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

Zvonko Varga

Personal information
Full name	Zvonko Varga
Date of birth	(1959-11-27) 27 November 1959 (age 62)
Place of birth	Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Crvenka
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1976–1977	Crvenka	1	(0)
1978–1986	Partizan	199	(58)
1986–1993	Club Liégeois	169	(65)
1993–1994	Seraing	24	(2)
1994–1995	Club Liégeois	28	(13)
1995–1997	Tilleur-Liégeois
Total		421	(138)
National team
1979	Yugoslavia U20	3	(0)
Teams managed
1997	Tilleur-Liégeois
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

Club career

Varga made his senior debut at Crvenka in the Yugoslav Second League, before moving to Yugoslav First League side Partizan without his club's permission.[1] He would occasionally train with Second League club Rad, before being cleared to play for Partizan. From then on, Varga spent eight seasons with the Crno-beli (1978–1986), making 199 appearances and scoring 58 goals in the top flight of Yugoslav football. He also won two national championship titles (1983 and 1986).

In 1986, Varga moved abroad to Belgium and played for Club Liégeois over the next seven seasons. He was the Belgian league's second-highest scorer in the 1988–89 season with 22 goals, one less than Eddie Krncevic. On 13 May 1989, Varga scored all six goals in his team's 6–1 home league win over Beerschot. He would win the Belgian Cup in the following 1989–90 campaign. In the summer of 1993, Varga switched to Seraing, but returned to Club Liégeois a year later.

International career

At international level, Varga represented Yugoslavia at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. He appeared in all three games, as the team exited the tournament at the group stage.[2]

Managerial career

After starting his managerial career with Tilleur-Liégeois, Varga went back to his homeland and took over the helm of OFK Beograd in 2000.[3] He was also manager of Rad for several months,[4] before being named assistant manager to Lothar Matthäus at Partizan.[5] Following the departure of Matthäus, Varga left his position and became manager of Sartid Smederevo in January 2004.[6] He resigned from the club after only four games.[7] In June 2004, Varga returned to Partizan to be assistant manager to Vladimir Vermezović.[8] He then served as co-manager of Teleoptik, alongside Blagoje Paunović, between 2005 and 2006,[9] before returning to Partizan as an assistant.

In the second part of 2007, Varga was assistant manager to Dimitri Davidovic at Qatar SC.[10] He then returned to Serbia, taking charge of Teleoptik in early 2008. Varga led them to promotion to the Serbian First League in 2009.[11] He was released in January 2011.[12] Varga again moved to the Middle East and joined Davidovic at Saudi Arabian outfit Ittihad in the second part of 2011.[13] He returned to Partizan in 2012, being an assistant in the following three years.

Personal life

Varga is the father of fellow footballer Saša Varga.[14]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Crvenka	1976–77	Yugoslav Second League	1	0	—		1	0
Partizan	1978–79	Yugoslav First League	20	0	2	0	22	0
	1979–80	Yugoslav First League	30	9	—		30	9
	1980–81	Yugoslav First League	29	9	—		29	9
	1981–82	Yugoslav First League	34	8	—		34	8
	1982–83	Yugoslav First League	20	3	—		20	3
	1983–84	Yugoslav First League	4	1	1	0	5	1
	1984–85	Yugoslav First League	30	11	3	1	33	12
	1985–86	Yugoslav First League	32	17	4	0	36	17
	Total		199	58	10	1	209	59
Club Liégeois	1986–87	Belgian First Division	31	10	—		31	10
	1987–88	Belgian First Division	31	11	—		31	11
	1988–89	Belgian First Division	31	22	5	3	36	25
	1989–90	Belgian First Division	28	8	6	1	34	9
	1990–91	Belgian First Division	7	3	1	0	8	3
	1991–92	Belgian First Division	28	10	—		28	10
	1992–93	Belgian First Division	13	1	—		13	1
	Total		169	65	12	4	181	69
Seraing	1993–94	Belgian First Division	24	2	—		24	2
Club Liégeois	1994–95	Belgian First Division	28	13	—		28	13
Tilleur-Liégeois	1995–96	Belgian Third Division			—
	1996–97	Belgian Second Division			—
	Total				—
Career total			421	138	22	5	443	143

Honours

Partizan

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

Club Liégeois

• Belgian Cup: 1989–90

References

External links

• Zvonko Varga at WorldFootball.net
• Zvonko Varga at FootballDatabase.eu
• Zvonko Varga – FIFA competition record (archived)

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