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Career & Clubs
Zambata started playing football at his hometown club Junak Sinj and was signed by Dinamo Zagreb in 1959, at the age of eighteen. He stayed with the Croatian powerhouse until 1969, and during this time earned a total of 393 appearances and scored 267 goals (93 of which in the Yugoslav First League). He won four Yugoslav Cups with Dinamo (in 1960, 1963, 1965 and 1969) and also captained the team to their triumph in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in a campaign that saw Zambata scoring six goals. He also finished as Cup runner-up on two occasions (in 1964 and 1966) and was Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up in 1963. After leaving Dinamo in 1969 he played for a few seasons for Belgian clubs KSV Waregem and Crossing Club before returning shortly to Zagreb in 1972. He quit playing football in 1973 after a couple of serious injuries (he had surgery performed on both of his menisci just before his retirement). As of 2009, he was still the 8th most prolific goalscorer in Dinamo's history, and one of only two players to score a hat-trick in a Yugoslav Cup final game, against Hajduk Split on 26 May 1963. Although Dinamo never won the Yugoslav league championship during his ten years with the club, they did finish as runners-up five times (1960, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969) in one of the most successful periods in club's history.
Considered one of the best Yugoslav forwards of the 1960s, Zambata had two appearances and netted two goals for Yugoslavia U-21 selection, before debuting for Yugoslavia on 16 September 1962 in a friendly against East Germany in Leipzig. He went on to earn 31 caps and scored 21 goals, and during his international career he captained Yugoslavia at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, where they finished sixth out of 16 teams. His last international match was on 27 October 1968 against Spain in Belgrade.
- Club
- NK Junak Sinj (1958–1959)
- Club
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb (1959–1969)
- Club
- K.S.V. Waregem (1969–1971)
- Club
- K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt (1971–1972)
- Club
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb (1972–1973)
- Club
- Yugoslavia national under-21 football team (1963–1963)
- Club
- Yugoslavia men's national football team (1962–1968)
- National team
- Yugoslavia
Legacy
Dinamo Zagreb
Marshal Tito Cup: 1962–63, 1964–65, 1968–69; runner-up 1963–64, 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1966–67; runner-up 1962–63 Yugoslav First Federal League runner-up:1959–60, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69 Yugoslavia
Olympics Football Tournament sixth place: 1964
Clubs
- NK Junak Sinj1958–1959
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb1959–1969
- Yugoslavia men's national football team1962–1968
- Yugoslavia national under-21 football team1963–1963
- K.S.V. Waregem1969–1971
- K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt1971–1972
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb1972–1973
Played together with
- Adrian ŠemperGNK Dinamo Zagreb
- Albin PelakGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2003–2004
Alen HalilovićGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2013–2014- Alen PeternacGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 1989–1995
- Alexandre Silva CleytonGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2014–2014
Alexandru MățelGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2015–2019
Ali KarimiGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2016–2017
Amer GojakGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2015- Amir RrahmaniGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2016–2019
Andre MijatovićGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2003–2005
Andrej KramarićGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 2009–2013
Andrej PanadićGNK Dinamo Zagreb · 1988–1994
Archive
Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Slaven Zambata was a Croatian professional football player best known for his time at Dinamo Zagreb in the 1960s, for whom he appeared in 171 Yugoslav First League matches. He was also a Yugoslav international, scoring 21 goals in 31 matches for the national side.
Opinions of fans — not verified facts.
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