2009–10 Prva HNL

T-Com Prva HNL

Season	2009–10
Champions	Dinamo Zagreb 12th Croatian title 16th domestic title
Relegated	Croatia Sesvete NK Međimurje
Champions League	Dinamo Zagreb
Europa League	Hajduk Split Cibalia Šibenik
Matches played	240
Goals scored	649 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Davor Vugrinec (18)
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Prva HNL season was the nineteenth season of the Prva HNL (officially known as T-Com Prva HNL for sponsorship reasons) since its establishment in 1992. It began on 24 July 2009 and ended on 13 May 2010. Dinamo Zagreb were the defending champions, having won their eleventh championship title (and fourth consecutive title) the previous season, and they defended the title again, after a goalless draw with Hajduk Split on 1 May 2010.

The format was changed from previous season in that the league was expanded from 12 to 16 clubs.

Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

Due to the expansion, no teams were directly relegated following the 2008–09 season.

Four teams from Druga HNL 2008–09 earned direct promotion. These were champions Istra 1961, runners-up Karlovac, third-placed Lokomotiva and fifth-placed Međimurje. Fourth-placed team Slavonac CO had to step back from promotion after they were not able to find a suitable ground.

Croatia Sesvete as last-placed team had to compete in a two-legged play-off against the sixth-placed team from Druga HNL, Hrvatski dragovoljac. After a scoreless first leg, Croatia Sesvete retained their Prva HNL status by winning the second leg, 2–1.

Overview

Teams

Team	Head coach	Team captain	2008–09 result	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Cibalia !Cibalia	Stanko Mršić	Boris Leutar	h !8th	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Croatia Sesvete !Croatia Sesvete	Goran Jerković	Saša Mus	l !12th	Diadora
Dinamo !Dinamo Zagreb	Krunoslav Jurčić	Igor Bišćan	a !1st	Diadora	INA, Croatia osiguranje
Hajduk !Hajduk Split	Stanko Poklepović	Srđan Andrić	b !2nd	Umbro	INA
Inter Zaprešić !Inter Zaprešić	Ilija Lončarević	Tomislav Šarić	i !9th	Legea	Hidrocommerce
Istra 1961 !Istra 1961	Zoran Vulić	Dalibor Pauletić	m !2.HNL, 1st	Legea	Puris, Favorit pivo
Karlovac !Karlovac	Igor Pamić	Matija Štefančić	n !2.HNL, 2nd	Legea
Lokomotiva !Lokomotiva	Roy Ferenčina	Željko Sopić	o !2.HNL, 4th	Legea
Medjimurje !Međimurje	Tomislav Ivković	Mario Darmopil	p !2.HNL, 5th	Legea
Osijek !Osijek	Tomislav Steinbrückner	Domagoj Vida	g !7th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Rijeka !Rijeka	Nenad Gračan	Fausto Budicin	c !3rd	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Slaven Belupo !Slaven Belupo	Zlatko Dalić	Dalibor Poldrugač	d !4th	Adidas	Belupo
Sibenik !Šibenik	Branko Karačić	Arijan Ademi	f !6th	Jako
Varteks !Varteks	Samir Toplak	Miljenko Mumlek	j !10th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Zadar !Zadar	Dalibor Zebić	Jakov Surać	k !11th	Jako
Zagreb !NK Zagreb	Igor Štimac	Ivan Parlov	e !5th	Legea

Clubs indicated in bold qualified for the 2009-10 season's UEFA competitions, Champions League and Europa League, respectively. See European competitions section for further information.

Stadia and locations

Since most Druga HNL stadiums failed to meet the licensing requirements for top-level football, the Croatian Football Federation announced on 8 May 2008 that clubs who are likely to win promotion berths have agreed to lease stadiums approved for top-flight football. Below is the list of all the stadiums which are licensed to be used in the Prva HNL, along with their home clubs and the promoted clubs who secured rights to use them as "guests" until their own grounds have sufficiently been upgraded to host top-level matches.

Cibalia

Inter

Istra 1961

Hajduk

Karlovac

Osijek

Rijeka

S. Belupo

Šibenik

Međimurje

Varteks

Zadar

Zagreb
Cr. Sesvete

D. Zagreb
Lokomotiva

Locations of teams in 2009–10 Prva HNL

Stadium	City	Home club	Licensed club(s)	Capacity
Stadion HNK Cibalia	Vinkovci	Cibalia		9,920
ŠRC Zaprešić	Zaprešić	Inter Zaprešić		4,528
Kranjčevićeva	Zagreb	NK Zagreb	Croatia Sesvete	8,850
Kantrida	Rijeka	Rijeka		10,275
Poljud	Split	Hajduk Split		35,000
Anđelko Herjavec	Varaždin	Varteks		10,800
Maksimir	Zagreb	Dinamo Zagreb	Lokomotiva	37,168
Gradski vrt	Osijek	Osijek		19,500
Gradski stadion	Koprivnica	Slaven Belupo		4,000
Šubićevac	Šibenik	Šibenik		8,000
Stanovi	Zadar	Zadar		5,860
Branko Čavlović-Čavlek	Karlovac	Karlovac		12,000
SRC Mladost	Čakovec	Međimurje		8,000
Veruda	Pula	Istra 1961		3,000

