Zlatko Vujović (; born 26 August 1958) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a striker. His twin brother, Zoran, was also a professional footballer. They were both Yugoslav internationals, and both spent a large part of their professional careers in France.

Club career

Born in

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, Vujović started his professional career with Hajduk Split, making his first division debuts at just 18 and going on to score more than 100 goals in the league (172 overall in 420 matches), while often partnering his brother Zoran. He helped his first club win one league in 1979 and one cup five years later, also being named Yugoslav Footballer of the Year in 1981 by the '' Večernji list'' daily. In 1986, both siblings moved to compete in France, first with

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: in their first season both were undisputed starters in an eventual double, as Zlatko also scored in the 2–0 cup win against Olympique de Marseille. Vujović continued to net with at excellent rate until he retired in 1993, playing in both the first and second levels, with AS Cannes,

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, FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and OGC Nice.

International career

He earned 70 caps and scored 25 goals for the Yugoslavia national team, making his debut on 1 April 1979 in a 3–0 win against

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for the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers, and was included in the squads for the 1982 and 1990 FIFA World Cups while also playing Olympic football in

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. His final international was a November 1990 European Championship qualification win away against

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. :''Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vujović goal.''

Managerial career

In 2008, Vujović (as had his brother the previous year) began a coaching career, starting as an assistant manager at his first club, Hajduk. He began his third stint in July 2016, when he joined

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's staff but he left the club in December 2016 after Pušnik was sacked.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vujovic, Zlatko 1958 births Living people Footballers from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina twins Croatian twins Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games medalists in football Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics 1982 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1984 players 1990 FIFA World Cup players Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers Croatian men's footballers HNK Hajduk Split players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players AS Cannes players Paris Saint-Germain FC players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players OGC Nice players Yugoslav First League players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in France HNK Hajduk Split non-playing staff 20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportsmen