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Slobodan Drapić
	Drapić coaching Beitar Jerusalem in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	28 February 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1984–1986	Novi Sad
1988–1995	Maccabi Netanya
1995–1998	Beitar Nes Tubruk
International career
1988	Israel
Managerial career
1999–2000	Maccabi Netanya (assistant)
2000	Maccabi Netanya (caretaker)
2000–2002	Tzafririm Holon (assistant)
2001	Tzafririm Holon (caretaker)
2003–2008	Maccabi Haifa (assistant)
2008–2009	Hapoel Kfar Saba
2009–2010	Maccabi Herzliya
2010–2011	Bnei Sakhnin
2012	Partizan (assistant)
2013–2015	Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla
2015–2016	Beitar Jerusalem
2016–2020	Maccabi Netanya
2020–2021	Beitar Jerusalem
2021–2022	Ironi Kiryat Shmona
2022–2023	Hapoel Tel-Aviv
2023	Ironi Kiryat Shmona
2023–	Bnei Sakhnin
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Slobodan Drapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Драпић, Hebrew: סלובודאן דראפיץ'; born 28 February 1965) is a football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Bnei Sakhnin. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented Israel at international level.

Playing career

Drapić was born and grew up in Novi Sad, where he played for the local side RFK Novi Sad for two years in the Yugoslav Second League. In 1988, he moved to play in Israel for Maccabi Netanya and made aliyah.^[2] On 23 November 1988, he was called up for the Israeli national team and won his one and only cap for the national side in a friendly game against Romania.^[3]

Drapić played with Netanya for seven years in the Liga Leumit until the club got relegated in the end of the 1994–95 season. The following season he moved to play for Beitar Tubruk, where he also retired as a player.^[4]

Coaching career

In a long coaching career in Israel he became the assistant coach with Maccabi Netanya, Tzafririm Holon and Maccabi Haifa.^[5] When Ronny Levy left Maccabi Haifa, he also wanted to leave the club. Partizan Belgrade offered him a job as a scout and coach assistant, but he refused the offer because he wanted to stay in Israel.

On 27 September 2010, Drapić signed a two-year contract as manager of Bnei Sakhnin.^[6]

In the second half of the 2011–12 season he worked for Partizan as the assistant coach of Avram Grant.^[7]

In June 2013 he became the manager of Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla. He worked as the manager of the club until 7 June 2015, when he signed a contract as the manager of Beitar Jerusalem. The following season he returned to his former club of Maccabi Netanya.

Personal life

Drapić is married to his Israeli wife Anita. They have four children; the youngest is Dolev, who is a professional basketball player in Barak Netanya.^[8]

Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Hapoel Kfar Saba		26 June 2008	10 June 2009	43	10	15	18	023.26
Maccabi Herzliya		11 June 2009	1 June 2010	38	13	10	15	034.21
Bnei Sakhnin		27 September 2010	4 April 2011	28	5	6	17	017.86
Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla		23 June 2013	5 June 2015	81	24	27	30	029.63
Beitar Jerusalem		7 June 2015	1 June 2016	44	21	7	16	047.73
Maccabi Netanya		2 June 2016	3 July 2020	151	70	37	44	046.36
Beitar Jerusalem		4 September 2020	20 March 2021	26	8	8	10	030.77
Ironi Kiryat Shmona		9 November 2021	31 May 2022	26	13	6	7	050.00
Hapoel Tel Aviv		19 September 2022	10 January 2023	13	3	4	6	023.08
Ironi Kiryat Shmona		14 Febaury 2023		10	2	6	2	020.00
Total				460	169	126	165	036.74