Brera Holdings’ Macedonian First Division Soccer Team FC AP BRERA STRUMICA AD Names Gorazd Mihajlov as New Head Coach
September 12 2024 - 8:00AM
FC AP Brera Strumica AD (“Brera Strumica” or the “Club”) is
delighted to announce the appointment of Gorazd Mihajlov as its new
Head Coach, effective September 9, 2024. Brera Strumica is a North
Macedonian football club 90%-owned by Brera Holdings PLC, the first
publicly-listed football (American soccer) focused company in the
world of professional sports multi-club ownership and investment
(Nasdaq: BREA). Brera Strumica competes in the Macedonian First
League and has succeeded in reaching the qualifiers to the UEFA
Europa League during the 2019-2020 season and the UEFA Europa
Conference League during the 2022-2023 season.
Gorazd Mihajlov is a highly respected figure in the football
world, and joins the Club with an impressive track record. A
graduate of the University of “Sv. Kiril i Metodij” in Skopje,
Macedonia, Mihajlov brings a wealth of experience from leading
teams across various prestigious leagues. His previous roles
include coaching stints with FC Ohrid, FC Pelister, FC Teteks, and
FC Vardar, among others.
Coach Gorzad Mihajlov with Brera Kit
Mihajlov’s Coaching Experience:
- 2011-2012: Head Coach, FC Ohrid (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2012-2013: Head Coach, FC Pelister (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2013-2014: Head Coach, FC Teteks (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2014: Head Coach, FC Rudar-Prijedor (Premier
League, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2014-2015: Head Coach, FC Al Qasidiyah (First
Division, Saudi Arabia)
- 2015-2016: Head Coach, FC Teteks (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2016: Team Manager, FC Pelister (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2016-2017: Coach, FC Hatta (Premier League,
UAE)
- 2018: Coach, FC Al Dhafra (Premier League,
UAE)
- 2018-2021: Head Coach, FC Borec 1919 (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2021-2023: Head Coach, FC Sileks (Premier
League, Macedonia)
- 2023-2024: Head Coach, FC
Vardar (Premier League, Macedonia)
Awards and Achievements:
- Two-time First Division Champion: FC Borec
(2018), FC Sileks (2022)
- Cup of Macedonia Winner: 2013
- Two-time Cup of Macedonia Runner-Up: 2015,
2022
- Coach of the Year: 2013, 2022
- Premier League Best Finish: 4th place with FC
Sileks (2022-2023), the club’s best performance in 15 years
- UEFA Conference League Appearances: First
round with FC Teteks (2013) and FC Sileks (2022)
ABOUT FC AP BRERA STRUMICA AD
FC AP Brera Strumica AD, formerly known as Academija Pandev, is
undergoing a strategic transformation aimed at enhancing
performance and expanding its presence in UEFA competitions. This
transition underscores the Club’s commitment to excellence and its
strategic expansion into Eastern European football.
ABOUT BRERA HOLDINGS PLC
Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) is focused on expanding its
social impact football (American soccer) business by developing a
global portfolio of emerging football and other sports clubs with
increased opportunities to earn tournament prizes, gain
sponsorships, and provide other professional football- and
sports-related consulting services.
The Company seeks to build on the legacy and brand of Brera FC,
the first football club that was acquired by the Company in 2022.
Brera FC, known as "The Third Team of Milan," is an amateur
football association which has been building an alternative
football legacy since its founding in 2000. The Company owns the
trademarked FENIX Trophy Tournament, a nonprofessional pan-European
football competition recognized by UEFA, inaugurated in September
2021 and organized by Brera FC. "FENIX" is an acronym for "Friendly
European Nonprofessional Innovative Xenial." BBC Sport has called
the FENIX Trophy "the Champions League for amateurs," and ESPN
covered the 2024 FENIX Trophy finals. In October 2022, the Internet
Marketing Association at its IMPACT 22 Conference named Brera FC as
its award recipient for "Social Impact Through Soccer," recognizing
the Company's focus at an international level with this
distinction.
In March 2023, the Company expanded to Africa with the
establishment of Brera Tchumene FC, a team then admitted to the
Second Division League in Mozambique, a country of nearly 32
million people. Brera Tchumene FC won its post-season tournament
and in November 2023 was promoted to Mocambola, the First Division
in Mozambique. In April 2023, the Company acquired 90% of the
European first division football team Fudbalski Klub Akademija
Pandev, now known as Brera Strumica FC, in North Macedonia, a
country with participation rights in two major Union of European
Football Association ("UEFA") competitions.
In June 2023, Brera acquired a strategic stake in Manchester
United PLC, a portion of which was subject to a tender offer by Sir
Jim Radcliffe and sold at a 74% realized gain. In July 2023, the
Company completed the acquisition of a majority ownership in the
Italian Serie A1 women's professional volleyball team UYBA Volley
S.s.d.a.r.l. In September 2023, the Company assumed control of
Bayanzurkh Sporting Ilch FC, a team in the Mongolian National
Premier League, which became Brera Ilch FC when the football season
resumed in March 2024. In January 2024, the Company announced the
launch of a proactive search for an Italian Serie B football club
target designed to bring multi-club ownership of the highest tiers
of professional sports ownership to mass investors through the
Company's Nasdaq-listed shares. In February 2024, the Brera
Holdings Advisory Board was established with MLS founder and World
Cup director Alan Rothenberg, luxury lifestyle executive Massimo
Ferragamo, sports business leaders Paul Tosetti and Marshall
Geller, and Italian football icon Giuseppe Rossi.
In June 2024, the North Macedonian women’s football club
Tiverija Strumica officially become part of the Brera family with
the establishment of a joint-stock company controlled by Brera
Holdings called Women's Football Club Tiverija Brera AD Strumica
(“Brera Tiverija”). Brera Tiverija is now a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Brera Strumica FC. Brera Holdings PLC is focused on bottom-up
value creation from undervalued sports clubs and talent, innovation
powered business growth, and socially-impactful outcomes. See
www.breraholdings.com.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
FOR MEDIA AND INVESTOR RELATIONSPierre Galoppi, Chief Executive
Officer, Brera Holdings PLCEmail: pierre@breraholdings.com
- Coach Gorzad Mihajlov with Brera Kit
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