Aleksandar Linta

Aleksandar Linta (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Линта; born 22 October 1975) is a Serbian football manager and former player.^[1]

Aleksandar Linta

Personal information
Date of birth	(1975-10-22) 22 October 1975 (age 50)
Place of birth	Zemun, SFR Yugoslavia
Position	Defender
Youth career
	Zemun
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Balkan Mirijevo[citation needed]
	FK Beograd[citation needed]
1997	ÍA Akranes	12	(0)
1999–2000	Skallagrímur	28	(2)
2001	Zeta	10	(0)
2001	Mladost Apatin
	Zemun[citation needed]
2003	ÍA Akranes	3	(0)
2003–2005	Víkingur Ólafsvík	37	(4)
2006–2007	KA Akureyri	27	(3)
2008–2011	Þór Akureyri	74	(16)
2012–2013	Grundarfjörður	25	(1)
Managerial career
2018	Olimpija Ljubljana (assistant)
2018	Olimpija Ljubljana
2019–2020	Irtysh Pavlodar (assistant)
2020–2021	Radnički Kragujevac
2021–2022	Serbia U19
2022	Radnik Surdulica
2022	Mladost Novi Sad
2023	Železničar Pančevo
2024–	Red Star Belgrade (youth)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Coaching career

In 2018 Linta was the assistant to Ilija Stolica in Olimpija Ljubljana before taking over as head coach in the same year after Stolica left the club.^[2][3] Under his leadership Olimpija Ljubljana advanced in the second qualification round of the UEFA Europa League beating Finnish champions HJK Helsinki 3–0 and 4–1 qualifying for the third round against Spartak Trnava.^[4]

In 2019 Linta became assistant coach at Kazakhstani side Irtysh Pavlodar.

In 2020 he was appointed manager of Serbian First League club Radnički Kragujevac.^[5]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Balkan Mirijevo
Beograd
IA Akranes	1997[6][7]	Úrvalsdeild	12	0			1	0			13	0
Skallagrimur	1999[6]	1. deild karla	13	0			–				13	0
	2000[6]	1. deild karla	15	2			–				15	2
	Total		28	2			0	0			28	2
Zeta	2000–01	First League of FR Yugoslavia	10	0			–
Mladost Apatin	2001–02	First League of FR Yugoslavia					–
Zemun	2002–03						–
IA Akranes	2003[6]	Úrvalsdeild	3	0			–				3	0
Vikingur	2003[6]	3. deild karla	4	0			–		5[b]	1	9	1
	2004[6]	2. deild karla	16	3	1	0	–		–		17	3
	2005[6]	1. deild karla	17	1	2	1	–		–		19	2
	Total		37	4	3	1	0	0	5	1	45	6
KA Akureyri	2006[6]	1. deild karla	10	0	4	0	–		–		14	0
	2007[6]	1. deild karla	17	3	1	0	–		–		18	3
	Total		27	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	32	3
Þór Akureyri	2008[6]	1. deild karla	21	6	2	0	–		–		23	6
	2009[6]	1. deild karla	17	2	1	0	–		–		18	2
	2010[6]	1. deild karla	20	8	2	0	–		–		22	8
	2011[6]	1. deild karla	16	0	2	0	–		–		18	0
	Total		74	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	81	16
Grundarfjördur	2012[6]	3. deild karla	15	1	0	0	–		1[c]	0	16	1
	2013[6]	3. deild karla	10	0	0	0	–		0	0	10	0
	Total		25	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	26	1
Career total			194	26	15	1	1	0	6	1	216	28

1. Includes Icelandic Men's Football Cup.
2. Appearances in 3. deild karla Úrslit
3. Appearance in 3. deild karla Aukakeppni