Ivan Javorčić (born 24 January 1979) is a Croatian

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manager and a former player, currently in charge as assistant

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of Italian

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Playing career

Born in

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, Javorčić began playing football for the youth side of local club

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. He first played for the senior team at age 15. Javorčić spent most of his career in Italy, where he moved in 1996 to sign a four-year contract with

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. After he played for one season in

and two seasons in Serie B for the club, Javorčić went out on loans to Serie B club

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and Serie C1 club

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during 2001. He joined Serie A club

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in 2002 but did not play for the first team. Successively, he transferred to the second division

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but suffered a career-threatening knee injury in May 2004 that kept him off the field for more than two years. He returned from injury in October 2006, playing for

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in Serie C1.

Coaching career

After retiring from active football, Javorčić returned to his former club

as a youth coach. On 15 December 2014, after the dismissal of head coach

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, it was announced that Javorčić would take charge of the first team on an interim basis. He was allowed to guide Brescia only for a short period due to him not having the required coaching badges. During his short tenure as a coach, he managed to guide Brescia to a slight improvement in results despite a troubled financial situation and ended his caretaking spell on 21 January 2015 with a 3–1 home win against high-flying

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before to hand over coaching duties to

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. He then served as head coach of

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club

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from October 2015 to March 2016. In April 2017, he was named new head coach of

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club Pro Patria. They advanced to third-tier

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at the end of the 2017–18 season, with Javorčić guiding them for the following three seasons in the league. On 8 June 2021, Pro Patria announced Javorčić's departure from the club. On 14 June 2021, he was unveiled as the new head coach of fellow Serie C club

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on a two-year contract. On his first season in charge, Javorčić guided Südtirol to triumph in the Group A of the

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, achieving promotion to Serie B for the first time in the club's history; in addition to that, he led Südtirol to make it all the way to the

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finals, lost on aggregate to fellow Group A club

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. On 9 June 2022, Javorčić was unveiled as the new head coach of recently-relegated Serie B club

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, signing a three-year deal with the ''Lagunari''. His Venezia experience turned out to be short-lived, as he was relieved from his duties on 31 October 2022 due to negative results, leaving the team down in the relegation zone of the

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league. In March 2024, Javorčić rescinded his Venezia contract to join

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's coaching staff at

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. In March 2025, he followed Tudor at

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

;Arezzo *

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: 2003–04 (Group A) *

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: 2004

Coach

;Pro Patria *

: 2017–18 (Group B) * Scudetto Dilettanti: 2017–18 ;Südtirol *

: 2021–22 (Group A)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Javorcic, Ivan 1979 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Croatian men's footballers RNK Split players Brescia Calcio players NK Mosor players FC Crotone players Treviso FBC 1993 players Atalanta BC players SS Arezzo players AS Pizzighettone players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Aurora Pro Patria 1919 managers Croatian football managers Brescia Calcio managers Mantova 1911 managers FC Südtirol managers Venezia FC managers Juventus FC non-playing staff Serie C managers Croatian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Italy Footballers from Split, Croatia