Kiril Simonovski

Kiril Simonovski

Personal information
Date of birth	(1915-10-19)19 October 1915
Place of birth	Skopje, Kingdom of Serbia (then annexed by Kingdom of Bulgaria)
Date of death
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Left defender
Youth career
0000–1938	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
1953–1955	Vardar
1955	Aris
1956–1957	Partizan
1960–1962	Olympiacos
1963	Partizan
1969–1970	Partizan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kiril "Džina" Simonovski (Macedonian: Кирил Симоновски - Џина, 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.

He started playing football in a local club in Skopje named FK Jug, before moving to Gragjanski Skopje in 1938. In 1941 during the 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). 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. It was in this period that he became the first Macedonian to play for the post-1945 Yugoslav national team, having played a total of 10 matches and scored once.

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.

Honours

As player:

Partizan

• Yugoslav First League: 1946–47, 1948–49
• Yugoslav Cup: 1946–47

As coach:

Partizan

• Yugoslav Cup: 1957

Olympiacos

• Greek Cup: 1961

External links

• (Serbian) Profile at the Football Association of Serbia website
• Profile at the Football Association of Macedonia website