# 2017–18 FK Vardar season

The 2017–18 season was FK Vardar's 26th consecutive season in the First League.

## Squad

    As of 25 August 2017
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | MKD | Igor Aleksovski |
| 3 | DF | MKD | Goran Popov |
| 5 | DF | MKD | Visar Musliu |
| 6 | DF | MKD | Boban Grncharov (captain) |
| 7 | MF | GEO | Jambul Jighuari |
| 8 | MF | SRB | Vanja Marković |
| 9 | FW | MKD | Dejan Blazhevski |
| 10 | MF | MKD | Boban Nikolov |
| 11 | MF | ARM | Tigran Barseghyan |
| 14 | DF | MKD | Darko Velkovski |
| 16 | MF | MKD | Nikola Gligorov |
| 17 | FW | MKD | Aco Stojkov |
| 18 | FW | MKD | Bojan Kolevski |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | DF | ARM | Hovhannes Hambardzumyan |
| 21 | DF | UKR | Yevhen Novak |
| 22 | MF | MKD | Filip Stojchevski |
| 23 | DF | MKD | Besir Demiri |
| 28 | GK | MKD | Tome Pachovski |
| 32 | DF | MKD | Darko Glishikj |
| 33 | MF | MKD | Besar Iseni |
| 48 | FW | BRA | Ytalo |
| 70 | MF | BRA | Juan Felipe Ribeiro |
| 77 | DF | MKD | Vladica Brdarovski |
| 90 | GK | MKD | Filip Gachevski |
| 97 | FW | MKD | Petar Petkovski |
| - | FW | RUS | Maksim Maksimov |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | MKD | Stefan Spirovski (to Ferencváros) |
| 10 | MF | MNE | Damir Kojašević (to Vojvodina) |
| 89 | FW | BRA | Jonathan Balotelli (to Al-Gharafa) |
| — | MF | GHA | Moustapha Quaynor (on loan to Pelister) |

## Competitions
### First League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Shkëndija (C) | 36 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 101 | 27 | +74 | 91 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Vardar | 36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 53 | 41 | +12 | 56 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Rabotnički | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 50 | 43 | +7 | 52 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 4 | Shkupi | 36 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 51 | 46 | +5 | 51 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 5 | Sileks | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 30 | 37 | −7 | 50 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | D | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | L | D | W | D | D | D | L | L | L | W | L | D | L | W | L |
| Position | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ZEN | RS | ROS | VRD |
| 1 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 16 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| 2 | Real Sociedad | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–3 | — | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Rosenborg | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 5 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 3–1 |
| 4 | Vardar | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 20 | −17 | 1 | | 0–5 | 0–6 | 1–1 | — |

## Statistics
### Top scorers

| Rank | Name | League | Europe | Cup | Total |
| 1 | Tigran Barseghyan | 2 | 2 | – | 4 |
| 2 | Boban Nikolov | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| 3 | Nikola Gligorov | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| 3 | Boban Grncharov | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| 3 | Besar Iseni | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Dejan Blazhevski | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Jonathan Balotelli | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 6 | Besir Demiri | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Juan Felipe | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| 6 | Jambul Jighauri | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 6 | Damir Kojašević | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| 6 | Ytalo | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| | Own goals | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| | TOTALS | 7 | 10 | 4 | 21 |