Marko Dugandžić (born 7 April 1994) is a Croatian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a striker for and

K League 1 The K League 1 () is a professional association football league in South Korea and the highest level of the South Korean football league system. The league is contested by twelve clubs. It is one of the most successful leagues in the Asian Foo ...

club

FC Seoul FC Seoul () is a South Korean professional Association football, football club based in Seoul that competes in the K League 1, the top flight of Football in South Korea, South Korean football. The club is owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS G ...

Club career

His good performances for

Osijek Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...

attracted many European teams, such as

Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Florence, Tuscany. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while ...

Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second level of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. Th ...

and

Leeds United Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...

. Instead, he signed for

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria and currently compete in the Serie C. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A ...

in January 2015. On 14 October 2020, after a short stint at Romanian side

Botoșani Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. Origin of the ...

, Dugandžić joined

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

club

PFC Sochi Football Club Sochi (), is a Russian professional football club based in Sochi. The club is playing its home matches at the 47,000-capacity Fisht Stadium. History FC Sochi was founded on 4 July 2018 after the relocation of FC Dynamo Saint Pete ...

. On 11 January 2022, he returned to Romania and signed with

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...

Rapid București

On 22 July 2022, Dugandžić was transferred to another

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

side

Rapid București Rapid(s) or RAPID may refer to: Hydrological features * Rapids, sections of a river with turbulent water flow * Rapid Creek (Iowa River tributary), Iowa, United States * Rapid Creek (South Dakota), United States, namesake of Rapid City Sport ...

for a reported fee of €400,000. He made his debut against Rapid's rivals from

Ghencea Ghencea is a district of the Romanian capital city Bucharest, split between Sector 5 and Sector 6. It is home to the famous sports club CSA Steaua București. Nearby districts are Drumul Taberei and Rahova. History Construction of apartment ...

FCSB Fotbal Club FCSB (), formerly named and still sometimes referred to as FC Steaua București, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. It has spent its entire history in the Liga I, the top flight of the Romanian football le ...

, scoring a goal and assisting captain

Cristian Săpunaru Cristian Ionuț Săpunaru (born 5 April 1984) is a former Romanian professional Association football, footballer who played mainly as a centre-back. He played also as a right-back or a defensive midfielder. Săpunaru began his senior career wit ...

. He also scored against rivals Petrolul Ploiesti in the

Primvs Derby The ''Primvs'' derby, also known as Unicul derby (English: ''The One derby''), is a football derby match between Romanian clubs Rapid București and Petrolul Ploiești. It is called ''Primvs derby'' because one of the earliest rivalries in Roma ...

. After that, he became a vital player for Rapid, scoring 16 goals across the

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

regular season. During the championship play-off stage, he added another six goals to his tally and was crowned the top scorer of the season, with 22 goals.

Al-Tai

On 7 September 2023, Dugandžić joined Saudi Arabian side Al-Tai.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

CFR Cluj *

: 2021–22 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

runner-up:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Individual *Liga I top scorer:

*Liga I Team of the Season:

References

External links

*
Marko Dugandžić
at Sportnet.hr * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dugandzic, Marko 1994 births Living people Footballers from Osijek Men's association football forwards Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's youth international footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers NK Osijek players Ternana Calcio players FC Matera players FC Botoșani players PFC Sochi players CFR Cluj players FC Rapid București players Al-Tai FC players FC Seoul players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Serie B players Serie C players Liga I players Russian Premier League players Saudi Pro League players Saudi First Division League players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Croatian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea 21st-century Croatian sportsmen K League 1 players