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List of GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers

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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).

List of managers

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Honours

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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).

Key

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Winning managers

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

References

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