Josip Skoblar (born 12 March 1941) is a Croatian former professional football player and manager.

While playing at Marseille, Skoblar won the French First Division twice (1970–71, 1971–72), 1971 Challenge des Champions and 1972 Coupe de France.

At the international level, Skoblar played for Yugoslavia appearing in 32 matches and scoring 11 goals.

He was in the national team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup where they finished in fourth place losing to Czechoslovakia in the semi-final.

As a manager, he managed NK Orijent, HNK Rijeka, Hamburger SV, Čelik Zenica, Dinamo Zagreb, Real Valladolid, Famalicão, NK Zagreb, Nîmes, Zadarkomerc, Marseille, Lebanon national team and Hajduk Split, with whom he won two Yugoslav Cups (1987, 1991).

He got spotted there by OFK Beograd goalie Perica Radenković who was serving his mandatory army stint in Zadar.

In France, Skoblar played for Marseille and was three time top goalscorer in Ligue 1 (1971–73).

[15] Due to an internal conflict he left the club after one season to pursue a career as a manager.

He took the club to the quarter-final of the 1981 Yugoslav Cup beating NK Zagreb and OFK Beograd.

This match made Skoblar reputation with the supporters and club rise to a status of legend.

In their away match against the Spanish side they lost 3:1 with Real Madrid advancing and eventually winning the Cup.

[19] The season ended with the club at a mid-table eight place, four points shy of a European qualification.

Later during the year in October he was again set as manager of Rijeka but was again sacked due to results in February 1996.

Years later Skoblar stated that he wasn't given enough freedom by the (then) president of the club Hrvoje Šarinić to work properly with the team.

He joined them in March 2000 and got sacked later in the year (October) after failing to qualify to the second round of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup.