Boris Binkowski

Boris Binkowski (25 November 1945 – 25 November 2014) is an East German footballer who spent most of his career in Yugoslavia, with spells also in Austria and Belgium. As he spent most of his life and career in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he became vastly known in his Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian spelling of his name, Boris Binkovski.

Boris Binkowski
Boris Binkovski
Personal information
Full name Boris Edward Binkowski
Date of birth (1945-11-25)25 November 1945
Place of birth Finow, East Germany
Date of death 25 November 2014(2014-11-25) (aged 69)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1963 Triglav Kranj
1963–1965 Kladivar
1965–1973 Maribor 182 (30)
1972 → Mura (loan)
1973–1974 Wacker Innsbruck 6 (1)
1974–1975 LASK Linz 19 (1)
1976 Royal Antwerp 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Finow, East Germany,[1] right at the end of Second World War, Binkowski played with Slovenian clubs NK Triglav Kranj[2] and NK Kladivar in Yugoslav third level before joining NK Maribor in 1965.[3] Maribor was back then playing in the Yugoslav Second League and Binkowski was part of the generation that achieved promotion to the Yugoslav First League in 1967. He will play with Maribor for almost a decade, the exception were two half seasons he spent on loan with Mura in the Second League, in second half of season 1971–72 and first half of 1972–73.[3] He made 182 appearances and scored 30 goals in the league with Maribor.[4]

In summer 1973 he moved to neighbouring Austria where he played a season with FC Wacker Innsbruck[5] and then a season and a half with LASK Linz in the Austrian Bundesliga.[6] During the winter-break of 1975–76 he joined Royal Antwerp and played with them the second half of the 1975–76 Belgian First Division.[1] He stayed at Royal Antwerp at several functions within the club until 1992.[1]

He died on 25 November 2014.[2]

References
  1. Boris Binkovski at rafcmuseum.be
  2. Binkovski jih ima 70 at preberi.si, 27-11-2014 (in Sinhala)
  3. Asovi YU fudbala, page 75
  4. "Binkovski Boris- nastopi" [Boris Binkovski stats] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  5. Datensatz "Ausländische Spieler", oberste österreichische Spielklasse, Saisonen 1945/46 bis 2005/06, page 7
  6. Boris Binkovski at Woordfootball.net


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