Boban Grncharov

Boban Grncharov (Macedonian: Бобан Грнчаров; born 12 August 1982) is a Macedonian retired footballer who played as a central defender.

Club Career

OFK Beograd

Born in Skopje (SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia), Grncarov began his career playing with FK Vardar. After playing in their youth team, he made his senior debut in the 1998–99 season of the First Macedonian Football League. In 2000, he moved to Serbia and signed with OFK Beograd. By then he had already been a regular in the U-16, U-18 and U-21 national team levels his regular appearances in the First League of FR Yugoslavia at his first season with OFK made him earn his debut for the Macedonia national football team at the young age of 20. Despite his age, he has been a regular in the league starting line-up during those seasons in Belgrade, and following the success of his signing, OFK had turned their attention to the Macedonian market and, by the 2002–03 season, 5 other Macedonians were playing in OFK along Grncarov: Bajevski, Despotovski, Fakic, Kirovski and Panov. During the previous seasons the club had been struggling to maintain consistency and Grncarov became one of the fundamental players in the 2002–03 season when OFK finished the season in 3rd place and archive to qualify for European competitions after exactly 30 years of their last continental competition appearance. Boban Grncarov had played a total of 53 league matches, and scored 2 goals, at the time he left OFK Beograd.

In 2003, he moved to Ukraine and signed with Metalurh Donetsk where he played until 2006. After spending the first half of the 2006–07 season on loan to FC Stal Alchevsk, Grncarov signed a deal with KAA Gent in the Belgian Jupiler League. The season 2008–09 he moved on loan to Maccabi Petah Tikva.

APOEL

In June 2009, the board of APOEL announced that the player signed a two-year contract with the club.

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