NK Rijeka

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HNK Rijeka is a Croatian football club, from Rijeka on the Croatian coast.

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History

The club was founded in 1946 as "Kvarner" and in this early period it had moderate success in various Yugoslav and local club championships. It changed its name to "Rijeka" on June 3, 1954, and advanced to the Yugoslav First League in the 1957/58 season. It remained in the top tier until the 1969/70 season, when it was demoted to the Second League. It was topping that league but it still took it until 1973/74 to return to the First League, where it would remain all the way until the breakup of Yugoslavia, by and large among the top ten clubs.

Rijeka won the Yugoslav Cup in 1978 and 1979, was a runner-up in 1987, won the Croatian Cup in 2005 and participated several times in various UEFA championships. Although it has never advanced to final stages of the competition, Rijeka has topped and shocked some of the biggest clubs in the history of soccer on its home field during the 1980's, like Real Madrid and Juventus.

Rijeka has been playing in the Croatian First League since the independence of the country in 1991, generally finishing near the top and has played more games in the competition then any other team due to many format changes of the league. In the season 1998/99 Rijeka battled for the first place with Croatia Zagreb until the finish of the last game. According to the wide-spread opinion, Rijeka lost the title due to the unfair judging, which was a product of the fact that Croatia Zagreb was then viewed as a state-club and a must-be-champion. In the other competitions, Rijeka has also played in the Croatian Cup finals in 1994 and participated in the qualifications to the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League.

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Stadium

The club's stadium, Kantrida Stadium, or just simply Kantrida, can hold 11,000 spectators.

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Achievements

  • 2 times Yugoslav Cup Winner (1978, 1979)
  • 1 time Yugoslav Cup Finalist (1987)
  • 1 time Croatian Cup Winner (2005)
  • 1 time Croatian Cup Finalist (1994)
  • 3 times best club from Croatia in Yugoslav First Division (1965, 1984, 1987)
  • 7 times second best club from Croatia in Yugoslav First Division
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Current squad 2005\/06

The numbers and positions are established according to the official website:www.nk-rijeka.hr and fan website www.forza-fiume.com

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Famous players

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Fans

The fans are known as Armada Rijeka.

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Trivia

In season 1984/85 Rijeka played 2nd stage of UEFA Cup against Real Madrid. On Kantrida Real had to admit the superiority of Rijeka with the result 3:1. On the second game in Madrid, the controversial, decisions of Belgian judge Schoeters, helped Real throw Rijeka out of the competition. Schoeters showed the white spot in 67th minute after fictional penalty situation and even showed 3 strange red cards to Rijeka players, the result was 3:0 for Real. That helped the obviously weaker Real to continue competition.

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External links

fr:HNK Rijeka hr:HNK Rijeka sh:NK Rijeka sl:Nogometni klub Rijeka

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