[5][6] In 2011-12 season he spend most of the time on the bench, earning only one league appearance, coming as a substitute when Raïs M'Bolhi received a red card in away win 0–2 against Litex Lovech.

[7] After the managerial departure of Stoycho Mladenov from CSKA, Miodrag Ješić was appointed as head coach.

[9] He quickly established as first choice goalkeeper, having initially served as an understudy to Ivan Karadzhov.

[14] On 27 January 2015, Makendzhiev received his first call-up to the Bulgaria national team for the Friendly game against Romania on 7 February 2015 in Antalya from Ivaylo Petev.

He played over the course of the entire second half, keeping a clean sheet in the non-official friendly match that ended with a score of 0:0.