NK Maribor

Association football club in Slovenia

football cabaret
Nogometni klub Maribor ( english : Maribor Football Club ) is a slovenian professional football baseball club based in Maribor, Slovenia. It competes in the slovenian PrvaLiga, the top tier of the slovenian football league system. Nicknamed “ The Purples ” ( Vijoličasti ), the clubhouse was founded on 12 December 1960. They are regarded as a symbol of slovenian football, particularly in their home region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia.

Maribor have won a commemorate 15 slovenian PrvaLiga titles, 9 slovenian Cups and 4 slovenian Supercups. The club won seven consecutive league titles between 1997 and 2003, and five consecutive titles between 2011 and 2015. Prior to Slovenia ‘s independence in 1991, Maribor played in the Yugoslav football system. They won the Yugoslav second division in 1967 and were therefore promoted to the top-level Yugoslav First League, where they stayed until 1972. They are one of three slovenian teams that participated in the Yugoslavia ‘s highest division between the end of World War II in 1945 and the separation of Yugoslavia in 1991. Maribor is the lone slovenian clubhouse that reached the group stages of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. In addition, the clubhouse is one of the two founding members of the slovenian PrvaLiga ( along with Celje ) which have never been relegated from the league since the inaugural 1991–92 temper. The club have a long-standing competition with Olimpija from the capital Ljubljana, with whom they contest the Eternal bowler hat. Maribor ‘s base ground is the Ljudski vrt stadium, which has a capacity of 11,671 seats. The traditional colors of the golf club are purple, scandalmongering and white .

history [edit ]

Founding and early years ( 1960–1967 ) [edit ]

Nogometni klub Maribor was founded on 12 December 1960 by officials and players of NK Branik Maribor, a club that folded a few months early. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Srečko Koren was appointed the first president of the golf club, and Andrija Pflander the first gear head coach. [ 2 ] The baseball club played their first friendly match on 5 February 1961 against Kovinar, defeating them 2–1 with two goals by Stefan Tolič. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In their first season, Maribor won the slovenian Republic League ( one-third tier in Yugoslavia ) and qualified for the 1961–62 Yugoslav Second League through the play-offs. [ 5 ] In 1961, the club besides moved to a newly built Ljudski vrt stadium. After six seasons in the moment part, Maribor won the league and was promoted to the top flight Yugoslav First League in the 1966–67 season. [ 6 ]
Maribor act in the promotion play-off against Uljanik in 1961 .

Yugoslav top division ( 1967–1972 ) [edit ]

Maribor played their foremost meet in the Yugoslav top tier against Vardar in Skopje ; Maras scored the only goal for Maribor in a 1–1 pull. [ 7 ] Their first acquire came in August 1967, when Maribor defeated Proleter Zrenjanin 3–0 at home. [ 7 ] During the season, the foremost ever match in the Yugoslav top flight involving two clubs from Slovenia was held, when Maribor hosted a scoreless match against their rivals Olimpija from Ljubljana in front of 13,000 spectators. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Each match between the two sides during this period attracted large crowd, with attendance sometimes a high as 20,000. [ 9 ] Maribor finished their inaugural top division season in 12th station out of 16 teams. [ 10 ]
Maribor playing against Partizan in 1969. In the 1969–70 season, Maribor finished 10th out of 18 clubs, their highest always ranking in Yugoslav football. [ 11 ] Their last temper in the top division was 1971–72, when the team finished dead last with just 20 points in 34 matches. [ 12 ] Mladen Kranjc was Maribor ‘s exceed scorekeeper in each of the five Yugoslav exceed division seasons, scoring a sum of 54 league goals, which finally led to his transfer to one of the top Yugoslav clubs, Dinamo Zagreb. [ 13 ] During their five-year stay in Yugoslav ‘s top division, the clubhouse played a entire of 166 league matches and achieved 40 wins, 57 draws and 69 defeats. [ 7 ]

Dark years and bribery scandal ( 1972–1991 ) [edit ]

