Vjeran Simunić
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vjeran Simunić | ||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Split, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1975 | Hajduk Split | ||
| NK Šibenik | |||
| 1975–1976 | NK Dinamo Vinkovci | ||
| 1976–1982 | NK Zagreb | ||
| Sporting Lisabon | |||
| 1983–1985 | Yomiuri Tokio Wings | ||
| F.C. Catanzaro | |||
| Vigor Lamezia | |||
| NK Mosor | |||
| NK Posušje | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1994 | NK Lipik | ||
| NK Čazmatrans | |||
| NK Čakovec | |||
| FC East Riffa Club | |||
| 1999–2000 | RNK Split | ||
| NK Mosor | |||
| NK Uskok | |||
| NK Slavonac Stari Perkovci | |||
| NK Mladost Zabok | |||
| NK Posušje | |||
| 2001 | HŠK Zrinjski Mostar | ||
| 2002 | NK Hrvatski dragovoljac | ||
| 2002 | NK Kamen-Ingrad Velika | ||
| 2002–2003 | NK Zadar | ||
| 2003–2004 | HNK Cibalia Vinkovci | ||
| 2005 | NK Zadar | ||
| 2005 | HNK Segesta | ||
| 2006 | NK Čelik Zenica | ||
| 2006 | NK Trnje | ||
| 2006 | NK Marsonia | ||
| 2007 | NK Dugopolje | ||
| 2007–2008 | NK Imotski | ||
| 2008–2009 | DPMM | ||
| 2008–2009 | Brunei | ||
| 2009 | NK Imotski | ||
| 2010 | NK Mosor | ||
| 2010 | NK Međimurje | ||
| 2010–2011 | Ho Chi Minh City F.C. | ||
| 2011–2013 | DPMM | ||
| 2013–2014 | Brunei | ||
| 2014 | HNK Segesta | ||
| 2014 | Perak FA | ||
| 2015 | Perak FA | ||
| 2015–2016 | Sabah FA | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Vjeran Simunić (born 1954 in Split) is Croatian football manager and former goalkeeper. He holds the Croatian record for number of managed teams. By 2014 he has managed over 30 clubs.
Simunić started his playing career in Hajduk Split, in the 70's. He didn't get too many chances in Hajduk as the competition was very big at the time. After Hajduk, his next station was NK Šibenik, then NK Dinamo Vinkovci and NK Zagreb, where he spent most of the playing career. In 1982 he made transfer to Sporting Lisabon. After one season he moved to Japan. He was first European player to play in Japan. The club was Tokyo Verdy. After two more challenges in Italia, he returned to native country. He finished his playing career in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in NK Posušje.
He started his rich managerial career in NK Lipik, in 1994. Then he changed a couple of Croatian clubs before moving to Italia, then Japan, and Bahrain. However, he couldn't stay too much abroad, and he returned to Croatia, starting impressive row of 13 Croatian clubs, interrupted by 3 BIH clubs, in 8 years. He said that his mission is to improve table situation of every club he takes, and in most cases he did that. That's why he had so many offers. Searching for new challenge, he moved to Asia, this time Brunei. He managed club DPMM, soon after his good results with that club made him coach of Brunei. He was very popular, had lot of fans in country and even got Happy Birthday song chanted by fans during one match. But, he suddenly returned to Croatia, and took manager chair of NK Imotski, where he stayed for only one month. Then he took NK Mosor once again, but, not surprisingly, left that club also, and after one half-season he took Croatia second division club NK Međimurje, at the start of 2010/11 season.
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