Stankovic later changed from striker to defender based on his experience and age and held this position until the end of his career as an active footballer.

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, he switched back to DSV Leoben, which had relocated to the Regionalliga Mitte.

[3] Stanković was then without employment until 2011, and spent the time training, until joining the Styrian national team SC Liezen in 2013.

After he left the club after less than a year in the summer of 2014, Stanković was hired as a coach from the 2014/15 season by SV Hinterberg.

[4] From summer 2016 he then trained the ESV Knittelfeld in the Styrian Oberliga Nord (5th league) but was released at the end of October 2016 after the team only ranked ninth in the table.