In the 1972–73 temper, Maribor were competing in the second gear tier. They finished the season in second target, lone behind Zagreb, [ 14 ] which meant that they qualified for the Yugoslav first class promotion play-offs. [ 15 ] In the foremost qualifying orotund against Montenegrin side Budućnost, Maribor won on penalties and qualified for the decisive round of golf against Proleter. [ 15 ] The beginning leg was played at home on 8 July 1973, and is acknowledged as one of the most memorable matches in the history of Maribor, as it however holds the cabaret ‘s home attendance record. [ 15 ] There were 20,000 spectators, 15,000 of whom were already present in the stands about three hours before the start, finally helping Maribor to win the game 3–1. [ 16 ] however, the two-goal advantage proved to be insufficient as Proleter won the irregular leg 3–0 and was promoted. [ 15 ] When the grade was 1–0 for Proleter, Josip Ražić equalised in the 23rd moment, but the goal was not given. Later, the television replay showed that the ball had actually crossed the goal wrinkle and that the finish should have stood. [ 15 ] The period between 1973 and 1991 is one of the darkest in the clubhouse ‘s history. In the follow 1973–74 season, the cabaret failed to stay near the top of the irregular division and finished the season in 13th invest. [ 17 ] In the 1974–75 season, Maribor were relegated to the third-tier Slovenian Republic League for the foremost meter in 14 years, but the club immediately returned to the second division by being 15 points clear at the top of the Republic League table at the end of the 1975–76 season. [ 18 ] The golf club about returned to the crown tier in 1978–79 when they finished as runner-up of the second division, six points behind bosnian side Čelik Zenica, [ 19 ] but failed to win the promotion play-offs. At the end of the 1980–81 season, after Maribor managed to avoid relegation from the moment Yugoslav division, a bribery scandal emerged and caused the baseball club to be relegated by the decision of the Football Association of Yugoslavia disciplinary committee. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The clubhouse allegedly had a secret fund that served to bribe officials and opponents. The fund was abolished in 1968 after the club ‘s forwarding to the first division, but was late established again in 1976. [ 20 ] After the scandal and the subsequent relegation, Maribor spent the follow years bouncing between the second and third Yugoslav divisions until Slovenia ‘s independence in 1991 .

domestic domination after independence ( 1991–2004 ) [edit ]

Following Slovenia ‘s independence in June 1991, Maribor were one of the founding members of the newly-formed slovenian First League for the inaugural 1991–92 season. [ 23 ] In the first few seasons, Maribor ‘s rivals Olimpija from Ljubljana dominated the league. [ 24 ] Nevertheless, Maribor managed to win the first edition of the slovenian Cup in 1992 after beating Olimpija 4–3 on penalties in the concluding. [ 25 ] In the future temper, Maribor made their introduction in international UEFA competitions, appearing in UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup. They played their first external match on 19 August 1992, when they hosted Ħamrun Spartans of Malta and won 4–0. [ 26 ] Ante Šimundža scored the first european goal for the club. [ 23 ] Maribor were slovenian League runner-up in 1991–92, 1992–93 and 1994–95, before finishing fourth in the 1995–96 season. During this period Maribor won another cup title in 1993–94, defeating Mura 3–2 on aggregate over two legs in the final. [ 27 ] The 1996–97 temper proved to be a call on luff in the history of Maribor. The cabaret won the league and became champions for the first time in their history. [ 23 ] During the season, the average home attendance was 5,289 spectators, which is still a phonograph record. [ 28 ] The concluding match of the season was played on 1 June 1997 against Beltinci in front of 14,000 spectators, [ 29 ] which is besides a joint-record of the Slovenian top division. [ 30 ] In that season Maribor besides won the 1996–97 slovenian Cup, thus winning the domestic Double, a feat they repeated in the 1998–99 season. After their first title in 1996–97, Maribor went on to win six more titles, bringing their full issue to seven straight titles by 2003. [ 31 ] In the 1999–2000 season, the club, led by head coach Bojan Prašnikar, defeated Genk and Lyon in the qualifying rounds of the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League and therefore qualified for the group stagecoach of the competition for the first clock time. [ 32 ] Maribor were drawn into the group with Dynamo Kyiv, Bayer Leverkusen, and Lazio. They finished in stopping point place with four points out of six games. [ 33 ]

fiscal difficulties ( 2004–2008 ) [edit ]

