Overview:

The six-time StarTines Uganda Premier League champions confirmed the Serbian on a two-year deal, which will see him at Kitende until 2026.

Serbian Nikola Kavasovic is Vipers SC new head coach, the club announced on Wednesday.

He arrives to a vacant job just a month after the end of the 2023/24 football season.

The six-time StarTines Uganda Premier League champions confirmed the Serbian on a two-year deal, which will see him at Kitende until 2026.

Kavasovic, 48, joins the Vipers hot seat knowing only trophies will earn him his time there.

The Venoms are still reeling from relinquishing their league title last season in which they finished third on the table and in the quarterfinals of the Stanbic Uganda Cup.

“I’m happy to be in Uganda and at a big club like Vipers,” said Kavasovic at his unveiling at St Mary’s Stadium, Kitende.

“I thank the club president (Dr. Lawrence Mulindwa) for the trust he has given me,” he added.

Kavazovic boasts of extensive managerial experience having coached at over 10 clubs and two national teams.

The Serb is a former Tajikistan National football team head coach (2012 – 2013), as well as Sri Lanka’s National senior team between 2014 and 2015.

Still in Tajikistan, he was a league champion with FC Istiklol. He also won the AFC Presidents Cup in 2012 in the same country.

Kavasovic has also previously held managerial positions in Serbia with FK BASK, OFK Zarkovo, Borak Banja Luka and Resniki.

New Radiant FC (Maldives) and Saif in Bangladesh are some of the other teams he coached.

In Africa, he has been at Kenya’s AFC Leopards, Botswana’s Township Rollers, South Africa’s Free State Stars and most recently, at Ethiopian Coffee.

Kavazovic is a UEFA A license holder, but also enrolled on UEFA “PRO” license with the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

NIKOLA KAVAZOVIC FACT FILE:

Full Name: Nikola Kavazovic

Date of Birth: 29 – July– 1975

Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia

Clubs Managed:

Aug 2023 – June 2024: Ethiopia Coffee

Dec 2022 – Aug 2023: Soua Flamingoes

July 2020 – July 2022: Township Rollers

Sept 2019 – July 2020: Jwaneng Galaxy

Dec 2018 – July 2019: Free State Stars

July 2017 – Nov 2018: Township Rollers

Sept 2016 – April 2017: Saif SC (Bangladesh)

June 2014 – June 2015: Sri Lanka (National team)

Jan 2012 – June 2013: FC lstiklol Dushanbe

April 2008 – Sept 2012: FC Borac (Serbia)