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Eternal derby
(
Macedonian
:
Вечно дерби
), also known as the
Macedonia derby
(
Macedonian
:
Македонско дерби
), is the name given to matches between the two most popular clubs from
North Macedonia
, the
Skopje
-based
FK Vardar
and
Bitola
-based
FK Pelister
,
[1]
supported by
Komiti
and
?kembari
respectively, with fans at times infamously engaging in hooliganism during the derby.
[2]
[3]
The rivalry can be traced back to the
1989?90 season
and a match in
Skopje
, between FK Vardar and
Red Star Belgrade
. A conflict occurred between the "Skopje fans" and a few Bitola fans who went to cheer for Vardar, who at that time was the most popular Macedonian football club in the former
Yugoslavia
. On 5 August 1990 in
Bitola
, Pelister and Vardar met in the
Yugoslav second league
and the first incident occurred. From that day forward, started the big rivalry between Komiti and Chkembari along with the Vardar-Pelister match becoming the Eternal derby of Macedonia.
However, the rivalry is playing at the stands but not much at the ground because Vardar there are many more honours than a rival from Bitola. In a present time there is a small number of attendance and Pelister were many times and Vardar once relegated to the
Macedonian Second League
so the rivalry has lost its formerly importance.
[4]
As of May 2018
[update]
, there have been 68 derbies played in total since the establishment of the
Macedonian championship
in 1992, with Vardar winning 38 and Pelister 14 games, while 16 matches ended in a draw.
Statistics
[
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]
The records does not include the awarded matches and a matches decided by a one goal difference.
Head-to-head
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]
Competition
|
Played
|
Vardar wins
|
Draws
|
Pelister wins
|
Vardar goals
|
Pelister goals
|
Yugoslav championship (1990?1992)
|
First League
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
1
|
Second League
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
Yugoslavia totals
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
7
|
2
|
Macedonian championship (1992?present)
|
First League
|
58
|
30
|
16
|
12
|
89
|
63
|
Second League
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
3
|
Macedonian Cup
|
14
|
8
|
3
|
3
|
21
|
11
|
Macedonia totals
|
72
|
38
|
19
|
14
|
110
|
74
|
All Time
|
78
|
42
|
20
|
16
|
120
|
79
|
Last updated on 9 May 2023.
Records
[
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]
- Record League win
- Vardar
- Home:
Vardar ? Pelister 7?0,
Gradski stadion
, 8 May 1996
(
Karadzhov
,
Markovski
,
Nikolovski
,
Trajchev
,
Serafimovski
, Stojkoski,
Stani?
)
- Away:
Pelister ? Vardar 0?2,
Stadion Tumbe Kafe
, 13 April 2003
(
Vasoski
,
Bozhinovski
)
- Pelister
|
- Record Cup win
- Vardar
- Home:
Vardar ? Pelister 4?1,
Philip II Arena
, 30 September 2015
(
Dashyan
,
Velkovski
,
Hambardzumyan
,
Grncharov
? Nedanoski)
and Vardar ? Pelister 3?0,
Gradski stadion
, 17 April 1996
(
Shakiri
,
Serafimovski
,
Petreski
)
- Away:
Pelister ? Vardar 0?2,
Stadion Goce Delchev
, 21 October 2015
(Trajkovski
o.g.
