Dean Klafurić (born 26 July 1972) is a

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n professional

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, currently serving as head coach for

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of the Hungarian first division.

Manager career

Klafuric started to work as a coach in NK Udarnik in 2005. He accepted place of head coach of Croatia Women's national football team in 2009. In 2012 he was relieved from the coaching position. In 2012 he started working with young teams in football school at GNK Dinamo Zagreb and had opportunity to spread his knowledge on 35. AEFCA-e congress in Zagreb which gathered many famous coaches. On 22 April 2018 he took over the caretaker manager role in Legia Warsaw after

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got fired He won with the team the domestic cup and a domestic league title double. On 4 June 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of Legia Warsaw..He was sacked as Legia manager on 1 August 2018. On 26 June 2019 Klafurić started to work as a manager in

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. On 25 July 2019 after a change of the board, he released his contract.

Budapest Honvéd

On 24 October 2022, he was appointed as the new coach of

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club

. He debuted with a 1-0 defeat at the

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against

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on 29 October 2022.

Honours

Legia Warsaw *

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 cl ...

: 2017-18 *

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: 2017-18

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* 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Zagreb Croatian football managers Women's national association football team managers HNK Gorica managers Legia Warsaw managers NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac managers Ethnikos Achna FC managers NK Slaven Belupo managers Budapest Honvéd FC managers Croatian Football League managers Expatriate football managers in Poland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate football managers in Cyprus Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate football managers in Hungary Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary GNK Dinamo Zagreb non-playing staff Al Nassr FC non-playing staff Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia {{Croatia-footy-bio-stub