Toni Savevski


Toni Savevski 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.

Playing career

Club

Savevski was born in Bitola, SR 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 and the Greek cup three times.

International

He made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1988 friendly match away against Switzerland and earned a total of 2 caps for the team, scoring no goals before debuting for Macedonia in an October 1994 European Championship qualification match against Spain. He earned another 8 caps and his final international was a September 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Slovakia.

Managerial career

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 become 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.

Honours

As a player:
AEK Athens
As a coach:
Omonia