Nikola Ilievski

Nikola Ilievski - Djidji (Macedonian: Никола Илиевски - Џиџи, born 16 December 1954) is a football coach and former player from North Macedonia.

Club
Born in Skopje, during his playing career he played with FK Ohrid, FK Vardar, FK Rabotnichki, FK Priština and FK Radnički Pirot in Yugoslavia and with Kastoria F.C. in Greece.

Managerial career
After finishing the coaching degree in the Faculty of Physical Culture in the University of Belgrade he started his coaching career. He was coach of the North Macedonia national football team from 2002 to 2003. He spent two spells as manager of FK Pobeda, leading them into the UEFA Cup in 2000 and to the 2003–04 Macedonian First League won championship.

In January 2013 Ilievski was appointed as the new manager of FK Vardar after a dismissal of Blagoja Milevski, although interested the club's rival FK Pelister, but on 13 April, after a loss in Eternal derby against Pelister, was resigned due to underperforming in the league.

In January 2015, he signed with Persijap Jepara.

Managerial honours
Winner
 * FK Pobeda
 * Macedonian First League: 2003–04
 * Macedonian Cup: 2001–02

Runner-up
 * NK Celje
 * Slovenian Cup: 2005–06

Managerial Statistics
P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against %W – Percentage of matches won