Zoran Barisic

Austrian association football player

Zoran Barisic ( born 22 May 1970) is an Austrian football manager and a former player.[1] He was most recently the manager of SK Rapid Wien. Before this he was sporting director of the club.[2]

Zoran Barisic
Barisic in 2013
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-05-22) 22 May 1970 (age 54)
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Position(s)Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1991Wiener Sportklub55(4)
1991–1992Favoritner AC35(8)
1992–1993FC Admira/Wacker35(6)
1993–1995Rapid Vienna83(11)
1996–1997FC Linz13(0)
1997–2002Tirol Innsbruck99(13)
2002–2004VfB Admira Wacker Mödling19(0)
2004–2005SC Eisenstadt26(5)
Total365(47)
National team
1999Austria1(0)
Teams managed
2011Rapid Vienna (caretaker)
2011–2013Rapid Vienna II
2013–2016Rapid Vienna
2017Karabükspor
2018Olimpija Ljubljana
2022–2023Rapid Vienna
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Barisic made his Bundesliga debut in 1989 for Wiener Sport-Club. The midfielder left the club after relegation to the second division He moved to Favoritner AC, a club that also played in the second division of the Bundesliga. After Barisic narrowly missed promotion to the first division with the team, he left the Favoritner after just one season and went to VfB Mödling. He only stayed in Mödling for a year.

In 1993 he went to SK Rapid Wien. He soon played regularly in the first team. In 1995 he won the Austrian Cup. In 1996 they won the championship. Zoran Barisic also played a major role in the successes of the team in the 1995/96 season. With Rapid he played in the team which reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Barišić left SK Rapid and went to FC Linz in the Upper Austrian capital for a few months. After the liquidation of the club through a merger with LASK Linz, the Viennese moved to FC Tirol Innsbruck. There he became champion 3 times in a row. After the liquidation of the club in 2002 due to financial problems he went back to VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. 2004/05 Zoran Barisic played in the Regionalliga Ost for the Burgenland club SC Eisenstadt.

International

He played one match for the Austrian national football team versus Israel on 6 June 1999.

Manager

In September 2006 Barisic became assistant coach under the new coach Peter Pacult. After differences at the start of the 2009/10 Barisic became coach at the club's youth academy.[3] After Pacult was dismissed in April 2011 he became caretaker at SK Rapid Wien. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he became coach of SK Rapid Wien II . When Peter Schöttel was sacked Barisic took over the coaching position at SK Rapid again and reached third place in the Bundesliga with his team. Then his contract was extended until 2014. In the 2013/14 season Rapid was runner-up under him and reached the group stage of the Europa League. After the end of the season, his contract was extended by one year until the summer of 2015. On 6 June 2016 Rapid and Barisic announced their separation.

2017 he became coach of the Turkish first division club Karabükspor . In June he left the club due to outstanding salary payments.Barisic has been since September 2018 head coach of Olimpija Ljubljana . He signed a three-year contract. After the end of the autumn season he resigned.

From 16 May 2019 Barisic was sporting director of SK Rapid.[4] In October 2022 he took over as interim head coach as successor to Ferdinand Feldhofer. At the end of December 2022 he was replaced as sporting director by Markus Katzer. In February 2023 he was reappointed as head coach.

Managerial statistics

As of 3 June 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNatFromToRecordRef
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
Rapid Vienna (caretaker) 11 April 201130 May 2011104241512+3040.00[5]
Rapid Vienna II 30 May 201117 April 20135529131310360+43052.73[6]
Rapid Vienna 17 April 20136 June 2016148743737260174+86050.00[5]
Karabükspor 17 February 20175 June 2017134451419−5030.77[7]
Olimpija Ljubljana 4 September 201812 December 2018159513622+14060.00[8]
Rapid Vienna 16 October 2022Present25114104540+5044.00[5]
Total2661316570473327+146049.25

Honours

Player

Rapid Wien

Tirol Innsbruck

  • Austrian Bundesliga: 2000, 2001, 2002

References

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