Stjepan Vrbančić (29 November 1900 – 12 December 1988) was a

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ian footballer. He played with Zagreb's top football clubs: with

HAŠK HAŠK (full name Hrvatski akademski športski klub, ) was a Croatian football club established in Zagreb in 1903. The club was one of the most successful sides in Zagreb and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the period between the two World Wars. The ...

from 1918 to 1926 and HŠK Concordia Zagreb from 1926 to 1935.

International career

Vrbančić made his debut for

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in a June 1922

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against

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and earned a total of 12 caps, scoring no goals. He played with the team at the

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. His final international was an April 1927 friendly against

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