Svetozar Šapurić (; born 28 August 1960) is a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

n football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Chinese club Cangzhou Mighty Lions.

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. 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 f ...

(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

sporting director A sporting director, or director of sport, is an executive management position in a sports club. The role is well known as a manager role for European football clubs, which are sometime also "sports clubs", offering many types of sports. The sport ...

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 official ...

: 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 te ...

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, 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 u ...

: 1992 ;Anorthosis *

: 1994–95

Manager

;Ethnikos Achna *

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: 2006

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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