Croatian Football Cup

Croatian Football Cup
Founded	1992
Region	Croatia
Number of teams	48
Current champions	Dinamo Zagreb (14th title)
Most successful club(s)	Dinamo Zagreb (14 titles)
Website	Official website
2016–17 Croatian Football Cup

The Croatian Football Cup (Croatian: Hrvatski nogometni kup) is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important competition in Croatian football after the Croatian First Football League championship. It is governed by the Croatian Football Federation (CFF) and usually runs from late August to late May. Cup winners automatically qualify for next season's UEFA Europa League, except when cup winners are also First League champions, in which case cup finalists take their berth in the Europa League.^[1]

The cup was established in 1992,^[2] after Croatian clubs had abandoned the Yugoslav First League and Yugoslav Cup competitions following the breakup of Yugoslavia. As of the most recent 2015–16 season a total of 25 cup seasons were held. The competition has historically been dominated by Eternal Derby sides - the most successful club is Dinamo Zagreb (formerly known in the 1990s as "HAŠK Građanski" and "Croatia Zagreb") who appeared in 19 finals and won 14 titles, followed by Hajduk Split who won 6 titles out of 10 finals they appeared in.^[3]

Either Dinamo or Hajduk appeared in all but two cup finals (1999 and 2006) and only three other clubs have managed to win the cup - Rijeka (3 wins) and Inter Zaprešić and Osijek (1 win each).^[3] Although clubs can qualify for the cup via regional county cups, which are usually contested by second, third or fourth level sides, Istra 1961 (formerly known as Uljanik Pula) is the only team to have reached the cup final from outside the top level in 2003.

Format

Although in theory any club can take part in the cup, 48 teams enter the competition proper, based on three criteria:^[1]

Top sixteen best-ranked teams according to club coefficients calculated by the Croatian Football Federation which take into account their cup records in the previous five seasons
Twenty-one club winners of regional cups organised in each of 21 counties of Croatia
Eleven regional cup finalists, from the top 11 counties with the greatest number of active football clubs registered

Clubs which qualify via regional cups always enter in the preliminary round, which consists of 16 single-legged fixtures.^[1] In case of a draw at the end of normal time, thirty minutes of extra time is played, and if scores are still level, a penalty shootout is held to determine the winner of the tie.^[1]

Sixteen winners of the preliminary ties go on to the first round proper (round of 32), where they are joined by the sixteen best-ranked clubs according to cup coefficient (this usually means all First League clubs and a handful of best-ranked lower level teams). Round of 32 (R1) and round of 16 (R2) are also played as single-legged fixtures and, from 2015–16, so are quarter-finals.

Until the 2015–16 season, from the quarter-finals onward, the competition employed a two-legged tie format, with winners progressing through on aggregate score. In case the score is still level at the end of the second leg's regular time, a penalty shootout takes place to determine tie winners (i.e. extra time is not played in two-legged ties).^[1] With the exception of 1997 and 1999 finals, all finals were also played as two-legged fixtures until the rules were most recently changed for the 2014–15 season and a single-match final was made permanent.^[4]

List of winners

Key

	Match went to extra time
†	Match decided by a penalty shootout (from 2015 after extra time)
Bold	Winning team won The Double
Italics	Team from outside the Prva HNL

