fk vardar fk vardar is a macedonian football club the club changed its name several times during its history from original vardar in to citizens football club vardar or just citizens gragjanski in macedonian in then football club makedonija in and finally back to fc vardar in by the name fc citizens vardar the club won championships from till about yugoslavia you have to know that yugoslavia was a federation of republics countries together and each republic had its own championship and there was a federal league where teams from the republics competed together each republic had its own cup and the cup winners competed in the marshals cup that cup was held in honor of joseph broz the marshal of the federation and its was called the cup of the marshal how ever fc vardar never won the federal league league made of federation of republics best teams thats why its called the federal league and not yugoslavian league nor yugoslavian cup the title in was won by fc partizan belgrade you can check in any official statistics or documents the second federal league was made of two second federal leagues east republics competed serbia monte negro macedonia and two provinces almost the same as republics but yet without a nation those were kosovo and vojvodinship and west republics croatia bosnia and slovenia sometimes clubs from province vojvodinship would compete in the west depending on the federation decisions in the period of till present day republic of macedonia was established as provinces within the kingdom of serbs croats and slovenes those provinces were skopje bitola shtip and vranje prvinces these provinces established the macedonian football federation in and they held championships in these provinces joined in one duchy and this championship was held in the duchy banovina for times during the ww the championship was held under german occupation and the german government recognized this league after the ww the very same championship was tranformed in to republic football league just the province of vranje was separated from the republic as macedonia transformed from duchy to a republic and the province of vranje was under the newly made republic of serbia in the bottom line is since the federation of republics split in the s macedonian republic league was transformed in to macedonian first league so it is the same league that changed names and competition format during the decades and now it came to this level its a petty that there is lots of politics and territorial pretensions lots of denial of the existence of the macedonia and other republics in the federation by the serbian side serbian official politic is to show that yugoslavia was one country and nation mainly based on serb character and they are stilling all the history including history of sports in this case football they are trying to show the world that there was yugoslav nation serb and only yugoslav football league serb league denying the federal league second federal league and republic leagues they want to show only yugoslav league and not the real federal league they hold all the champions from the federal league as serbian champions in every competition for fc vardar at this point of view considering that macedonia is not in the federetion for more than years and it wont be in the future the most important are the titles and trophies won in the macedonian league and if you wont to put additional trophies won in the federation the period before you should write the precise information second federal league east is the name of the competition and you should put the macedonian flag from that period of the time next to it instead of the federal flag simply because that federation dont exist anymore and doesnt represent any country nor nation about the cup you should write down the real proper name as it was called marshals cup also fallowed by macedonian flag from that period of the time you should put a notice that in the federal second league east clubs from serbia macedonia and monte negro competed including the provinces of kosovo i vojvodinship