Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bojan Hodak | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 4 May 1971||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Persib Bandung (Head coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
1984–1990 | Trnje | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1994 | Vrapče | ||
1995 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | ||
1996 | Ponikve | ||
1997 | Balestier Central | ||
1998–1999 | Jurong | ||
1999 | Hong Kong Rangers | ||
2000–2001 | Jurong | ||
2002 | Trnje | ||
Managerial career | |||
2006–2009 | UPB-MyTeam | ||
2010–2011 | Phnom Penh Crown | ||
2011–2012 | Shandong Taishan (assistant coach) | ||
2012–2013 | Kelantan | ||
2014–2015 | Johor Darul Ta'zim | ||
2016 | Penang (CEO) | ||
2017–2019 | Malaysia U19 | ||
2020 | PSM Makassar | ||
2021–2023 | Kuala Lumpur City | ||
2023– | Persib Bandung | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bojan Hodak (born 4 May 1971) is a Croatian professional football coach and former player. He is the coach of Liga 1 club Persib Bandung. [2]
Hodak was born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia, as the second child in a family with a strong military background. His father and brother were both army officers. In his early years, he spent most time playing basketball and football, not preferring one over the other as he excelled in both. There was neither a prominent figure that encouraged him, nor was there any history of sportsmen in his family, but Hodak carried on for fun, joining his friends. However at the age of 16, his local club NK Trnje began paying him for his services and he duly gave up basketball to focus his time and energy in football. [3]
Hodak's coaching career began in Malaysia in 2006 with the now-defunct UPB-MyTeam, where he guided them to promotion into the Malaysian Super League. There he was responsible for the development of UPB-MyTeam's very young squad, which produced many Malaysian national players, including Norshahrul Idlan Talaha, Shakir Shaari, Bunyamin Umar, Syed Adney Syed Hussein, Stanley Samuel, Azmi Muslim, Nazrin Nawi and Azamuddin Akil.
With Phnom Penh Crown, he won the Cambodian League and qualified for the AFC President's Cup Final Round for the first time in Cambodian football history.
With Shandong Taishan, he won the Reserve CSL and he was assistant coach in the First team that lost the Chinese FA Cup final 2–1 to Tianjin Teda.
Hodak was appointed manager and head coach of Kelantan in February 2012. [4] [5] He made Kelantan history during his debut season, guiding them to a historic treble of the Malaysian FA Cup, Malaysian Super League and Malaysia Cup. The team also qualified for the 2012 AFC Cup quarter-finals where they lost to Arbil FC of Iraq, 3–6 on aggregate. [6] In his second season with Kelantan, despite losing six key players, the team managed to retain the FA Cup, but lost the league championship to LionsXII and Malaysia Cup final to Sri Pahang. He left the team after the conclusion of the 2013 season. [7]
With Johor Darul Ta'zim, he won the 2014 Malaysia Super League and qualified for the AFC Cup. The team collected 44 points from 22 matches and beat Sarawak 1–0 at Stadium Negeri Sarawak, Kuching. In January 2015, he guided JDT to the Charity Shield after JDT beat Pahang 2-0.
Hodak was appointed CEO of Penang in May 2016 with the target to save Penang from relegation. Penang were bottom of the Malaysian Super League with only 6 points from 11 matches. He signed Nenad Baćina as head coach, changed three players and the team started improving. In the second half of the season, Penang was one of the best teams, winning 16 points, with only Johor Darul Ta'zim and Kedah Darul Aman winning more points in these 11 matches.
The team managed to stay in Malaysian Super League in 2016. After Hodak left at the end of the 2016 season, Penang was relegated the next season, after collecting only 12 points From 22 matches.
With Malaysia U-19, Hodak achieved best results in the history by winning AFF U-19 Championship in 2018. Before that, in 2017 he was runner Up in same age group and manage to qualify for AFC U-19 Championship 2017.
On the last day of 2019 (31 December 2019), PSM Makassar officially announced Bojan Hodak as their new coach for the upcoming 2020 season. [8]
Bojan helped the City Boys reached their first cup final after 22 years (since 1999 Malaysia FA Cup).
On top of that, Kuala Lumpur City put an end to the 32-year drought of Malaysia Cup (last won in 1989) by winning the 2021 Malaysia Cup final by beating the overwhelming favourites JDT 2–0 at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.
As title holders of the Malaysia Cup, Kuala Lumpur City qualified to play in the 2022 AFC Cup campaign via cup competition after Malaysia FA Cup was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic. Bojan led the team to the final, where they have to finish as the runner-up after losing 0–2 to Omani club Al-Seeb.
Bojan's last match for the team was the final of the 2023 Malaysia FA Cup against Johor Darul Ta'zim which ended in their loss of 0–2. In 26 July 2023, four days after the match, Bojan announced his resignation.
In the same day of Bojan's resignation announcement from Kuala Lumpur City, Persib Bandung introduced him as the new head coach to replace Luis Milla. [9] At the moment of his arrival, Maung Bandung was struggling in their 2023–24 Liga 1 campaign. They were down in the relegation zone, positioned 16th out of 18 teams.
Under Bojan, Persib had managed to breach out of the bottom and managed to qualify for the championship series after finishing second in the regular series standings.
Persib was finally able to emerge as champions after winning 6–1 in aggregate against Madura United in the finals. Bojan made club history as the first foreign head coach to win a league title. In addition, he was awarded as the season's Best Coach. [10]
UPB MyTeam
Phnom Penh Crown
Kelantan
Johor Darul Ta'zim
Malaysia U19
Kuala Lumpur City
Persib Bandung
Individual
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win% | ||||
UPB-MyTeam | ![]() | 1 November 2006 | 21 June 2009 | 81 | 37 | 15 | 29 | 45.68 |
Phnom Penh Crown | ![]() | 1 October 2010 | 31 May 2011 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 71.43 |
Kelantan | ![]() | 27 February 2012 | 31 December 2013 | 90 | 53 | 21 | 16 | 58.89 |
Johor Darul Ta'zim | ![]() | 26 February 2014 [12] | 1 May 2015 [13] | 38 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 60.53 |
Malaysia U19 | ![]() | 1 August 2017 [14] | 31 July 2019 [15] | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 64.71 |
PSM Makassar | ![]() | 1 January 2020 [16] | 1 April 2020 [17] | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 50.00 |
Kuala Lumpur City | ![]() | 7 January 2021 [18] | 26 July 2023 | 90 | 37 | 29 | 24 | 41.11 |
Persib Bandung | ![]() | 26 July 2023 [19] | Present | 37 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 54.05 |
Total | 375 | 195 | 98 | 82 | 52.00 |
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