Noa Skoko

Club career Skoko joined the North Geelong Warriors and broke into their first team, playing in NPL 2 at the age of 16, prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic which cancelled the league season. He subsequently scored his first senior goal on June 4, 2022, against Northcote City FC. before joining the Hajduk Split academy in Croatia that summer. He was a member of the Hajduk Split team that reached the final of the 2022–23 UEFA Youth League, beating a high calibre of youth team clubs, such as Manchester City and AC Milan, as well as Borussia Dortmund, against whom Skoko scored in a penalty shoot-out that went to 9–8 in his club's favour. On 11 October 2023, Skoko was named by English newspaper The Guardian as one of the best players born in 2006 worldwide.

Skoko made his senior club debut for Hajduk Split on 27 April 2024 in a game against Rudeš.

International career Skoko is a Croatia youth international, for whom he played his first tournament at the 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

He featured for the Croatia national under-19 team against England on 7 September 2024.

Style of play He is described as a box-to-box midfielder, similar in profile to his father, Josip Skoko. He was educated in Australia at St. Joseph's College, Geelong.