Marijan Pušnik
 Marijan Pušnik in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marijan Pušnik | ||
| Date of birth | 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| 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
- ↑ Maljevac, Simon (2 June 2016). "Slovenski samuraj u paklu Poljuda" [Slovenian "samurai" in the hell of Poljud] (in Croatian). Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ J.League Data Site (Japanese)