Željko Milinovic
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Željko Milinovič is a former Slovenia
n footballer
who has represented his country at the two major tournaments for which they have qualified (Euro 2000
and Football World Cup 2002).
where he won three consecutive Slovenian Championships
and one Slovenian Cup. After a season at NK Ljubljana
(former NK Železničar, not to be confused with Željezničar Sarajevo) he moved to NK Maribor
. There he won two consecutive Slovenian Championships
and one Slovenian Cup. He had (quite) a few successful spells abroad, namely in Austria (LASK Linz
and GAK
) and Japan (JEF United Ichihara
).
. He was a participant at the Euro 2000 and World Cup 2002.
|1991/92||Slovan
||PrvaLiga||17||0||||||||||17||0
|-
|1991/92||rowspan="3"|Olimpija Ljubljana||rowspan="3"|PrvaLiga||10||2||||||||||10||2
|-
|1992/93||20||2||||||||||20||2
|-
|1993/94||20||0||||||||||20||0
|-
|1994/95||Železničar Ljubljana
||PrvaLiga||25||1||||||||||25||1
|-
|1995/96||rowspan="2"|Maribor Branik
||rowspan="2"|PrvaLiga||33||1||||||||||33||1
|-
|1996/97||32||1||||||||||32||1
|-
|1997/98||Maribor Teatanic
||PrvaLiga||34||1||||||||||34||1
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="2"|LASK Linz
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga
||33||4||||||||||33||4
|-
|1999/00||32||2||||||||||32||2
|-
|2000/01||Grazer AK
||Bundesliga
||19||1||||||||||19||1
|-
|2001||rowspan="4"|JEF United Ichihara
||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||26||3||3||0||5||1||34||4
|-
|2002||25||3||4||0||4||2||33||5
|-
|2003||26||2||3||0||2||0||31||2
|-
|2004||26||0||1||0||5||0||32||0
|-
|2004/05||rowspan="2"|LASK Linz
||rowspan="2"|First League||15||0||||||||||15||0
|-
|2005/06||31||0||||||||||31||0
|-
|2006/07||Bežigrad||||15||2||||||||||15||2
206||10||||||||||206||10
130||7||||||||||130||7
103||8||11||0||16||3||130||11
439||25||11||0||16||3||466||28
|}
|1997||1||0
|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||9||0
|-
|2000||11||2
|-
|2001||8||1
|-
|2002||7||0
|-
!Total||38||3
|}
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
who has represented his country at the two major tournaments for which they have qualified (Euro 2000
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
and Football World Cup 2002).
Club career
Born in Ljubljana, Milinovič began his football career with local side Slovan. After half of season 1991-92 he moved to NK OlimpijaNK Olimpija Ljubljana (1911)
NK Olimpija Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in Ljubljana. The club had traced its origin back to 1911 when it was originally founded as SK Ilirija. It had gone through a series of mergers in the first half of the 20th century before adopting the name Olimpija in 1962...
where he won three consecutive Slovenian Championships
PrvaLiga Telekom Slovenije
Slovenian First Football League also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the main football league in Slovenia, and was formed in 1991 after Slovenia became an independent country. From 1920 until the end of the 1990–91 season, the Slovenian Republic League was a lower division of the Yugoslavian...
and one Slovenian Cup. After a season at NK Ljubljana
NK Ljubljana
NK Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in the capital city of Ljubljana. The club was established in 1909 and dissolved in 2005. A successor club which claimed rights to Ljubljana's honours and records was established in 2005 bearing the name FC Ljubljana...
(former NK Železničar, not to be confused with Željezničar Sarajevo) he moved to NK Maribor
NK Maribor
Nogometni Klub Maribor , commonly referred to as NK Maribor or simply Maribor, is a professional association football club based in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Founded on 12 December, 1960, Maribor is one of only three football clubs in the country who have never been relegated from...
. There he won two consecutive Slovenian Championships
PrvaLiga Telekom Slovenije
Slovenian First Football League also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the main football league in Slovenia, and was formed in 1991 after Slovenia became an independent country. From 1920 until the end of the 1990–91 season, the Slovenian Republic League was a lower division of the Yugoslavian...
and one Slovenian Cup. He had (quite) a few successful spells abroad, namely in Austria (LASK Linz
LASK Linz
LASK Linz is an Austrian association football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club hailing from that region, and currently plays in the Austrian Football First League. The club's colours are black and white...
and GAK
Grazer AK
Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletik-Sport Klub , is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria . The football section is one of the most traditional Austrian clubs, most successful in the decade 1995 – 2005...
) and Japan (JEF United Ichihara
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
).
International career
Milinovič was capped 38 times and scored three goals for SloveniaSlovenia national football team
The Slovenia national football team is the national football team of Slovenia and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia. The team played their first match in 1992 after the split of Yugoslavia in 1991....
. He was a participant at the Euro 2000 and World Cup 2002.
