Vardar Skopje vs KuPS — UEFA Champions League: stats, lineups & analysis
Match Events
play_arrow3 clips- 30′Vardar Skopje, yellow card:Foul
- 45′KuPS, goal:0–1assist
- Half-time0 – 1
- 46′Vardar Skopje, substitution:off
- 49′KuPS, goal:0–2
- 53′Vardar Skopje, substitution:off
- 62′KuPS, substitution:off
- 62′Vardar Skopje, substitution:off
- 62′Vardar Skopje, substitution:off
- 68′KuPS, yellow card:Foul
- 68′KuPS, substitution:offA. Puukko
- 68′KuPS, substitution:off
- 70′Vardar Skopje, yellow card:Tripping
- 74′Vardar Skopje, second yellow card:Elbowing
- 76′Vardar Skopje, substitution:offMiguel Pires
- 80′Vardar Skopje, yellow card:Foul
- 86′KuPS, substitution:off
- 86′KuPS, substitution:C. KabuyeoffT. Jyry
- 90+2′Vardar Skopje, yellow card:Tripping
- Full-time0 – 2
Lineups
Starting lineups
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Vardar Skopje
4-4-2
KuPS
4-2-3-1
Top Performers
Goals
Assist
Videos
Match report
Vardar Skopje vs KuPS — the facts
KuPS won 2–0 away against Vardar Skopje (half-time 0–1).
Vardar Skopje met KuPS in the UEFA Champions League (1st Qualifying Round). Kick-off was Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 17:00 UTC at Toše Proeski Arena. Referee: Kadir Saglam.
Team pages: Vardar Skopje · KuPS · UEFA Champions League
Key moments
- 45' Goal: Brahima Magassa (assist: Clinton Antwi) — 0–1 · Watch Brahima Magassa's goal video (45')
- 49' Goal: Bob Nii Armah — 0–2 · Watch Bob Nii Armah's goal video (49')
- 74' Red card: Nemanja Bosančić
Starting line-ups
Vardar Skopje (4-4-2)
- 95 Davor Taleski
- 34 Ian Puleio
- 4 Mislav Matić
- 14 Darko Velkovski
- 21 Georgije Jankulov
- 71 Miguel Pires
- 32 Diego Castañeda
- 8 Boban Nikolov
- 99 Joaquín Torres
- 10 Goran Zakarić
- 9 Azer Omeragić
KuPS (4-2-3-1)
- 1 Johannes Kreidl
- 25 Clinton Antwi
- 4 Kasim Adams
- 28 Brahima Magassa
- 29 Akseli Puukko
- 28 Brahima Magassa
- 8 Petteri Pennanen
- 10 Valentín Gasc
- 24 Bob Nii Armah
- 9 Gustav Engvall
- 16 Tommi Jyry
- 11 Jaime Moreno
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Vardar Skopje 35%, the draw 31%, KuPS 34%. It finished Vardar Skopje 0–2 KuPS.
Home ground outweighs KuPS' rating edge — KuPS are the stronger side on our strength rating, but home ground gives Vardar Skopje the lean. The draw at 31% is lifted by a low-scoring environment.
Why Vardar Skopje at 35%?
Home ground, against the rating. KuPS sit 88 points higher on our strength rating — 1418 to 1507. Sides with a 50–100-point rating edge on the road won 33.2% of 10,595 such games.
Why only 35%?
Because KuPS are the stronger side on our strength rating. KuPS hold 8 more possession points (50 to 42 in recent games) across a 88-point rating gap. Control now carries a receipt beyond near-equals too: sides with this control edge at a 75–150-point rating gap won 42.7% of 8,535 such games where the class table expected 41.5%.
Why the draw at 31%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 28.2%. These teams' recent games average 2.6 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.2% of 27,350. The goals environment adds 1.5 points to the draw. The control factor adds 1.3 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
The listed venue doesn't match Vardar Skopje's usual ground — often just a stadium rename, sometimes a true relocation. We only remove the home edge for finals; ordinary games our detector calls neutral still saw 44.6% home wins across 26,567 of them. Vardar Skopje have shed 64 strength-rating points over their last 10 games. Momentum is measured but not yet proven: sliding sides won 34.1% of 9,022 such games vs 33.8% class-expected — inside the noise band, so it stays at 0 points until the receipt clears its evidence bar.
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About this match
On this page: the Vardar Skopje vs KuPS final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this UEFA Champions League fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
- Starting lineups and player ratings for both teams.
- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
- Watch Brahima Magassa's goal against Vardar Skopje (45').
- Watch Bob Nii Armah's goal against Vardar Skopje (49').
Watch the goals: goal highlights and video clips of every goal from Vardar Skopje 0–2 KuPS. Explore more on the Vardar Skopje and KuPS team pages or the UEFA Champions League page.