Zlatko Kranjčar

Zlatko Kranjčar

Zlatko Kranjčar as Sepahan coach in 2013
Personal information
Date of birth	(1956-11-15) 15 November 1956 (age 60)
Place of birth	Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1966–1973	Dinamo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1973–1983	Dinamo Zagreb	261	(98)
1983–1990	Rapid Vienna	201	(106)
1990–1991	VSE St. Pölten	12	(2)
Total		474	(206)
National team
1977–1983	Yugoslavia	11	(3)
1990	Croatia	2	(1)
Teams managed
1991–1992	Austria Klagenfurt
1992–1994	Segesta
1994–1996	Dinamo Zagreb
1996	FC Linz
1997	Slaven Belupo
1997	Segesta
1997–1998	NK Samobor
1998	Dinamo Zagreb
1999–2000	El-Masry
2000	Mura
2000–2001	Marsonia
2001–2002	NK Zagreb
2002–2003	NK Rijeka
2003–2004	NK Zagreb
2004–2006	Croatia
2006–2007	Croatia Sesvete
2007	Al-Shaab Sharjah
2009	DAC Dunajská Streda
2009	Persepolis
2010–2011	Montenegro
2011–2014	Sepahan
2015–2016	Al-Ahli
2016	Dinamo Zagreb
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (pronounced [zlâtko t͡sǐːt͡so krâɲt͡ʃaːr]; born 15 November 1956) is a Croatian football manager and former striker.

Kranjčar started to play for Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 10 in 1966 and stayed in the club until 1983. He appeared in a total of 556 matches for the club and scored 98 goals in the championship. Then he transferred to Austrian club Rapid Vienna for which he played until 1990. The last club in his playing career was VSE St. Pölten for which he played for two months in late 1990.

Between 1977 and 1983 he collected 11 caps and scored 3 goals for Yugoslavia. He also has two caps and scored one goal for the Croatian national team and is notable as the first team captain of the Croatian team in their first international match against the United States on 17 October 1990 in Zagreb.

Kranjčar started his coaching career in 1991 as an advisor at Austria Klagenfurt. From 1992 until 1994 he coached a Croatian club HNK Segesta and in 1994 he transferred to Croatia Zagreb, where he won the Croatian Championship and Cup in his first season. In 1996 he returned to Austria to coach FC Linz. A year later he was back in Croatia where he coached the clubs NK Slaven Belupo, HNK Segesta (again) and NK Samobor. In 1998 he came back to Croatia Zagreb and led the club to another win in both the Croatian Championship and Cup as well as to an appearance in the UEFA Champions League. In 1999 he started to coach an Egyptian club Al-Masry and in 2000 he went on to coach a Slovenian club NK Mura, where he also stayed for one season. In 2002 he became the Croatian championship winner with NK Zagreb.