Oka Nikolov

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Oka Nikolov

Full name	Orhej Nikolov
Date of birth	May 25, 1974 (1974-05-25) (age 34)
Place of birth	Erbach im Odenwald, West Germany
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Eintracht Frankfurt
Number	1
Youth clubs
1981-1989 1989-1991 1991-1994	SG Sandbach SV Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-	Eintracht Frankfurt	240 (0)
National team²
?-	FYR Macedonia	005 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 20 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of May 20 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Oka Nikolov (Macedonian: Ока Николов); born May 25, 1974 in Erbach im Odenwald, Germany) is a Macedonian football goalkeeper.

Nikolov has played for Eintracht Frankfurt since 1991 and has been capped five times for his native Republic of Macedonia national football team.

As Nikolov grew up in Sandbach in Hesse, he made his first appearance as a football player in his local club SG Sandbach. His professional career started in 1991 at Eintracht Frankfurt. First, he was the second goalkeeper behind Uli Stein and then later Andreas Köpke. After Köpke left the club because of the relegation to the Second Bundesliga, Nikolov became Frankfurt's new first goalkeeper. In 2002, Dirk Heinen came to Eintracht Frankfurt and Nikolov lost his position once again. However, the season was no success and Frankfurt had to go to the Second Bundesliga. So Nikolov was given another chance.

After the promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2005-06 campaign Nikolov won the goalkeeping spot from Markus Pröll due to an injury. In the current 2006-07 season, Pröll was the number-one keeper again, but due to problems caused by his renewed rib injury, Nikolov once again became a regular in February 2007.