Toni Savevski

Toni Savevski

Personal information
Full name	Toni Savevski
Date of birth	(1963-06-14) 14 June 1963
Place of birth	Bitola, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	FK Pelister
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1988	Vardar	181	(10)
1989–2001	AEK Athens	356	(51)
Total		537	(61)
International career
1994–2000	Macedonia	9	(0)
Managerial career
2001	AEK Athens
2001–2002	Apollon Limassol
2002–2004	Omonia
2004–2012	AEK Athens (Youth Director)
2012–2013	Omonia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Toni Savevski (Macedonian: Тони Савевски; Greek: Τόνι Σαβέβσκι; born 14 June 1963) is a Macedonian football player. Savevski is widely regarded as one of the best foreign players to have played in the Greek football league. His managerial career was mostly to Omonia.

Career

Savevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia. He started his career in Pelister Bitola and then played for Vardar Skopje until 1988, when he signed for AEK Athens. He served AEK for 13 years playing in 410 league games and winning the Greek championship four times (1989, 1992, 1993, 1994) and the Greek cup (1996, 1997, 2000) three times. He also played several matches for the Macedonia national football team national team.

After he retired, he became a manager in Cyprus until 2004. In the season 2001-02 he was the coach for Apollon Limassol and between 2002-2004 coach of Omonia Nicosia. In 2003 he won the Cypriot championship and Cyprus Super Cup with Omonia. Famous player he brought up include Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Viktor Klonaridis, Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Vasileios Pliatsikas. He later worked for AEK, creating and managing its youth academy system. He later moved on to becoming Head of Scouting.

By September 2012, he returned to Omonia Nicosia as head coach. Despite the fact that the club was facing heavy financial problems, he managed to built a strong team with impressive results against the main rivals.

Honours

As a player:

AEK Athens

• Greek League: 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994
• Greek Cup: 1996, 1997, 2000
• Greek League Cup: 1990
• Greek Super Cup: 1989, 1996
• Pre-Mediterranean Cup: 1991

As a coach:

Omonia

• Cypriot Championship: 2003
• Cypriot Super Cup: 2003

External links

• Toni Savevski – FIFA competition record
• Profile at Macedonian Football
• Toni Savevski Gallery