Toni Savevski

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Full name Toni Savevski 1980–1988 Vardar Date joined 1989 Years Team Position Midfielder		Playing position Midfielder Role Football player Name Toni Savevski

Date of birth (1963-06-14) 14 June 1963 (age 52)
Place of birth Bitola, SFR Yugoslavia

Glasgow rangers aek 1994 goal from toni savevski

Toni Savevski (Macedonian: Тони Савевски; 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. After retiring from playing in 2001 he became manager and managed several clubs in Cyprus, most notably Omonia.

AEK-AJAX 1-2 Champions League 1994-95 - Toni Savevski goal

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 build a strong team with impressive results against the main rivals.