Marked for Ifet Đakovac
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Upbeat
Match2 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it could have been more.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market4 Jan 2027
Lazar Nikolić hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vojvodina can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Lazar Nikolić: 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.” Vojvodina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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 Vojvodina have had the benefit of it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Mačva Šabac, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vojvodina have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Vojvodina
1‑5 against Crvena Zvezda, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dragan Rosić
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Damjan Đokanović is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Vojvodina dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Petar Simic after 1‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kornél Szűcs, and the manager let it.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
18 appearances at Novi Pazar and the goals keep coming. Vojvodina are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nardin Mulahusejnović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Vojvodina, 2‑0 the final word against Novi Pazar in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Dejan Zukić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Lazar Nikolić
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Petar Simic kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Matija Gočmanac 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Njegoš Petrović sits out. Vojvodina lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Slobodan Medojević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matija Gočmanac 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 watch16 Nov 2026
13 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Luka Lazin 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Slobodan Medojević is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ifet Đakovac’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vojvodina needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Njegoš Petrović’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Marko Mladenović’s exile
6 goals in 12 games at Loznica — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Vojvodina updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
12 appearances at Kabel and the goals keep coming. Vojvodina are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ifet Đakovac and Vojvodina agree another 4 years.
Market9 Nov 2026
Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Haji Mnoga has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.
Match7 Nov 2026
A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad9 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Dragan Rosić knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Dinamo Vranje to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vojvodina and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dragan Rosić's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Lazar Nikolić dropped after a run of poor form
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The terraces
The spotlight tightens on Dragan Rosić
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Oct 2026
Smederevo 1924 ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match2 Nov 2026
Vojvodina are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match31 Oct 2026
After 8 games, Vojvodina finally taste it again
The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against OFK Beograd; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to OFK Beograd, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dragan Rosić, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.65, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
IMT will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Vojvodina were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Vojvodina offered $340.0K; Zeleznicar Pancevo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Vojvodina asked and Ludogorets said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Ryan Francisco has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ifet Đakovac ran the middle of the pitch — 7.64
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.64, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
TSC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vojvodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Crvena Zvezda have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mihai Butean. The answer from Vojvodina has not changed — yet.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Crvena Zvezda, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Vojvodina have made the call to Spartak Subotica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Petar Simic, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Filip Grujic 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.