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Stipe Biuk

Croatian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ106906124
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Stipe Biuk (Croatian pronunciation: [stǐːpe bîuːk]; born 26 December 2002) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ekstraklasa club Widzew Łódź.

Club career

Hajduk Split

Biuk came through the ranks of Solin, before joining the Hajduk Split in 2011. While in the Hajduk academy, he attracted attention from Bayern Munich and Red Bull Salzburg. On 16 January 2021, he signed a professional contract with Hajduk, tying him to the club until 2026. At the time of signing the contract, Biuk had offers from 1899 Hoffenheim, VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Galatasaray.

Biuk made his debut for Hajduk on 2 March 2021, in a Croatian Cup 3–0 victory over Zagreb, being substituted on for Jairo in the 74th minute. He made his Prva HNL debut on the 20 March 2021, starting on the left wing in Hajduk's 1–0 derby win against Šibenik, due to absence of Alexander Kačaniklić, Dimitrios Diamantakos and Umut Nayir. After the match, coach Paolo Tramezzani gave Biuk no significant amount of playtime until the 2–0 derby defeat to Dinamo Zagreb on 25 April. Since then, Biuk became a regular for Hajduk, scoring three goals and delivering two assists by the end of the season. He scored his debut goal for Hajduk on 1 May, in a 3–2 derby victory over Rijeka.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Stipe Biuk” is croatian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stipe, Biuk and Croatian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2011, 2021, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-12-26. For this dossier, Stipe, Biuk and Croatian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Stipe Biuk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.