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Ivan Čović

Ivan Čović

CroatiaGoalkeeper · NK Slaven Belupo · №32

36 y.o. · 193 cm · 86 kg · right

16 Matches
1 In the starting XI
1 176 Minutes
0 Goals
0 Assists

Recent matches

Date Match Score
Rudes NK Slaven Belupo HNL 2:2
HNK Hajduk Split NK Slaven Belupo HNL 1:0
NK Slaven Belupo NK Lokomotiva HNL 2:1
NK Slaven Belupo NK Varaždin HNL 1:4
Dinamo Zagreb NK Slaven Belupo HNL 2:0
NK Slaven Belupo Vukovar HNL 2:2
NK Lokomotiva NK Slaven Belupo HNL 2:1
NK Slaven Belupo HNK Hajduk Split HNL 2:2
NK Varaždin NK Slaven Belupo HNL 2:1
NK Slaven Belupo HNK Rijeka HNL 0:2
All player matches

Season statistics

16 Matches
1 In the starting XI
0 Goals
0 Assists
1 176 Minutes
Competition Season Games
HNL 2025 11
HNL 2026 5

About the player

In February 2023, Ivan Čović produced the display that Slaven Belupo supporters still bring up: a performance described as colossal. It was the kind of afternoon that keeps a side in a game they have no business winning.

Čović came through at Inter Zaprešić, joining the club's youth ranks in 1998 and staying almost a decade, with a single season at Dinamo Zagreb in between. He signed his first professional contract at Zaprešić in July 2009.

The move that shaped him arrived a year later, when he left for Hrvatski Dragovoljac as a free agent. He spent four seasons there and wore the captain's armband. In 2013 he was named best goalkeeper of the 14th Gojko Šušak Memorial Tournament, and the Dragovoljac president said publicly that season that Čović was possibly the best goalkeeper in the First League.

He returned to Inter Zaprešić in September 2014 for an undisclosed fee. What followed was a stretch abroad: Apollon Smyrnis in Greece from June 2017, then Sepsi OSK in Romania from June 2018. He was back in Croatia by February 2019, signing for Gorica.

Čović joined Slaven Belupo as a free agent in August 2020. He has not played for the senior national team, and his career has not brought league titles or an individual award such as Goalkeeper of the Season.

Career path

  1. 2021 — 2027 — now Slaven Belupo Koprivnica 67 matches
  2. 2020 HNK Gorica 3 matches
  3. 2018 Apollon Smyrni 22 matches
  4. 2010 — 2017 NK Inker 77 matches
  5. 2011 — 2014 Hrvatski Dragovoljac 102 matches

Career

Season Club Competition Games Goals Assists Minutes
26/27 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 1 0 0 90
25/26 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 8 0 0 696
25/26 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 4 0 0 390
24/25 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 4 0 0 360
24/25 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 3 0 0 330
23/24 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 3 0 0 270
23/24 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 1 0 0 90
22/23 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 20 0 0 1 800
22/23 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 3 0 0 300
21/22 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 17 0 0 1 530
21/22 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica Hrvatski nogometni kup 2 0 0 210
20/21 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica SuperSport HNL 1 0 0 90
19/20 HNK Gorica Hrvatski nogometni kup 3 0 0 270
17/18 Apollon Smyrni Super League 1 22 0 0 1 980
16/17 NK Inker SuperSport HNL 31 0 1 2 784
16/17 NK Inker Hrvatski nogometni kup 1 0 0 90
15/16 NK Inker SuperSport HNL 15 0 0 1 350
15/16 NK Inker Hrvatski nogometni kup 3 0 0 300
14/15 NK Inker Prva Nogometna Liga 21 0 0 1 890
14/15 NK Inker Hrvatski nogometni kup 1 0 0 90
13/14 Hrvatski Dragovoljac SuperSport HNL 35 0 0 3 150
12/13 Hrvatski Dragovoljac Prva Nogometna Liga 27 0 0 2 430
11/12 Hrvatski Dragovoljac Prva Nogometna Liga 24 0 0 2 155
10/11 Hrvatski Dragovoljac SuperSport HNL 16 0 0 1 440
09/10 NK Inker SuperSport HNL 5 0 0 405
Total Hrvatski Dragovoljac 102 0 0 9 175
Total NK Inker 77 0 1 6 909
Total Slaven Belupo Koprivnica 67 0 0 6 156
Total Apollon Smyrni 22 0 0 1 980
Total HNK Gorica 3 0 0 270

Transfers

Transfers
  • 20/21 HNK Gorica NK Slaven Belupo
  • 18/19 Sepsi OSK HNK Gorica
  • 18/19 Apollon Smyrnis Sepsi OSK
  • 17/18 Inker Apollon Smyrnis
  • 14/15 Hrv Dragovoljac Inker
  • 10/11 Inker Hrv Dragovoljac
  • 09/10 Inker U19 Inker
  • 08/09 Din. Zagreb U19 Inker U19
  • 07/08 Inker U17 Din. Zagreb U19
  • 05/06 Inker Jgd Inker U17

Teammates

Ljuban Crepulja Midfielder · №21 Leon Bosniak Midfielder · №24 Marko Dabro Midfielder · №7 Josip Mitrović Midfielder · №11 Dominik Kovačić Defender · №4 Filip Mažar Midfielder · №17