Fehérvár FC

Serafimov

Macedonian

Nikola Serafimov full name

11. 08. 1999. birth year

Nikola Serafimov was born on the 11th August 1999 in Skopje, the capital of northern Macedonia. The 193 cm tall centre-back trained at the Vardar Skopje academy, made his debut in the top flight of his country on loan in the autumn of the 2017/2018 season with Pelister Bitola, where he played in 3 league games, before making his first-team debut for Vardar in 2018. He spent the 2018/2019 season on loan at Bregalnica Stip, also in the first division, before returning to Vardar, where he played 12 league games in the autumn season, which saw the team win their second title in the north. In the spring of 2020, he joined Czech club Jihlava B, before returning to his homeland in the summer to play for Akademija Pandev, where he appeared in 25 top-flight matches during the 2020/2021 season.

He was then signed by NB I Zalaegerszeg last summer, where he was a regular starter for the whole season, starting 31 league games, missing just two matches due to five yellow card suspensions and also scoring four times as a defender. He played seven times for his country's U21 national team in European U21 qualifying matches and one friendly. For the past year he has been a regular in the senior squad for northern Macedonia, making his senior debut in June this year in a Nations League match against Gibraltar, followed a week later by another NL match.