Marked for Gregor Birsa
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and NK Domzale know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Paulo Romero gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Paulo Romero has just signed for NK Domzale, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from Al-Shabab for Rok Zajc 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Robert Janza breaks a bone — 67 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Rok Zajc
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and NK Domzale have had the benefit of it.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against NK Zavrc, and it could have been more.
Match2 Nov 2026
NK Domzale refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A day Miha Kampl will not forget
3 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A day Rok Zajc will not forget
3 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” NK Domzale may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Rok Zajc is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.27 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match31 Oct 2026
Miha Kampl among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Miha Kampl on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of NK Domzale and NK Zavrc.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
One of those days for Rok Zajc
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Miha Kampl
At 23 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Niki Radovič 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 Krsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at NK Krsko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Bareiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match29 Aug 2026
NK Krka made NK Krsko work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Niki Radovič
A mark of 7.99, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market31 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at NK Krsko
Rodrigo Bareiro arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Svit Hočevar has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at NK Krsko will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market31 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Isaac Tshipamba arrives from NK Maribor with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.