5]

In November 2005, being only aged 17, he received a call to join Macedonian national team for a friendly match against Liechtenstain.[6] However, he was an unused substitute.[7] Later during 2006 national team coach Boban Babunski counted on him,[8] however ever since he never got the chance to make a debut.

Honours

Jagodina

References

  1. ↑ "NINE FOR ELEVEN IN 2015". IndyEleven.com. Indy Eleven Communications. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Roster transactions also see releases of Stojkov, DeRoux & Williams". IndyEleven.com. Indy Eleven Communications. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Stats from uefa.com
  4. ↑ Stats from uefa.com
  5. ↑ Macedonianfootball.com
  6. ↑ Macedonians challenge on two fronts at UEFA.com, 3-11-2005, retrieved 3-10-2012
  7. ↑ Match report at EU-Football.info
  8. ↑ Пандев лидер, Балдовалиев и Илијоски нови гол-играчи at Dnevnik, 18-3-2006, retrieved 3-10-2012 (Macedonian)

External sources

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