NK Bravo

Also written as Bravo.

The club

Nogometni klub Bravo were founded on 28 February 2006 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The club is based in the city's Šiška district and their supporters are known as Šiškarji, "the boys from Šiška". Bravo are a separate and unrelated club from NK Olimpija Ljubljana, the other Ljubljana club in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, despite sharing the same city; Olimpija were founded in 1911 (reconstituted in 2005 after the original club's collapse) and play at the much larger Stožice Stadium as their own ground, while Bravo's home ground is Športni park Šiška, capacity 2,308. English-language sources also list Stožice Stadium, capacity 16,038, as a Bravo venue; this dossier could not establish from the sources read here whether that reflects Bravo playing selected European or high-attendance league fixtures at Stožice rather than at Šiška, so both should be treated as sourced but not fully reconciled here. Bravo are also not to be confused with NK Celje, NK Aluminij or NK Koper, the other Slovenian clubs covered in this corpus; Bravo have never carried any of those names.

Bravo's home kit is white and yellow, their away kit red and blue, with a blue kit also used as an alternate. The president is Luka Brezovec and the head coach is Aleš Arnol, who took over during the 2022/23 season; the club's earlier head coaches were not established from the sources read here beyond the fact that Dejan Grabić left the post on 28 February 2023 and Arnol succeeded him on 1 March 2023.

Bravo rose through the Slovenian league system in under a decade. They won the Liga MNZ Ljubljana in 2013/14, the Regionalna liga Ljubljana in 2014/15, the Slovenian Third League in 2016/17, the MNZ Ljubljana Cup in 2017/18, and the Slovenian Second League in 2018/19, earning promotion to the PrvaLiga alongside Tabor Sežana for the 2019/20 season, their first ever in the Slovenian top flight.

Recent seasons

Bravo finished 6th in their debut PrvaLiga season, 2019/20, with 49 points. They were 5th in 2020/21 with 45 points from 10 wins, 15 draws and 11 defeats, 39 goals scored and 39 conceded, and 5th again in 2021/22 with 49 points from 13 wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats, 33 scored and 33 conceded. In 2022/23 they dropped to 8th with 36 points from 9 wins, 9 draws and 18 defeats, 33 scored and 41 conceded; Grabić left as head coach that February and Arnol took over. In 2023/24 they recovered to 4th with 50 points from 12 wins, 14 draws and 10 defeats, 42 scored and 42 conceded, a finish that earned Conference League qualification. In 2024/25 they were 5th with 55 points from 14 wins, 13 draws and 9 defeats, 52 scored and 44 conceded. Their best PrvaLiga season came in 2025/26: 3rd place with 62 points from 34 matches, 19 wins, 5 draws and 10 defeats, 62 goals scored and 51 conceded, which earned entry to the 2026/27 Conference League at the second qualifying round. Admir Bristrić was Bravo's leading scorer that season with 10 goals, 4th in the division's scoring charts, with Vénuste Baboula contributing 8.

Honours and landmarks

Slovenian Second League champions in 2018/19 and Slovenian Third League champions in 2016/17, along with the Regionalna liga Ljubljana in 2014/15 and the Liga MNZ Ljubljana in 2013/14. Bravo have not yet won the Slovenian PrvaLiga or the Slovenian Cup; their best league finish is the 3rd place of 2025/26 and their best cup run reached the final of the 2021/22 Slovenian Cup, where they lost 3-1 to Koper at the Stadion Z'dežele in Celje on 11 May 2022, Gregor Bajde scoring Bravo's goal against a Koper side who scored through Lamin Colley twice and Andrej Kotnik once, in front of 3,200 with Slavko Vinčić refereeing. No Slovenian championship, cup, or top-flight honour from before the club's 2006 founding applies, since Bravo did not exist before then; any predecessor-club history was not established from the sources read here.

Notable scorelines

In the 2024/25 Conference League first qualifying round Bravo lost 0-1 at home to Connah's Quay Nomads of Wales but won 2-0 after extra time away to go through 2-1 on aggregate, their first European tie won. Domestically, Bravo's biggest win found in the sources read here is 6-0 away to Radomlje on 30 August 2025, and their heaviest defeat found here is 2-6 away to Koper on 31 January 2026, the highest-scoring PrvaLiga match of that season. The club's all-time record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here.

European record

Bravo's European history is short. They first qualified for the UEFA Conference League in 2024/25 on the strength of their 2023/24 fourth-place league finish. In the first qualifying round they beat Connah's Quay Nomads of Wales 2-1 on aggregate, losing the home leg 0-1 before winning 2-0 after extra time away. In the second qualifying round they lost to Zrinjski Mostar of Bosnia and Herzegovina, winning the home leg 1-0 but losing 1-3 away, out 2-3 on aggregate. Bravo returned to Europe in 2026/27 after their third-place finish in 2025/26, entering the Conference League at the second qualifying round against Shkëndija of North Macedonia; Bravo won the home leg 2-1 but lost 1-3 away, going out 3-4 on aggregate. Exact dates, goalscorers, attendances and referees for these ties were not established from the sources read here.

Head-to-head notes

No specific head-to-head record against Olimpija Ljubljana, Celje, Aluminij or Koper was established from the sources read here. Bravo's only meeting with any of those three clubs found in the sources read here is the 2021/22 Slovenian Cup final defeat to Koper described above.

Right now (2026/27)

Aleš Arnol remains head coach and Luka Brezovec remains president. Bravo entered the 2026/27 UEFA Conference League at the second qualifying round as Slovenian third-place finishers and were eliminated by Shkëndija of North Macedonia, winning the home leg 2-1 but losing 1-3 away to go out 3-4 on aggregate. Bravo's position in the 2026/27 PrvaLiga table, their summer transfer business and any further detail of the Shkëndija tie were not established from the sources read here.

Sources

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