Ante Čačić

Ante Čačić

Personal information
Date of birth	(1953-09-29) 29 September 1953
Place of birth	Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia
Team information
Current team	Croatia (manager)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1986–1987	Prigorje Markuševec
1988–1989	TPK
1989–1992	Zadar
1992–1993	Dubrava
1993–1995	Inter Zaprešić
1994–1998	Croatia U21 (assistant)
1995–1996	Osijek
1996–1997	Zadar
1998	Slaven Belupo
1998–2000	Croatia Sesvete
2002–2003	Inter Zaprešić
2005–2006	Libya (assistant)
2005–2006	Libya U-21
2006-2007	Kamen Ingrad
2007	Inter Zaprešić
2011	Lokomotiva
2011–2012	Dinamo Zagreb
2013	Radnik Sesvete
2013	Maribor
2014–2015	Slaven Belupo
2015	Lokomotiva
2015–	Croatia

Ante Čačić (born 29 September 1953) is a Croatian football manager currently in charge of Croatia. Čačić graduated on the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Zagreb. He was one of the first ten football coaches in Croatia to get the UEFA Pro Licence.

Coaching career

During his career, he successfully achieved promotion to the top division with Inter Zaprešić and Dubrava. He also coached Zadar, Osijek, Slaven Belupo, Kamen Ingrad, Croatia Sesvete and Lokomotiva.

In the 2002–03 season, Čačić was at the helm of Inter Zaprešić in the South Division in the Druga HNL. In March 2003, he resigned after losing to the first-placed team Uljanik, leaving Inter at the second place in the table and five points behind the leaders. He was replaced with Ilija Lončarević, who achieved promotion to Prva HNL. When Lončarević was appointed as the manager of Libya national football team, he named Čačić as his assistant. During his time at Libya, he was chosen to lead their under-20 squad at the 2005 Mediterranean Games held in Spain. After losing to the hosts in the semi-finals, they won the bronze medal after defeating Morocco in the penalty shootout.

In June 2006, Čačić returned to Croatia and was appointed as manager of Kamen Ingrad, but after only three months he terminated his contract. In October 2006, he again took over the helm of Inter Zaprešić after they sacked Srećko Bogdan. Čačić led Inter to the first place in the 2006–07 Druga HNL and the team was promoted to Prva HNL. After a disappointing start in the following season, he was sacked in August 2007. In October 2011, Čačić was appointed as manager of Lokomotiva. They finished in the sixth place at the winter break, undefeated in four games led by Čačić.

On 23 December 2011, it was announced that Čačić had signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Dinamo Zagreb. After being sacked from Dinamo in November 2012, Čačić was without assignment until April 2013 when he took over as a manager of Radnik Sesvete. He has left Radnik Sesvete only couple of months later, when in early June 2013 he had accepted an offer from Slovenian champions Maribor. After the sacking of Niko Kovac due to unsuccessful European qualifying results, Cacic was hired as the manager of the Croatian national team. His appointment was extremely controversial, but resulted in Croatia finishing second to Italy, therefore qualifying for Euro 2016.

Managerial statistics

As of 27 May 2016.

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Maribor	5 June 2013	29 September 2013	18	8	5	5	30	18	+12	44.44
Slaven Belupo	4 November 2014	30 May 2015	22	9	5	8	30	25	+5	40.91
Lokomotiva	3 June 2015	21 September 2015	14	6	2	6	23	27	−4	42.86
Croatia	22 September 2015	Present	6	5	1	0	11	2	+9	83.33
Total			60	28	13	19	94	72	+22	46.67