Mario Carević

Mario Carević (born 29 March 1982) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Since October 2024, he is the manager of Gorica.

Carević made his debut for the Croatia national team in a friendly match against Macedonia in 2003. While he was a regular for the Croatian youth selections from under-15 to under-21, he was capped only once for the senior national team.

Club career Carević started his professional career at Hajduk Split, playing five seasons before moving to Saudi Arabia to play for Al-Ittihad (Jeddah). He then spent a season in Germany playing for Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart, before returning to Split in 2006 on a one-year loan. In the season 2007–08 he played for SC Lokeren, a club from Belgian first division. In 2010, he joined Kortrijk, who loaned him out to Maccabi Petah Tikva of the Israeli Premier League during the 2011–12 season.

Managerial career In September 2018, Carević joined his former club Hajduk Split, this time as an assistant manager, as part of newly-appointed coaching staff under manager Zoran Vulić. In a previous coaching stint at the club, Carević was a player under Vulić. He left the club in the following month after four games in charge with a record of one victory, one draw and two defeats.

A month after his departure from Hrvatski Dragovoljac, he became an assistant manager under manager Ognjen Vukojević, in the Croatia U20's coaching staff.

In September 2020, he was named the manager of Rudeš playing in the Druga HNL. He was sacked on 22 March 2021. The club explained the move by stating that Carević's job was to stabilize the club in the league, which he managed to do as they were fifth at that moment. He was dismissed as manager of Varaždin after only six games in charge in September 2021, only to return to Slovenia the same month to manage Krka.

Managerial statistics

+ Managerial record by team and tenure Team From To RecordGWDLWin % Hrvatski Dragovoljac 1 May 2019 9 June 2019 Rudeš 21 September 2020 22 March 2021 Varaždin 17 June 2021 20 September 2021 Total