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He has also enjoyed a high level of top club action, having spent most of his club career in the German Bundesliga, including spells with Hertha BSC, Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburger SV and Bayern Munich.<BR><BR>He ended his playing career with Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg, where he then took the non-playing role of the reserve team coach and eventually became assistant manager under team manager Ricardo Moniz. In January 2013, Kova\u010d took over the Croatia national under-21 team and in October 2013 he took over the Croatia senior team following the dismissal of Igor &#352;timac. Kovac managed Croatia at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, then became head coach of Eintracht Frankfurt in 2016, winning the 2018 DFB-Pokal Final with the club. At Bayern, Kova\u010d won the domestic double in 2019 after a strong ending to the season, but lost his job later in that same autumn before Bayern won the continental treble in his absence. In the summer of 2020, Kova\u010d took charge of Monaco for his first club manager job outside of Germany.<\/P>","B3A1095C9EE738B3CCDF37762874FE45":"Croatia","51AE3EEB542020D34C08128CD3C01E6B88EB69E1589159EB":"1909-12-19","F606F62A92BA396C":"25.21","06E668E1105E4EF9":"info@bvb.de","DC9241C78561BCD0":"Borussia Dortmund","1BB493FD74CF319A87F0858D78A18D01":"1971-10-15","031D6804B38B16BF":"415","7B89756F852CAAC9B0BFFB251E59B5BA":"","897935219FCA7602F9B43DB32E1C5172":"33","7EF75D1E4642E3E6135A1C322CA1E1B9":"VfL Wolfsburg","339EB2C6C5868AED":"3115","9754084DD0876A005F0B42622346E4ED":"81,365","A09213A762233EEF":"Dortmund","938F319A1A9FBD67080C39FAAF431E58":"2025-1-30","225C92AE74DAA9E1":"<STRONG>The first German Bundesliga:<\/STRONG>&nbsp; Aug 24th, 1963<BR><BR><STRONG>The largest home win in history: <\/STRONG>11:1 (defeated Beaconsfield SYCOB on Nov 6th, 1982)<BR><BR><STRONG>The largest away win in history:<\/STRONG> 6:1&nbsp;(vs Koln in 1994-1995)<BR><BR><STRONG>The largest home loss in history: <\/STRONG>1:5 (vs Werder Bremen in 1971-1972)<BR><BR><STRONG>The largest away loss in history:&nbsp;<\/STRONG>0:12 (lost to Monchengladbach on Apr 29th, 1978)<BR><BR><STRONG>The player with most appearances: <\/STRONG>Michael Zorc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 463 games<BR><BR><STRONG>The player with most penalty goals:<\/STRONG> Michael Zorc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 57 goals<BR><BR><STRONG>The top goalscorer: <\/STRONG>M.Burgsmueller&nbsp;&nbsp; 135 goals","F7CA086F6FC0A17A":"1","E17A5F6F92350E090E8BE67DDCE16BA0":"<P>Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund, BVB, or simply Dortmund, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men&#39;s professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. The club have won eight league championships, four DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners&#39; Cup.<\/P><P>Founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members, making Borussia Dortmund the second largest sports club by membership in Germany. Since 1974, Dortmund have played their home games at Westfalenstadion; the stadium is the largest in Germany, and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football club in the world.<BR><BR>Borussia Dortmund&#39;s colours are black and yellow, giving the club its nickname die Schwarzgelben. The club has active departments in other sports, namely in women&#39;s handball, and hold a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, known as the Revierderby. They also compete in Der Klassiker with fellow German club, Bayern Munich.<BR><BR>In terms of Deloitte&#39;s annual Football Money League, Dortmund was ranked as the second richest sports club in Germany, and the 12th richest football team in the world. Moreover, under the directorship of Michael Zorc in the 2010s, Dortmund have cultivated a reputation for spotting and developing young talent, and have remained focused on developing a youth system. They have also received plaudits for generally adhering to an attacking footballing philosophy.<\/P>","76A6191E4A1B10776555B78F436CE4D1":"<P><STRONG><U>PLAYER<\/U><\/STRONG><BR><BR><STRONG>Bayern Munich<\/STRONG><BR>Bundesliga: 2002&#8211;03<BR>DFB-Pokal: 2002&#8211;03<BR>Intercontinental Cup: 2001<BR><BR><STRONG>Red Bull Salzburg<BR><\/STRONG>Austrian Bundesliga: 2006&#8211;07<BR><BR><STRONG><U>MANAGER<\/U><\/STRONG><BR><BR><STRONG>Eintracht Frankfurt<BR><\/STRONG>DFB-Pokal: 2017&#8211;18<BR><BR><STRONG>Bayern Munich<\/STRONG><BR>Bundesliga: 2018&#8211;19<BR>DFB-Pokal: 2018&#8211;19<BR>DFL-Supercup: 2019<\/P>","986B9FBD3D7404D8":"Niko Kovac","6CBD8279C339CCCFFA070A7B102F2A71":"461600000.00","4DCB67625701BF17":"http:\/\/www.bvb.de","5F0187DA2A4C44A3E04ED039BC0E27BC":"Germany","8C128606F1271EBD3FC32654DF08FF79":"Rheinlanddamm 207-209, 44137 Dortmund","7B2FB0A19094014E3FAA823110629AB9":"Niko Kovac","114ACB0A71E2DA7D":"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Signal+Iduna+Park+germany&sll=52.51468,13.239834&sspn=0.003669,0.01133&ie=UTF8&ll=51.492453,7.452464&spn=0.003754,0.01133&t=h&z=17","4D3C7A28520A4F75446344604C77A51F":"<P><STRONG><U>DOMESTIC<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>German Championship\/Bundesliga<\/STRONG><BR>Winners: 1956, 1957, 1963, 1994&#8211;95, 1995&#8211;96, 2001&#8211;02, 2010&#8211;11, 2011&#8211;12<BR>Runners-up: 1949, 1961, 1965&#8211;66, 1991&#8211;92, 2012&#8211;13, 2013&#8211;14, 2015&#8211;16, 2018&#8211;19<\/P><P><STRONG>2. Bundesliga North<\/STRONG><BR>Runners-up: 1975&#8211;76<\/P><P><STRONG>DFB-Pokal<\/STRONG><BR>Winners: 1964&#8211;65, 1988&#8211;89, 2011&#8211;12, 2016&#8211;17<BR>Runners-up: 1962&#8211;63, 2007&#8211;08, 2013&#8211;14, 2014&#8211;15, 2015&#8211;16<\/P><P><STRONG>DFB\/DFL-Supercup<BR><\/STRONG>Winners: 1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014, 2019<BR>Runners-up: 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017<\/P><P><STRONG>DFB-Ligapokal<\/STRONG><BR>Runners-up: 2003<\/P><P><STRONG><U>EUROPEAN<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>UEFA Champions League<BR><\/STRONG>Winners: 1996&#8211;97<BR>Runners-up: 2012&#8211;13<\/P><P><STRONG>UEFA Cup Winners&#39; Cup<BR><\/STRONG>Winners:&nbsp; 1965&#8211;66<\/P><P><STRONG>UEFA Cup<\/STRONG><BR>Runners-up: 1992&#8211;93, 2001&#8211;02<\/P><P><STRONG>UEFA Super Cup<BR><\/STRONG>Runners-up: 1997<\/P><P><STRONG><U>INTERNATIONAL<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>Intercontinental Cup<BR><\/STRONG>Winners: 1997<\/P>","2B1A74B80063A830":"1","90024ADA60E09BCFED2A04F0D0E07833":"","F4AE865DDB6B58D9":"Borussia Dortmund","e_index":6};