NK Maribor

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NK Maribor
Logo of the NK Maribor
Basic data
Surname Nogometni Club Maribor
Seat Maribor , Slovenia
founding December 12, 1960
Colours Yellow, purple
president Drago Cotar
Website nkmaribor.com
First soccer team
Head coach Darko Milanič
Venue Stadium Ljudski vrt
Places 12,702
league Slovenska Nogometna Liga
2019/20 2nd place
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NK Maribor is a Slovenian football club from Maribor . With 15 championships and nine cup victories, the club is the most successful club in the country.

history

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The NK ( nogometni klub = football club) Maribor was founded in 1960 and is the most successful football club in Slovenia since independence. The record champions of the highest Slovenian league ( Prva Liga ) are also record cup winners with eight wins and record Super Cup winners with four wins.

In the 1999/2000 season, the club qualified under coach Bojan Prašnikar for the Champions League .

In the 2011/12 season they moved back into the group stage of a European competition for the first time since 1999, when they qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League . In the play-off round, NK Maribor prevailed against the Glasgow Rangers .

In the 2013/14 season, NK Maribor was the first Slovenian club to qualify for the knockout phase of an international competition. In the 2014/15 season they played again in the Champions League. After they had prevailed against Maccabi Tel Aviv and Celtic Glasgow in qualifying , the team finished last in a group with Sporting Lisbon , FC Schalke 04 and FC Chelsea and was eliminated.

successes

Slovenian champions (15 - record):

Slovenian Cup Winner (9 - record):

Slovenian Super Cup winner (4 - record):

  • 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014

Champions League participation (3):

UEFA Intertoto Cup winners:

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Ljudski vrt stadium . The stadium was built almost from scratch between 2006 and 2008 - only the main stand, built in 1964, remained. After the completion of the renovation work, the stadium had a capacity of 12,435 covered seats, which was increased again in 2010 (to 12,881 seats). In the course of the stadium renovation, a shopping center was also integrated into the new stands. The reopening was celebrated on May 10, 2008 at the championship game between NK Maribor and NK Nafta Lendava .

Trainer

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Web links

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