Vardari smashed Drita to escape promotion rivals Gench Kalemler Sport at the West top, Volkovo celebrated an important win in the battle for avoiding relegation in the North, while East match between Ovche Pole and Malesh again wasn’t played.

photo by KF Vardari Forino: prior to kick-off at Vardari – Drita

Promotion favorites Vardari scored nine goals past former first league side Drita. They were eager to win this game as their rivals Gench Kalemler Sport was idle this round due to having played a game more. With this three points now Vardari are alone at the top.

With just one round left, the winner will be decided in the last round in a direct clash between the top two teams. Second-placed Gench Kalemler Sport will have the home field advantage and will look for a win to tie Vardari on points. In case if the two end up having equal points, their head to head record will decide the champion. The first game in Forino ended with a 1:0 win for Vardari. If the game ends with the same result, the overall goal-difference will break the tie. Because Vardari has the better goal-difference, under these circumstances they will celebrate promotion even with a defeat, but only if it’s by one goal. If Gench wins by more than one goal, they will be the ones heading to the second league.

West Round 25:

Arsimi – Xixa 3:2 (2:0)
25′ Jeton Shakjiri, 27′ Burim Iljazi, 85′ Vajdin Adili – 60′ Arben Mehmedi, 89′ Valon Bilali

Chaklani – Vrapchishte 3:0 awarded

Nerashti – Kamjani 2:2 (0:2)
75′ Mervan Amiti, 89′ Basri Ismailji – 5′ Bajram Memedi, 10′ Jeton Asipi

Vardari – Drita 9:0 (6:0)
3′, 27′, 31′ Bekim Sadiki, 14′ Armend Chajani, 25′ Argjend Veliu, 28′ Vildan Isljami, 62′, 78′ Festim Abdulahu, 86′ Hadis Emruli

Flamurtari (D) – Napredok 1:4 (1:2)
24′ (pen) Besmir Eljezi – 21′, 79′, 82′ Martin Siljanoski, 35′ Ognen Mitreski

Gench Kalemler Sport and Rechica (GR) were idle.

The group North is already decided when it comes to the champion. Goblen Junior booked a second league spot so they could afford a defeat today.

Volkovo clinched important points in the battle for avoiding relegation. Their main rivals Chair lost by SSK Nova on the road giving Volkovo a four points advantage with four round to go.

Another disaster for former cup winners Cementarnica 55. They got humiliated away to Studena Voda losing with 9:2.

North Round 22:

Ilinden (S) – Goblen Junior 6:4 (3:2)
27′, 39′, 57′ Mario Blagojevski, 35′, 60′ Dalibor Jovanovski, 79′ Stefan Blagojevski – 19′, 70′ Iljber Alili, 22′ Zaid Memeti, 56′ Ergin Sherifi
Red cards: 5′ Hekuran Iljazi (G)

Volkovo – Besa-Vlazrimi 6:1 (2:1)
3′ (pen), 30′, 65′, 74′, 83′ Angel Todorovski, 67′ Daniel Nikolovski – 39′ Behar Demiri

SSK Nova – Chair 3:1 (0:0)
50′ Petar Mihajlov, 70′ Nikola Atanasov, 80′ Harie Tutikj – 76′ Erduan Mucha
Red cards: 55′ Ali Osmani (Ch)

Madjari Solidarnost – Bratstvo-Vlaznimi 4:0 (2:0)
8′ Seid Sinani, 14′ Boris Petkovski, 58′ Marko Risteski, 80′ Kristijan Eminovski

Petrovec – Kadino 2:1 (1:0)
34′, 51′ Aleksandar Bozhinov – 57′ Antonio Petrovski

Studena Voda – Cementarnica 55 9:2 (5:0)
12′ Slavko Arsovski, 16′ Perica Stojanovski, 25′, 27′, 60′, 70′, 76′ Darko Todorovski, 36′, 49′ Bojan Trajkovski – 51′ Pepi Anakjiev, 70′ Omer Darlishta

Fortuna was idle.

The one match that wasn’t played in the group East on Sunday was rescheduled for today. However, Malesh did not travel to Sveti Nikole and the game again wasn’t played. Briefly after the kick-off on Sunday, the visitors reported irregularities in the organization by the hosts which were accepted by the match officials. Malesh was asking for green table points, something that did not happen, so in a protest they didn’t show up today.

Ovche Pole – Malesh not played