The Most Famous
COACHES from North Macedonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Macedonian Coaches. The pantheon dataset contains 328 Coaches, 2 of which were born in North Macedonia. This makes North Macedonia the birth place of the 36th most number of Coaches behind Venezuela and Algeria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Macedonian Coaches of all time. This list of famous Macedonian Coaches is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Miljan Miljanić (1930 - 2012)
With an HPI of 54.81, Miljan Miljanić is the most famous Macedonian Coach. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Miljan Miljanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Миљанић; 4 May 1930 – 13 January 2012) was a Yugoslav and Serbian football administrator, coach and player who played as a defender. Born in Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to a family originating from the Banjani clan in the Nikšić municipality in Montenegro, Miljanić spent the first years of his life in what would later become SR Macedonia within SFR Yugoslavia and eventually present day North Macedonia. During his colourful career, Miljanić coached Red Star Belgrade (won 10 trophies), Real Madrid (won back-to-back La Liga titles, including a League/Cup double in the 1974–75 season), Valencia CF (disappointing stint that lasted three quarters of the 1982–83 season when he got sacked with the team in 17th place in the league), and the Yugoslavia national team, of which he was a head coach in the 1974 and 1982 World Cups. He is equally known as the all-powerful president of the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia (FSJ), a post he occupied for years before leaving in 2001. His influence on the game of football in Yugoslavia is huge as an entire generation of coaches including Ćiro Blažević, Ivica Osim, Toza Veselinović, etc. came up under his tutelage. In addition to admirers, Miljanić has his share of detractors who feel his trademark cautious and defensive tactics, as well as reliance on older players, contributed to the Yugoslavia national team's poor results and unattractive play throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 2002, for his contributions to association football, Miljanić became the recipient of the FIFA Order of Merit — the highest honour awarded by FIFA.
2. Igor Angelovski (1976 - )
With an HPI of 31.77, Igor Angelovski is the 2nd most famous Macedonian Coach. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Igor Angelovski (Macedonian: Игор Ангеловски; born 2 June 1976) is a Macedonian professional football manager and former player.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as coaches born between 1930 and 1976. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living coaches include Igor Angelovski. The most famous deceased coaches include Miljan Miljanić. As of April 2022, 1 new coaches have been added to Pantheon including Igor Angelovski.
