Dragan Stojkov
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 23 February 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Strumica, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Saint Louis FC | ||
Number | 8 | ||
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) |
2017– | Saint Louis FC | 3 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
Macedonia U-17 | 3 | (0) | |
2005–2006 | Macedonia U-19 | 9 | (0) |
2006–2009 | Macedonia U-21 | 10 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 July 2015 ‡ 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 plays for Saint Louis FC in the United 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]
On January 5, 2017, he signed with USL Team Saint Louis FC [3]
International career
Stojkov had played in the Macedonia national under-19 national team[4] before started playing in the Macedonia national under-21 football team in 2006.[5] His last call up was in a convocation for a friendly in January 2009.[6]
In November 2005, being only aged 17, he received a call to join Macedonian national team for a friendly match against Liechtenstain.[7] However, he was an unused substitute.[8] Later during 2006 national team coach Boban Babunski counted on him,[9] however ever since he never got the chance to make a debut.
Honours
- Jagodina
References
- ^ "NINE FOR ELEVEN IN 2015". IndyEleven.com. Indy Eleven Communications. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ "Roster transactions also see releases of Stojkov, DeRoux & Williams". IndyEleven.com. Indy Eleven Communications. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ "STLFC Adds to Midfield For 2017". saintlouisfc.com. Saint Louis FC. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ Stats from uefa.com[permanent dead link]
- ^ Stats from uefa.com[permanent dead link]
- ^ Macedonianfootball.com Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Macedonians challenge on two fronts at UEFA.com, 3-11-2005, retrieved 3-10-2012
- ^ Match report at EU-Football.info
- ^ Пандев лидер, Балдовалиев и Илијоски нови гол-играчи at Dnevnik, 18-3-2006, retrieved 3-10-2012 Template:Mk icon
External sources
- Profile and stats at Srbijafudbal. Template:Sr icon
- Macedonian Football Template:En icon
- Dragan Stojkov Stats at Utakmica.rs
- Use dmy dates from July 2011
- 1988 births
- Association football midfielders
- Egaleo F.C. players
- Expatriate footballers in Greece
- Expatriate footballers in Serbia
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- FK Belasica players
- FK Jagodina players
- FK Napredak Kruševac players
- Ilisiakos F.C. players
- Indy Eleven players
- LA Galaxy II players
- Saint Louis FC players
- Living people
- Macedonia under-21 international footballers
- Macedonia youth international footballers
- Macedonian expatriate footballers
- Macedonian footballers
- People from Strumica
- Serbian SuperLiga players
- United Soccer League players
- North American Soccer League players