Zoran Ubavič

Zoran Ubavič
Personal information
Date of birth	28 October 1965
Place of birth	Celje, Yugoslavia
Date of death	21 November 2015 (aged 50)
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Slovan
Senior career*
Years	Team
1983–1995	Olimpija
1995–1997	Gorica
1997–1998	Vevče
1998–2001	Ljubljana
2001	Svoboda Ljubljana
2002	Livar
2002–2004	Factor
2005–2008	Olimpija Bežigrad
International career
1992	Slovenia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zoran Ubavič (28 October 1965 – 21 November 2015) was a Slovenian footballer who played as a forward.

Ubavič spent his entire career playing for Slovenian clubs and was also capped once for the Slovenia national team, on 3 June 1992 in a friendly against Estonia in Tallinn.^[2]^[3]

He was the top scorer of the Slovenian PrvaLiga in its inaugural 1991–92 season,^[4] and is Olimpija's all-time leading goalscorer with 167 goals in 283 games across all competitions.^[5]

Personal life

Born in Celje to a military officer,^[5] Ubavič suffered from severe dementia in his final years and died in 2015, aged 50.^[6]

Olimpija

Koper

Gorica

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^ "Zoran Ubavič, international football player". eu-football.info. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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^ "Slovenia – List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b "V časovnem stroju: Dan, ko je svojo zadnjo tekmo odigral nepozabni Zoran Ubavić". NK Olimpija (in Slovenian). 30 May 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
^ "Po hudi bolezni umrl Zoran Ubavić". Žurnal24 (in Slovenian). 21 November 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2024.

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