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Career & Clubs
Tomislav Ivić played as a midfielder and joined the youth team at RNK Split in 1950, before being promoted to the senior team in 1953, where he made 125 league appearances before leaving in 1957. He then joined Hajduk Split but only recorded eleven league appearances between 1957 and 1963.
Ivić managed teams in 14 countries along with four national teams, and he won titles and cups in seven countries: Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and France. Ivić never won the league title in Greece. Ivić won seven top flight championships (three in Yugoslavia and one each in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and France); six national cups (four in Yugoslavia and one each in Spain and Portugal); an UEFA Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup. In Croatia, Ivić coached RNK Split, Hajduk Split, Dinamo Zagreb and (in one match replacing suspended Miroslav Blažević) the Croatia national team; in the Netherlands, Ajax; in Belgium, Anderlecht and Standard Liège; in Turkey, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe; in Italy, Avellino; in Greece, Panathinaikos; in Portugal, Porto and Benfica; in France, Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille (the latter, his last club before retiring in 2002); in Spain, Atlético Madrid; in the United Arab Emirates, Al Wasl and the UAE national team; and in Iran, Persepolis and the Iran national selection.
Early years
Ivić's coaching career began with a year-long engagement in RNK Split from 1967 to 1968. In that season, his team finished 8th in the Yugoslav Second League West Division. From 1968 to 1972, he was the coach at the Hajduk Split Academy. At the end of the 1971-72 season, he replaced Slavko Luštica as Hajduk Split's first team manager. His first and only game was a 2-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb in the 1972 Yugoslav Cup Final.…
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- RNK Split (1953–1957)
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- HNK Hajduk Split (1957–1963)
Legacy
Manager
Hajduk Split (Youth)
Yugoslav Youth Cup: 1970, 1971, 1972 Hajduk Split
Yugoslav First League: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1978–79 Yugoslav Cup: 1971–72, 1973, 1974, 1975–76 Ajax
Eredivisie: 1976–77 Anderlecht
Belgian First Division: 1980–81 Porto
Primeira Liga: 1987–88 Taça de Portugal: 1988 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1993 European Super Cup: 1987 Intercontinental Cup: 1987 Al-Ittihad
Saudi Crown Prince Cup: 2004 United Arab Emirates
AFC Asian Cup runner-up: 1996
Individual
Hajduk Split golden badge: 1975 Golden badge and charter by the city of Paris awarded by Jacques Chirac: 1990 Croatian Olympic Committee trophy: 2003 Most successful manager in history by La Gazzetta dello Sport: 2007 Split sports house hall of fame: 2009 Heart of Hajduk Award: 2011 (postmortem) World Soccer 36th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013 France Football 42nd Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019
Clubs
Played together with
Abdiel ArroyoRNK Split · 2016–2016
Adnan ZahirovićRNK Split · 2016–2016- Adrian AliajHNK Hajduk Split · 1996–1998
- Aleksandar KozlinaHNK Hajduk Split · 1958–1966
- Alen BokšićHNK Hajduk Split · 1987–1991
Aljoša AsanovićHNK Hajduk Split · 1984–1990- Aljoša AsanovićHNK Hajduk Split · 1994–1996
- Aljoša AsanovićHNK Hajduk Split · 2001–2001
- Aljoša AsanovićHNK Hajduk Split · 2002–2002
- Almir TurkovićHNK Hajduk Split · 2002–2005
- Amir RrahmaniRNK Split · 2015–2016
Anas SharbiniHNK Hajduk Split · 2009–2012
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Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries. He is also one of six managers—along with Carlo Ancelotti, José Mourinho, Giovanni Trapattoni, Ernst Happel and Eric Gerets—to have won top-flight domestic league championships in at least four countries.
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