The Cibalia Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Miha Kampl rejects the move
Cibalia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at NK Domzale, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andrej Brekalo joins the Cibalia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrej Brekalo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marco Simunovic joins the Cibalia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marco Simunovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Goran Majer joins the Cibalia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Goran Majer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cibalia promote Nikola Benko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nikola Benko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
Sesvete take the points off Cibalia
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Cibalia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Karlo Stapić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cibalia
Filip Mekić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dražen Bagarić is a square peg at Cibalia
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
In brief
- Squad Cibalia are still strangers to each other
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Transfer targets A loan move for Bruno Durdov is in the works