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Toni Savevski (; born 14 June 1963) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Savevski is widely regarded as one of the best foreign players to have played in the Greek football league. After retiring from as a footballer in 2001 he became manager and managed several clubs in Cyprus, most notably AC Omonia.
In November 1988 he signed for AEK Athens at the request of their manager, Dušan Bajević. Savevski quickly developed into one of the team's consistent players and at the end of the season he won the league. He alongside Stelios Manolas became the permanent leaders of the great AEK of the 90s. He combined very well and assisted all the great strikers that played in the club during his era, such as Batista, Dimitriadis, Alexandris, Christos Kostis and Demis Nikolaidis. He also scored some very important goals, the most important of all being this against Rangers in Glasgow, for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers in the summer of 1994. He served AEK for 13 years winning the four championships, three Greek Cups, two Greek Super Cups and the Greek League Cup. He is the third foreigner in appearances in the history of the league, behind Krzysztof Warzycha and Predrag Đorđević. Savevski urgently stopped football in the yellow-black jersey in January 2001 and within a few days he became the manager of the team, as a "duo" with Eugène Gerards, a position in which he remained until the end of the season.
On October 1994 he made his debut for North Macedonia in a European Championship qualification match against Spain. He earned another 8 caps and his final international was a September 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Slovakia.
In the season 2001–02 he was the coach for Apollon Limassol. In 2002 he coached AC Omonia, where in 2003 he won the Cypriot First Division and the Cypriot Super Cup, before leaving in 2004. In the summer of the same year, he assumed the position of technical director of the AEK Athens academies. During his tenure, the infrastructure departments of the club were organized and developed. Players such as Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Kostas Manolas, Viktor Klonaridis, Panagiotis Tachtsidis and Vasilios Pliatsikas were the results of his work. In the summer of 2010, Savevski was promoted to the position of head scouting of the team. By September 2012, he returned to Omonia as head coach until December 2013.
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