Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 26 September 1978 | ||
Place of birth | Jesenice, SFR Yugoslavia[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Koper (head coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1999 | Triglav Kranj | ||
1999–2002 | Celje | 63 | (19) |
2002–2005 | Koper | 50 | (10) |
2005–2008 | Izola | 39 | (14) |
2008 | Bonifika | 11 | (6) |
International career | |||
1998 | Slovenia U20 | 4 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
2006–2008 | Izola | ||
2012–2013 | Mura 05 | ||
2017–2019 | Aluminij | ||
2022–2024 | Radomlje | ||
2024– | Koper | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Oliver Bogatinov (born 26 September 1978) is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player.[2] He is the current manager of Slovenian PrvaLiga club Koper.
Born in Jesenice to parents of Macedonian descent, Bogatinov started his football career with Triglav Kranj.[3] He was the top scorer of the 1997–98 Slovenian Second League with 32 goals as his team earned promotion to the Slovenian top division.[4] Bogatinov spent the next seven seasons playing in the Slovenian top tier, making a total of 130 appearances for Triglav, Celje and Koper.[5] He retired from professional football at the age of 26 due to injuries and focused on coaching career, although he still played semi-professional football in the Slovenian lower divisions for Izola and Bonifika.[3]
Bogatinov started his managerial career at Koper, where he was the coach of various youth selections.[3] He was then a player/manager at third division side Izola, before becoming the assistant manager of Nedžad Okčić at Koper, when the team won its first ever top division title in 2009–10.[3] Bogatinov was also the coach of Koper's under-17 team, with whom he won the national under-17 league.[3]
In August 2012, before the Europa League play-off match against Lazio, Bogatinov took charge of Slovenian top division club Mura 05.[6] Between 2013 and 2015, Bogatinov was working as the youth coach at Saudi club Al-Hilal SFC, his first club abroad.[3] In 2015, he was the assistant of Marijan Pušnik at Olimpija Ljubljana.[3] In December 2017, he took charge of Slovenian top division side Aluminij.[7]
In March 2020, Bogatinov was appointed sports director of Slovenian team Maribor, replacing Zlatko Zahovič.[8][9] He left the position in February 2021 along with head coach Mauro Camoranesi.[10] Bogatinov was then appointed sports director of Koper, before returning to coaching in December 2022 when he was appointed as manager of Radomlje.[11]