Ljupko Petrović

Ljupko Petrović
Љупко Петровић

Ljupko Petrović during his time at Litex Lovech
Personal information
Full name	Ljubomir Petrović
Date of birth	15 May 1947 (1947-05-15)
Place of birth	Brusnica Velika, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	FC Taraz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1967–1979	Osijek
1979–1981	Buffalo Stallions (indoor)	70	(79)
1981–1982	Kansas City Comets (indoor)	25	(15)
1982	Phoenix Inferno (indoor)	15	(8)
Teams managed
1982–1984	Osijek (youth)
1984	Espanyol (assistant)
1984–1987	Osijek
1987–1988	Spartak Subotica
1987	Yugoslavia U18 (assistant)
1988	Yugoslavia U21
1988–1990	Vojvodina
1990–1991	Red Star Belgrade
1992	Peñarol
1992–1993	PAOK
1993	Olympiacos
1994–1996	Red Star Belgrade
1996	Grazer AK
1996–1997	Vojvodina
1998–1999	Al-Ahli Dubai
1999–2000	Shanghai Shenhua
2000–2001	Levski Sofia
2002–2003	Beijing Guoan
2003–2004	Litex Lovech
2004	Red Star Belgrade
2005–2007	Litex Lovech
2008	Croatia Sesvete
2008–2009	Vojvodina
2011-	Taraz
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Ljubomir "Ljupko" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Петровић Љупко) (born 15 May 1947) is a Bosnian Serb former football player, today a football manager of FC Taraz in Kazakhstan Premier League. He was the winner of the European Cup in 1991 with Red Star.

Biography

Born in Brusnica Velika village near Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia, Petrović played for the NK Osijek during most of his career. He is remembered as one of the best player of the generation which achieve promotion for NK Osijek in late 1970s. After his career at NK Osijek he also spent some time in the United States.

As a manager, he has been in charge of NK Osijek, FK Spartak Subotica, FK Rad, FK Vojvodina, and finally Red Star, with whom he won the 1991 European Cup. He has also managed Spanish RCD Espanyol, Uruguayan C.A. Peñarol, Austrian Grazer AK and Chinese Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan. He had another two spells at Red Star before moving to Bulgaria in the 2000s to coach PFC Levski Sofia and later PFC Litex Lovech. He came back to Serbia in March 2008 to become the manager of OFK Beograd, but he resigned from this position one month later. July 2, 2008, Petrović became the head coach of Croatian First League team Croatia Sesvete, thus becoming the first Serbian head coach of a Croatian first division team after the Yugoslav wars. On December 23, 2008 he was appointed for the head coach of his former team FK Vojvodina from Novi Sad, title challengers in the Serbian Superliga for 2008-09 season. Yet, after gaining only one point in the first two matches of the second part of the season, he resigned from this position on March 8, 2009. As of 2010 he is coached Croatian side NK Lokomotiva a youth division of Croatian football giant NK Dinamo Zagreb.

Personal life

Petrović is married to Snežana with whom he has two children: son Srđan and daughter Svetlana. He also has two grandchildren: Nikola and Anastasija.

Management Titles

• Spartak Subotica
  • Yugoslav Second League 1988
• Vojvodina Novi Sad
  • Yugoslav First League 1989
• Crvena Zvezda
  • UEFA Champions League 1991
  • Yugoslav First League 1991
  • Serbian Championship 1995
  • Serbian Cup 1995; 1996
• Levski Sofia
  • Bulgarian Championship 2001
• Litex Lovech
  • Bulgarian Cup 2004
• Beijing Guoan
  • Chinese FA Cup 2003

External links

• Official website
• MISL career stats

Preceded by Arrigo Sacchi

European Cup Winning Coach 1990-1991

Succeeded by Johan Cruyff