Nermin Šabić


Nermin Šabić is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U17 national team.

Club career

Born in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, back then part of SFR Yugoslavia, Šabić started playing with hometown club Čelik Zenica having played with them in the 1990–91 Yugoslav First League season. Afterwards, he moved to Red Star Belgrade but with the start of the Yugoslav Wars he left the club along with Goran Jurić and Robert Prosinečki.
Šabić then moved to Croatia where he played for almost a decade in the Croatian First League, first with Dubrava, Zagreb, Inter Zaprešić, Osijek and Zadar, and then with Dinamo Zagreb, know back then as Croatia Zagreb, between 1997 and 2001, winning with them 3 championships and two cups. He spent the second half of the 2000–01 season in Bosnia playing with Željezničar and had also won the double with them.
Šabić then returned to Croatia and was part of the championship winning squad of Zagreb in the season 2001–02. Afterwards, he played 3 seasons in China with Changchun Yatai, before returning to Bosnia to his former club Čelik where he finished his career in 2010.

International career

From 1994 to 1995, Šabić represented the Croatia national U21 team, making 6 appearances.
He then joined the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, making 35 appearances and scoring one goal for the team between 1996 and 2008.

Managerial career

After retiring, Šabić held the position of CEO of Čelik Zenica in 2011, and in June 2015 he became assistant manager of Ibrahim Rahimić, at Bosnian Premier League newly promoted side Mladost Doboj Kakanj, where he also accumulated the function of main coordinator of the youth teams in the club.
On 13 June 2017, Šabić became the new manager of First League of FBiH club Zvijezda Gradačac. On 10 April 2018, he left Zvijezda to become the manager of Mladost Doboj Kakanj. He officially took over the club the next day on 11 April. After a terrible start to the league which culminated even more with a 93rd minute 0–1 home league loss against Široki Brijeg on 15 August 2018, Šabić left the club the next day.
For a short period from January to February 2019, he was in charge of China League Two club Shanxi Metropolis. On 8 September 2019, Šabić became the new manager of First League of FBiH club TOŠK Tešanj. In his first game as TOŠK manager, his team beat Metalleghe-BSI 2–1 at home in a league match. He left TOŠK on 23 December 2019, taking over the position of head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U17 national team two days earlier, on 21 December. He officially took over the position four days later, on 27 December, signing a contract with the Bosnia and Herzegovina FA.

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Honours

Player

Dinamo Zagreb
Željezničar
Zagreb