| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mario Jozef Ilich [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 23 June 1995 | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Auckland City | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Central United | |||
| –2012 | Auckland City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2014 | Auckland City | 3 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Wanderers SC | 12 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | WaiBOP United | 14 | (3) |
| 2016 | Eastern Suburbs | 2 | (0) |
| 2017 | Auckland City | 2 | (0) |
| 2017 | Central United | ||
| 2017–2019 | Team Wellington | 36 | (2) |
| 2019 | Bentleigh Greens | ||
| 2019– | Auckland City | 114 | (10) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mario Jozef Ilich (born 23 June 1995) [2] is a semi-professional association football player from New Zealand who plays as a midfielder and captains Auckland City. [3] [4]
Growing up in Auckland, Ilich played his youth football for Central United and Auckland City. [5] [6]
Ilich spent time at a number of New Zealand Football Championship clubs, before spending a short spell at Bentleigh Greens in the NPL Victoria. [7]
After leaving Bentleigh Greens, Ilich joined Auckland City, for the third time on 23 September 2019. [8] He has since played in three international FIFA tournaments, the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup, 2023 FIFA Club Wold Cup, 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. [9] [10]
Ilich works as a supermarket sales representative for Coca-Cola. [3] [11] Ilich has Croatian roots. [12]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Auckland City | 2011–12 | Premiership | 2 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2012–13 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2013–14 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Wanderers SC | 2014–15 | Premiership | 12 | 0 | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
| WaiBOP United | 2015–16 | Premiership | 14 | 3 | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | |||
| Eastern Suburbs | 2016–17 | Premiership | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| Auckland City | 2016–17 | Premiership | 2 | 0 | — | 1 [a] | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| Team Wellington | 2017–18 | Premiership | 18 | 0 | — | 8 [a] | 1 | 2 [b] | 0 | 28 | 1 | |
| 2018–19 | 18 | 2 | — | 5 [a] | 1 | 3 [c] | 0 | 26 | 2 | |||
| Total | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 55 | 4 | ||
| Auckland City | 2019–20 | Premiership | 14 | 1 | — | 3 [a] | 0 | — | 17 | 1 | ||
| 2020–21 | 11 | 0 | — | — | 2 [b] | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| 2021 | National League | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| 2022 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 [a] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | ||
| 2023 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 [a] | 0 | 1 [d] | 0 | 32 | 1 | ||
| 2024 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 [a] | 1 | 1 [e] | 0 | 32 | 3 | ||
| 2025 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 [d] | 0 | 12 | 3 | ||
| Total | 116 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 147 | 13 | ||
| Career total | ||||||||||||