The NK Domzale Courier
Squad23 Nov 2026
Filip Kovacevic damages knee ligaments — 68 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 68 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match18 Nov 2026
NK Domzale out of the cup
ND Gorica ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at NK Domzale
Stipe Erceg and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Jan Verbic
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Zan Sesko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zan Sesko, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One of those days for Jan Verbic
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at NK Domzale
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolas Rajsel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Matic Bijol left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Robert Knezevic signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Knezevic commits to NK Domzale for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Benjamin Janza has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Mark Zabukovnik left out for tactical reasons at NK Domzale
- Market The Matic Balkovec question follows NK Domzale around