Martin Plavec Marković

Left Midfielder - Rudar Velenje
20 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Martin Plavec Marković

7 Edition

The Rudar Velenje Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

8 matches without a win for Rudar Velenje

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Rudar Velenje are no longer polite ones.

Match

Rudar Velenje are in real trouble now

Position 8, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings

Gal Gorenak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Lejs Pličanić

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Rudar Velenje against NK Krka

0‑1 to NK Krka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Tom Kljun 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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Rudar Velenje Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Rudar Velenje

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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $240.0K sale of Rocco Vicol

He is going to ND Gorica, the club has $240.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Martin Plavec Marković puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rudar Velenje, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Rudar Velenje

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

Rudar Velenje sell Rocco Vicol for $240.0K

Rocco Vicol has left for ND Gorica in a $240.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Eyes on Luka Sesko again

The phone has started ringing about Luka Sesko again, and this time the name on the line is Zorya. Rudar Velenje are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dejan Kuzmanović

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Taj Rožič Šuligoj 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 Rudar Velenje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Denny Tiganj dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

2 Edition

The Rudar Velenje Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Gal Gorenak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 53. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Francesco Tahiraj scores twice — 8.30

Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Tempers go at Rudar Velenje

Sabur Ali 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

Denny Tiganj 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.

Market

NK Zavrc expected to open talks for Rastko Rastoka

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rudar Velenje will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The clock runs on Denny Tiganj's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Match

Francesco Tahiraj rescues a point for Rudar Velenje

It needed Francesco Tahiraj to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against NK Krsko, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market

Talks stall between Rudar Velenje and Gašper Gaberšek Rotovnik

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Martin Plavec Marković is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Rudar Velenje has been clear about where Martin Plavec Marković stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief