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Miron Muslić
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-09-14) 14 September 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Bihać, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Plymouth Argyle (head coach)
Youth career
1994–1999 Wacker Innsbruck
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Wacker Innsbruck
2000–2002 Wörgl 10 (0)
2002–2003 Novalja
2003–2005 Wörgl 47 (10)
2005–2006 Reichenau 18 (5)
2006–2007 Hall 29 (21)
2007–2008 Ried 82 (91)
2008–2010 Gmunden 66 (33)
2010–2012 Sattledt 46 (23)
2012–2015 Union Weißkirchen 65 (64)
2015–2017 Ried II
Managerial career
2018 Ried (caretaker)
2020 Floridsdorfer AC
2021 Ried
2022–2024 Cercle Brugge
2025– Plymouth Argyle
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miron Muslić (born 14 September 1982) is an Austrian-Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of EFL Championship club Plymouth Argyle.

Club career

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Muslić came to Austria with his family during the turmoil of the Bosnian war and started playing football in the academy of FC Wacker Innsbruck in 1994 at the age of twelve. After the club disbanded, he played for Wacker Innsbruck from 1999. In October 2000, he moved to the second division club Wörgl. He made his debut for Wörgl in the second division in March 2001, when he was substituted for Markus Unterrainer at half-time on matchday 24 of the 2000-01 season against First Vienna.

Muslić moved to Novalja in Croatia for the 2002-03 season. After a season abroad, he returned to Wörgl in 2003. In September 2003, he scored his first second league goal in a 2-2 draw against BSV Juniors. With Wörgl, he was relegated from the second-highest division in the 2004-05 season.

He then moved to third division club Reichenau for the 2005-06 season, for whom he played 18 games. In the summer of 2006, he joined league rivals Hall. In the 2006-07 season, he scored 21 goals in 29 games for Hall in the Regionalliga West. He moved to Bundesliga club Ried for the 2007-08 season. He made his Bundesliga debut in July 2007, coming on as an 83rd-minute substitute for Jovan Damjanović on matchday three of that season against Austria Kärnten.

After four games in the Bundesliga, Muslić moved to third division club Gmunden during the winter break of the 2007-08 season. With Gmunden, he was relegated to the OÖ Liga at the end of the season. He joined league rivals Sattledt for the 2010-11 season. With Sattledt, he was relegated from the fourth-highest division in 2012. He then joined fifth-tier Union Weißkirchen in the summer of 2012, with whom he was promoted to the OÖ Liga in 2014. After finishing second in the scoring charts in the 2012-13 season with 24 goals in 26 games, he became the top scorer in the fifth-tier Landesliga Ost in the 2013-14 season, with 31 goals in 24 appearances.

He returned to Ried for the 2015-16 season, where he joined the amateur team. He ended his active career after the 2016-17 season.

Managerial career

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Early career

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Muslić was assistant coach to Alfred Olzinger at Union Weißkirchen in 2014. From the 2015-16 season, he was also assistant coach to Thomas Weissenböck at Ried's amateur team.[1]

From the 2017-18 season, he coached the Ried Under-18s team. In April 2018, he became Weissenböck's assistant coach with the first team at Ried. He also took over as head coach of Ried's amateurs for the 2018-19 season.

Following Weissenböck's resignation in November 2018, Muslić took over Ried as head coach on an interim basis for one match. In December 2018, he gave up his role as coach of the amateurs to work only as an assistant coach.[2] After the 2018-19 season, he returned to the academy.