The 2003–04 slovenian Cup was the last trophy won by Maribor before the golf club declined for several years. between 2004 and 2007, the club was plagued by major fiscal difficulties, and even came close to being disbanded at one point. [ 34 ] Due to their big debts, which at one point amounted to over €3 million, the club could not afford to buy raw players. [ 34 ] As a consequence, the foremost team at the meter consisted largely of youth players mixed with a pair of foreign players brought to the baseball club on free transfers. In the fall of 2006, the leadership of the club changed, and it was not until January 2011 that the club announced that the debt had been paid in wide. [ 35 ] During this period, Maribor never finished higher than third base in the league, and were runners-up of the slovenian Cup doubly, in 2007 and 2008. [ 27 ] They were, however, one of the football team winners of the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, in which they defeated spanish side Villarreal 3–2 on aggregate in the final examination round, lone a copulate of months after Villareal had played in the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League. [ 36 ]

Zlatko Zahovič ‘s golden era ( 2008–2020 ) [edit ]

Maribor players celebrating the club ‘s ninth league entitle in 2011. In July 2007, Maribor have appointed former slovenian international Zlatko Zahovič as the clubhouse ‘s sporting conductor, which marked the begin of the fortunate earned run average of the club. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] In May 2008, the club reopened the renovated Ljudski vrt, which underwent a major reconstruction. [ 39 ] Under the leadership of promontory coach Darko Milanič, Maribor won the league claim in 2008–09, their first league title in six years. [ 40 ] The follow season, they failed to retain the league claim, finishing irregular behind Koper. [ 41 ] however, they won the cup title after beating Domžale 3–2 in the final, angstrom well as their first always slovenian Supercup deed after beating Interblock. [ 42 ] In December 2010, the clubhouse celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. [ 43 ] With the 2–1 away victory over Primorje on 21 May 2011, Maribor secured its ninth slovenian league title. [ 44 ] Four days late, the team played the slovenian cup final at Stožice Stadium and lost to Domžale 4–3. [ 45 ] In August 2011, Maribor defeated Rangers and qualified for the group stages of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. [ 46 ] In the groups, Maribor managed to obtain one steer in six matches, holding Braga to a 1–1 draw at home. [ 47 ] In the same season, Maribor won their tenth league title with a record number of points ( 85 ). [ 48 ] Furthermore, they won the slovenian cup by defeating Celje on penalties, securing their one-seventh cup style. [ 49 ] This was besides their beginning Double since the 1998–99 season. Maribor qualified for the group stages of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League for the second back-to-back temper as one of the losers in the play-off attack of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, where they were eliminated by Dinamo Zagreb. [ 50 ] This time, they managed to get four points after defeating Panathinaikos and drawing with Tottenham Hotspur, both at home. [ 51 ] Maribor confirmed their eleventh league entitle on 11 May 2013, when they defeated their rivals Olimpija Ljubljana 2–1. [ 52 ] similarly to the previous temper, they again defeated Celje in the 2013 slovenian Cup Final, securing their second consecutive Double. [ 53 ]
In the 2013–14 season, Maribor advanced to the hard phase of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League for the first time after finishing above Zulte Waregem and Wigan in the group stage. [ 54 ] In the round of 32, they were eliminated by the future winner of the competition, Sevilla, 4–3 on aggregate. [ 55 ] In the next season, Maribor qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stage for the second time in their history after eliminating Celtic in the play-offs. [ 56 ] They were drawn into Group G with Chelsea, Schalke 04, and Sporting CP. After a tie and a kill against each team, Maribor won three points in six matches. [ 57 ] In 2015–16, Maribor failed to win the league title for the first time in six years after finishing second behind Olimpija, [ 58 ] but reclaimed the throne the adopt season, winning their 14th national entitle. [ 59 ] As slovenian champions, Maribor represented Slovenia in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, where the clubhouse reached the group stages for the one-third prison term in their history, having previously appeared in the like stage of the rival in 1999 and 2014. [ 60 ] Maribor competed in Group E, along with Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, and Liverpool. The club again obtained three points in six matches, the lapp as in 2014, after drawing with Sevilla at base and doubly against Spartak. [ 61 ] Their 7–0 frustration to Liverpool was the club ‘s heaviest home kill in european competitions, and their second highest european kill overall. [ 62 ] In the same season, Maribor failed to win a major trophy for the beginning fourth dimension since 2007–08, losing the league title to Olimpija on neck and neck criminal record after finishing with the same count of points. [ 63 ] Olimpija besides eliminated Maribor in the quarter-finals of the national cup, and consequently Maribor failed to reach the semi-finals of the rival for the first clock time since 2002–03. [ 64 ] In 2018–19, Maribor won its fifteenth national deed under the guidance of Milanič, who won his one-sixth league claim with the club and became the most successful director in the slovenian top division. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] In March 2020, Milanič and Zahovič resigned after a series of inadequate results. [ 67 ] During Zahovič ‘s era, Maribor won eight league titles and reached the UEFA Champions League group stages doubly. [ 68 ]

