R’zhanichino, Pchinja & New Stars promoted to 3.MFL North

R’zhanichino, Pchinja and New Stars won promotion to the 3.MFL group North after celebrated in the play-off matches.

R’zhanichino, champion of 4.MFL Gazi Baba, easily than expected defeated the champion of 4.MFL Skopje, New Stars, who came back only in the stoppage time. That was too late.

More interesting was at the match between the champions of 4.MFL Kumanovo and Kisela Voda, Pchinja and Studeniçan. Former Macedonian international Muzafer Ejupi brought his team the lead after just two minutes, but Pchinja later equalized from the spot. The tie went into a penalty shoot-out where unlike last season, this time Pchinja was the winner.

Pchinja will for the first time play in the third level of Macedonian football, while R’zhanichino gets back after long time. They played there only one season almost 30 years ago, in the season 1995/96 when they got relegated right away. In that period the club was called Skopski Lozar.

Boris Trajkovski stadium in Skopje
R’zhanichinoNew Stars 2:1 (1:0)
Goals: 12′ Angel Mitev, 55′ Kristija Vuchkovski – 90’3+ Aleksandar Grasheski
Referee: Dejan Mladenovski (Skopje)

Kadino stadium in Skopje
PchinjaStudeniçan 1:1 (1:1); 4:2 p.s.o.
Goals: 24′ (pen) Viktor Dimkiov – 2′ Muzafer Ejupi
Referee: Hristijan Bozhinovski (Skopje)

Pchinja 4 2 Studeniçan
Jovancho Canevski O O Sedat Berisha
Nikolche Stojanovski O X Fati Jusufi
Aleksandar Bozhinov O O Bujamin Asani
Boban Stojanovski O X Nehat Emini

 

The two losers had a new chance as they faced each other on Sunday for the last remaining spot in the North. Despite being favorites, Studeniçan missed several chances and let New Stars take the win on counter attacks.

Boris Trajkovski stadium in Skopje
Studeniçan – New Stars 1:2 (0:1)
Goals: 50′ Fati Jusufi – 22′ Bojan Tomovski, 60′ Aleksandar Grasheski
Referee: Hristijan Bozhinovski (Skopje)

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