Dean Klafuric (born 26 July 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager (UEFA PRO license) with coaching experience in top clubs worldwide.
He has a vast experience in developing young players, what he showed working in one of the best European football academies (Dinamo Zagreb) (such as Filip Benkovic, Marko Pjaca, Alen Halilovic, Ante Coric, Dominik Livakovic, Josip Brekalo, Borna Sosa, Branimir Kalaica, Nikola Moro, David Colina, Adrian Šemper, Dominik Kotarski)
Klafuric started to work as a coach in NK Udarnik in 2005.
He accepted place of head coach of Croatia Women's national football team in 2009.
In 2012 he was relieved from the coaching position.In 2012 he started working with young teams in football school at GNK Dinamo Zagreb and had opportunity to spread his knowledge on 35.
AEFCA-e congress in Zagreb which gathered many famous coaches.On 22 April 2018 he took over the caretaker manager role in Legia Warsaw after Romeo Jozak got fired He won with the team the domestic cup and a domestic league title double.
On 4 June 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of Legia Warsaw..He was sacked as Legia manager on 1 August 2018.
On 26 June 2019 Klafuric started to work as a manager in NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac..
On 25 July 2019 after a change of the board, he released his contract.