Club career statistics
|-|1991/92||Slovan
ND Slovan
ND Slovan is a Slovenian football club, based in Kodeljevo district in Ljubljana. The team currently plays in the Slovenian third division West.-History:...
||PrvaLiga||17||0||||||||||17||0
|-
|1991/92||rowspan="3"|Olimpija Ljubljana||rowspan="3"|PrvaLiga||10||2||||||||||10||2
|-
|1992/93||20||2||||||||||20||2
|-
|1993/94||20||0||||||||||20||0
|-
|1994/95||Železničar Ljubljana
NK Ljubljana
NK Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in the capital city of Ljubljana. The club was established in 1909 and dissolved in 2005. A successor club which claimed rights to Ljubljana's honours and records was established in 2005 bearing the name FC Ljubljana...
||PrvaLiga||25||1||||||||||25||1
|-
|1995/96||rowspan="2"|Maribor Branik
NK Maribor
Nogometni Klub Maribor , commonly referred to as NK Maribor or simply Maribor, is a professional association football club based in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Founded on 12 December, 1960, Maribor is one of only three football clubs in the country who have never been relegated from...
||rowspan="2"|PrvaLiga||33||1||||||||||33||1
|-
|1996/97||32||1||||||||||32||1
|-
|1997/98||Maribor Teatanic
NK Maribor
Nogometni Klub Maribor , commonly referred to as NK Maribor or simply Maribor, is a professional association football club based in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Founded on 12 December, 1960, Maribor is one of only three football clubs in the country who have never been relegated from...
||PrvaLiga||34||1||||||||||34||1
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="2"|LASK Linz
LASK Linz
LASK Linz is an Austrian association football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club hailing from that region, and currently plays in the Austrian Football First League. The club's colours are black and white...
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga
Austrian Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...
||33||4||||||||||33||4
|-
|1999/00||32||2||||||||||32||2
|-
|2000/01||Grazer AK
Grazer AK
Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletik-Sport Klub , is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria . The football section is one of the most traditional Austrian clubs, most successful in the decade 1995 – 2005...
||Bundesliga
Austrian Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...
||19||1||||||||||19||1
|-
|2001||rowspan="4"|JEF United Ichihara
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||26||3||3||0||5||1||34||4
|-
|2002||25||3||4||0||4||2||33||5
|-
|2003||26||2||3||0||2||0||31||2
|-
|2004||26||0||1||0||5||0||32||0
|-
|2004/05||rowspan="2"|LASK Linz
LASK Linz
LASK Linz is an Austrian association football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club hailing from that region, and currently plays in the Austrian Football First League. The club's colours are black and white...
||rowspan="2"|First League||15||0||||||||||15||0
|-
|2005/06||31||0||||||||||31||0
|-
|2006/07||Bežigrad||||15||2||||||||||15||2
206||10||||||||||206||10
130||7||||||||||130||7
103||8||11||0||16||3||130||11
439||25||11||0||16||3||466||28
|}
International career statistics
|-|1997||1||0
|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||9||0
|-
|2000||11||2
|-
|2001||8||1
|-
|2002||7||0
|-
!Total||38||3
|}
International goals
- Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1 2000-04-26 Stade de France Stade de FranceThe Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000, making it the fifth largest stadium in Europe, and is used by both the France national football team and French rugby union team for...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
1-0 2-3 Friendly match 2 2000-10-07 Stade Josy Barthel Stade Josy BarthelStade Josy Barthel is the national stadium of Luxembourg, home to the Luxembourg national football team and also used for athletics. It is located on route d'Arlon, in Luxembourg City.It was first constructed in 1928 and it was entirely rebuilt in 1990...
, LuxembourgLuxembourg (city)The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg...
2-0 2-1 FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone . For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification....3 2001-09-05 Marakana, Belgrade BelgradeBelgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
1-0 1-1 FIFA World Cup 2002 qualification 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone . For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification....
Olimpija Ljubljana
- Prva liga: 1991-92Slovenian PrvaLiga 1991-92The Slovenian PrvaLiga 1991-92 was the first season of Slovenian top division football. The season started on August 18, 1991 and ended on June 21, 1992 with each team playing a total of 40 matches.-Qualified clubs:-Play-offs:-Final table:...
, 1992-93Slovenian PrvaLiga 1992-93The Slovenian PrvaLiga 1992-93 was the second season of Slovenian top division football. The season started on August 15, 1992 and ended on June 9, 1993 with each team playing a total of 34 matches.-Final table:-External links:* '...
, 1993-94Slovenian PrvaLiga 1993-94-Season 1993-1994:The season started on August 22, 1993 and ended on June 12, 1994.*Each team plays a total of 30 matches.-Final table:-External links:* '* '... - Slovenian CupSlovenian CupThe Slovenian Football Cup , is the top knockout tournament of Slovenian football and the second most important football competition in Slovenia after the Slovenian PrvaLiga championship...
: 1992-93Slovenian Cup 1992-93-First round:-Round of 16:-Quarter-finals:-Semi-finals:-Final:... - Runner-up: 1991-92Slovenian PrvaLiga 1991-92The Slovenian PrvaLiga 1991-92 was the first season of Slovenian top division football. The season started on August 18, 1991 and ended on June 21, 1992 with each team playing a total of 40 matches.-Qualified clubs:-Play-offs:-Final table:...
Maribor
- Prva liga: 1996-97Slovenian PrvaLiga 1996-97-Season 1996-1997:The season started on August 4, 1996 and ended on June 1, 1997.*Each team plays a total of 36 matches.-Final table:-External links:* '* '...
, 1997-98Slovenian PrvaLiga 1997-98-Season 1997-1998:The season started on August 3, 1997 and ended on June 7, 1998.*Each team plays a total of 36 matches.-Final table:-External links:* '* '... - Slovenian CupSlovenian CupThe Slovenian Football Cup , is the top knockout tournament of Slovenian football and the second most important football competition in Slovenia after the Slovenian PrvaLiga championship...
: 1996-97Slovenian Cup 1996-97-First round:-Round of 16:-Quarter-finals:-Semi-finals:-First leg:-Second leg:...
External links
- Player profile - PrvaLiga
- Player profile - NZS