,
Stojkov
)
|
- Longest sequence of League wins
- Vardar
: 7, 17 August 2002 ? 11 October 2007
- Home: 4, 23 August 2008 ? 30 September 2012
- Away: 6, 1 April 2001 ? 29 April 2007
- Pelister
: 2, 16 March 2008 ? 26 April 2008
- Home: 3, 29 October 1995 ? 14 March 1998
- Away: 1
|
- Longest sequence of Cup wins
- Vardar
: 4, 7 November 2012 ? 21 October 2015
- Home: 4, 11 April 2007?present
- Away: 2, 7 November 2012 ? 21 October 2015
- Pelister
: 3, 15 March 2000 ? 25 February 2001
- Home: 2, 15 March 2000 ? 25 February 2001
- Away: 1
|
- Longest sequence of unbeaten League matches
- Vardar
: 15, 3 October 1998 ? 11 October 2007
- Home: 15, 24 February 1991 ? 11 October 2007
- Away: 8, 3 October 1998 ? 29 April 2007 and 6 March 2013 ? 4 October 2020
- Pelister
: 7, 1 April 2018?present
- Home: 5, 7 November 1993 ? 14 March 1998 and 16 March 2008 ? 28 March 2010
- Away: 3, 13 April 2013 ? 23 April 2014 and 13 May 2018?present
|
- Longest sequence of unbeaten Cup matches
- Vardar
: 7, 4 April 2001?present
- Home: 4, 4 April 2001?present
- Away: 3, 2 May 2007?present
- Pelister
: 4, 1 May 1996 ? 25 February 2001
- Home: 4, 1 May 1996 ? 2 May 2007
- Away: 1
|
- Bigger grade difference
- Vardar
- Point system 3?1?0: +44 (72 vs 28),
2002?03
- Pelister
- Point system 3?1?0: +18 (47 vs 29),
1999?2000
Official match results
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- Colors
Vardar win
Draw
Pelister win
- Competitions
- SF = Semi-finals
- QF = Quarter-finals
- R16 = Round of 16
Results
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]
Season
|
Competition
|
Date
|
Home team
|
Result
|
Away team
|
1990?91
|
YUG Second League
|
5 August 1990
|
Pelister
|
1?1
1
|
Vardar
|
24 February 1991
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
1991?92
|
YUG First League
|
1 September 1991
|
Vardar
|
2?1
|
Pelister
|
8 March 1992
|
Pelister
|
0?3
2
|
Vardar
|
1992?93
|
First League
|
28 November 1992
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
Macedonian Cup Final
|
23 May 1993
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
First League
|
13 June 1993
|
Pelister
|
0?3
3
|
Vardar
|
1993?94
|
First League
|
7 November 1993
|
Pelister
|
2?1
|
Vardar
|
22 May 1994
|
Vardar
|
4?0
|
Pelister
|
1994?95
|
First League
|
2 October 1994
|
Pelister
|
0?0
|
Vardar
|
15 April 1995
|
Vardar
|
6?3
|
Pelister
|
1995?96
|
First League
|
29 October 1995
|
Pelister
|
2?1
|
Vardar
|
Macedonian Cup SF
|
17 April 1996
|
Vardar
|
3?0
|
Pelister
|
1 May 1996
|
Pelister
|
1?1
|
Vardar
|
First League
|
8 May 1996
|
Vardar
|
7?0
|
Pelister
|
1996?97
|
First League
|
8 September 1996
|
Vardar
|
0?0
|
Pelister
|
23 March 1997
|
Pelister
|
1?0
|
Vardar
|
1997?98
|
First League
|
31 August 1997
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
14 March 1998
|
Pelister
|
3?2
|
Vardar
|
1998?99
|
First League
|
3 October 1998
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
30 April 1999
|
Vardar
|
2?1
|
Pelister
|
1999?2000
|
First League
|
21 November 1999
|
Vardar
|
3?2
|
Pelister
|
Macedonian Cup QF
|
15 March 2000
|
Pelister
|
1?0
|
Vardar
|
22 March 2000
|
Vardar
|
1?2
|
Pelister
|
First League
|
28 May 2000
|
Pelister
|
1?1
|
Vardar
|
2000?01
|
First League
|
24 September 2000
|
Vardar
|
3?1
|
Pelister
|
Macedonian Cup QF
|
25 February 2001
|
Pelister
|
2?1
|
Vardar
|
First League
|
1 April 2001
|
Pelister
|
0?1
|
Vardar
|
Macedonian Cup QF
|
4 April 2001
|
Vardar
|
3?2
4
|
Pelister
|
2001?02
|
First League
|
23 September 2001
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
25 November 2001
|
Vardar
|
2?2
|
Pelister
|
2002?03
|
First League
|
17 August 2002
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
3 November 2002
|
Vardar
|
3?1
|
Pelister
|
13 April 2003
|
Pelister
|
0?2
|
Vardar
|
2006?07
|
First League
|
1 October 2006
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
17 December 2006
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