On 14 July 2020, Muslić was hired as a manager by Austrian Football Second League club Floridsdorfer AC.[3]

Muslić returned to Austrian Bundesliga club Ried in January 2021 and became head coach of the club. After ten games as coach of Ried, he resigned in March 2021, with the Upper Austrians picking up just three points in this period and remaining winless.[4]

Cercle Brugge

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In October 2021, Muslić became assistant coach to Yves Vanderhaeghe at Cercle Brugge.[5] He also remained at the club under Dominik Thalhammer, and was promoted to the main first-team managerial role the following year, replacing Thalhammer on 19 September 2022.[6] Helped by the goals of Japan international Ayase Ueda, Muslić steered Cercle from the relegation zone to a regular-season finishing position of eighth for the 2022–23 campaign, qualifying them for a streamlined version of the Belgian Pro League's European play-offs. They finished runners-up to Gent in these play-offs for the final European qualifying place, seeing them officially finish in sixth position.

With Ueda moving to Feyenoord, and Kevin Denkey promoted to become Muslić's first-choice striker, Cercle would qualify for the title play-offs for the first time,[7] going on to finish fourth for the 2023–24 season, their highest finish since 2008, qualifying them for Europe for the first time in 14 years, and only the fourth time ever.[8]

Early season struggles for the 2024–25 season did not clear, and after a 2–0 lead over bottom side Beerschot turned into a 2–3 defeat, Muslić was dismissed as Cercle manager on 2 December 2024.[9]

Plymouth Argyle

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On 10 January 2025, Muslić signed a three-and-a-half-year contract to become head coach of EFL Championship side Plymouth Argyle.[10][11]

Managerial statistics

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As of 25 January 2025[12]
Team Nat From To Record
P W D L GF GA GD W%
Ried (caretaker) Austria 12 November 2018 25 November 2018 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.0
Floridsdorfer AC Austria 1 August 2020 31 December 2020 16 7 2 7 27 27 +0 043.8
Ried Austria 1 January 2021 25 March 2021 10 0 3 7 4 18 −14 000.0
Cercle Brugge Belgium 19 September 2022 2 December 2024 101 43 24 34 163 140 +23 042.6
Plymouth Argyle England 10 January 2025 present 4 0 2 2 3 9 −6 000.0
Total 133 52 31 50 199 194 +5 039.1

References

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  1. ^ Obrecht, Michael (4 August 2015). "Saisonvorschau: USV Erler Haus Neuhofen i. I./SV Ried Amateure – Das jüngste Team der Liga". Fußball Oberösterreich - Ergebnisse, Tabellen und Torschützen von allen OÖ Ligen. | ligaportal.at (in German). Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Muslic "nur" mehr Co-Trainer bei Ried". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Willkommen beim FAC, Miron Muslic!" (in German). Floridsdorfer AC. 14 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Miron Muslic tritt als Cheftrainer zurück" (in German). Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Articles overview | Cercle Brugge KSV". cerclebrugge.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  6. ^ "OFFICIAL: CERCLE BRUGGE REPLACE DOMINIK THALHAMMER WITH ASSISTANT MANAGER MIRON MUSLIC". Get Football News. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  7. ^ "De man die van Cercle een machine maakte, wil nu ook verbazen in de play-offs: "Schrik bestaat niet bij ons"" [The man who turned Cercle into a machine now also wants to surprise in the play-offs: "We are not afraid"] (in Dutch). Sporza. 31 March 2024.
  8. ^ ""Wij zijn dromers die elke dag opstaan en onze dromen najagen": Cercle Brugge in zevende hemel na zege op Antwerp" ["We are dreamers who get up every day and chase our dreams": Cercle Brugge in seventh heaven after victory over Antwerp] (in Dutch). Sporza. 13 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Pijnlijke nederlaag op Beerschot geeft doorslag: Miron Muslic is niet langer trainer van Cercle Brugge" [Painful defeat at Beerschot is decisive: Miron Muslic is no longer coach of Cercle Brugge] (in Dutch). Sporza. 2 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Miron Muslic appointed as Argyle Head Coach | Plymouth Argyle - PAFC". www.pafc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  11. ^ "Miron Muslic: Plymouth Argyle appoint Austrian boss to succeed Wayne Rooney". BBC Sport. 10 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Miron Muslic manager profile". 16 December 2023.
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