NK Široki Brijeg

Široki Brijeg

Full name	Nogometni klub Široki Brijeg
Nickname(s)	Plavi (The Blues)
Founded	1948; 77 years ago (1948)
Ground	Pecara Stadium, Široki Brijeg
Capacity	7,000
Chairman	Miro Kraljević
Manager	Dean Klafurić
League	Premier League BH
2023–24	Premier League BH, 8th of 12
Website	www.nk-sirokibrijeg.com
Home colours Away colours

Nogometni klub Široki Brijeg (English: Široki Brijeg Football Club) is a professional association football club from the city of Široki Brijeg, that is situated in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Currently, Široki Brijeg plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina and plays its home matches on Pecara Stadium which a capacity of 7,000 seats. The club also has a fully equipped sports and recreational center outside the town which is used as a training ground for the team.

The club was founded in 1948 as Nogometni klub Borak and competed in local leagues. Until 1991, it competed in the Yugoslav league system under the name of NK Mladost Lištica.^[1]

The club was renamed several times until 1995 when it got its present-day name. Široki Brijeg experienced its greatest successes in the 1990s and onwards. The club has won the, now defunct, First League of Herzeg-Bosnia five times and is the most successful club of the competition. Since 2000, Široki Brijeg plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country's top division, which they won two times, as well as three Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cups.^[2]

Since 2002, the club has also, almost non stop been present in many UEFA competitions, most notably the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. However, Široki Brijeg still hasn't competed in the group stages of both mentioned competitions.^[3]

The club wears blue and white striped jerseys at home while away the team has a white kit. The club's crest features a football bordered by the club's name and topped with the Croatian chequy.^[4]

Škripari is the organisation of football supporters of the Croat-backed club NK Široki Brijeg. They also support Široki Brijeg's other sport clubs, primarily HKK Široki in basketball.

Some ultras espouse nationalist and right-wing sentiments.^[5][6]

As of 6 September 2024^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  CRO Ivan Pranjić 4 MF  BIH Božo Prusina 5 DF  CRO Matej Senić 6 DF  AUT Stipe Vučur 7 DF  BIH Dino Ćorić 8 MF  BIH Damir Zlomislić 9 FW  NGA Stephen Chinedu 10 MF  BIH Zvonimir Kožulj 11 FW  BIH Ilija Bagarić 12 GK  CRO Tomislav Tomić 15 MF  BFA Cyrille Kpan 18 MF  BIH Marko Matić

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  BIH Filip Matić 20 DF  CRO Matija Kolarić 21 FW  BIH Daniel Lukić 23 FW  CRO Miroslav Iličić 24 MF  BIH Filip Taraba 26 DF  BIH Božo Musa (Captain) 27 FW  CRO Domagoj Jelavić 37 MF  BIH Matej Gašpar 51 GK  BIH Ivan Puljić 90 MF  BIH Tomislav Tomić 95 DF  CRO Patrick Stanić

Staff	Job title
Dean Klafurić	Manager
Boris Pandža	Assistant coach
Wagner	Assistant coach
Vlado Hrkać	Assistant coach
Nenad Džidić	Goalkeeping coach
Mario Jurković	Fitness coach
Dragan Mijatović	Physiotherapist
Grgo Sesar	Physiotherapist
Alen Brekalo	Doctor
Zoran Bilać	Gunsmith
Igor Lončar	Gunsmith

Široki Brijeg has so far won two Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina titles as well as five First League of Herzeg-Bosnia championships that served as the top football league for Croat clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the merger into the Premier League in 2000. The club has also won three Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup titles, the most recent one being in the 2016–17 season.

• Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
  • Winners (2): 2003–04, 2005–06
  • Runners-up (5): 2001–02, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14
• First League of Herzeg-Bosnia:
  • Winners (5): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98
  • Runners-up (1): 1998–99

• Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup:
  • Winners (3): 2006–07, 2012–13, 2016–17
  • Runners-up (5): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19
• Herzeg-Bosnia Cup:
  • Runners-up (3): 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99

Source: ^[8][9]

Source:,^[10] Last updated on 15 July 2021.
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against

Last updated: 15 July 2021.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR	Senec	3–0	2–1	5–1
		R1	Sparta Prague	0–1	0–3	0–4
2004–05	Champions League	QR1	Neftçi	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2005–06	UEFA Cup	QR1	Teuta	3–0	1–3	4–3
		QR2	Zeta	4–2	1–0	5–2
		R1	Basel	0–1	0–5	0–6
2006–07	Champions League	QR1	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1–0	1–0	2–0
		QR2	Heart of Midlothian	0–0	0–3	0–3
2007–08	UEFA Cup	QR1	Koper	3–1	3–2	6–3
		QR2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–3	0–3	0–6
2008–09	UEFA Cup	QR1	Partizani	0–0	3–1	3–1
		QR2	Beşiktaş	1–2	0–4	1–6
2009–10	Europa League	QR1	Urartu	0–1	2–0	2–1
		QR2	Sturm Graz	1–1	1–2	2–3
2010–11	Europa League	QR1	Olimpija Ljubljana	3–0	2–0	5–0
		QR2	Austria Wien	0–1	2–2	2–3
2011–12	Europa League	QR1	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–0	0–3	0–3
2012–13	Europa League	QR2	St Patrick's Athletic	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)	2–3
2013–14	Europa League	QR2	Irtysh Pavlodar	2–0	2–3	4–3
		QR3	Udinese	1–3	0–4	1–7
2014–15	Europa League	QR1	Gabala	3–0	2–0	5–0
		QR2	Mladá Boleslav	0–4	1–2	1–6
2016–17	Europa League	QR1	Birkirkara	1–1	0–2	1–3
2017–18	Europa League	QR1	Ordabasy	2–0	0–0	2–0
		QR2	Aberdeen	0–2	1–1	1–3
2018–19	Europa League	QR1	Domžale	2−2	1–1	3–3 (a)
2019–20	Europa League	QR1	Kairat	1–2	1–2	2–4
2021–22	Europa Conference League	QR1	Vllaznia	3–1	0–3	3–4

Rank	Team	Points
340	Coleraine	2.750
341	Tre Penne	2.750
342	Levadia Tallinn	2.750
343	Široki Brijeg	2.750
344	Víkingur Gøta	2.750
345	Žilina	2.725
346	Spartak Myjava	2.725

As of 17 December 2020. Source

Dates	Name	Honours
2002–2004	Ivo Ištuk	2003–04 Bosnian Championship
2004–2006	Ivica Barbarić	2005–06 Bosnian Championship
2006–2007	Ivica Kalinić	2006−07 Bosnian Cup
2012–2015	Slaven Musa	2012–13 Bosnian Cup
2017–2018	Goran Sablić	2016–17 Bosnian Cup

• Official website (in Croatian)