Macedonian Cup SF
|
11 April 2007
|
Vardar
|
2?1
|
Pelister
|
First League
|
29 April 2007
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
Macedonian Cup SF
|
2 May 2007
|
Pelister
|
1?1
|
Vardar
|
|
Season
|
Competition
|
Date
|
Home team
|
Result
|
Away team
|
2007?08
|
First League
|
11 October 2007
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
16 March 2008
|
Pelister
|
2?1
|
Vardar
|
26 April 2008
|
Vardar
|
1?3
|
Pelister
|
2008?09
|
First League
|
23 August 2008
|
Vardar
|
3?0
|
Pelister
|
16 November 2008
|
Pelister
|
0?0
|
Vardar
|
12 April 2009
|
Pelister
|
0?0
|
Vardar
|
2009?10
|
First League
|
25 October 2009
|
Pelister
|
1?0
|
Vardar
|
21 March 2010
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
28 March 2010
|
Pelister
|
1?0
|
Vardar
|
2010?11
|
First League
|
28 August 2010
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
27 November 2010
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
21 May 2011
|
Pelister
|
1?0
|
Vardar
|
2012?13
|
First League
|
30 September 2012
|
Vardar
|
3?1
|
Pelister
|
Macedonian Cup QF
|
7 November 2012
|
Pelister
|
0?1
|
Vardar
|
21 November 2012
|
Vardar
|
2?0
|
Pelister
|
First League
|
6 March 2013
|
Pelister
|
0?0
|
Vardar
|
13 April 2013
|
Vardar
|
0?1
|
Pelister
|
2013?14
|
First League
|
6 October 2013
|
Pelister
|
1?2
|
Vardar
|
9 March 2014
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
23 April 2014
|
Vardar
|
0?0
|
Pelister
|
2014?15
|
First League
|
3 August 2014
|
Pelister
|
0?1
|
Vardar
|
4 October 2014
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
22 March 2015
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
2015?16
|
Macedonian Cup R16
5
|
30 September 2015
|
Vardar
|
4?1
|
Pelister
|
21 October 2015
|
Pelister
|
0?2
|
Vardar
|
2016?17
|
First League
|
28 September 2016
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
30 November 2016
|
Pelister
|
0?1
|
Vardar
|
9 April 2017
|
Vardar
|
3?1
|
Pelister
|
28 May 2017
|
Pelister
|
2?3
|
Vardar
|
2017?18
|
First League
|
24 September 2017
|
Pelister
|
0?1
|
Vardar
|
19 November 2017
|
Vardar
|
1?0
|
Pelister
|
1 April 2018
|
Pelister
|
0?0
|
Vardar
|
13 May 2018
|
Vardar
|
2?3
|
Pelister
|
2020?21
|
First League
|
4 October 2020
|
Pelister
|
1?1
|
Vardar
|
21 February 2021
|
Vardar
|
2?2
|
Pelister
|
4 April 2021
|
Pelister
|
2?0
|
Vardar
|
2021?22
|
Macedonian Cup QF
6
|
15 December 2021
|
Pelister
|
0?0
7
|
Vardar
|
2022?23
|
Second League
|
3 December 2022
|
Pelister
|
2?2
|
Vardar
|
9 May 2023
|
Vardar
|
1?1
|
Pelister
|
|
1
Vardar won 4?2 on penalties and won the one point.
2
Match suspended after 45 minutes (score: 0?0) due to the crowd trouble. Vardar were awarded a 0?3 win.
3
Match suspended before the kick-off due to the crowd trouble when
?kembari
burned seats, collapsed the protective fence and clashed with the police. Vardar were awarded a 0?3 win.
4
The 2000?01 Macedonian Cup quarter-final tie was won by Pelister on
away goals rule
.
5
Pelister was played in the Second League in that season.
6
Vardar was played in the Second League in that season.
7
Pelister won 3?2 on penalties.
Players who have played for both clubs (senior career)
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Players who have scored for both clubs in the derby
[
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Managers who have worked at both clubs
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Honours
[
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These are the major football honours of Vardar and Pelister.
Head-to-head league ranking
[
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The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons.
Key
|
First League
|
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Second League
|
|
|
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Source:
rsssf.org
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