Mladen Zeljković

Mladen Zeljković (born 18 November 1987) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serbian SuperLiga club Napredak Kruševac.

Mladen Zeljković
Personal information
Full name Mladen Zeljković
Date of birth (1987-11-18) 18 November 1987
Place of birth Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Right-back
Club information
Current team
 Napredak Kruševac
Number TBD
Youth career
0000–2008 Novi Sad 1921
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2010 Novi Sad 1921 29 (1)
2010–2011 Proleter Novi Sad 7 (0)
2011–2012 Palić
2012 Radnik Bijeljina 13 (1)
2013 Borac Banja Luka 14 (1)
2013–2015 Željezničar 49 (0)
2015 Waterloo Region 9 (5)
2016–2017 Radnik Bijeljina 29 (0)
2017–2019 Alashkert 37 (2)
2020 Čelik Zenica 3 (0)
2020– Napredak Kruševac 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 March 2020

Career

Zeljković started playing in 2008 at Novi Sad 1921, after which he played for Proleter Novi Sad and Palić. In 2012, he went across the border to play in the Bosnian Premier League with Radnik Bijeljina.[1] He later had stints with Borac Banja Luka and Željezničar.[2][3]

In 2015, Zeljković went abroad to play in the Canadian Soccer League for Waterloo Region.[4] After a season in Canada, he returned to Radnik in 2016.[5] He won the Bosnian Cup and two Republika Srpska Cups while at the club.

In 2017, he signed with Alashkert of the Armenian Premier League.[6] He featured in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League against Santa Coloma and BATE Borisov.[7][8] In the 2017–18 season, Zeljković helped Alashkert to win the league title.[9] In the 2018–19 season, Zeljković won the Armenian Supercup and the 2018–19 Armenian Cup as well.[10] He left Alashkert in December 2019 after his contract with the club expired.[11]

In January 2020, Zeljković came back to Bosnia and Herzegovina and joined Čelik Zenica.[12] He made his official debut for Čelik in a 2–0 league loss against Zrinjski Mostar on 23 February 2020.[13] On 3 July 2020, Zeljković left Čelik and joined Serbian SuperLiga club Napredak Kruševac.[14]

Honours

Radnik Bijeljina

Alashkert

References
  1. Woile, Dennis Grebasch, Michael. "Radnik Bijeljina 2012-13". en.eufo.de. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  2. "Zeljković: Opreznom igrom do uspijeha". www.srbijasport.net. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  3. "Mladen Zeljković neće konkurisati za ekipu u posljednje dvije utakmice". FK Željezničar (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  4. "SC Waterloo | Canadian Soccer League". canadiansoccerleague.ca. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  5. "Zeljković: Za nas, za klub, za Bijeljinu!". MTELBA. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  6. LiveScore, SofaScore.com. "Mladen Zeljković Alashkert videor, övergångshistoria och statistik - SofaScore.com". www.sofascore.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  7. UEFA.com. "UEFA Champions League - Alashkert-FC Santa Coloma". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  8. UEFA.com. "UEFA Champions League - BATE-Alashkert - Line-ups". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  9. S. Mlaćo (22 May 2018). "Zeljković proslavio titulu prvaka: Pregovori su u toku, zadovoljan sam ovdje" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  10. "Zeljković: Osim je Željin najveći adut" (in Bosnian). Sport1.ba. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  11. S. Mlaćo (29 December 2019). "Zeljkoviću istekao ugovor u Armeniji" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  12. D. Kurbegović (26 January 2020). "Mladen Zeljković umjesto u Radniku karijeru nastavlja u Čeliku" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  13. "NK ČELIK - HŠK ZRINJSKI (0 : 1) 0 : 2". nfsbih.ba (in Bosnian). 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  14. A. Pašić (3 July 2020). "Mladen Zeljković se vratio u Srbiju". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 3 July 2020.
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