Haris Alihodžić (born 12 April 1968) is a Bosnian football manager and former player who is currently working as an assistant manager at

Bosnian Premier League The m:tel Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, m:tel Premijer liga Bosne i Hercegovine / м:тел Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), also known as Liga 12, is the top tier football league in Bosnia and Herz ...

club Željezničar.

Club career

For a big part of his career, Alihodžić played for hometown club Željezničar, with whom he won three

titles, three Bosnian Cup's and three Bosnian Supercup's. He also had brief spells with Rapid Wien and Favoritner AC in Austria, Antalyaspor in the Turkish Süper Lig and Mura in Slovenia.

International career

Alihodžić made his senior debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in an October 2002 friendly match against Germany and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 2003 European Championship qualification match against Luxembourg.

Managerial and administrative career

Željezničar

After Edis Mulalić was sacked as manager, Alihodžić, who was the sporting director of Željezničar at the time, on 7 May 2016, took over as the

caretaker manager In association footballing terms, a caretaker manager or interim manager is somebody who takes temporary charge of the management of a football team, usually when the regular Manager (association football), manager is dismissed or leaves for a ...

of the club until a new permanent manager was to be named. He led the team in one game, a 1–1 draw against Slavija Sarajevo in the last round of the 2015–16 Bosnian Premier League season. On 12 July 2017, Alihodžić became the director of the youth academy of Željezničar. He worked as director until July 2022, when he was replaced by

Edin Ćurić Edin Ćurić (born 22 August 1962) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the director of the youth academy of Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar. Club career Ćurić began his football career at hometown cl ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina U21

On 6 March 2020, after Slobodan Starčević became the new head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 national team, it was announced that Alihodžić, alongside Mario Ivanković, had been named as the new assistant coaches of Starčević.

Honours

Player

Željezničar *

: 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02 * Bosnian Cup: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03 * Bosnian Supercup: 1998, 2000, 2001

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