FK Horizont Turnovo

Horizont Turnovo

Full name	Fudbalski klub Horizont Turnovo
Founded	1950
Ground	Stadion Kukuš
Capacity	1,500
Chairman	Orce Todorov
Manager	Jane Nikolovski
League	Macedonian First League
2014–15	8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FK Horizont Turnovo (Macedonian: ФК Хоризонт Турново) is a football club based in the village Turnovo near Strumica, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.

History

The club was founded in 1950.^[1]

In 2008, the Macedonian company Horizont became Turnovo's main sponsor and the club was renamed to Horizont Turnovo.^[2] They have been a part of the Macedonian First League for 8 seasons, after winning the Macedonian Second League in 2008.

Honours

Macedonian First League:

• Runners-up (1): 2013–14

Macedonian Second League:

• Winners (1): 2007–08
• Runners-up (1): 1993–94

Turnovo in Europe

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round	Sūduva Marijampolė	2–2	2–2	4–4 (5–4 p)
		Second qualifying round	Hajduk Split	1–1	1–2	2–3
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round	Chikhura Sachkhere	0–1	1–3	1–4

Current Squad

As of 27 January 2016

Dimovski Mitrev Petrov Tasev Varelovski Mavrov Mitrov Blaževski Vasilev Tenekedžiev Baldovaliev

FK Turnovo's starting squad in their first international appearance, at the Europa League on 4 July 2013 in Marijampole, Lithuania against Sūduva Marijampolė, which ended 2:2

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Aleksandar Igeski 33 GK Darko Ristevski GK Kristijan Stoilkov 3 DF Tomislav Iliev 4 DF Dime Dimov 5 DF Aleksandar Vasilev 6 DF Arben Tafe 9 DF Mario Krstovski 15 DF Ljupche Doriev 21 DF Bojan Georgievski TBA DF Darko Ilieski 2 MF Marjan Tasev

No. Position Player 7 MF Mitko Mavrov 8 MF Hristijan Kostadinov 11 MF Filip Timov 14 MF Kristijan Ivanov 16 MF Nikola Bozhinov 17 MF Hristijan Jakimov 18 MF Trajche Ivanov 21 MF Kiril Stanojkov 22 MF Shqiprim Taipi 77 MF Gjorgji Stoilov 19 FW Sashko Pandev 28 FW Petar Mitev

Notable Former Players

Bulgaria: Georgi Kakalov Congo: Rock Itoua-Ndinga Macedonia: Siniša Atanasovski Saško Bajlozov Zoran Baldovaliev Toni Banduliev Dejan Blaževski Pepi Bozijanov Mile Causev Cvetan Čurlinov Dragan Georgiev Lazar Karakolev Nikolče Kleckaroski

Aleksandar Krstev Ivica Lazarev Saško Pandev Tome Pandev Vane Pandev Ilče Pocev Oliver Popčanovski Borče Postolov Nenad Serafimovski Goranco Stojanovski Ilija Tancev Aleksandar Tenekedžiev Blagoj Timov Krste Todorov Vladimir Tunevski Serbia: Uroš Marić Dalibor Stojković

Former Managers

Nationality	Name	Arrived	Departed
	Dragan Bočeski	July 1, 2008	Dec 17, 2008
	Dragan Hristovski	Dec 20, 2008	Sept 11
	Tome Petrov	Sept 28, 2011	Oct 31, 2011
	Gjorgji Todorovski	Nov 3, 2011	Feb 26, 2012
	Ljupčo Dimitkovski	Feb 27, 2012	June 8, 2013
	Ali Güneş	June 8, 2013	Sept 16, 2013
	Goce Sedloski	Sept 17, 2013	July 12, 2014
	Šefki Arifovski	July 12, 2014	Dec 2014
	Ljupčo Dimitkovski	Dec 2014	May 4, 2015
	Šefki Arifovski (interim)	May 4, 2015	Sep 8, 2015
	Jane Nikolovski	Sep 16, 2015

References

1. "За Клубот". Horizont Turnovo official website. 16 May 2013. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
2. MacedonianFootball.com Profile

External links

• Club info at MacedonianFootball (English)
• Football Federation of Macedonia (Macedonian)