 Djuricin lining up forAustria U21 in 2014. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marco Djuricin[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1992-12-12)12 December 1992 (age 32) | ||
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | First Vienna | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2003 | SV Donau | ||
| 2004–2005 | Rapid Wien | ||
| 2005–2006 | Austria Wien | ||
| 2006–2008 | Rapid Wien | ||
| 2008 | FC Stadlau | ||
| 2008–2010 | Hertha BSC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2012 | Hertha BSC II | 23 | (12) |
| 2010–2013 | Hertha BSC | 11 | (2) |
| 2012–2013 | →Jahn Regensburg (loan) | 16 | (3) |
| 2012 | →Jahn Regensburg II (loan) | 1 | (3) |
| 2013–2014 | Sturm Graz | 36 | (17) |
| 2015–2018 | Red Bull Salzburg | 16 | (2) |
| 2015–2016 | →Brentford (loan) | 22 | (4) |
| 2016–2017 | →Ferencváros (loan) | 25 | (8) |
| 2017–2018 | →Grasshoppers (loan) | 23 | (5) |
| 2018–2019 | Grasshoppers | 23 | (6) |
| 2019–2021 | Karlsruher SC | 23 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Austria Wien | 48 | (17) |
| 2021–2022 | Austria Wien II | 1 | (1) |
| 2022–2024 | Rijeka | 5 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | →Spartak Trnava (loan) | 4 | (3) |
| 2025 | SV Stripfing | 11 | (6) |
| 2025– | First Vienna | 6 | (2) |
| International career | |||
| 2008 | Austria U17 | 5 | (3) |
| 2009 | Austria U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Austria U19 | 12 | (4) |
| 2012–2014 | Austria U21 | 8 | (2) |
| 2015 | Austria | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:46, 2 November 2025 (UTC) | |||
Marco Djuricin (Croatian:Marko Đuričin,Serbian:Марко Ђуричин; born 12 December 1992) is an Austrian professionalfootballer who plays as aforward forAustrian 2. Liga clubFirst Vienna.
Djuricin came to prominence in his native Austria withSturm Graz, scoring 24 goals in 44 appearances, before joiningRed Bull Salzburg in 2015. He has since played professionally in Germany, England, Hungary, Switzerland, Croatia and Slovakia. Djuricin has been capped byAustria at international level.
Aforward, Djuricin began his career with SV Donau in 1999, before have alternate spells withRapid Wien andAustria Wien.[2] After a short spell with FC Stadlau in 2008, he moved toGermany to enter the youth academy atBundesliga clubHertha BSC.[2] During the 2009–10 season, Hertha's U19 team reached the final of theDFB Youth Cup, but despite Djuricin's equaliser, Hertha lost the match 2–1 to1899 Hoffenheim.[3] During the2010–11pre-season, Djuricin was called up to the first team's training camp in his nativeAustria.[4] CoachMarkus Babbel was impressed by his performance during the camp and called in him up for Hertha's remaining pre-seasonfriendlies.[4]
Djuricin made his debut for Hertha'sreserve team in a 2–2Regionalliga Nord draw withHallescher FC on 6 August 2010.[5] Following injuries toPatrick Ebert,Raffael andDaniel Beichler, Djuricin received his maiden first team call up on the opening day of the 2010–112. Bundesliga season againstRot-Weiß Oberhausen.[6] He made his debut after just 18 minutes as a substitute forRob Friend.[6] Djuricin had a dream debut, scoring two second-half goals to help Hertha to a 3–2 win.[6] He signed a new four-year contract shortly after the match.[7] Djuricin went on to make 9 appearances during a successful 2010–11 season for Hertha, which saw the club promoted back to the Bundesliga at the first time of asking.[1]
Djuricin spent the majority of the2011–12 Bundesliga season with the reserves, scoring 9 goals in 16 appearances.[1] He made two first team substitute appearances in early 2012 and was on the bench for both of Hertha'srelegation playoff matches, which were lost toFortuna Düsseldorf and consigned the club to relegation straight back to the 2. Bundesliga.[1] During the 2012 off-season, new Hertha managerJos Luhukay announced that Djuricin was not in his first team plans.[8]
On 9 August 2012, Djuricin joined 2. Bundesliga clubJahn Regensburg onloan for the duration of the2012–13 season.[9] He missed two months of the campaign with a brokensesamoid in his foot and made 17 appearances and scored three goals in a dire season for the Jahn,[10][11] with a bottom-place finish consigning the club to relegation to the3. Liga.[1]
Djuricin departed Hertha in June 2013,[12] after making just 11 appearances and scoring two goals during three seasons as a first team player at theOlympiastadion.[1]
