Ivan Nikčević

Attacking Midfielder (L) - OFK Vršac
9 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Ivan Nikčević

14 Edition

The OFK Vršac Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

James Dadge due for a OFK Vršac medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Marko Stanojević falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Ersi Bode in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OFK Vršac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ivan Nikčević

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

Aleksandar Stanković gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

125% of the income goes out in wages at OFK Vršac

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

No time for Jedinstvo Ub to settle

The goal that put Jedinstvo Ub ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when OFK Vršac equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

Ivan Nikčević takes the honours

Marked 7.92 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, OFK Vršac had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Honours even between OFK Vršac and Jedinstvo Ub

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The OFK Vršac Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for OFK Vršac

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Jovan Arsenijević, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Andrej Popov asks to leave OFK Vršac

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Dimitrije Petronijević runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at OFK Vršac

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marko Stanojević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

OFK Vršac supporters have found a favourite in Jovan Arsenijević

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jovan Arsenijević has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bojan Brać

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bojan Brać, and the manager let it.

Match

OFK Vršac and Mačva Šabac take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Ivan Nikčević is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

3 Edition

The OFK Vršac Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at OFK Vršac

Bojan Brać was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Ersi Bode stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ersi Bode and OFK Vršac agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Zalgiris tell OFK Vršac: Nikola Petković is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Ersi Bode falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Ivan Nikčević already looking beyond OFK Vršac

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Squad

Bojan Brać needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and OFK Vršac know which stage they are at.

Market

Still no ink between OFK Vršac and Bojan Brać

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at OFK Vršac, another week without a signature from Bojan Brać.

Transfer targets

OFK Vršac ask about Mateo Maravić

A loan enquiry to Cukaricki: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

OFK Vršac buy the years ahead of Ersi Bode

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief