List of GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers

GNK Dinamo Zagreb is a professional football club based in Zagreb, Croatia, which plays in the Prva HNL. This chronological list comprises all those who have 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 included, where known.

The first manager of Dinamo Zagreb was Márton Bukovi, who joined the club along with a number of players from Građanski Zagreb, a club disbanded just after World War II in 1945. Bukovi was in charge from 1945 to 1947 and in the next quarter century after him coaches were mostly his former players from Građanski (Mirko Kokotović, Franjo Glaser, Bernard Hügl, Milan Antolković, Ivan Jazbinšek, Gustav Lechner, Branko Zebec and Stjepan Bobek). There were only four non-Yugoslav managers in the history of the club, Márton Bukovi (1945–47), Karl Mütsch (1948), Osvaldo Ardiles (1999) and Ivaylo Petev (2016–2017). Vahid Halilhodžić is the only non-Croatian ex-Yugoslav manager to take over the team since the breakup of Yugoslavia.

List of managers

Honours

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

Winning managers

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

References

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