Damir Krznar

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Damir Krznar
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Krznar in 2021
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-07-10) 10 July 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Zabok, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia [1]
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) [2]
Position(s) Left midfielder [2]
Team information
Current team
 Celje (head coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1995 Varteks 83 (4)
1995–2004 Dinamo Zagreb 122 (7)
2004–2010 Inter Zaprešić 134 (1)
Total339(12)
International career
1998 Croatia 1 (0)
Managerial career
2010–2011 Inter Zaprešić (assistant)
2011–2016 Dinamo Zagreb (assistant)
2013 Dinamo Zagreb (interim)
2016–2017 Al Nassr (assistant)
2017–2019 Al Ain (assistant)
2019 Al Hilal (assistant)
2020–2021 Dinamo Zagreb (assistant)
2021 Dinamo Zagreb
2022 Dinamo Zagreb II
2022–2023 Maribor
2023– Celje
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Damir Krznar (born 10 July 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Slovenian PrvaLiga club Celje.

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Playing career

Club

Krznar spent his career playing for Varteks, Dinamo Zagreb and Inter Zaprešić. [1]

International

He made his international debut coming in as a second half substitute for Robert Jarni against Poland on 22 April 1998, which was his only appearance for the Croatia national team. [1] [3]

Managerial career

Career as assistant

In the period between 2010 and 2021, Krznar worked as an assistant coach to Ilija Lončarević at Inter Zaprešić, to Krunoslav Jurčić, Ante Čačić, Branko Ivanković and Zoran Mamić at Dinamo Zagreb, and to Mamić at Al Nassr, Al Ain and Al Hilal. [4]

He served as Dinamo interim manager on two occasions; from August to September 2013, [5] and from July to September 2015. [6]

Dinamo Zagreb

After Zoran Mamić was sentenced to five years in prison on 15 March 2021, he resigned on the same day and was succeeded by Krznar, who made his debut as Dinamo head coach on 18 March in a 3–0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Stadion Maksimir, thus qualifying for the quarter-finals of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League for the first time in the history of the club. Furthermore, Krznar became the first ever manager to eliminate Spurs head coach José Mourinho from the Europa League (the Portuguese took part in the competition two more times before–in 2002–03 coaching Porto, and in 2016–17 coaching Manchester United–winning both editions). [7] [8] [9] [10] However, Dinamo went on to lose their quarter-final fixture against Villarreal 3–1 on aggregate. [11]

On 9 May 2021, Dinamo secured its 22nd Croatian First League title with a 5–1 victory over Rijeka, and the 32nd national league title in total. [12] Ten days later, Dinamo also won the Croatian Cup title, with a victory against Istra 1961 by a scoreline of 6–3. [13]

Krznar left Dinamo on 1 December 2021 after being eliminated by Rijeka in the quarter-finals of the Croatian Cup. [14] However, the next month, he took over the reserve team of Dinamo, [15] playing in the Croatian Second League, where he stayed until the team was dissolved following the 2021–22 season. [16]

Maribor

On 16 August 2022, Krznar took charge of the reigning Slovenian PrvaLiga champions Maribor, signing a two-year contract. [17] At the time of his arrival, Maribor was sitting in last place in the league with only three points out of five games. [17] He led the club to third place in the league and also reached the cup final, earning a contract extension until 2026. [18] However, after a poor start to the 2023–24 season, Krznar terminated his contract by mutual consent and left the club on 2 October 2023. In total, he led Maribor in 55 matches and achieved 28 wins, 13 draws and 14 defeats. [19]

Managerial statistics

As of 1 October 2023 [20]
Managerial record by team and tenure
ClubFromToRecord
PWDLWin %
Dinamo Zagreb (interim)22 August 20132 September 20133300100.00
Dinamo Zagreb 15 March 20211 December 20214829118060.42
Dinamo Zagreb II 7 January 202216 August 202215726046.67
Maribor 16 August 20222 October 202355281314050.91
Total121672628055.37

Honours

Player

Dinamo Zagreb

Manager

Dinamo Zagreb

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