Zoran Barisic

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Zoran Barisic
Barišić managing Rapid in 2013.
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-05-22) 22 May 1970 (age 53)
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Rapid Wien (sporting director)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1991 Wiener Sport-Club 55 (4)
1991–1992 Favoritner AC 35 (8)
1992–1993 FC Admira/Wacker 35 (6)
1993–1995 Rapid Vienna 83 (11)
1996–1997 FC Linz 13 (0)
1997–2002 Tirol Innsbruck 99 (13)
2002–2004 VfB Admira Wacker Mödling 19 (0)
2004–2005 SC Eisenstadt 26 (5)
Total 365 (47)
National team
1999 Austria 1 (0)
Teams managed
2011 Rapid Vienna (caretaker)
2011–2013 Rapid Vienna II
2013–2016 Rapid Vienna
2017 Karabükspor
2018 Olimpija Ljubljana
2022– Rapid Vienna
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Zoran Barisic ( born 22 May 1970) is an Austrian football manager and a former player.[1] He is currently manager of SK Rapid Wien . Before this he was sporting director of the club.[2]

Career[change | change source]

Barisic made his Bundesliga debut in 1989 for Wiener Sport-Club. The midfielder left the club after relegation to the second division He moved to Favoritner AC, a club that also played in the second division of the Bundesliga. After Barisic narrowly missed promotion to the first division with the team, he left the Favoritner after just one season and went to VfB Mödling. He only stayed in Mödling for a year.

In 1993 he went to SK Rapid Wien. He soon played regularly in the first team. In 1995 he won the Austrian Cup. In 1996 they won the championship. Zoran Barisic also played a major role in the successes of the team in the 1995/96 season. With Rapid he played in the team which reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Barišić left SK Rapid and went to FC Linz in the Upper Austrian capital for a few months. After the liquidation of the club through a merger with LASK Linz, the Viennese moved to FC Tirol Innsbruck. There he became champion 3 times in a row. After the liquidation of the club in 2002 due to financial problems he went back to VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. 2004/05 Zoran Barisic played in the Regionalliga Ost for the Burgenland club SC Eisenstadt.

International[change | change source]

He played one match for the Austrian national football team versus Israel on 6 June 1999.

Manager[change | change source]

In September 2006 Barisic became assistant coach under the new coach Peter Pacult. After differences at the start of the 2009/10 Barisic became coach at the club's youth academy.[3] After Pacult was dismissed in April 2011 he became caretaker at SK Rapid Wien. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he became coach of SK Rapid Wien II . When Peter Schöttel was sacked Barisic took over the coaching position at SK Rapid again and reached third place in the Bundesliga with his team. Then his contract was extended until 2014. In the 2013/14 season Rapid was runner-up under him and reached the group stage of the Europa League. After the end of the season, his contract was extended by one year until the summer of 2015. On 6 June 2016 Rapid and Barisic announced their separation.

2017 he became coach of the Turkish first division club Karabükspor . In June he left the club due to outstanding salary payments.Barisic has been since September 2018 head coach of Olimpija Ljubljana . He signed a three-year contract. After the end of the autumn season he resigned.

From 16 May 2019 Barisic was sporting director of SK Rapid.[4] In October 2022 he took over as interim head coach as successor to Ferdinand Feldhofer. At the end of December 2022 he was replaced as sporting director by Markus Katzer. In February 2023 he was reappointed as head coach.

Managerial statistics[change | change source]

As of 3 June 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Rapid Vienna (caretaker) Austria 11 April 2011 30 May 2011 10 4 2 4 15 12 +3 040.00 [5]
Rapid Vienna II Austria 30 May 2011 17 April 2013 55 29 13 13 103 60 +43 052.73 [6]
Rapid Vienna Austria 17 April 2013 6 June 2016 148 74 37 37 260 174 +86 050.00 [5]
Karabükspor Turkey 17 February 2017 5 June 2017 13 4 4 5 14 19 −5 030.77 [7]
Olimpija Ljubljana Slovenia 4 September 2018 12 December 2018 15 9 5 1 36 22 +14 060.00 [8]
Rapid Vienna Austria 16 October 2022 Present 25 11 4 10 45 40 +5 044.00 [5]
Total 266 131 65 70 473 327 +146 049.25

Honours[change | change source]

Player[change | change source]

Rapid Wien

Tirol Innsbruck

  • Austrian Bundesliga: 2000, 2001, 2002

References[change | change source]

  1. Zoran Barisic at WorldFootball.net
  2. Rapid-Sportdirektor Barisic: "Ich hatte ein mulmiges Gefühl", kurier.at, 16 May 2019
  3. http://diepresse.com (German)
  4. ORF Sport.at
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "SK Rapid Wien: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  6. "SK Rapid Wien II: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  7. "Kardemir Karabükspor: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  8. "NK Olimpija Ljubljana: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

Other websites[change | change source]