Marijan Pušnik

Marijan Pušnik

Marijan Pušnik in 2015
Personal information
Full name Marijan Pušnik
Date of birth (1960-11-01) 1 November 1960
Place of birth Slovenj Gradec, SFR Yugoslavia
Teams managed
Years Team
1994–1996 Dravograd
1996–1997 Korotan Prevalje
1997–1998 SAK Klagenfurt
1998–1999 Dravograd
2000–2004 Celje
2004–2005 Pasargad Tehran
2006–2007 Maribor
2007–2010 Rudar Velenje
2010 Damash (caretaker)
2012 Celje
2013–2014 Avispa Fukuoka
2015 Olimpija Ljubljana
2016 Hajduk Split

Marijan Pušnik (born 1 November 1960) is a Slovenian football manager.

Managerial career

Pušnik started his managerial career with Dravograd in 1994 but landed his first serious job as Celje manager in 2000. During his four years at Celje, his biggest success was in the 2002–03 season when his team finished second in the 2002–03 Slovenian PrvaLiga and runners-up in the 2002–03 Slovenian Football Cup. After a few years in Iran, he returned to Slovenia and took over Maribor in 2007 with whom he eliminated Villarreal CF in the UEFA Intertoto Cup but after the arrival of Zlatko Zahovič in the club, Pušnik was sacked. After a few years of working at Rudar Velenje where he managed to finish 3rd in the league after the club gained promotion, he returned to Iran again.

In 2015, Pušnik came to Olimpija Ljubljana where he gained most fame. He managed to build a strong side which dominated the first half of the season with attractive offensive football. He is notable for using and selling players such as Andraž Šporar and Ezekiel Henty. After dropping out of the Slovenian Cup, he fell into an argument with sporting director Ranko Stojić and was then sacked in December 2015. Olimpija went on to win the title that year.

On 2 June 2016, Pušnik was announced as the new manager of Hajduk Split and thus, he became the first Slovenian manager of Hajduk Split in history.[1] He was sacked from Hajduk on 1 December 2016 after dropping out of the 2016–17 Croatian Football Cup quarter-finals.[2]

Managerial statistics

As of 30 November 2016

Includes matches in league, cup, and UEFA competitions.

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Celje July 2000 March 2004 140 65 30 45 46.43
Maribor July 2006 August 2007 58 29 15 14 50.00
Rudar Velenje October 2007 March 2010 86 41 14 31 47.67
Celje June 2012 December 2012 26 10 8 8 38.46
Avispa Fukuoka[3] January 2013 December 2014 86 28 22 36 32.56
Olimpija Ljubljana June 2015 December 2015 25 15 5 5 60.00
Hajduk Split June 2016 December 2016 26 16 5 5 61.54
Total 447 204 99 144 45.64

References

  1. Maljevac, Simon (2 June 2016). "Slovenski samuraj u paklu Poljuda" [Slovenian "samurai" in the hell of Poljud] (in Croatian). Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. R. K. (1 December 2016). "Marijan Pušnik ni več trener Hajduka" [Marijan Pusnik is not Hajduk coach anymore] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. J.League Data Site (Japanese)
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