Djuricin returned to Austria to sign a contract withAustrian Bundesliga clubSturm Graz in June 2013.[12] He made his debut in a 0–0UEFA Europa League second qualifying round draw withBreiðablik on 18 July 2013, the firstEuropean appearance of his career.[1] After just two further appearances, acruciate ligament injury saw Djuricin fail to return to the team until December.[11] He finished the2013–14 season with 23 appearances and seven goals.[1] Djuricin showed good goalscoring form in the first half of the2014–15 season,[1] scoring 17 goals in 21 games before departing theUPC-Arena on 8 January 2015.[13] He made 44 appearances and scored 24 goals during 18 months with Graz.[1]
On 8 January 2015, Djuricin signed a3+1⁄2-year contract with Austrian Bundesliga clubRed Bull Salzburg.[13] He scored just three goals in 16 appearances in the second half of the2014–15 season, but received the firstsilverware of his career when Salzburg won the league title at the end of the campaign.[1] He collected another medal by virtue of being an unused substitute in Salzburg's 2–0 victory over Austria Wien in the2015 ÖFB Cup Final.[14]
After four appearances early in the2015–16 season,[1] Djuricin moved toEngland to sign forChampionship clubBrentford on loan until the end of the2015–16 season.[15] He scored within 29 minutes of his debut in a 1–1 draw with againstLeeds United on 12 September and made it two goals in three games with the winner versusPreston North End one week later.[16] He came into form again in late October, scoring in wins overWolverhampton Wanderers andQueens Park Rangers,[16] the latter match being Brentford's first win over theirWest London rivals for fifty years.[17] Anankle ligament injury suffered early in a 1–1 draw withBlackburn Rovers on 7 November kept Djuricin out of the team for two months.[1][18] He returned to the bench in mid-January 2016 and broke back into the starting lineup in late February,[1] but was sidelined due to illness in March.[19] Djuricin made just two further appearances and finished the season with 4 goals from 23 appearances.[16][20]
On 23 June 2016, Djuricin joinedNemzeti Bajnokság I clubFerencváros on loan for the duration of the2016–17 season.[21] He made 30 appearances and scored 10 goals during the season,[22] but was left out of the matchday squad which emerged victorious in the2017 Magyar Kupa Final.[23] Following a further season-long loan during the2017–18 season, Djuricin left the club when his contract expired at the end of the 2017–18 season.[24]
In July 2017, Djuricin moved toSwiss Super League clubGrasshopper Club Zürich on a season-long loan, with the option to transfer permanently.[25] He made 25 appearances and scored 9 goals during the2017–18 season and permanently joined the club on a two-year contract.[1][24] After 24 appearances and seven goals during the2018–19 season,[1] Djuricin departed the club.[26]
On 14 June 2019, Djuricin returned to Germany to join 2. Bundesliga clubKarlsruher SC on a two-year contract.[26] He finished the2019–20 season with 19 appearances.[1] After making just seven appearances during the first half of the2020–21 season,[1] Djuricin's contract was terminated by mutual consent on 31 January 2021.[27]
On 2 February 2021, Djuricin signed a contract with Austrian Bundesliga club Austria Wien on afree transfer.[27] In what remained of the2020–21 season, he scored seven goals in 17 appearances,[1] helped the club qualify for the2021–22 Europa Conference League and signed a new three-year contract.[28][29] During the2021–22 season, Djuricin scored 11 goals in 32 appearances and helped the club qualify for the2022–23 Europa League play-off round.[1] He recovered from off-seasonmyocarditis to make four appearances and score one goal during the opening weeks of the2022–23 season,[1][30] before departing the club.[31] Djuricin made 53 appearances and scored 19 goals during 18 months at theFranz Horr Stadium.[31]
On 31 August 2022, Djuricin transferred toCroatian First League clubRijeka and signed a three-year contract.[31] He made five appearances prior to the2022–23 winter break,[1] after which he was frozen out of the squad by incoming head coachSergej Jakirović.[32] On 6 July 2023, Djuricin joinedSlovak First League clubSpartak Trnava on loan for the duration of the2023–24 season.[33] Myocarditis restricted him to just 11 appearances during the season,[34][35][36] in which he scored four goals.[1] The result of a visit toBayern Munich's heart specialist necessitated a six month break from football and despite returning for the2024–25 pre-season, Djuricin's contract was terminated.[30]
