Ante Čačić

Ante Čačić

Ante Čačić managing Dinamo Zagreb.
Personal information
Date of birth (1953-09-29) September 29, 1953
Place of birth Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia
Club information
Current team
 Croatia (manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
1986–1987 Prigorje Markuševec
1988–1989 TPK
1989–1992 Zadar
1992–1993 Dubrava
1993–1995 Inter Zaprešić
1994–1998 Croatia U21 (assistant)
1995–1996 Osijek
1996–1997 Zadar
1998 Slaven Belupo
1998–2000 Croatia Sesvete
2002–2003 Inter Zaprešić
2005–2006 Libya (assistant)
2005–2006 Libya U21
2006–2007 Kamen Ingrad
2007 Inter Zaprešić
2011 Lokomotiva
2011–2012 Dinamo Zagreb
2013 Radnik Sesvete
2013 Maribor
2014–2015 Slaven Belupo
2015 Lokomotiva
2015– Croatia

Ante Čačić (born 29 September 1953) is a Croatian football manager currently in charge of Croatia. Čačić graduated on the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Zagreb. He was one of the first ten football coaches in Croatia to get the UEFA Pro Licence.[1]

Coaching career

During his career, he successfully achieved promotion to the top division with Inter Zaprešić and Dubrava. He also coached Zadar, Osijek, Slaven Belupo, Kamen Ingrad, Croatia Sesvete and Lokomotiva.[2]

In the 2002–03 season, Čačić was at the helm of Inter Zaprešić in the South Division in the Druga HNL. In March 2003, he resigned after losing to the first-placed team Uljanik, leaving Inter at the second place in the table and five points behind the leaders. He was replaced with Ilija Lončarević, who achieved promotion to Prva HNL.[3] When Lončarević was appointed as the manager of Libya national football team, he named Čačić as his assistant. During his time at Libya, he was chosen to lead their under-20 squad at the 2005 Mediterranean Games held in Spain. After losing to the hosts in the semi-finals, they won the bronze medal after defeating Morocco in the penalty shoot-out.[4]

In June 2006, Čačić returned to Croatia and was appointed as manager of Kamen Ingrad, but after only three months he terminated his contract.[5] In October 2006, he again took over the helm of Inter Zaprešić after they sacked Srećko Bogdan.[6] Čačić led Inter to the first place in the 2006–07 Druga HNL and the team was promoted to Prva HNL. After a disappointing start in the following season, he was sacked in August 2007.[7] In October 2011, Čačić was appointed as manager of Lokomotiva.[8] They finished in the sixth place at the winter break, undefeated in four games led by Čačić.[9]

On 23 December 2011, it was announced that Čačić had signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Dinamo Zagreb.[10] After being sacked from Dinamo in November 2012,[11] Čačić was without assignment until April 2013 when he took over as a manager of Radnik Sesvete.[12] He has left Radnik Sesvete only couple of months later, when in early June 2013 he had accepted an offer from Slovenian champions Maribor.[13] After the sacking of Niko Kovac due to unsuccessful European qualifying results, Cacic was hired as the manager of the Croatian national team. His appointment was extremely controversial, but resulted in Croatia finishing second to Italy, therefore qualifying for Euro 2016.

Managerial statistics

As of 15 November 2016
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Maribor 5 June 2013 29 September 2013 18 8 5 5 30 18 +12 44.44
Slaven Belupo 4 November 2014 30 May 2015 22 9 5 8 30 25 +5 40.91
Lokomotiva 3 June 2015 21 September 2015 14 6 2 6 23 27 −4 42.86
Croatia 22 September 2015 Present 16 12 3 1 39 7 +32 75.00
Total 70 35 15 20 122 77 +45 50.00

Honours

Zadar
Dubrava
Inter Zaprešić
Dinamo Zagreb
Maribor
Libya U20

References

  1. ↑ "Tko je Ante Čačić? Trener koji već odudara od ostatka HNL-a" (in Croatian). 23 December 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Lipovac, Nikola (23 December 2011). "Novi strateg Modrih: Čovjek koji je Hajduku donio dva prvenstva!". Jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  3. ↑ Purić, Bojan (11 March 2003). "Čačić otišao, "uskače" Lončarević". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Le bronze à La Libye aux Jeux méditerranéens en football". PanaPress (in French). 11 July 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Zdelar, Zoran (26 June 2006). "Čačić preuzeo Kamen Ingrad". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Tomičić, Goran (23 October 2006). "Inter opet smijenio Srećka Bogdana". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Lešković, Mario; Hohnjec, Kristian (18 August 2007). "Čačić smijenjen, Bračun pred vratima". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  8. ↑ Štrbinić, Lovro (31 October 2011). "Potvrđen novi trener Lokomotive". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  9. ↑ Rupnik, Borna (5 December 2011). "Čačić: Veliki poticaj za Lokomotivu". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  10. ↑ "Ante Čačić preuzima Dinamo". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). 23 December 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  11. ↑ Šnidarić, Marko. "Mamić smijenio Čačića! Kruno Jurčić je opet na klupi Dinama". 24sata.hr. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  12. ↑ Guberina, Kazimir. "Ante Čačić novi trener Radnika Sesvete". SportNews. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  13. ↑ Dario Dotto (5 June 2013). "Čačić: Ponosen sem, ker sem v Mariboru" [Cacic: I am proud to be in Maribor] (in Slovenian). Siol official website. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  14. ↑ Leskovšek, Matej (6 July 2013). "Superpokal Mariborčanom, v Celju pometli z Olimpijo". Siol (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 June 2016.

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