Robert Lovric

Central Defender - NK Domzale
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Robert Lovric

10 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A day Stipe Erceg will not forget

6 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

NK Domzale run riot against NK Krsko

7‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Stipe Erceg

23 goals and a season average of 7.65 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Nicolas Rajsel yet — 8.25

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

A falling-out at NK Domzale

Stipe Erceg and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about NK Domzale and NK Krsko in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Mark Zabukovnik 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Matic Bijol, on a 7‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Market

NK Domzale and Zan Oblak are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

$2.9M — a new record at NK Domzale

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Squad

4 goals for Stipe Erceg

The match ball belongs to Stipe Erceg, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Robert Lovric says no to Enyimba

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Robert Lovric had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

NK Domzale say no — this time

The offer from AZ for Stipe Erceg was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Jure Ilicic asks to leave NK Domzale

“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.

Match

NK Domzale cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Transfer targets

José Martínes will not be coming to NK Domzale

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at CSKA 1948 is saying, and nobody at NK Domzale is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

A falling-out at NK Domzale

Filip Bijol and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Stipe Erceg was on a different afternoon to everybody else

10.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

3 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

NK Domzale run riot against Rudar Velenje

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Stipe Erceg scores twice — 9.59

Two goals and a mark of 9.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

NK Domzale turn down Olimpija Ljubljana for Robert Lovric

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Jan Verbic turns Gomel down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings

Nicolas Rajsel, 33, rolls back the years — 8.20

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

NK Domzale cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Stipe Erceg 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 NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

NK Domzale rebuffed over Yaya Dukuly

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and NK Domzale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

NK Zavrc join the queue for Jure Bijol

Add another name to the list: NK Zavrc have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jure Bijol. The answer from NK Domzale has not changed — yet.

In brief