Enes Novinić

Enes Novinić (born 18 July 1985, in Čakovec) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a forward.

Club career A product of Prva HNL side Varteks' youth academy, Novinić was promoted to their first team squad in July 2003. He soon established himself as a regular member of the club's starting lineup and appeared in a total of 104 league matches. He scored 25 goals for Varteks before leaving the club in the 2009 summer transfer window and joining the newly promoted Karlovac on a free transfer.

During his time at Varteks, Novinić helped the club reach the Croatian Cup Finals twice, in the 2003–04 and 2005–06 seasons, and was the club's top league scorer in the 2006–07 season.

In 2017, Novinić returned for his third stint in NK Karlovac. In 2020, having experienced a blood vessel rupture in his brain, Novinić put his football career on pause. He would return, fully recovered, in early 2022 to play half a season at Duga Resa 1929, followed by a season at county-level Vatrogasac Gornje Mekušje before retiring.

International career Novinić was also capped for Croatia at youth levels, scoring a total of 7 goals in 14 international matches between 2003 and 2004.