Feđa Dudić (born 1 February 1983) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former

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who is the manager of Serbian SuperLiga club Radnički 1923. Born in

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, Dudić played for both hometown clubs

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and Željezničar, as well as other clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. He won the Croatian

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with

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in 2002, as well as the

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with Sarajevo in 2005. He was the Bosnian Premier League top goalscorer in the 2009–10 season while playing for

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. Dudić started his managerial career at GOŠK Gabela in 2017, managing the club until 2018. He became manager of Velež Mostar in 2019, achieving success with them by qualifying the club to the

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, their first

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after 33 years. Dudić won the

with Velež in 2022. Following his success with Velež, Dudić left the club to become manager of Sarajevo in June, where he worked until October 2022. He was appointed manager of Serbian side Radnički 1923 in 2023.

Playing career

Born in

, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,

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, Dudić started his career playing in the youth teams of

, but still young, he moved to Croatia where he became part of the

championship winning squad in the 2001–02 season. He would have a short loan spell with another

side, TŠK Topolovac before returning to Bosnia where he would play for several clubs during the following seasons, namely

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, Brotnjo, Sarajevo, with whom he won the 2004–05 Bosnian Cup,

and Željezničar. He also played with

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in the 2. HNL during the 2005–06 season. During the summer of 2010, and having become the 2009–10 Bosnian Premier League top goalscorer with 16 goals, Dudić came to

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for a trial, however he ended up signing with another 1. HNL side,

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, where he was a part of the team that finished as a

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runner-up in the

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cup season. In the summer of 2011, Dudić moved back to Bosnia, signing with newly promoted team GOŠK Gabela, but in the following winter break, newly promoted Serbian SuperLiga side Novi Pazar decided to reinforce their team with players from the

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, bringing him alongside

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. After Novi Pazar, Dudić played for Slavija Sarajevo, Travnik again and Zvijezda Gradačac, before retiring in 2016 at the age of 33.

Managerial career

Early career

After retiring, Dudić became an assistant manager at

in 2016, where he stayed until June 2017.

GOŠK Gabela

On 27 November 2017, Dudić was named new manager of the club that he played in before, GOŠK Gabela, after manager

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resigned. With GOŠK, he finished 7th in the 2017–18 Bosnian Premier League season. In the 2018–19 season, GOŠK started of well under the guidance of Dudić, but after a series of poor results, which culminated with a 0–0 draw against Čelik Zenica, on 26 September 2018, Dudić resigned from the position of manager of GOŠK, after almost a year of him being the manager.

Velež Mostar

2019–20 season

On 5 August 2019, Dudić became the new manager of Velež Mostar. In his first match as the club's manager, Velež tied 0–0 against

away on 10 August 2019, winning their first point in the 2019–20 league season. His first win with Velež came on 17 August 2019, in a 1–0 home league win against

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. Dudić's first loss as Velež manager was a 2–1 away league loss against

on 24 August 2019. In his first ever

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, Dudić's Velež beat fierce city rivals

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1–0 at home in a league match on 19 October 2019, marking that Velež's first Mostar derby win in over 5 years. He was also praised by Velež fans for his team's 0–2 away league win against Željezničar on 7 December 2019. Dudić's next big result came on 8 March 2020, when Velež beat

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2–1 at home in another league match.

2020–21 season

In the first game of the

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season on 1 August 2020, Velež handled a tough 3–0 loss against Željezničar, but in the second game, on 8 August, Dudić's team managed to beat city rivals Zrinjski for a second time in a row. On 31 October 2020, Velež got defeated by Zrinjski in the Mostar derby, with Dudić taking the blame. On 28 December 2020, he extended his contract with the club until June 2023. During the 2020–21 season, Dudić managed to make a new record with Velež by not losing 16 league games in a row, following a Mostar derby draw against Zrinjski on 8 May 2021. At the end of the season, he made a great result with the club, finishing in 3rd place and qualifying Velež to the

, their first

after 33 years.

2021–22 season

Dudić's Velež opened the 2021–22 season with the Conference League qualifying phase, firstly eliminating semi-professional Northern Irish club

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. In the second qualifying round, his team, surprisingly, eliminated Greek giants AEK Athens. However, in the third qualifying round, Velež was eliminated by Swedish side

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, thus putting an end to their European "fairytale". Velež started off the domestic league season well, beating newly promoted side Posušje on 19 July 2021. After beating Posušje, Dudić's team went into a short, three-game winless run, but ended it with a win against Široki Brijeg on 22 August 2021. Two months later, following a new string of poor results, Dudić resigned as Velež's manager after a disappointing league loss against

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on 31 October. However, the next day, the club's board rejected this and he stayed as manager. On 19 May 2022, Dudić led Velež to win the first

title in their history, after a penalty shoot-out, following a 0–0 draw against Sarajevo in the

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Sarajevo

On 2 June 2022, Dudić signed a two-year contract with

, with an option to stay at the club until at least 2025. In his first game in charge, Sarajevo defeated Borac Banja Luka on 24 July 2022. After winning two more league games against Sloga Doboj and Posušje, on 10 August 2022, Dudić's side lost 5–1 to

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. It was Sarajevo's biggest ever

defeat in history. On 26 August, Sarajevo drew against Željezničar in Dudić's first

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as a manager. On 19 October 2022, following a series of poor results, which culminated with a first round cup elimination by Čelik Zenica, Dudić resigned as manager, only four months after taking up the position.

Radnički 1923

On 24 September 2023, Dudić signed a contract with Serbian SuperLiga club Radnički 1923.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Zagreb *

: 2001–02 Sarajevo *

: 2004–05 Travnik * First League of FBiH: 2006–07 Individual * Bosnian Premier League Top Goalscorer: 2009–10 (16 goals)

Manager

Velež Mostar *

: 2021–22

References

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