Breakup of Yugoslavia
After the Breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, Tikvesh were one of the founding members of the Macedonian First League, the top level professional football league in Macedonia. In the inaugural season they finished 7th in the table. A succession of managers followed, but despite a wealth of home grown talent and some well known signings (such as Dejvi Glavevski, Dzhevdet Shainovski, Sasho Karadzhov, Arbnor Morina, Vlado Šuvak, Đorđe Iskić) Tikvesh failed to achieve any significant results, never breaking into the top four and therefore failing to qualify for European competition.