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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gregor Oblak out for 80 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for NK Domzale
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around NK Domzale are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Gregor Sikosek has agreed terms with NK Zavrc for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Gregor Sikosek
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gregor Sikosek will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around NK Domzale the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at NK Domzale
8 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. NK Domzale told James Furlong something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gregor Oblak breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vid Handanovic and NK Domzale agree another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Petar Verbic 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Slovan Liberec to sit and watch. I want to come back to NK Domzale and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Miha Bijol to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against NK Krsko, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gregor Oblak out for 96 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Verbic 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every NK Domzale game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lech runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Jan Brekalo could not find anything
5.12. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gregor Oblak out for 105 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
Miha Bijol 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Petar Verbic at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at NK Domzale.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to James Furlong, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Petar Verbic to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against NK Celje, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gregor Oblak knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gregor Oblak trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 5.56, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Minutes played: 59, and a mark of 5.37 to explain why. No manager makes that change to freshen anything up.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gregor Oblak out for 112 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
NK Domzale win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Olimpija Ljubljana will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Sep 2026
Kevin Mevlja wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at NK Domzale hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Verbic 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
James Furlong 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Héctor Campos, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Miha Bijol
7.86, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. NK Domzale had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gregor Oblak breaks a bone — 120 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and NK Krka spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Match7 Sep 2026
11 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Koper for Vid Handanovic 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Zan Zajc 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 NK Domzale can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Petar Verbic 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 9.09 — 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.
Squad7 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. NK Domzale have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Robert Aldama 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Popović, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Petar Verbic
A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at NK Domzale
8 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
An afternoon Miha Bijol will want back
Marked 4.35. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Gregor Oblak 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 NK Domzale can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Petar Verbic 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.
Squad24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: NK Zavrc have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tomas Zajc. The answer from NK Domzale has not changed — yet.
Match22 Aug 2026
Koper left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Héctor Campos
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. NK Domzale will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Upbeat
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Verbic 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
NK Domzale bring in an old head
Iván Benítez is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Match15 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for NK Domzale?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Rudar Velenje? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gregor Sikosek has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at NK Domzale.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Mevlja and NK Domzale agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miha Bijol 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. Petar Verbic 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Pavlović, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Miha Bijol’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to NK Domzale.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Filip Bijol again, and this time the name on the line is NK Krka. NK Domzale are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zan Bijol told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Zan Bijol has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at NK Domzale.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
NK Krka come back empty-handed
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at NK Domzale heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Miha Bijol 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Petar Verbic 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Stojanovic 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Filip Stojanovic. 1‑0 against NK Krsko, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. NK Domzale will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.