List of HNK Hajduk Split managers

Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split is a professional football club based in Split, Croatia, which plays in the HNL. This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Hajduk Split from 1911, when the first professional manager was appointed, to the present day.

The first manager of Hajduk Split was Bohemian Oldřich Just, who joined the club in 1911 as a player-manager. He was in charge from 1911 to 1912. The current manager is Gennaro Gattuso, who took over the club in June 2024.[1]

List of Hajduk managers

1911–1992

1992–

  • Only first-team competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.
  • Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 31 October 2021

Key

  • M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = goals for; GA = goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
  •    † Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
  •    ‡ Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.
List of HNK Hajduk Split managers by season
Tenure Manager
Croatian Competitions UEFA Competitions Total
PWDLGFGA PWDLGFGA PWDLGFGA Win%
1991–93 Croatia Stanko Poklepović 44281158330 210112 46291168432063.04
1993–95 Croatia Ivan Katalinić 8149221018971 145541217 9554271420188056.84
1995–96 Croatia Mirko Jozić 2013344423 000000 2013344423065.00
1996–97 Croatia Ivan Buljan 5433101110950 430173 5836101211653062.07
1997 Croatia Luka Bonačić 9801152 6402138 1512032810080.00
1997 Croatia Tomislav Ivić 421164 000000 421164050.00
1997–98 Croatia Luka Bonačić 199373225 000000 199373225047.37
1998 Croatia Zoran Vulić † 5122710 000000 5122710020.00
1998–99 Croatia Ivan Katalinić 40231078337 8242108 48251499345052.08
1999–00 Croatia Ivica Matković 2312834323 000000 2312834323052.17
2000 Croatia Petar Nadoveza 136341711 201124 156451915040.00
2000–01 Croatia Zoran Vulić 3622778026 000000 3622778026061.11
2001 Croatia Nenad Gračan 1713133821 613235 2314454126060.87
2001–02 Croatia Slaven Bilić 1610422912 000000 1610422912062.50
2002–04 Croatia Zoran Vulić 725191213453 10343178 8254131515161065.85
2004 Croatia Ivan Katalinić 631297 210134 84131211050.00
2004–05 Bosnia and Herzegovina Blaž Slišković 2314364123 000000 2314364123060.87
2005 Croatia Igor Štimac † 124532213 000000 124532213033.33
2005 Croatia Miroslav Blažević 9423137 200208 114251315036.36
2005–06 Croatia Ivan Gudelj 145631913 000000 145631913035.71
2006 Croatia Luka Bonačić 165471820 000000 165471820031.25
2006–07 Croatia Zoran Vulić 3122455923 000000 3122455923070.97
2007 Croatia Ivan Pudar 136612613 311122 167722815043.75
2007 Croatia Sergije Krešić 95133213 101011 105233314050.00
2007–08 Croatia Robert Jarni 2712874732 000000 2712874732044.44
2008 Croatia Goran Vučević 137242015 421172 179352717052.94
2008–09 Croatia Ante Miše 3018755519 101011 3118855620058.06
2009 Croatia Ivica Kalinić 000000 100101 100101000.001
2009–10 Italy Edoardo Reja 1711333312 000000 1711333312064.71
2010 Croatia Stanko Poklepović 3220846922 73131110 3923978032058.97
2010–11 Croatia Goran Vučević ‡ 126241815 300338 156272123040.00
2011 Croatia Ante Miše † 521277 000000 521277040.00
2011–12 Bulgaria Krasimir Balakov 2616555121 200202 2816575123057.14
2012–13 Croatia Mišo Krstičević 421912115937 420244 462112136341045.65
2013–15 Croatia Igor Tudor 6732191612090 103251212 77352121132102045.45
2015 Croatia Stanko Poklepović † 92341213 000000 92341213022.22
2015 Croatia Hari Vukas † 106131414 000000 106131414060.00
2015–16 Croatia Damir Burić 412010116036 8413179 492411147745048.98
2016 Slovenia Marijan Pušnik 1710433917 6411137 2314545224060.87
2016–17 Spain Joan Carrillo 3519976934 632164 41221187538053.66
2017–18 Croatia Željko Kopić 3014975835 421154 34161086339047.06
2018 Croatia Zoran Vulić 115421612 000000 115421612045.45
2018–19 Croatia Siniša Oreščanin 2214354019 210133 2415364322062.50
2019 Croatia Damir Burić 2111553320 000000 2111553320052.38
2020 Croatia Igor Tudor 189183224 000000 189183224050.00
2020 Croatia Hari Vukas ‡ 83141010 210112 104151112040.00
2020–21 Bosnia and Herzegovina Boro Primorac 62131012 000000 62131012033.33
2021 Italy Paolo Tramezzani 2414463119 000000 2414463119058.33
2021 Sweden Jens Gustafsson 158342516 210134 179352820052.94
2021–22 Lithuania Valdas Dambrauskas 3322747131 410358 3723777639062.16
2022 Bosnia and Herzegovina Mislav Karoglan † 10730229 000000 10730229070.00
2022–23 Croatia Ivan Leko 35223104930 201103 37224114933059.46
2023–24 Bosnia and Herzegovina Mislav Karoglan 2112453311 000000 2112453311057.14
2024–25 Italy Gennaro Gattuso 39191285737 412121 43201495938046.51
2025– Spain Gonzalo García 3921996740 421166 432310107346053.49

1 Kalinić tenure as Hajduk manager was terminated after suffering a heart attack following European League home loss against Žilina, his debut game in charge of the club.

