Career
He spent two seasons with Zagreb as the club"s first-choice goalkeeper and then he moved abroad by signing with Austrian club Football Club Linz for the 1996-1997 season. He subsequently continued to play for LASK Linz after Football Club Linz merged with the club in the summer of 1997. Pavlović made his debut for the Croatian national team playing as the team"s substitute goalkeeper in the second half of their friendly match against Israel on 26 March 1996 in Varaždin.
In 2000, he made three appearances for Croatia in international friendlies before he went on to play the only competitive international match in his career, playing all 90 minutes against Scotland in the Croatian national team"s second qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup on 11 October 2000 in Zagreb.
He made his last appearance for the Croatian national team in their friendly match against Greece on 25 April 2001 in Varaždin. At club level, Pavlović played for LASK Linz until the end of the 2000-2001 season and then he left the club for Royal Society of Chemistry Anderlecht from Belgium.
However, he never managed to establish himself as the first-choice goalkeeper in the Anderlecht team in both of the two seasons he spent there and returned to Austria by signing with Wüstenrot Salzburg in July 2003. He spent only one half-season with Salzburg and went on to play for Football Club Kärnten until the end of the 2003-2004 season.
In July 2004, Pavlović signed with Wacker Tirol and has been the club"s first-choice goalkeeper ever since, making a total of 57 Bundesliga appearances until the end of the 2005-2006 season.