Zvonko Varga

Zvonko Varga

Personal information
Full name	Zvonko Varga
Date of birth	(1959-11-27) 27 November 1959
Place of birth	Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Crvenka
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977	Crvenka	1	(0)
1978–1986	Partizan	199	(58)
1986–1997	RFC Liège	277	(102)
Total		477	(160)
International career
1979	Yugoslavia U20	3	(0)
Managerial career
2000–2001	OFK Beograd
2002	Rad
2002–2003	Partizan (assistant)
2004	Sartid Smederevo
2004–2005	Partizan (assistant)
2005–2006	Teleoptik
2006–2007	Partizan (assistant)
2007	Qatar SC (assistant)
2008–2011	Teleoptik
2011	Ittihad (assistant)
2012–2015	Partizan (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zvonko Varga (Serbian Cyrillic: Звонко Варга; born 27 November 1959) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Club career

Varga made his senior team debut with Crvenka in the Yugoslav Second League, before moving to Partizan without his club's permission. He then spent one year with lower league club Rad, before being able to debut for Partizan. Varga played eight seasons (1978–1986) with the Black-Whites, making 199 appearances and scoring 58 goals in the Yugoslav First League. He also won two national championship titles (1983 and 1986).

In 1986, Varga moved abroad to Belgium, spending the rest of his playing career at RFC Liège. He was the Belgian league's second highest scorer in the 1988–89 season with 22 goals, one less than Eddie Krncevic. Varga scored all six goals in his team's 6–1 home league win over Beerschot on 13 May 1989. He won the Belgian Cup in the following 1989–90 season.

International career

Varga represented Yugoslavia at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. He played all three games, as the team exited the competition after group stage.

Managerial career

Varga started his managerial career at OFK Beograd in 2000. He was also manager of Rad for several months, before being named assistant manager to Lothar Matthäus at Partizan. After Matthäus left the club, Varga left his position and became manager of Sartid Smederevo in January 2004. He resigned from the club after only four games. In June 2004, Varga returned to Partizan to be assistant manager to Vladimir Vermezović. He was co-manager of Teleoptik alongside Blagoje Paunović between 2005 and 2006, before returning to Partizan as an assistant.

In the second part of 2007, Varga was assistant manager to Dimitri Davidovic at Qatar SC. He then returned to Serbia, taking charge of Teleoptik in early 2008. Varga led them to promotion to the Serbian First League in 2009. He was released in January 2011. Varga again moved to the Middle East and joined Davidovic at Saudi Arabian outfit Ittihad in the second part of 2011. He returned to Partizan in 2012, being an assistant in the following three years.

Statistics

Club	Season	League		Continental		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Crvenka	1976–77	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Total	1	0	0	0	1	0
Partizan	1978–79	20	0	2	0	22	0
	1979–80	30	9	0	0	30	9
	1980–81	29	9	0	0	29	9
	1981–82	34	8	0	0	34	8
	1982–83	20	3	0	0	20	3
	1983–84	4	1	1	0	5	1
	1984–85	30	11	3	1	33	12
	1985–86	32	17	4	0	36	17
	Total	199	58	10	1	209	59
Career total		200	58	10	1	210	59

Honours

Partizan

• Yugoslav First League: 1982–83, 1985–86

RFC Liège

• Belgian Cup: 1989–90

External links

• Zvonko Varga – FIFA competition record
• Zvonko Varga profile at worldfootball.net