List of winners

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Venue(s)
1992	Inker Zaprešić (1)	1–1, 1–0	HAŠK Građanski	Stadion Intera, Zaprešić Maksimir, Zagreb
1992–93	Hajduk Split (1)	4–1, 1–2	Croatia Zagreb	Poljud, Split Maksimir, Zagreb
1993–94	Croatia Zagreb (1)	2–0, 0–1	Rijeka	Maksimir, Zagreb Kantrida, Rijeka
1994–95	Hajduk Split (2)	3–2, 1–0	Croatia Zagreb	Poljud, Split Maksimir, Zagreb
1995–96	Croatia Zagreb (2)	2–0, 1–0	Varteks	Stadion Varteksa, Varaždin Maksimir, Zagreb
1996–97	Croatia Zagreb (3)	2–1	NK Zagreb	Maksimir, Zagreb
1997–98	Croatia Zagreb (4)	1–0, 2–1	Varteks	Stadion Varteksa, Varaždin Maksimir, Zagreb
1998–99	Osijek (1)	2–1 (asdet) details	Cibalia	Maksimir, Zagreb
1999–2000	Hajduk Split (3)	2–0, 0–1 details	Dinamo Zagreb	Poljud, Split Maksimir, Zagreb
2000–01	Dinamo Zagreb (5)	2–0, 1–0 details	Hajduk Split	Poljud, Split Maksimir, Zagreb
2001–02	Dinamo Zagreb (6)	1–1, 1–0	Varteks	Maksimir, Zagreb Stadion Varteksa, Varaždin
2002–03	Hajduk Split (4)	1–0, 4–0 details	Uljanik Pula	Aldo Drosina, Pula Poljud, Split
2003–04	Dinamo Zagreb (7)	1–1, 0–0 (a)	Varteks	Stadion Varteksa, Varaždin Maksimir, Zagreb
2004–05	Rijeka (1)	2–1, 1–0 details	Hajduk Split	Kantrida, Rijeka Poljud, Split
2005–06	Rijeka (2)	4–0, 1–5 (a) details	Varteks	Kantrida, Rijeka Stadion Varteksa, Varaždin
2006–07	Dinamo Zagreb (8)	1–0, 1–1 details	Slaven Belupo	Maksimir, Zagreb Gradski stadion, Koprivnica
2007–08	Dinamo Zagreb (9)	3–0, 0–0 details	Hajduk Split	Maksimir, Zagreb Poljud, Split
2008–09	Dinamo Zagreb (10)	3–0, 0–3 (4–3 p) details	Hajduk Split	Maksimir, Zagreb Poljud, Split
2009–10	Hajduk Split (5)	2–1, 2–0 details	Šibenik	Poljud, Split Šubićevac, Šibenik
2010–11	Dinamo Zagreb (11)	5–1, 3–1 details	Varaždin	Maksimir, Zagreb Anđelko Herjavec, Varaždin
2011–12	Dinamo Zagreb (12)	0–0, 3–1 details	Osijek	Gradski vrt, Osijek Maksimir, Zagreb
2012–13	Hajduk Split (6)	2–1, 3–3 details	Lokomotiva	Poljud, Split Maksimir, Zagreb
2013–14	Rijeka (3)	1–0, 2–0 details	Dinamo Zagreb	Maksimir, Zagreb Kantrida, Rijeka
2014−15	Dinamo Zagreb (13)	0–0 (aet), (4–2 p) details	RNK Split	Maksimir, Zagreb
2015–16	Dinamo Zagreb (14)	2–1 details	Slaven Belupo	Gradski vrt, Osijek

Results by team

Club	Winners	Last final won	Runners-up	Last final lost
Dinamo Zagreb^[A]	14	2016	5	2014
Hajduk Split	6	2013	4	2009
Rijeka	3	2014	1	1994
Osijek	1	1999	1	2012
Inter Zaprešić^[B]	1	1992	0	& —
Varaždin^[C]	0	& —	6	2011
Slaven Belupo^[E]	0	& —	2	2016
NK Zagreb	0	& —	1	1997
Cibalia	0	& —	1	1999
Istra 1961^[D]	0	& —	1	2003
Šibenik	0	& —	1	2010
Lokomotiva	0	& —	1	2013
RNK Split	0	& —	1	2015

Footnotes

A. ^ Originally called Dinamo Zagreb, the club was renamed "HAŠK Građanski" in 1992, and then again "Croatia Zagreb" in the winter break of the 1992–93 season. The club reverted to its original name in February 2000.

B. ^ Inter Zaprešić was known by its sponsored name "Inker Zaprešić" (sometimes spelled "INKER") from 1991 to 2003.

C. ^ Varaždin were known as "Varteks" from 1958 to 2010.

D. ^ Istra 1961 was formerly known as "Uljanik Pula" (before 2003), "Pula 1856" (2003–05), "Pula Staro Češko" (2005–06), and "NK Pula" (2006–07) before adopting their current name in 2007. They are not to be confused with their cross-city rivals NK Istra.

E. ^ Slaven Belupo based in Koprivnica were formerly known as "Slaven" until 1992. From 1992 to 1994 they were called "Slaven Bilokalnik" before adopting their current name for sponsorship reasons. Since UEFA does not approve sponsored club names, the club is listed as "Slaven Koprivnica" in European competitions and on UEFA's website.

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Propozicije završnog dijela natjecanja za hrvatski nogometni kup" (PDF). Glasnik HNS-a (in Croatian). Croatian Football Federation. 5 August 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
↑ "Varteks target cup triumph". UEFA. 1 May 2002. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
1 2 Stokkermans, Karel (7 May 2010). "Croatia - Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
↑ Puric, Bojan (7 February 2000). "Croatian Cup 1992–1999 - All Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2010.

External links

Croatian Football Cup results at Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Cup at UEFA
League321.com - National cup results.

Croatian Football Cup seasons

1990s	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000

2000s	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

2010s	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Finals	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

UEFA members national football cups

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Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany Serbia and Montenegro USSR Yugoslavia

Non-UEFA	Vatican City

Football in Croatia

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National teams	Croatia U21 U20 U19 U18 U17 Women's

League system	Men's: 1. HNL 2. HNL 3. HNL 1.ŽNL Women's: 1. HNLŽ

Domestic cups	Croatian Football Cup Super Cup Women's Cup

Seasons	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

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