Nikola Gavrić

Nikola Gavrić
Personal information
Full name	Nikola Gavrić
Date of birth	March 17, 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth	Pula, Croatia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Opatija
Number	6
Youth career
2003–2013	Istra 1961
2013–2014	Vojvodina
Senior career*
Years	Team
2014	Francavilla
2015–2017	Novigrad
2017–2018	Sliema Wanderers
2018–2019	Sloboda Užice
2019–2021	Borec
2021	Sesvete
2022–2023	Opatija
2023–	Jadran Poreč
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 September 2023

Nikola Gavrić (born 17 March 1995), is a Croatian football defender who plays for Opatija.

Club career[edit]

Born in Pula,^[1] the capital of Istria County, Gavrić played in the youth team of local side NK Istra 1961^[2] before signing his first professional contract when he was 18, with Serbian side FK Vojvodina.^[2] After a year playing for the youth and B teams of Vojvodina, he moved to Italy and played with F.C. Francavilla in the first half of the 2014–15 Serie D.^[2] During the winter-break he returned to Croatia and joined NK Novigrad. He was part of the team that won the 2015–16 Croatian Third League–West and playing subsequently in the 2016–17 Croatian Second Football League, scoring once in 35 league games for the club overall.^[3]^[4] Then he played with Sliema Wanderers F.C. in the 2017–18 Maltese Premier League and after a year in Malta, he moved to Serbia, this time signing with FK Sloboda Užice and playing in the 2018–19 Serbian First League.^[5]

^ Nikola Gavric at srbijafudbal.com, retrrieved 23-9-2018 (in Serbian)
^ ^a ^b ^c Mladi pulski stoper debitirao za Sliemu Wanderers by Elvis Uravic, at istrasport.eu, 31-8-2017, retrieved 23-9-2018 (in Croatian)
^ ^a ^b Nikola Gavric at footballdatabase.eu
^ Nikola Gavrić at Semafor
^ Nikola Gavric profile at Socceway