Kiril Simonovski
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 October 1915 | ||
| Place of birth | Skopje, Kingdom of Serbia[1] | ||
| Date of death | 12 June 1984 (aged 68) | ||
| Place of death | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Position(s) | Left defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Jug Skopje | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1941 | Gragjanski Skopje | 59 | (1) |
| 1942–1945 | Makedonija Skopje | ||
| 1945–1950 | Partizan | 53 | (18) |
| 1950–1953 | Vardar | 75 | (21) |
| International career | |||
| 1942 | Bulgaria | 2 | (0) |
| 1946–1949 | Yugoslavia | 10 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1953–1954 | Vardar | ||
| 1955 | Aris | ||
| 1956–1957 | Partizan | ||
| 1960–1962 | Olympiacos | ||
| 1963 | Partizan | ||
| 1969–1970 | Partizan | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Kiril Simonovski (Macedonian: Кирил Симоновски; 19 October 1915 – 12 June 1984) was a Macedonian footballer. He played top league football for Gragjanski Skopje, Macedonia Skopje, FK Vardar and FK Partizan.
Playing career[edit]
Club[edit]
He started playing football in a local club in Skopje named FK Jug, before moving to Gragjanski Skopje in 1938. In 1941, during World War II and the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, most of the region of the then Vardarska Banovina was occupied by the Bulgarian forces and in that period, Gragjanski was renamed to Makedonija Skopie. The club finished in second place in the 1942 Bulgarian State Championship, and during this period, Simonovski played two matches for the Bulgarian national team (as Kiril Simeonov).[2] At the end of the war, Simonovski moved to Belgrade and signed with newly formed FK Partizan where he will play all the way until 1950, winning two national championships and one cup.
International[edit]
It was in this period that he became the first Macedonian to play for the post-1945 Yugoslavia national team, having played a total of 10 matches and scored once.[3]
Managerial career[edit]
After retiring he became a coach. He coached FK Partizan, FK Vardar and Olympiacos F.C. among several other clubs in Yugoslavia, Greece and Cyprus.
Personal life[edit]
His brother Blagoje also played for Bulgaria.
Honours[edit]
Player[edit]
- Partizan
Coach[edit]
- Partizan
- Olympiacos
References[edit]
- ^ Consumed by War: European Conflict in the 20th Century, Richard Cooper Hall, University Press of Kentucky, 2010, ISBN 0813125588, p. 48.
- ^ Players appearing for two or more countries Archived 3 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine at RSSSF
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
External links[edit]
- Kiril Simonovski at National-Football-Teams.com
- Kiril Simonovski at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Profile at the Football Association of Macedonia website at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 October 2018)
- 1915 births
- 1984 deaths
- Footballers from Skopje
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Macedonian men's footballers
- Bulgarian men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Bulgaria men's international footballers
- Dual men's international footballers
- FK Partizan players
- FK Vardar players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Yugoslav football managers
- Macedonian football managers
- FK Vardar managers
- Aris Thessaloniki F.C. managers
- FK Partizan managers
- Olympiacos F.C. managers
- Yugoslav expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in Greece
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Greece