Zoran Barisic

Zoran Barisic ( born 22 May 1970) is an Austrian football manager and a former player. He is currently manager of SK Rapid Wien . Before this he was sporting director of the club.
Career
Barisic made his Bundesliga debut in 1989 for Wiener Sport-Club. The midfielder left the club after relegation to the second division He moved to Favoritner AC, a club that also played in the second division of the Bundesliga. After Barisic narrowly missed promotion to the first division with the team, he left the Favoritner after just one season and went to VfB Modling. He only stayed in Modling for a year.
In 1993 he went to SK Rapid Wien. He soon played regularly in the first team. In 1995 he won the Austrian Cup. In 1996 they won the championship. Zoran Barisic also played a major role in the successes of the team in the 1995/96 season. With Rapid he played in the team which reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Barisic left SK Rapid and went to FC Linz in the Upper Austrian capital for a few months. After the liquidation of the club through a merger with LASK Linz, the Viennese moved to FC Tirol Innsbruck. There he became champion 3 times in a row. After the liquidation of the club in 2002 due to financial problems he went back to VfB Admira Wacker Modling. 2004/05 Zoran Barisic played in the Regionalliga Ost for the Burgenland club SC Eisenstadt.
International
He played one match for the Austrian national football team versus Israel on 6 June 1999.
Manager
In September 2006 Barisic became assistant coach under the new coach Peter Pacult. After differences at the start of the 2009/10 Barisic became coach at the club's youth academy. After Pacult was dismissed in April 2011 he became caretaker at SK Rapid Wien. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he became coach of SK Rapid Wien II . When Peter Schottel was sacked Barisic took over the coaching position at SK Rapid again and reached third place in the Bundesliga with his team. Then his contract was extended until 2014. In the 2013/14 season Rapid was runner-up under him and reached the group stage of the Europa League. After the end of the season, his contract was extended by one year until the summer of 2015. On 6 June 2016 Rapid and Barisic announced their separation.
2017 he became coach of the Turkish first division club Karabukspor . In June he left the club due to outstanding salary payments.Barisic has been since September 2018 head coach of Olimpija Ljubljana . He signed a three-year contract. After the end of the autumn season he resigned.
From 16 May 2019 Barisic was sporting director of SK Rapid. In October 2022 he took over as interim head coach as successor to Ferdinand Feldhofer. At the end of December 2022 he was replaced as sporting director by Markus Katzer. In February 2023 he was reappointed as head coach.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Rapid Wien
Austrian Bundesliga: 1996
Austrian Cup: 1995
Tirol Innsbruck
Austrian Bundesliga: 2000, 2001, 2002
References
Other websites
Profile at Rapidarchiv
1970 births
Living people
Austrian footballers
Association football midfielders
Players of the Austrian national football team
Austrian football managers
SK Rapid Wien players
SK Rapid Wien managers