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Slaven Belupo	Mile Petković	Mutual consent	31 May 2009	Milivoj Bračun	9 June 2009	Pre-season
Hajduk Split	Ante Miše	Resigned	2 August 2009	Ivica Kalinić	3 August 2009	12th
Šibenik	Ivica Kalinić	Resigned	3 August 2009	Branko Karačić	11 August 2009	5th
Slaven Belupo	Milivoj Bračun	Mutual consent	6 August 2009	Zlatko Dalić	8 August 2009	6th
Hajduk Split	Ivica Kalinić	Mutual consent	18 August 2009	Edoardo Reja	18 August 2009	13th
Croatia Sesvete	Anto Petrović	Sacked	1 September 2009	Nenad Gračan	1 September 2009	15th
NK Zagreb	Luka Pavlović	Resigned	11 September 2009	Igor Štimac	14 September 2009	16th
Rijeka	Robert Rubčić	Resigned	21 September 2009	Zoran Vulić	22 September 2009	7th
Međimurje	Mario Ćutuk	Sacked	8 October 2009	Srećko Bogdan	9 October 2009	11th
Istra 1961	Elvis Scoria	Mutual consent	2 November 2009	Valdi Šumberac		14th
Rijeka	Zoran Vulić	Resigned	10 November 2009	Nenad Gračan	10 November 2009	7th
Croatia Sesvete	Nenad Gračan	Resigned	10 November 2009	Anto Petrović		15th
Croatia Sesvete	Anto Petrović	Resigned	24 November 2009	Adolf Pinter	19 January 2010	16th
Varteks	Dražen Besek	Mutual consent	26 December 2009	Damir Jagačić	4 January 2010	11th
Hajduk Split	Edoardo Reja	Signed by Lazio	9 February 2010	Stanko Poklepović	12 February 2010	7th
Istra 1961	Valdi Šumberac	Sacked	28 February 2010	Zoran Vulić	28 February 2010	15th
Croatia Sesvete	Adolf Pinter	Sacked	5 March 2010	Goran Jerković	5 March 2010	16th
Varteks	Damir Jagačić	Sacked	15 March 2010	Samir Toplak	15 March 2010	11th
Međimurje	Srećko Bogdan	Sacked	2 April 2010	Tomislav Ivković	3 April 2010	12th
Inter Zaprešić	Borimir Perković	Sacked	11 April 2010	Ilija Lončarević	11 April 2010	12th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	30	18	8	4	70	20	+50	62	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Hajduk Split	30	17	7	6	50	21	+29	58	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round a
3	Cibalia	30	16	9	5	46	20	+26	57	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
4	Šibenik	30	14	8	8	34	37	−3	50	2010–11 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
5	Osijek	30	13	8	9	49	36	+13	47
6	Karlovac	30	12	11	7	32	23	+9	47
7	Slaven Belupo	30	11	10	9	44	45	−1	43
8	Lokomotiva	30	12	6	12	35	38	−3	42
9	Rijeka	30	10	10	10	49	44	+5	40
10	Varteks	30	9	9	12	36	43	−7	36
11	Istra 1961	30	9	8	13	31	40	−9	35
12	Zadar	30	9	7	14	27	41	−14	34
13	Inter Zaprešić	30	10	3	17	36	50	−14	33		INT 1–3 ZAG ZAG 0–3 INT
14	NK Zagreb	30	9	6	15	43	49	−6	33	Relegation to the 2010–11 Druga HNL b
15	Međimurje (R)	30	8	5	17	37	61	−24	29
16	Croatia Sesvete (R)	30	3	5	22	30	81	−51	14

Source: soccerway
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd goal difference; 3^rd goals scored
For deciding champions, qualification to UEFA Europa League and relegation: 1^st points; 2^nd head-to-head points; 3^rd head-to-head goal difference; 4^th head-to-head away goals scored..
a. Hajduk Split won the 2009–10 Croatian Cup and thus qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
b. Despite finishing 14th NK Zagreb eventually avoided relegation as only two second level clubs were granted first division licences by the Croatian Football Federation.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away1