Following a number of months training withSV Stripfing,[37] Djuricin signed a contract with theAustrian 2. Liga club on 17 January 2025.[38] His debut and first appearance at any level for just shy of a year came as a second half substitute in a 2–0Austrian Cup quarter-final defeat toTSV Hartberg on 31 January 2025.[1] Twoyellow cards received during second halfinjury time led to Djuricin beingsent off.[39] He made 12 appearances and scored six goals during the remainder of the2024–25 season,[1] at the end of which the club narrowly avoided relegation.[40] Djuricin departed the club after the season.[41]
On 30 May 2025, Djuricin signed a two-year contract with Austrian 2. Liga clubFirst Vienna.[42]
Djuricin won 26 caps and scored 9 goals for Austria betweenunder-17 andunder-21 level. He scored apenalty at the2010 UEFA European Under-19 Championship and the resulting win over theNetherlands qualified the team for the2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, though he would miss the tournament through injury.[43] He won two caps for thesenior team in March 2015, in a 5–0UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying overLiechtenstein and a 1–1 friendly draw withBosnia and Herzegovina.[44]
On 18 October 2024, Djuricin was appointed under-7 coach at Austrian lower league club Liesing ASK.[45]
Djuricin is ofSerbian andCroatian descent.[4] His father,Goran,[46] is a former footballer and a manager.[47]
| Club | Season | League | Cup1 | Europe2 | Total | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Hertha BSC II | 2010–11 | Regionalliga Nord | 7 | 3 | — | — | 7 | 3 | [48] | ||
| 2011–12 | Regionalliga Nord | 16 | 9 | 16 | 9 | [49] | |||||
| Total | 23 | 12 | — | — | 23 | 12 | — | ||||
| Hertha BSC | 2010–11 | 2. Bundesliga | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 2 | [48] | |
| 2011–12 | Bundesliga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [49] | |||
| Total | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 11 | 2 | — | |||
| Jahn Regensburg (loan) | 2012–13 | 2. Bundesliga | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 17 | 3 | [50] | |
| Jahn Regensburg II (loan) | 2012–13 | Bayernliga Süd | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 3 | [51] | ||
| Sturm Graz | 2013–14 | Austrian Bundesliga | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 7 | [22] |
| 2014–15 | Austrian Bundesliga | 18 | 11 | 3 | 6 | — | 21 | 17 | [22] | ||
| Total | 36 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 24 | — | ||
| Red Bull Salzburg | 2014–15 | Austrian Bundesliga | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 3 | [22] |
| 2015–16 | Austrian Bundesliga | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | [22] | |
| Total | 16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 6 | — | ||
| Brentford (loan) | 2015–16 | Championship | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 23 | 4 | [16] | |
| Ferencváros (loan) | 2016–17 | Nemzeti Bajnokság I | 25 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 10 | [1] |
| Grasshoppers (loan) | 2017–18 | Swiss Super League | 23 | 5 | 2 | 4 | — | 25 | 9 | [1] | |
| Grasshoppers | 2018–19 | Swiss Super League | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | — | 24 | 7 | [1] | |
| Karlsruher SC | 2019–20 | 2. Bundesliga | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 19 | 0 | [1] | |
| 2020–21 | 2. Bundesliga | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | [1] | ||
| Total | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 26 | 0 | — | |||
| Austria Wien | 2020–21 | Austrian Bundesliga | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | — | 17 | 7 | [1] | |
| 2021–22 | Austrian Bundesliga | 28 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 11 | [1] | |
| 2022–23 | Austrian Bundesliga | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | [1] | ||
| Total | 48 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 53 | 19 | — | ||
| Austria Wien II | 2020–21 | Austrian 2. Liga | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | [1] | ||
| Rijeka | 2022–23 | Croatian First League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | [1] | |
| Spartak Trnava (loan) | 2023–24 | Slovak First League | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 4 | [1] |
| SV Stripfing | 2024–25 | Austrian 2. Liga | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | 12 | 6 | [1] | |
| First Vienna | 2025–26 | Austrian 2. Liga | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 7 | 3 | [1] | |
| Career total | 294 | 91 | 24 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 334 | 113 | — | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 2015 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | |
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