Career
He is renowned as a great finisher, and has top off the ball instincts to get into scoring positions. He started his professional career at NK Svoboda. Later he has played for clubs such as NK Olimpija, South Carolina Bastia (France), Servette Football Club Geneva (Switzerland), Hammarby IF (Sweden), Panionios Football Club (Greece), Dalian Shide (China) and R.E.Mouscron (Belgium).
Early career He managed U-19 and U-16 youth teams in national team of Slovenia.
Botev Plovdiv Ermin Šiljak joined Botev Plovdiv on July 2015. He made a debut in a match against the local rivals Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
Plovdiv derby ended in a 1-1 draw. On 27 October, Botev Plovdiv was shockingly eliminated on the 1/8 finals of the Bulgarian Cup after 0-1 defeat by the outsiders Football Club Sozopol.
After that Šiljak took the controversial decision to expel Yordan Hristov, Mariyan Ognyanov, Plamen Nikolov and Joël Tshibamba from the first team
The changes did not lead to any positive results with young players and his team lost twice in a row in A Grupa: 2-0 away defeat from Slavia Sofia and 1-3 home defeat from Beroe Stara Zagora. After less than 6 months, end of November 2015, Ermin Šiljak resigned as a manager of Botev Plovdiv. Šiljak played for the Slovenia national football team and was a participant at the Euro 2000.
He scored 9 goals in 9 games in Euro 2004 qualifications.
Šiljak scored first goal in first home match of independent Slovenia in Kopar against U-21 Czeho-Slovakia in 1992. International goals Scores and results list Slovenia"s goal tally first.
Olimpija Ljubljana South Carolina Bastia Servette Football Club Hammarby IF Dalian Shide R.E. Mouscron Individual.