Nikola Jurčević (born 14 September 1966) is a Croatian football current

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and former player who most recently managed the Azerbaijan national team.

Playing career

International

He made his debut for

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in a December 1990

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against

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, coming on as a 66th-minute substitute for

Ivan Cvjetković Ivan Cvjetković (born 2 January 1960) is a retired Croatian international footballer. Club career Ivan started his career in the Yugoslav First League in 1982, playing in the Bosnian club Sloboda Tuzla. In 1984, he made a big move to the Croat ...

, and earned a total of 19 caps (2 unofficial), scoring 2 goals. Since Croatia was still officially part of Yugoslavia at the time, his first two games were unofficial. His final international was a December 1996 friendly against

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Managerial career

Jurčević started as a manager of NK Zagreb in 2002, but a year later he became the manager for

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. He celebrated the Prva HNL and Croatian Cup in 2004. Later, he managed

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. He also worked as an assistant manager for the Croatia national team, assisting his former international teammates

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and

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. On 18 September 2015, he was appointed as the assistant manager to Bilić at

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. He left the club along with Bilić's other coaching staff when the manager was sacked on 6 November 2017. On 12 March 2018, he was named the manager of Croatian First Football League club

, but he was sacked by club on 15 May 2018, after poor performance in the club. On 11 February 2019, he was named the new head coach for the Azerbaijan football team. On 13 December 2019, he was sacked as manager of the Azerbaijan national team due to the team's poor performance in the

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, despite managed a respectable 1–1 draw to his home country

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at home.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Croatia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jurčević goal.''

Managerial statistics

Honours

As a player

NK Zagreb *

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(West): 1989–90 *

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Austria Salzburg * Austrian Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1994–95 *

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Runner-up: 1993–94 Individual * Austrian Bundesliga top scorer: 1993–94

As a manager

Dinamo Zagreb *

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: 2003 * Croatian Cup: 2004

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