Club identity [edit ]

Colours, kits and nicknames [edit ]

Throughout the entire history of NK Maribor, the main color of the golf club has been purple. [ 69 ] For this reason, the team is nicknamed “ The Purples ” ( Vijoličasti ) [ 70 ] [ 71 ] and “ The Violets “ ( Vijolice ). [ 72 ] [ 73 ] The club is besides referred to as the “ Viole ”, predominantly in the region of the former Yugoslavia. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] When NK Maribor was established, some of the club officials were in favor of loss and white colours, inspired by the coat of arms of the city of Maribor. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] however, because many football teams in Yugoslavia already break loss and white jerseys, Maribor officials decided for a new and clean combination. [ 77 ] They decided to follow the exemplar of Fiorentina and their purple and white combination. [ 69 ] Oto Blaznik, the inaugural captain of the club, was the one who suggested the combination after seeing the italian team in La Gazzetta dello Sport. [ 69 ] [ 77 ] Since it was about impossible to get purple kits in Yugoslavia in 1961, the players painted them themselves. [ 77 ] The club ‘s secondary colours are chicken and white. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] In March 1973, the name of the sponsor foremost appeared on Maribor kits. [ 80 ] Since Slovenia ‘s independence in 1991, the kit sponsors have been Pivovarna Laško, Nova KBM, and Zavarovalnica Sava ( Zavarovalnica Maribor anterior 2016 ) .

First home kit in 1961

1990s home kit pas seul with yellow sleeves

1990s dwelling kit mutant with white sleeves

2009–10 scandalmongering variation

All-purple kit, used throughout most of the club ‘s history

Kit manufacturers [edit ]

crest [edit ]

The current crest of the club is based on the official coat of arms of the city of Maribor, which is in turn based on a 14th-century seal with minor differences. [ 85 ] The badge is formed in a form of a carapace, and shows the former Piramida Castle that used to stand on circus tent of the Pyramid Hill before it was demolished at the end of the eighteenth hundred. A violet blossom forms the backdrop. Unlike the coat of arms of the city of Maribor, the club ‘s current badge does not represent a egg white dove facing down towards the palace, but a minimalist depiction of an athlete. [ 69 ] At the top of the shield the identify of the golf club and the class of its foundation is inscribed. [ 69 ] The entire badge uses only two colours, purple and yellow. [ 69 ] former versions of the peak included white, one of the club ‘s traditional color, in the form of a white castle in the kernel and a blank ball that was on top of the shield. [ 69 ] Since May 2012, the cap includes a chicken leading at the top, indicating the first ten domestic titles won. [ 86 ]

