Vedran Runje
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 February 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Sinj, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Junak Sinj | |||
| –1996 | Hajduk Split | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1998 | Hajduk Split | 23 | (0) |
| 1998–2001 | Standard Liège | 96 | (0) |
| 2001–2004 | Marseille | 92 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Standard Liège | 68 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Beşiktaş | 33 | (0) |
| 2007–2011 | Lens | 133 | (0) |
| Total | 445 | (0) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1993–1996 | Croatia U20 | 8 | (0) |
| 2006–2011 | Croatia | 22 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 June 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 June 2011 |
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Vedran Runje (born 10 February 1976) is a former Croatian football goalkeeper. A product of Hajduk Split academy, Runje spent the majority of his career abroad with Standard Liège in Belgium, Marseille and Lens in France and Besiktas in Turkey. With Standard, he won three Belgian League Goalkeeper of the Year awards. Runje was also capped 22 times for Croatia national team and was part of the tournament squad at the UEFA Euro 2008.
Runje began his professional career at Hajduk Split in 1996, but was unable to become a regular at the firstly team with first Tonči Gabrić, the Croatian national team's back-up goalkeeper at the time, and eventually young prospect Stipe Pletikosa being selected ahead of him. He eventually left the club in 1998 and joined Belgian side Standard Liège.
Runje played for Standard Liège until 2001, being named Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year in 1999 and 2001. He went on to join French club Olympique Marseille, where he was the first-choice goalkeeper over the following two and a half seasons. He helped Marseille qualify for the UEFA Champions League in 2003 and appeared in 5 of the club's 6 matches in the group stage of the competition in 2003–04. He was the club's first-choice goalkeeper until December 2003, losing his place following the arrival of Fabien Barthez in January 2004 and making no further appearances in the Ligue 1 and European competition until the end of the season.
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