List of GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers

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GNK Dinamo Zagreb is a professional football club based in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, which plays in the Croatian Football League and host their games at Stadion Maksimir.

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This list includes all individuals who held the position of manager of the first team of Dinamo Zagreb from 1945, when the first professional manager was appointed, to the present day. Caretaker managers are also included, where known.

Since its foundation in 1945 until the end of the 1990–91 season Dinamo played in the Yugoslav league system, and during this time won four 1. Federal League titles, and seven Marshal Tito Cups. After Croatia's independence and the breakup of Yugoslavia Dinamo was a founding member of the new Croatian league launched in the 1991–92 season, and went on to win 25 Croatian league titles, 17 Croatian Cups, and eight Super Cups. The club has thus spent its entire existence playing top level football.

The first manager of Dinamo Zagreb was Márton Bukovi, who joined the club along with a number of players from pre-war local clubs Građanski Zagreb, HAŠK and Concordia, which had all been disbanded just after the end of World War II in 1945. Bukovi was in charge of Dinamo from 1945 to 1947, and over the following three decades managers were mostly former players from Građanski (Mirko Kokotović, Franjo Glaser, Bernard Hügl, Milan Antolković, Ivan Jazbinšek, Gustav Lechner, Branko Zebec and Stjepan Bobek), HAŠK (Bruno Knežević, Zlatko Čajkovski), and Concordia (Bogdan Cuvaj).

The only manager to win trophies in both the Yugoslav and Croatian eras, and the only one to win all five domestic honours available, was Miroslav Blažević, who had four separate spells with Dinamo between 1980 and 2003. The only manager to win an international trophy with Dinamo was former player Ivica Horvat, who managed the team in the 1967 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final.

There were only five non-Yugoslav managers in the history of the club: Márton Bukovi (1945–47 and 1960–61), Karl Mütsch (1947–48), Osvaldo Ardiles (1999), Ivaylo Petev (2016–17) and Fabio Cannavaro (2024–present). The only two non-Croatian managers from former Yugoslavia to take over the team since Croatia's independence were Vahid Halilhodžić (2010–11) and Sergej Jakirović (2023–24).

List of managers

Honours

The following table lists managers according to trophies won. In seasons when several managers had spells with the club only the manager who was in charge when the title was won is listed. The most successful manager to date was Miroslav Blažević who had four spells with the club (1980–83, 1986–88, 1992–94, 2002–03) and is the only manager to have won all the domestic honours available to Dinamo in both the Yugoslav and Croatian football league systems, leading Dinamo to a total of 6 trophies.

Ivica Horvat is the only manager who won European silverware with Dinamo, leading them to triumph in the 1967 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, although he was in charge only for the final tie against Leeds United as Branko Zebec, who was in charge throughout the 1966–67 season, had left the club in the summer of 1967. Dinamo's only other European final came five years earlier in the 1962–63 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, when they were led by Milan Antolković.

Zoran Mamić is the only manager to date to have won three consecutive national titles with Dinamo, winning the 2013–14, 2014–15 and 2015–16 a Croatian championships and the only coach who won the league title without a single defeat (in season 2014 -15).

Key

Winning managers

ManagerTenure(s)TrophiesTotal
DomesticInt.
YL YC CL CC CS
Flag of Austria.svg Karl Mütsch1948
1
–
N/A
–
1
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Bernard Hügl 1949–52
–
1
N/A
–
1
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Ivan Jazbinšek 1953–55
1
–
N/A
–
1
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Gustav Lechner 1957–58
1
–
N/A
–
1
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Milan Antolković 1952–53, 1957, 1959–60, 1961–64
–
2
N/A
–
2
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Vlatko Konjevod 1964–65
–
1
N/A
–
1
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Ivica Horvat 1967–70
–
1
N/A
1
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Vlatko Marković 1978–80, 1983, 1990–91, 1992
–
1
–
–
–
–
1
Flag of Croatia.svg Miroslav Blažević 1980–83, 1986–88, 1992–94, 2002–03
1
1
2
1
1
–
6
Flag of Croatia.svg Zlatko Kranjčar 1994–96, 1998
N/A
2
2
–
–
4
Flag of Croatia.svg Otto Barić 1996–97
N/A
1
1
–
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Ilija Lončarević 1999, 2001–02, 2005
N/A
1
1
–
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Marijan Vlak 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2002, 2008–09
N/A
1
1
–
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Nikola Jurčević 2003–04,2018
N/A
1
1
1
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Josip Kuže 1989–90, 2005–06
N/A
1
–
1
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Branko Ivanković 2006–08, 2008, 2013
N/A
1
1
–
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Zvonimir Soldo 2008
N/A
1
1
–
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Krunoslav Jurčić 2009–10, 2011, 2012–13
N/A
3
1
1
–
5
Flag of Croatia.svg Velimir Zajec 1998–99, 2010
N/A
–
–
1
–
1
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Vahid Halilhodžić 2010–11
N/A
1
–
–
–
1
Flag of Croatia.svg Marijo Tot 2011
N/A
–
1
–
–
1
Flag of Croatia.svg Ante Čačić 2011–12, 2022–23,
N/A
2
1
1
–
4
Flag of Croatia.svg Zoran Mamić 2013–16, 2020–21
N/A
3
2
–
–
5
Flag of Croatia.svg Nenad Bjelica 2018–20
N/A
1
1
1
–
3
Flag of Croatia.svg Igor Jovićević 2020
N/A
1
-
-
–
1
Flag of Croatia.svg Damir Krznar 2021
N/A
1
1
-
–
2
Flag of Croatia.svg Igor Bišćan 2023
N/A
1
-
1
-
2
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Sergej Jakirović 2023–24
N/A
1
1
-
-
2
Total1945–20244725178162

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