CIB

CRS

DIN

HAJ

INT

IST

KAR

LOK

MEĐ

OSI

RIJ

SLA

ŠIB

VAR

ZAD

ZAG

Cibalia

5–0

2–0

0–0

2–0

0–0

2–2

1–0

3–0

1–1

1–0

2–0

4–3

4–0

2–0

1–0

Croatia Sesvete

0–3

2–5

2–5

3–1

2–2

0–3

1–2

2–1

1–2

1–2

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–2

1–4

Dinamo Zagreb

1–1

6–0

0–0

3–1

7–1

1–1

1–0

4–0

5–0

6–0

6–0

5–0

2–1

0–0

1–1

Hajduk Split

2–1

6–0

2–1

2–2

1–0

1–0

1–0

4–1

1–0

1–1

5–0

0–1

2–0

0–1

2–0

Inter Zaprešić

1–0

1–2

0–1

0–3

1–0

0–1

4–2

2–1

0–3

3–0

2–0

0–1

1–1

4–3

1–3

Istra 1961

0–0

1–0

0–0

0–1

2–0

2–0

3–1

1–2

1–3

2–0

2–0

1–2

0–1

2–0

2–1

Karlovac

3–0

0–0

1–3

1–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

2–0

1–0

2–0

0–0

0–2

1–1

2–0

0–0

Lokomotiva

2–0

3–2

0–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

0–0

1–3

2–2

3–0

1–1

0–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

Međimurje

0–2

2–1

1–4

1–1

2–1

4–2

1–1

0–3

1–1

1–5

1–1

4–0

0–0

3–0

4–2

Osijek

2–0

0–0

0–1

1–1

4–2

3–0

0–1

3–0

3–1

1–0

0–1

3–0

1–1

3–0

5–3

Rijeka

1–1

4–2

2–2

2–0

3–1

2–0

1–1

6–0

4–0

1–1

2–3

0–1

3–3

3–2

3–1

Slaven Belupo

1–1

4–0

0–1

2–1

5–2

3–0

1–3

1–0

3–2

5–2

1–1

2–2

2–3

2–1

2–0

Šibenik

0–2

2–0

2–1

0–1

0–0

1–1

1–0

0–0

1–0

2–2

1–0

0–0

2–1

1–1

3–1

Varteks

1–1

4–1

1–2

0–3

2–1

0–2

0–1

2–1

3–0

1–2

1–1

0–0

5–1

1–0

1–0

Zadar

0–3

2–0

0–0

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

2–1

2–0

1–0

NK Zagreb

0–1

4–2

1–0

1–1

0–3

1–1

4–2

2–4

2–1

1–0

1–1

3–3

0–2

3–0

4–0

Source: TBA
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

• First goal of the season: Tomislav Bosec for Inter Zaprešić against Varteks, 40th minute (24 July 2009).
• Fastest goal in a match: 1st minute – Eliomar for Međimurje against Zadar (29 August 2009).

• Most goals in a match: 8 goals

Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961 (25 July 2009).

Osijek 5–3 NK Zagreb (7 November 2009).

• Widest winning margin: 6 goals

Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961 (25 July 2009).

Rijeka 6–0 Lokomotiva (26 July 2009).

Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Slaven Belupo (30 August 2009).

Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Rijeka (20 September 2009).

Hajduk Split 6–0 Croatia Sesvete (21 November 2009).

Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Croatia Sesvete (27 February 2010).

• Most goals scored by a losing team: 3 goals

Inter Zaprešić 4–3 Zadar (16 October 2009).

Osijek 5–3 NK Zagreb (7 November 2009).

Cibalia 4–3 Šibenik (14 April 2010).

• First own goal of the season: Marko Puškarić (Croatia Sesvete) for Šibenik, 50th minute (25 July 2009).
• First penalty kick of the season: Bojan Vručina (Slaven Belupo), missed against NK Zagreb, 21st minute (26 July 2009).
• First hat-trick of the season: Ahmad Sharbini for Rijeka against Lokomotiva (26 July 2009).
• First yellow card of the season: Igor Prahić for Varteks against Inter Zaprešić, 36th minute (24 July 2009).
• First direct red card of the season: Ivan Parlov for NK Zagreb against Rijeka, 58th minute (9 August 2009).

Top goalscorers

As of 13 May 2010; Source: Prva-HNL

18 goals

• Davor Vugrinec (NK Zagreb)

17 goals

• Senijad Ibričić (Hajduk Split)

15 goals

• Asim Šehić (Istra 1961)

14 goals

• Nino Bule (Lokomotiva)
• Mario Mandžukić (Dinamo Zagreb)

13 goals

• Bojan Golubović (Međimurje)
• Pedro Morales (Dinamo Zagreb)

11 goals

• Milan Badelj (Dinamo Zagreb)
• Miljenko Mumlek (Varteks)
• Ermin Zec (Šibenik)

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Date	Report
Sharbini, AnasAnas Sharbini	Rijeka	Lokomotiva	26 July 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Sharbini, AhmadAhmad Sharbini	Rijeka	Lokomotiva	26 July 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Sammir	Dinamo Zagreb	Osijek	16 August 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Miroslav Šarić	Inter Zaprešić	Zadar	16 October 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Davor Vugrinec	NK Zagreb	Osijek	7 November 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Mario Mandžukić	Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia Sesvete	27 February 2010	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Ante Pokrajčić	Croatia Sesvete	Inter Zaprešić	10 April 2010	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Vedran Gerc	Rijeka	Međimurje	10 April 2010	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Josip Milardović	Cibalia	Croatia Sesvete	8 May 2010
Mislav Oršić	Inter Zaprešić	Lokomotiva	31 May 2010
Senijad Ibričić	Hajduk Split	Croatia Sesvete	31 May 2010

Transfers

• List of Croatian football transfers summer 2009
• List of Croatian football transfers winter 2009–10

See also

• 2009–10 Croatian Cup
• 2009–10 Druga HNL

External links

• Official website (Croatian)
• Prva HNL at UEFA.com
• 2009–10 in Croatian Football at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation