| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1981-07-22)22 July 1981 (age 43) | ||
| Place of birth | Bugojno,SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft9+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2003 | Zemun | 71 | (11) |
| 2003–2005 | OFK Beograd | 36 | (11) |
| 2005–2006 | Caen | 24 | (2) |
| 2008 | Banat Zrenjanin | 11 | (0) |
| 2008 | Megasport Almaty | 11 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Grbalj | 27 | (9) |
| 2010–2012 | Mogren | 43 | (10) |
| 2012 | Napredak Kruševac | 16 | (3) |
| 2012–2017 | Čukarički | 131 | (24) |
| Total | 370 | (70) | |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2004 | Serbia and Montenegro U21[1] | 11 | (3) |
| 2004 | Serbia and Montenegro Olympic | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2023 | Čukarički | ||
| 2024 | Novi Pazar | ||
Medal record | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Igor Matić (Serbian Cyrillic:Игор Матић; born 22 July 1981) is a retiredSerbianfootballer who played as adeep-lying playmaker. He representedSerbia and Montenegro at themen's football tournament in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Matić began his senior football career withFK Zemun in 1998. As a 19-year-old, he was one of the players involved in Zemun's famous drive in the semifinals of the1999-2000 Cup of Yugoslavia.[2] He played for Zemun until 2003.
Matić joinedOFK Beograd from Zemun in 2003, and played alongsideBranislav Ivanović in one of the strongest generations of OFK Beograd that decade. One highlight of Matić's spell at OFK was making the2004 UEFA Intertoto semifinals before being eliminated byAtlético Madrid.
Matić joined Mogren from Grbalj in 2010, where he would spend two years and amass 43 appearances and contribute with 10 goals. In January 2012, Matić sued Mogren in Montenegro's arbitrage court because he wasn't paid for over five months.[3]
After leaving Mogren on a sour note, Matić joinedNapredak Kruševac in January 2012, who had just hiredAleksandar Kristić as their coach.[4] This was an important factor in Matić choosing to join Napredak, as he and Kristić had known each other since he was at OFK Beograd, as Kristić was one of OFK's youth coaches at the time.[2]
"Čukarički is dangerous in set pieces because of Matić..."
After only a half-season with Napredak, Matić quickly joined Čukarički, which was in 2012 the first privatized professional football club in Serbia. He would become Čukarički's playmaker and contribute to their promotion to the first-tierSuperLiga. In an October 2013 article titled "They are the 'oldies', everyone fears them", Serbia'sSportal named Matić in an 11-man selection of the best players over the age of 28 in theSuperLiga.[6] On 18 March 2015, he suffered a hamstring injury which sidelined him for two weeks.[7] After five years with Čukarički, Matić retired from playing football professionally in 2017.[8]
Despite having born inBugojno,SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, he opted to represent Serbia and Montenegro internationally. Matić was part of theSerbia and Montenegro national under-21 team that finished runners-up at the2004 European Championship. He was also part of the Serbia and Montenegro team at the2004 Summer Olympics.
As of 16 March 2024
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||
| Čukarički | 15 August 2023 | 26 December 2023 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 032.00 | |||
| Novi Pazar | 5 January 2024 | Present | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 014.29 | |||
| Career total | 32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 028.13 | |||||
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