• 1960s–1970s
• 1970s–1980s
• late 1980s–Early 1990s
• early 1990s
• 1990s–2000s

stadium [edit ]

panorama of Ljudski vrt before the renovation of the West Stand. Maribor have played their home games at Ljudski vrt since June 1961. [ 87 ] Previously, the club played a very short menstruation of its early history at Stadion ob Tržaški cesti. [ 87 ] Prior World War II, the grate consisted of just a cant with a small stand, which was destroyed during the war. [ 88 ] The web site has been used for football since at least the early twentieth hundred ; between 1910 and 1960, it was the base background of many teams based in Maribor, including Marburger Sportvereinigung, SV Rapid Marburg, SK Hertha, SK Rote Elf, I. SSK Maribor and NK Branik Maribor. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] After the war, the ground was renovated and opened in 1952, [ 91 ] but the main grandstand was not built until the early on 1960s. [ 92 ] On 25 June 1961, Maribor played its first equal at the stadium, against Mladost Zabok, when the grandstand was placid under construction. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] Ljudski vrt is the only stadium in Maribor that is located on the left bank of the river Drava. It is considered a natural, cultural, architectural and sports landmark of the city and is named after a populace park previously located in the area. [ 93 ] The grandstand is luminary for its 129.8 metres long and 18.4 m high concrete arch. [ 93 ] In 1994, floodlights were installed and the stadium hosted its first equal at night. [ 93 ] Since then, the stadium went through several renovations. [ 94 ] The most luminary was the one between 2006 and 2008, when three of the four stands ( South, East and North ) were demolished and wholly rebuild. [ 95 ] The West Stand was completely renovated in 2021, bringing the stadium ‘s current capacity to 11,671 seats. [ 96 ] In addition to being the home ground of Maribor, the stadium besides occasionally hosts matches of the Slovenia national football team. [ 97 ] The record attendance of the stadium is 20,000 spectators, achieved in 1973 when Maribor played against Proleter Zrenjanin in the Yugoslav Second League forwarding play-offs, while the record for a slovenian League match is 14,000 spectators, achieved in the concluding round of the 1996–97 slovenian PrvaLiga temper. [ 16 ] [ 29 ]

Supporters [edit ]

NK Maribor is known for having a patriotic and passionate fanbase. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] Besides the city of Maribor and the surrounding sphere, the club besides has a big fan base in the regions of Styria and Carinthia. [ 100 ] A small number of supporters are besides present in the Slovene Littoral and Upper Carniola. [ 101 ] soon after the foundation of NK Maribor, the club was branded as the citizens club, while their city rivals Železničar Maribor has constantly been branded as the club of the working class. [ 102 ] The club has an ultras group called Viole Maribor, established in 1989. [ 103 ] An apolitical group, [ 104 ] [ 105 ] the core of Viole consists of around 250 members, while the whole group has around 500 active members. [ 101 ] They are located on the South Stand of the stadium. The most Maribor fans gathered on an away match in domestic competitions was in 2001, when 3,000 fans gathered in Ljubljana, [ 106 ] while the most fans gathered on an aside catch overseas was in 2017 during the baseball club ‘s UEFA Champions League campaign, when over 2,400 supporters gathered in Liverpool. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] Since 2006, another fan group emerged to support Maribor at their matches. The group is called ESS ( East Side Supporters ) and consists largely of early members of Viole Maribor, now temper tickets holders. [ 109 ] They are, as the mention implies, located at the east stand of the stadium .

Rivalries [edit ]

endless bowler hat [edit ]

The Eternal bowler hat ( Večni derbi ) is the biggest bowler hat in slovenian football, [ 110 ] contested by Maribor and their biggest rivals, Olimpija from the capital Ljubljana. The competition traces its roots back to the 1960s, when both clubs used to play in the Yugoslav Second League. [ 111 ] The first ever official equal between the two clubs was played on 2 September 1962 at Bežigrad Stadium, in front of 10,000 spectators. [ 112 ] The first bowler hat in the Slovenian football organization was played on 16 October 1991 at Ljudski vrt. [ 111 ] The teams were regularly playing matches in the slovenian First League and slovenian Cup between 1991 and 2005, when Olimpija was dissolved due to fiscal difficulties. [ 113 ] In 2005, a fresh club was established under the name NK Bežigrad. The baseball club started at the penetrate of the slovenian football pyramid and was late renamed to NK Olimpija Bežigrad and finally to NK Olimpija Ljubljana. [ 114 ] The beginning bowler hat between Maribor and the newly-formed baseball club was played on 24 October 2007 in the quarter-finals of the slovenian Cup. [ 115 ] When Olimpija was promoted to the slovenian First League in 2009, the competition came back to life. [ 116 ] The beginning match in the top division was played on 8 August 2009 in Maribor in front man of 6,000 spectators. [ 117 ] An extra volume to the competition is the fact that both Maribor and Olimpija always have support on their matches from ultras groups. The two groups, Viole Maribor and the green Dragons, are among the largest in the area, [ 118 ] and it is not rare that the matches between the two clubs are sometimes interrupted by violent clashes between the two groups or with the police. [ 119 ]