Source: hrnogomet.com

Interim managers
Tenure Manager
Croatian Competitions UEFA Competitions Total
PWDLGFGA PWDLGFGA PWDLGFGA Win%
1995 Croatia Ivan Buljan 101000 000000 101000000.00
2004 Croatia Petar Nadoveza 330050 000000 330050100.00
2009 Croatia Joško Španjić 201134 000000 201134000.00
2010 Croatia Joško Španjić 110021 000000 110021100.00
2015 Croatia Hari Vukas 210124 000000 210124050.00
2015 Croatia Goran Vučević 200213 000000 200213000.00
2016 Croatia Marko Lozo 100112 000000 100112000.00
2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina Jure Ivanković 000000 000000 000000!—

Source: hrnogomet.com

Honours

The following table lists managers according to trophies won. The most successful manager to date was Tomislav Ivić who had four spells with the club (1973–76, 1978–80, 1987, 1997) and led Hajduk to a total of 7 trophies, three Yugoslav First League championships (1974, 1975, and 1979) and four Yugoslav Cup titles (1972, 1973, 1974, and 1976).

Since the inception of Croatian association football league competition, the Prva HNL in 1992, most successful was Ivan Katalinić, who also claimed 7 trophies. During his three spells at Hajduk (1993–95, 1998–99, 2004), Katalinić won two Croatian First League championships (1994, 1995), two Croatian Cup titles (1993, 1995) and three Croatian Supercup titles (1993, 1994 and 2004).

Petar Nadoveza is the only manager to have won honours available to Hajduk in both the Yugoslav and Croatian football league systems, winning the Yugoslav Cup in 1984 and Croatian Cup in 2000. In 2004, he also won the Croatian First League, after taking over from Zoran Vulić three rounds before the end of the champhionship.

Key

Winning managers

Manager Tenure Trophies Total Notes
Domestic Int.
YL YC CL CC CS
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Ljubo Benčić 1939–40, 1940, 1941–48, 1955–56 ––32N/A–3
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Luka Kaliterna 1923–30, 1930–36, 1937, 1948–51 3–N/A–3
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Jozo Matošić 1952–54 1–N/A–1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Tomašević 1954–55 1–N/A–1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dušan Nenković 1965–69 –1N/A–1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slavko Luštica 1969–71 1–N/A–1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Duvančić 1976–77 –1N/A–1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Skoblar 1986–87, 1990–91 –2N/A–2
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Croatia Tomislav Ivić 1972, 1973–76, 1978–80, 1987, 1997 34––––7
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Croatia Petar Nadoveza 1982–84, 1988–89, 2000, 2004 –111––3[nb 1]
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Croatia Stanko Poklepović 1984–86, 1991–93, 2010, 2015 ––111–3
Croatia Ivan Katalinić 1993–95, 1998–99, 2004 N/A223–7
Croatia Zoran Vulić 1998, 2000–01, 2002–04, 2006–07, 2018 N/A11––2
Croatia Igor Štimac 2005 N/A1–––1[nb 2]
Croatia Miroslav Blažević 2005 N/A––1–1
Croatia Igor Tudor 2013–15 N/A–1––1[nb 3]
Lithuania Valdas Dambrauskas 2021–22 N/A–1––1[nb 4]
Croatia Ivan Leko 2022–23 N/A–1––1[nb 5]
Total 1911– 99985–41

2 Croatian First League was temporarily played during 1940's, under flags of Banate of Croatia, Independent State of Croatia and Socialist Republic of Croatia. Hajduk won a title in Banate of Croatia (1940), two in SR Croatia (1945, 1946) while refusing to participate in championships during Independent State of Croatia (1941–45).

Notes

  1. ↑ Nadoveza won Prva HNL Title in 2004 as an interim manager after Zoran Vulić was sacked only three rounds before end of the season.[2]
  2. ↑ Štimac won Prva HNL Title in 2005 as a caretaker manager (and at that time also a Director of football) after sacking Blaž Slišković eight rounds before end of the season.[3]
  3. ↑ Tudor won Croatian Cup in 2013 after leading the club only during Cup finals against Lokomotiva. The rest of the tournament was led by his predecessor Mišo Krstičević.[4]
  4. ↑ Dambrauskas won Croatian Cup in 2022 after leading the club from the quarter-finals. In the first and second round the club was led by his predecessor Jens Gustafsson.
  5. ↑ Leko won Croatian Cup in 2023 after leading the club from the quarter-finals. In the first and second round the club was led by his predecessor Mislav Karoglan.

References

  1. ↑ Korać, Branimir (12 June 2024). "Hajduk ima novog trenera: Gennaro Gattuso na klupi Splićana!". Sportnet.hr. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Petar Nadoveza 2003-04 League statistics". hrnogomet.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Igor Štimac 2004-05 League statistics". hrnogomet.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Igor Tudor 2012-13 Cup statistics". hrnogomet.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.