Igor Bondžulić

{{short description|Serbian footballer and manager}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Igor Bondžulić

| image = {{CSS image crop | Image = FK Javor Ivanjica squad, 2008.jpg| bSize = 1500 | cWidth = 170 | cHeight = 300 | oTop = 0 | oLeft = 465 | Location = center}}

| upright = 0.9

| caption = Bondžulić with Javor Ivanjica in 2008

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|10|05|df=y}}

| birth_place = Užička Požega, SFR Yugoslavia

| height = 1.91 m

| position = Goalkeeper

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Sloga Požega

| years1 = 2001–2008

| clubs1 = Javor Ivanjica

| caps1 = 178

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2008–2009

| clubs2 = Lokomotiv Sofia

| caps2 = 15

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2009–2010

| clubs3 = Javor Ivanjica

| caps3 = 3

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2010–2013

| clubs4 = Jagodina

| caps4 = 47

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2013–2014

| clubs5 = Moroka Swallows

| caps5 = 0

| goals5 = 0

| totalcaps = 243

| totalgoals = 0

| manageryears1 = 2014–2016

| managerclubs1 = Jagodina (assistant)

| manageryears2 = 2016

| managerclubs2 = Jagodina (caretaker)

| manageryears3 = 2017–2018

| managerclubs3 = Radnik Surdulica (assistant)

| manageryears4 = 2018–2019

| managerclubs4 = Čukarički (first-team coach)

| manageryears5 = 2019–2021

| managerclubs5 = Javor Ivanjica

| manageryears6 = 2021

| managerclubs6 = Radnik Surdulica

| manageryears7 = 2022

| managerclubs7 = Javor Ivanjica

}}

Igor Bondžulić ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Игор Бонџулић}}; born 5 October 1980) is a Serbian professional football manager and a former player who played as a goalkeeper.

Playing career

After starting out at Sloga Požega, Bondžulić joined Javor Ivanjica in the early 2000s. He made over 150 appearances for the club, before moving abroad and signing with Bulgarian side Lokomotiv Sofia in 2008.{{fact|date=October 2023}}

While playing for Jagodina, Bondžulić helped them win the Serbian Cup in 2013.{{Cite web | url=https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/news/newsid=1949819.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20160702154918/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/news/newsid=1949819.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 July 2016 | title=Jagodina make history with Serbian Cup triumph | publisher=UEFA | date=8 May 2013 | access-date=15 February 2017}} He also spent one season with Moroka Swallows in South Africa,{{Cite web | url=http://www.kickoff.com/news/44630/moroka-swallows-release-goalkeeper-igor-bondzulic | title=Moroka Swallows release goalkeeper Igor Bondzulic | publisher=kickoff.com | date=19 May 2014 | access-date=15 January 2019 | archive-date=16 January 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116045811/http://www.kickoff.com/news/44630/moroka-swallows-release-goalkeeper-igor-bondzulic | url-status=dead }} before retiring from the game.{{fact|date=October 2023}}

Managerial career

After hanging up his boots, Bondžulić served as an assistant and later caretaker manager at his former club Jagodina.{{Cite web | url=https://sport.blic.rs/fudbal/domaci-fudbal/igor-bondzulic-pomocni-trener-jagodine/wxqskjj | title=Igor Bondzulić pomoćni trener Jagodine | language=Serbian | publisher=blic.rs | date=3 September 2014 | access-date=15 January 2019}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2016&mm=04&dd=04&nav_id=1115884 | title=Mojsilovićev naslednik: Velika čast | language=Serbian | publisher=b92.net | date=4 April 2016 | access-date=15 February 2017}} He subsequently assisted Simo Krunić at Radnik Surdulica.

In June 2019, Bondžulić was appointed manager of newly promoted Serbian SuperLiga club Javor Ivanjica.{{Cite web | url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/sport.294.html:798805-Bondzulic-novi-trener-Javora | title=Bondžulić novi trener Javora | language=Serbian | publisher=novosti.rs | date=5 June 2019 | access-date=8 October 2019}}

Managerial statistics

{{updated|7 October 2022}}

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

|+ Managerial record by team and tenure

rowspan=2|Team

!rowspan=2|From

!rowspan=2|To

!colspan=5|Record

{{abbr|P|Matches played}}{{abbr|W|Matches won}}{{abbr|D|Matches drawn}}{{abbr|L|Matches lost}}{{abbr|Win %|Win percentage}}
align=left|Javor Ivanjica

|align=left|June 2019

|align=left|Jun 2021

{{WDL|71|19|20|32}}

align=left|Radnik Surdulica

|align=left|June 2021

|align=left|September 2021

{{WDL|8|2|3|3}}

align=left|Javor Ivanjica

|align=left|March 2022

|align=left|October 2022

{{WDL|27|11|5|11}}

colspan=3|Total

{{WDLtot|106|32|28|46}}

Honours

References

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