Ivan Budachev

Goalkeeper - Slovan Ljubljana
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ivan Budachev

8 Edition

The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Hanan Duraković's — 8.05

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.05, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

5 matches without a win for Slovan Ljubljana

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slovan Ljubljana are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Slovan Ljubljana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ajdin Dergić 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.

The dugout

Anel Puškar back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Slovan Ljubljana has worked with Anel Puškar before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Hanan Duraković

At 21 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.

Match

Triglav Kranj snatch it back from Slovan Ljubljana

A goal on 85 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad

Ivan Budachev lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Match

Honours even between Slovan Ljubljana and Triglav Kranj

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Ivan Budachev is still paying for one afternoon at Slovan Ljubljana

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Tristan Kotar, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72

A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Erik Milošević 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 Slovan Ljubljana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Slovan Ljubljana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ajdin Dergić 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.

Transfer targets

Koper tell Slovan Ljubljana: Dajan Durmiši is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Ivan Budachev 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.

Match

NK Krka snatch it back from Slovan Ljubljana

A goal on 86 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Slovan Ljubljana

23 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

Slovan Ljubljana share the spoils with NK Krka

A 2‑2 draw with NK Krka leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

The formation has left Mark Kramberger behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Slovan Ljubljana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief