NK Zadar

NK Zadar

Full name	Nogometni klub Zadar
Founded	26 April 1945 (1945-04-26) as FD Zadar
Ground	Stadion Stanovi
Ground Capacity	5,860
Chairman	Josip Bajlo
Manager	Josip Butić
League	Treća HNL
2015–16	Druga HNL, 12th (relegated)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

NK Zadar is a Croatian football club based in Zadar, a city on the Adriatic coast. They currently play in the Croatian Third League.

History

Towards the end of World War II the club was founded on 26 April 1945 as the Fiskulturno društvo Zadar with the departments of football, basketball and athletics. On 9 February 1949, the football department was spun off as NK Zadar.^[1]

In 1992 as Zadarkomerc the club was founding member of the Prva HNL. Since then, the club has always played up to five seasons in the first division of Croatia. Since 2001, the club is officially named NK Zadar.

Their greatest success in the Croatian Football Cup was achieved in the 1995–96 season when they reached the semi-finals.^[2]

In 2001, the club was returned to Prva HNL, where he spent four consecutive seasons, but was again relegated after he was heavily defeated by Dinamo Zagreb at Maksimir (7–0), which the match ended at 62 minutes after the Zadar remained with too small number of players due to red cards and injuries of players.

After two seasons the Zadar has returned to Prva HNL on 30 May 2007 after beating NK Pula in the promotion playoff, 6–2 on aggregate, but eight years later Zadar was relegated to the Druga HNL. The catastrophic situation in the club was most affected their results, and Zadar was in following season again relegated to Treća HNL.

Stadium

NK Zadar's home stadium is the Stanovi with a capacity of 5,860.

Supporters

The club's supporters are known as the Tornado Zadar, but currently do not support because they are not satisfied with the management of the club.

Honours

• Prva B HNL:
  • Runners-up (1): 1995–96
• Druga HNL:
  • Runners-up (1): 2006–07

Current squad

As of 2 March 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Karlo Jurjević 2 MF Josip Bilaver 3 MF Matteo Pranić 4 DF Anđelo Paleka 5 FW Ivan Jovanović 6 DF Vedran Ješe 8 MF Jakov Surać 9 FW Andrija Milinković 10 FW Vlatko Šimunac 11 MF Anđelo Čulina 12 GK Jakov Pinčić 13 MF Ivan Jović 14 MF Kristijan Jurić

No. Position Player 15 DF Ivan Jurkić 17 MF Karlo Butić 18 FW Vlatko Blažević 19 MF Domagoj Krajačić 20 FW Želimir Terkeš 21 MF Andrija Bubnjar 22 MF Marko Tešija 23 DF Roberto Viduka 24 MF Dino Fazlić 25 MF Mario Jurjević 26 DF Luka Miletić 30 DF Hrvoje Plazanić

Seasons

Key

Top scorer shown in bold when he was also top scorer for the division.

Notable players

Former logo of club

To appear in this section a player must have:

• Played at least 150 league games for the club;
• Scored at least 50 league goals for the club; or
• Played at least one international match for their national team while playing for NK Zadar.

Years in brackets indicate their spells at the club.

• Jakov Surać (1992–1998, 2001–)^[3]
• Fahrudin Šehić (1992–1999)^[4]
• Zvonimir Jurić (1994–2005)^[5]
• Dalibor Zebić (1996–1999, 2001–2005)^[6]
• Dragan Blatnjak (2001–2003)
• Josip Bilaver (2003–)^[7]
• Želimir Terkeš (2004–2011, 2012–2013, 2014–)^[8]

Managers

References

External links

• NK Zadar on Facebook
• NK Zadar profile at UEFA.com
• NK Zadar at Sportnet.hr (Croatian)