Marked for Gregor Janza
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
Gregor Janza 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Bijol 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Erik Sesko
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Erik Brekalo breaks a bone — 47 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Benjamin Oblak: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” NK Domzale have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. NK Domzale will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Gregor Janza 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Luka Bijol 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tomas Sesko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at NK Domzale 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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Domen Balkovec out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Bijol 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at NK Domzale, and 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.32. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. NK Domzale lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Domen Balkovec out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Francesco Vignali 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every NK Domzale game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Koper runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.26, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Domen Balkovec out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Pacheco 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gregor Janza
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to NK Celje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every NK Domzale game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at NK Maribor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Luka Bijol runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Sep 2026
The shop window has Nejc Bijol in it
NK Domzale have let the market know Nejc Bijol can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tomas Janza leaves NK Domzale the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and NK Domzale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Benjamin Birsa 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zan Handanovic has left for NK Krka in a $280.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over NK Zavrc, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Francesco Vignali 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.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and NK Domzale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luka Bijol and NK Domzale agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Filip Vipotnik — 7.93
Marked 7.93. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Benjamin Birsa 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Sesko 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for NK Domzale, 2‑1 the final word against ND Gorica in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gregor Janza 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zan Handanovic is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at NK Domzale has been clear about where Zan Handanovic stands, which is more than many ever get.