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.
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).
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).
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Manager | Tenure(s) | Trophies | Total | |||||
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Karl Mütsch | 1948 | 1 | – | N/A | – | 1 | ||
Bernard Hügl | 1949–52 | – | 1 | N/A | – | 1 | ||
Ivan Jazbinšek | 1953–55 | 1 | – | N/A | – | 1 | ||
Gustav Lechner | 1957–58 | 1 | – | N/A | – | 1 | ||
Milan Antolković | 1952–53, 1957, 1959–60, 1961–64 | – | 2 | N/A | – | 2 | ||
Vlatko Konjevod | 1964–65 | – | 1 | N/A | – | 1 | ||
Ivica Horvat | 1967–70 | – | 1 | N/A | 1 | 2 | ||
Vlatko Marković | 1978–80, 1983, 1990–91, 1992 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Miroslav Blažević | 1980–83, 1986–88, 1992–94, 2002–03 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 6 |
Zlatko Kranjčar | 1994–96, 1998 | N/A | 2 | 2 | – | – | 4 | |
Otto Barić | 1996–97 | N/A | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Ilija Lončarević | 1999, 2001–02, 2005 | N/A | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Marijan Vlak | 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2002, 2008–09 | N/A | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Nikola Jurčević | 2003–04,2018 | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | |
Josip Kuže | 1989–90, 2005–06 | N/A | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | |
Branko Ivanković | 2006–08, 2008, 2013 | N/A | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Zvonimir Soldo | 2008 | N/A | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
Krunoslav Jurčić | 2009–10, 2011, 2012–13 | N/A | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | |
Velimir Zajec | 1998–99, 2010 | N/A | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
Vahid Halilhodžić | 2010–11 | N/A | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | |
Marijo Tot | 2011 | N/A | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | |
Ante Čačić | 2011–12, 2022–23, | N/A | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | |
Zoran Mamić | 2013–16, 2020–21 | N/A | 3 | 2 | – | – | 5 | |
Nenad Bjelica | 2018–20 | N/A | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | |
Igor Jovićević | 2020 | N/A | 1 | - | - | – | 1 | |
Damir Krznar | 2021 | N/A | 1 | 1 | - | – | 2 | |
Igor Bišćan | 2023 | N/A | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | |
Sergej Jakirović | 2023–24 | N/A | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | |
Total | 1945–2024 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 62 |
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