Mario Mladenovski

Nearly two years into his time at NK Varaždin, Mario Mladenovski finally got on the scoresheet — and he chose the occasion, scoring against GNK Dinamo on 22 August 2026 for his first goal in Croatian football. It came in his 40th league appearance for the club, spread across three seasons since he arrived on a free transfer in July 2024.

The centre-back came through the youth ranks at Metalurg Skopje before joining FK Vardar in 2017, and he was in the senior side by 2018, playing nine league matches in his debut campaign. Vardar finished as runners-up in the Macedonian First Football League in both the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons.

What followed was a stretch of movement rather than settlement. A free transfer took him to Danish club Fremad Amager in August 2020, where five league appearances were all he managed before Botev Plovdiv signed him in January 2021. The Bulgarian spell fractured: he was registered with the second team, then loaned to Makedonija GP from September 2021 to June 2022. That loan gave him his most consistent run of the period — 22 league matches, a goal, and the Macedonian Cup in 2021/22. He went back to Plovdiv for the rest of the season and played 11 first-team league games.

Shkupi took him in September 2022 for an undisclosed fee, and there he had two full years: 35 league appearances and two goals before the move to Croatia.

He was handed a senior international debut on 16 November 2019, against Austria in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier. His second cap came almost three years later, in a friendly against Saudi Arabia in October 2022. Between 2021 and 2023 he won 11 caps for the North Macedonia under-21 side.