Category: Balkans
Blog posts covering the Balkans area in football.
Fear and Loathing in Croatia – Can HNK Rijeka break the monopoly?
Tom Wood -
Dinamo Zagreb are a club with a fine footballing pedigree. Domestically, Zagreb have won 18 Croatian First League titles, 14 Croatian Cups ...
Champions League Roundup – Dynamo Kyiv disappoint on and off the pitch
Manuel Veth -
Futbolgrad’s Champions League roundup from matchday 4 focuses on Dynamo Kyiv’s performance in Europe, and the club’s fans who now, off ...
Marko Arnautović – Serbia’s lost son returns to Belgrade
Miloš Marković -
One of Austria’s biggest stars Marko Arnautović did not know what to expect as he headed out of the players’ tunnel at Stadion Raj ...
Botev Plovdiv – A short history of Bulgaria’s oldest club
Tom Wood -
In recent years, it certainly seems that PFC Ludogorets Razgrad has become the flag bearer of Bulgarian football.
In 2014-15 the Eagles f ...
Best Europa League Matches of All-Time
Manuel Veth -
Especially in the past decade, supporters in the eastern Europe have had much to cheer about in the continent’s second most prestigious ...
A Soviet Story in an Alternative Football Manager Universe
Chris Brammer -
Eastern European football fans have long pondered what a Soviet national team (Sbornaya) would have looked like, had the Socialist ca ...
