Svetozar Šapurić (; born 28 August 1960) is a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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manager and former player. He is the current manager of Chinese club

Cangzhou Mighty Lions Cangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club () is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Cangzhou, Hebei and their home stadium i ...

Career

Šapurić started out at his hometown club Vrbas, spending eight seasons in the senior squad (1977–1985), before securing a move to

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. He was a member of the team that won the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

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. Subsequently, Šapurić moved abroad to Cyprus and signed with

APOEL APOEL FC ( el, ΑΠΟΕΛ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") ...

. He later switched to

Anorthosis Anorthosis Famagusta ( el, Ανόρθωση Αμμοχώστου, translit=Anorthosi Ammochostou), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Anorthosis Famagusta multi-sport club fou ...

(1993–1995), before returning to APOEL for his final season. After finishing his playing career, Šapurić was briefly manager of APOEL in 1996. He later served as

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for his former club Vojvodina from September 1996 to October 1999. Afterwards, Šapurić returned to Cyprus for his second brief spell as manager of APOEL in 2000. He also later appointed as their sporting director in December 2015, remaining in charge until September 2018.

Honours

Player

;Vojvodina *

: 1988–89 ;APOEL *

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

: 1989–90, 1991–92, 1995–96 *

Cypriot Cup The Cypriot Cup () is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by the Cyprus Football Association (CFA). It began in 1934, the same season with the Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club team ...

: 1992–93, 1995–96 *

Cypriot Super Cup The Cypriot Super Cup is a Cypriot football trophy, contested in an annual match between the previous season's Cypriot First Division champions, and the Cypriot Cup winners. The match is contested at the beginning of the football season, and is us ...

: 1992 ;Anorthosis *

: 1994–95

Manager

;Ethnikos Achna *

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sapuric, Svetozar Association football midfielders Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. players APOEL FC managers APOEL FC players Apollon Limassol FC managers Changchun Yatai F.C. managers Chinese Super League managers Cypriot First Division players Cypriot people of Serbian descent Ethnikos Achna FC managers Expatriate football managers in China Expatriate footballers in Cyprus FK Vojvodina players FK Vrbas players Olympiakos Nicosia managers People from Vrbas, Serbia Serbian expatriate football managers Serbian expatriate sportspeople in China Serbian football managers Serbian footballers Yugoslav expatriate footballers Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav footballers 1960 births Living people