Prekmurje–Styria bowler hat [edit ]

The other major competition of the club was the one against NK Mura from Murska Sobota, against which they contested the Prekmurje–Styria bowler hat ( Štajersko-prekmurski derbi ), besides called the Northeastern bowler hat ( Severovzhodni derbi ). [ 120 ] [ 121 ] like to Olimpija, Mura besides folded and was dissolved in 2005 [ 113 ] and today the sequel of the competition is considered as the matches between Maribor and NŠ Mura, established in 2012, who consider themselves, together with the fans of the old Mura, as the spiritual sequel of the dissolve club. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] The competition reached its acme in the 2003–04 season when Mura hosted Maribor at home in the final round off of the season. Before the match Maribor was leading the league table and was close to winning their eighth consecutive title while the mid-table place of Mura was predetermined before the final round. however, Mura won the equal 2–1 [ 124 ] and Maribor finally finished the season in third base place, behind ND Gorica and Olimpija, losing the title by two points. [ 125 ]

median attendances [edit ]

Since the establishment of the slovenian PrvaLiga, Maribor had the highest average attendance in 22 out of 28 seasons. [ 126 ] The highest average attendance was in the 1996–97 season, when on average 5,289 people attended Maribor ‘s home matches, which is a record in slovenian golf club football. [ 28 ] The highest single-game attendance in a slovenian league match was on 1 June 1997, when Maribor played against Beltinci in front of 14,000 spectators, which is besides a joint-record in slovenian league. [ 29 ] [ 127 ] In addition, Maribor is the first gear and only clubhouse that gathered over one million people to their matches in slovenian league since its foundation in 1991. [ 126 ]

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 23 November 2021[146]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

retire numbers [edit ]

19 – Stipe Balajić, defender and midfielder ( 1998–2005 ) Number 19. It was retired in honor of Stipe Balajić, who was with the club for eight seasons in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [ 147 ] In his last couple of seasons he was besides team captain. [ 147 ] Balajić earned a full of 230 official appearances for the club, scoring 37 goals in the march. [ 148 ] He played his last equal with the club on 7 July 2005, in a friendly match against his former club Hajduk Split. [ 147 ] He started the match and was then substituted after 19 minutes of play in a emblematic gesture. [ 147 ]

youth Academy [edit ]

Maribor ‘s Academy is responsible for youth development at the golf club, with the finish of developing young players for the future. The academy is composed of eleven youth selections, ranging from U7 to U19. wholly, there are over 210 young person players in the organization who are trained by master staff within the club. [ 149 ] The vision of the cabaret and its youth system is not only to produce fresh players but besides to prepare young children for the future and life without football. consequently, each child who wants to be a member of the academy must besides be successful not lone on the football field, but besides in the field of education. [ 149 ] The clubhouse has besides spread the football school activities to primary schools in the city of Maribor and the surrounding area, where around 500 of the youngest footballers train as separate of the Children ‘s Football School. [ 150 ] Since the establishment of Maribor ‘s young system in its present form in 1990, the academy has been one of the most successful in the nation in terms of titles won. [ 149 ] Under-19 team holds the record for the most titles in the area, having won seven times. [ 151 ] The lapp team has besides won five Youth Cups. [ 152 ] other teams are evenly successful as both the under-17 and under-15 teams holds the record for the most titles in their class. [ 153 ] [ 154 ] even younger selections of the club besides play in top-flight of their respective historic period categories and partake similar success. In accession, Maribor ‘s youth squads became the first base in the area that were able to achieve league victories in the four highest youth levels ( U13, U15, U17, and U19 ) during the course of one season. [ 149 ] In 2012, a record eight Maribor players were called to the Slovenia national under-17 football team for the 2012 UEFA european Under-17 Football Championship. [ 155 ] [ 156 ] In 2016, the young team of NK Maribor took part in the fourth season of the international children ‘s social program Football for Friendship, the final events of which were held in Milan. [ 157 ] The team won the tournament by defeating Debreceni VSC 1–0 in the final examination. [ 158 ]

