Ilija Lončarević
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 8 October 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Čajkovci, Independent State of Croatia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1964 | Lokomotiva | ||
| 1967–1969 | NK Prvomajska | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1971 | NK Prvomajska | ||
| 1987–1988 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 1990–1993 | Inker Zaprešić | ||
| 1994 | Marsonia | ||
| 1994–1995 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 1995–1996 | Slaven Belupo | ||
| 1997 | Orijent | ||
| 1997–1998 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | ||
| 1999 | Croatia Zagreb | ||
| 2000 | Marsonia | ||
| 2000–2001 | Čakovec | ||
| 2001–2002 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2003–2004 | Libya | ||
| 2004–2005 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2005–2006 | Libya | ||
| 2006–2008 | Osijek | ||
| 2009 | Lokomotiva | ||
| 2009 | KF Tirana | ||
| 2010–2012 | Inter Zaprešić | ||
| 2013–2014 | Gorica | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ilija Lončarević (born 8 October 1944 in Čajkovci, near Slavonski Brod) is a Croatian football coach.
Lončarević led Inker Zaprešić to the Croatian Cup title in 1992, but his arguably biggest success in management came when he won the Croatian championship with Dinamo Zagreb in 1999. In the 1990s, Lončarević was also in charge of several other Croatian teams including NK Zagreb, Marsonia, Slaven Belupo and Hrvatski Dragovoljac.
In the summer of 2000, after a short spell with Marsonia, Lončarević was appointed head coach at Čakovec, who just won their first promotion to the Croatian first division at the time, and led the club through the first part of the 2000-01 season. Under his management, Čakovec surprisingly came in position to fight for the fifth place in the Croatian league for some time during the autumn of 2000; they finished the season in 8th place. Lončarević left Čakovec in the winter break of the 2000-01 season and returned to Dinamo Zagreb for the 2001-02 season.
In 2003, Lončarević was appointed head coach of the Libyan national football team and led the team through their qualifying campaign for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was surprisingly sacked from the post in July 2004, although the team only lost one qualifying match until that time. After this first spell with the Libyan national team, Lončarević went on to take charge of Dinamo Zagreb in November 2004 and stayed there until the end of the season. In April 2005, however, Lončarević was appointed head coach of the Libyan national team for a second time, after their previous coach, Mohamed El Khemisy, resigned from the post following a 4-1 defeat to Egypt in the World Cup qualifiers.
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