Mladen Bartulović (born 5 October 1986) is a Croatian professional

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manager and former

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who is the manager of Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. He spent most of his playing career in

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representing various clubs from

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: Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih,

Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava. The team set to compete in Ukrainian First League, the second tier of Football in Ukraine, Ukrainian football after relegation from Ukrainian Premier League in ...

, Inhulets Petrove, and others.

Club career

Bartulović made his professional debut for

Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ...

in 2004. In

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he appeared for the first time in continental competitions (

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). While the Hajduk's performance was poor at international stage, Bartulović was noticed by scouts. From 2006 he played in Ukraine. At first Bartulović was a regular on the

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's first team in 2006–07 season, but following seasons he started to play for the club's reserves and later was loaned to Dnipro's unofficial farm club Kryvbas, for which he capped over 100 games at the

. In 2015–16 he played for

International career

Bartulović made his debut for

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in a February 2006

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against

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and earned a total of two caps. His second and final international was a November 2009 friendly against

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Coaching career

On 12 June 2025, Bartulović was appointed as the manager of Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.

Personal life

His wife Natalya is a daughter of the Ukrainian football coach Serhiy Bashkyrov.

Honors

Hajduk Split *

Croatian First League The Hrvatska nogometna liga (; ), abbreviated as HNL and also known for sponsorship reasons as the SuperSport HNL, is a professional association football league in Croatia and the highest level of the Croatian football league system. Establish ...

: 2004–05 * Croatian Super Cup:

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Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk *

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: runner-up 2014–15 Miedź Legnica *

I liga I liga (, ), currently named Betclic I liga due to its sponsorship by Betclic, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga via promotion/rel ...

: 2017–18 Inhulets Petrove *

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: 2019–20

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* * * * 1986 births Living people People from Kakanj Footballers from Zenica-Doboj Canton Men's association football fullbacks Men's association football midfielders Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers Croatia men's international footballers HNK Hajduk Split players FC Dnipro players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Arsenal Kyiv players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Vorskla Poltava players Miedź Legnica players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Inhulets Petrove players Croatian Football League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Premier League players I liga players III liga players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Croatian football managers FC Inhulets Petrove managers FC Zorya Luhansk managers FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Croatian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Ukraine 21st-century Croatian sportsmen {{Croatia-footy-midfielder-stub