Ivica Iliev

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Ivica Iliev
Iliev with Wisła Kraków in 2011
Personal information
Full name Ivica Iliev
Date of birth (1979-10-27) 27 October 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker / Winger
Youth career
Rad
1996–1997 Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2004 Partizan 150 (41)
2004–2007
Messina
 58 (1)
2006 →
Genoa
(loan)		 17 (3)
2007–2008 PAOK 17 (1)
2008–2009 Energie Cottbus 27 (3)
2009–2010 Maccabi Tel Aviv 17 (3)
2010–2011 Partizan 27 (13)
2011–2013 Wisła Kraków 48 (4)
Total 361 (69)
International career
1996
FR Yugoslavia U16[a]
 3 (0)
1997
FR Yugoslavia U18[a]
 4 (2)
1998–2001
FR Yugoslavia U21[a]
 6 (1)
2003 Serbia and Montenegro 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ivica Iliev (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивица Илиев, pronounced [ǐvitsa ilǐev]; born 27 October 1979) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

After starting out as a youngster at

Lazio in the return leg of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round.[1] He later started playing more regularly, scoring eight league goals in the 1999–2000 season. After the departure of Mateja Kežman that summer, Iliev formed a strike partnership with Andrija Delibašić.[2] They became a formidable duo in the following period, as the team won back-to-back championships in 2002 and 2003. In the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, Iliev scored the only goal in a 1–0 return leg win against Newcastle United at St James' Park, resulting in a 1–1 draw on aggregate.[3]
Eventually, Partizan won the match 4–3 on penalties and reached the competition's group stage for the first time in the club's history.

In July 2004, Iliev went abroad and joined Italian side

Genoa, helping them earn promotion to Serie B via the playoffs. He subsequently returned to Messina, but failed to help the team avoid relegation from Serie A in the 2006–07 campaign
, finishing bottom of the table.

After three years in Italy, Iliev moved to Greece and signed with

2007–08 season, as the club failed to secure a spot in UEFA competitions. In August 2008, Iliev joined German side Energie Cottbus.[5] He managed to score three Bundesliga goals from 27 games in the 2008–09 season. They were eventually relegated from the top flight after losing in the playoffs. In August 2009, Iliev signed with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv on a one-year deal. He quickly became an important part of the team, but suffered an injury in January 2010, causing him to miss the remainder of the 2009–10 season
.

On 21 July 2010, Iliev returned to his parent club Partizan on a one-year deal.[6] He scored one goal in the Champions League preliminary phase,[7] helping the side reach the group stage after seven years. With 13 goals, Iliev was the league's joint top scorer, being named in the competition's Team of the Season, while also collecting the double.

In June 2011, Iliev moved to Poland and signed a two-year contract with Wisła Kraków.[8] He made a career-high 45 appearances and scored three goals across all competitions during his debut season. In the following 2012–13 campaign, Iliev netted four goals in 24 games, before being released by the Polish side.

International career

Iliev earned two caps for Serbia and Montenegro, making his international debut as a substitute for Goran Trobok in a 0–1 friendly loss at Germany on 30 April 2003. He scored a goal in his second appearance, a 3–4 friendly loss against Poland on 16 November 2003.

Post-playing career

On 27 October 2015, on his 36th birthday, Iliev was appointed as

Leonardo, Seydouba Soumah and Fousseni Diabaté. Iliev "resigned" from the position in March 2019[10] but he never ended up leaving the position[11] and remained the sporting director until 27 July 2022 when he finally resigned.[12]

Career statistics

Club

Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Partizan 1997–98 4 0 0 0 — 0 0 — 4 0
1998–99 15 4 5 1 — 2 1 — 22 6
1999–2000 29 8 2 0 — 6 0 — 37 8
2000–01 33 10 5 6 — 4 0 — 42 16
2001–02 22 3 2 2 — 3 1 — 27 6
2002–03 27 13 2 0 — 8 2 — 37 15
2003–04 20 3 1 0 — 10 1 — 31 4
Total 150 41 17 9 — 33 5 — 200 55
Messina
 2004–05 29 1 4 0 — — — 33 1
2005–06 8 0 0 0 — — — 8 0
Genoa
(loan) 		2005–06 17 3 0 0 — — 4 1 21 4
Messina
 2006–07 21 0 5 1 — — — 26 1
Total 58 1 9 1 — — — 67 2
PAOK
2007–08
 17 1 1 0 — — — 18 1
Energie Cottbus 2008–09 27 3 2 0 — — 1 0 30 3
Maccabi Tel Aviv 2009–10 17 3 0 0 3 2 — — 20 5
Partizan 2010–11 27 13 4 1 — 8 1 — 39 15
Wisła Kraków 2011–12 28 1 5 1 — 12 1 — 45 3
2012–13 20 3 4 1 — — — 24 4
Total 48 4 9 2 — 12 1 — 69 7
Career total 361 69 42 13 3 2 53 7 5 1 464 92

International

National team Year Apps Goals
Serbia and Montenegro 2003 2 1
Total 2 1

Honours

Club

Partizan

Individual

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Only official UEFA matches included

References

  1. ^ "Lazio nei quarti" (in Italian). raisport.rai.it. 6 November 1998. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Iliev i Delibašić u glavnim ulogama" (in Serbian). glas-javnosti.rs. 13 July 2000. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Newcastle pay Partizan penalty". uefa.com. 28 August 2003. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Iliev makes Messina move". uefa.com. 12 July 2004. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Serbe Iliev wechselt ablösefrei nach Cottbus" (in German). tagesspiegel.de. 6 August 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Iliev se vratio u Partizan" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Partizan leave HJK on the brink". uefa.com. 28 July 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  8. ^ "Ivica Iliev joins Wisła Kraków". wisla.krakow.pl. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Ivica Iliev sportski direktor Partizana" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Ivica Iliev podneo ostavku!" (in Serbian). b92.net. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Iliev još uvek radi u Partizanu!" (in Serbian). espreso.co.rs. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  12. ^ "Ostavka Ivice Ilieva" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

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