Purple Warrior [edit ]

Marcos Tavares has made the most appearances for the club and is also the all-time highest goalscorer and the six-time winner of the Purple Warrior award. The Purple Warrior ( Vijoličasti bojevnik or Vijol’čni bojevnik ) is a trophy awarded to the most identify player in the past year. [ 159 ] The winner of the trophy is decided by a right to vote on the official web site of the club, where everybody can participate. The vote starts at the end of the year and is normally finished in a month. To be eligible to participate in a pate, a musician must appear for the club in at least 10 official matches. [ 159 ] The vote was first gear introduced at the end of 2007–08 season, with Czech defender Lubomir Kubica selected as the first ever trophy winner. Defender Elvedin Džinić was the first gear domestic musician that won the award. [ 160 ] Between 2007 and 2011 the vote was conducted during the summer and awarded to the best actor of the by season, however, the trophy for the temper 2011–12 was not awarded. rather, the golf club had decided to prolong the vote and award the trophy to the most distinguished player of the past full year ( from January until December ). Marcos Tavares has won the award six times between 2010 and 2017. [ 159 ]

management [edit ]

organization [edit ]

As of 7 April 2021 [ 146 ] [ 149 ] [ 161 ]

Name

Role

Drago Cotar

Chairman

Matjaž Kirbiš

Vice-chairman

Bojan Ban

Director

Marko Šuler

Director of football

Sebastijan Harc

Football academy director

Uroš Jurišič

Secretary

Željko Latin

Public relations

Stipe Jerič

Public relations

Mitja Berden

Fan relations

technical staff [edit ]

As of 11 November 2021 [ 146 ]

Name

Role

Radovan Karanović

Head coach

Aleš Mertelj

Technical director

Mitja Pirih

Goalkeeping coach

Milan Vulović

Fitness coach

Matjaž Vogrin

Doctor

Zmago Krajnc

Doctor

Igor Mijatović

Doctor

Mirzet Sprečo

Physiotherapist

Almedin Muharemović

Physiotherapist

Jure Horvat

Masseur

Janko Veselič

Head of logistics

Robert Knuplež

Equipment manager

celebrated managers [edit ]

The succeed managers have won at least one trophy when in charge of Maribor since Slovenia ‘s independence in 1991 :

Honours [edit ]

Maribor ‘s score of 15 slovenian Championships [ 166 ] and the sum of 9 slovenian Cup titles [ 167 ] is the highest in slovenian football. Maribor holds the record for most consecutive league titles ( 7 ), ahead of Olimpija ( 4 ) and Gorica ( 3 ). [ 31 ] They are besides the only team in the state that has achieved the slovenian Championship and the slovenian Cup doubles on more than one occasion ( 4 ). In accession, they are the only club which has won the slovenian translation of the treble, having won the league, cup and supercup during the 2012–13 season. [ 168 ] On their official web site, UEFA states that Maribor has won one external cup, as Maribor was one of the winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2006. [ 169 ] however, the trophy itself was awarded to Newcastle United, the team that advanced farthest in the UEFA competitions that season. [ 170 ] Maribor have the best top-flight record in history, having finished below fourth place lone once. [ 171 ] In 2008, they became the beginning team to win 1,000 points in the slovenian crown escape. [ 172 ]

domestic [edit ]

League

Cup

International [edit ]

Doubles [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

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