1990–91 NK Dinamo Zagreb season

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Dinamo Zagreb
1990–91 season
PresidentJosip Šoić
Manager Josip Kuže
(until 1 October 1990)
Zdenko Kobeščak
Vlatko Marković
1. Federal League 2nd place
Marshal Tito Cup Quarter-finals
UEFA Cup First round
Top goalscorerLeague: Davor Šuker (22)
All: Davor Šuker (25)
Highest home attendance17,052 vs Partizan
(17 March 1991)
Lowest home attendance1,445 vs Radnički Niš
(5 December 1990)
Average home league attendance6,040
  1989–90
1991–92  

The 1990–91 season was Dinamo Zagreb's 45th season in the Yugoslav First League. It proved to be their last season played in the Yugoslav league system. Following the season's completion and due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, Croatian clubs, including Dinamo, decided to leave the league to form Prva HNL. [1]

Contents

Dinamo Zagreb finished runners-up in the league, with ten points behind champions Red Star Belgrade. [1] In their last appearance in the Yugoslav Cup Dinamo have beaten Borac Bosanski Šamac in the round of 32 (7–0) and FK Sarajevo in the round of 16 (5–1 on aggregate) before reaching the quarter-finals where they were knocked out by Borac Banja Luka (2–3 on aggregate). [2]

In European competitions Dinamo were drawn to play Italy's Atalanta in the 1990–91 UEFA Cup. After a goalless draw in Bergamo in the first leg, the return leg at Maksimir ended in a 1–1 draw, with Atalanta going through on away goals rule. [3]

Players

Squad

The following is the full list of players who appeared in league matches for Dinamo in the 1990–91 season. [4]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
--- GK Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Miralem Ibrahimović
--- GK Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Dražen Ladić
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Željko Cupan
--- DF Flag of Costa Rica.svg  CRC Rónald González Brenes
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Slavko Ištvanić
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Zvonko Lipovac
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Damir Lesjak
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Zoran Mamić
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Andrej Panadić
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Saša Peršon
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Željko Petrović
--- DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Muhamed Preljević
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Dražen Besek
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Zvonimir Boban
No.Pos.NationPlayer
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Josip Gašpar
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Mladen Mladenović
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Draženko Prskalo
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Kujtim Shala
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Vjekoslav Škrinjar
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Dževad Turković
--- MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Gregor Židan
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Željko Adžić
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Stjepan Deverić
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Primož Gliha
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Miljenko Kovačić
--- FW Flag of Costa Rica.svg  CRC Hernán Medford
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Alen Peternac
--- FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  YUG Davor Šuker

First Federal League

Matches

MDateOpponentsVenueResultScore
F–A
Dinamo scorersAttendanceRef
15 August 1990 Budućnost AL0–13,606 [5]
212 August 1990 Velež H (N)W2–1 Šuker (2)2,944 [5]
319 August 1990 Rijeka AD0–0 (1–3 p)3,301 [5]
426 August 1990 Borac Banja Luka HW2–1 Mladenović, Medford 9,168 [5]
51 September 1990 Partizan AL1–2 Šuker 12,483 [5]
615 September 1990 Zemun HW2–0 Šuker (2)7,825 [5]
726 September 1990 Vojvodina AL1–3 Šuker 4,500 [5]
829 September 1990 Osijek HD1–1 (6–7 p) Boban 3,894 [5]
97 October 1990 Sarajevo AD0–0 (5–4 p)1,629 [5]
1013 October 1990 Hajduk Split HD1–1 (4–3 p) Šuker 13,229 [5]
1121 October 1990 Spartak Subotica AD0–0 (4–2 p)1,600 [5]
124 November 1990 Sloboda Tuzla HW3–1 Boban (2), Medford 2,131 [5]
1318 November 1990 Red Star AL1–3 Petrović 18,130 [5]
1425 November 1990 Rad HW2–1 Mladenović, Prskalo 2,267 [5]
152 December 1990 Proleter Zrenjanin AL1–3 Medford 4,800 [5]
165 December 1990 Radnički Niš HW2–0 Šuker, Boban 1,445 [5]
179 December 1990 Željezničar AW3–1 Preljević, Cupan, Mladenović 1,404 [5]
1816 December 1990 Olimpija HW3–0 Šuker (pen.), Boban, Mladenović 3,117 [5]
1917 February 1991 Budućnost HW6–0 Šuker (pen.), Boban, Shala (2), Mladenović, Adžić 3,650 [5]
2024 February 1991 Velež AW2–1 Boban, Škrinjar 5,085 [5]
213 March 1991 Rijeka HW3–1 Adžić, Shala, Boban 7,837 [5]
2210 March 1991 Borac Banja Luka AD1–1 (5–6 p) Boban 6,607 [5]
2317 March 1991 Partizan HD0–0 (4–3 p)17,052 [5]
2422 March 1991 Zemun AD1–1 (7–6 p) Petrović 1,370 [5]
257 April 1991 Vojvodina HD2–2 (7–6 p) Židan, Šuker 4,971 [5]
2614 April 1991 Osijek AL1–2 Šuker 7,589 [5]
2721 April 1991 Sarajevo HW8–1 Šuker (2), Boban (3), Gašpar, Shala, Mladenović 4,208 [5]
2827 April 1991 Hajduk Split AW2–1 Šuker (2)28,000 [5]
295 May 1991 Spartak Subotica HW3–1 Šuker (2), Boban 3,842 [5]
3011 May 1991 Sloboda Tuzla AW3–0 Gliha, Deverić, Boban 972 [5]
3118 May 1991 Red Star HW3–2 Šuker (pen.), Gašpar, Židan 14,546 [5]
3226 May 1991 Rad AW2–0 Šuker, Boban 1,100 [5]
332 June 1991 Proleter Zrenjanin HW4–1 Šuker (2), Shala, Deverić 4,964 [5]
345 June 1991 Radnički Niš AD1–1 (4–5 p) Adžić 6,500 [5]
359 June 1991 Željezničar HW2–1 Shala (2)1,580 [5]
3616 June 1991 Olimpija AW3–1 Boban, Shala, Gliha 1,606 [5]

Standings

PosTeamPldWPKWPKLLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Red Star Belgrade (C)36254258835+5354Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Dinamo Zagreb [a] 36206467236+3646Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Partizan 361853106236+2641
4 Proleter Zrenjanin 361713155049+135Qualification for Intertoto Cup
5 Borac Banja Luka 361474114238+435
Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion
Notes:
  1. After the season, Croatian and Slovenian clubs left the Yugoslav federation and formed their own leagues. Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Osijek and Rijeka joined 1992 Prva HNL, while Olimpija joined 1991–92 Slovenian PrvaLiga.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
36201067236 +365014404915 +346662321 +2

Last updated: 2 October 2024.
Source: rsssf.org

Marshal Tito Cup

RoundDateOpponentsVenueResultScore
F–A
ScorersAttendanceRef
R328 August 1990 Borac Bosanski Šamac AW7–0 [6]
R16 (1st leg)15 August 1990 Sarajevo H (N)W1–0 [6]
R16 (2nd leg)22 August 1990 Sarajevo AW4–1 [6]
QF (1st leg)10 October 1990 Borac Banja Luka AL2–3 [6]
QF (2nd leg)21 November 1990 Borac Banja Luka HD0–0 [6]

Europe

RoundDateOpponentsVenueResultScore
F–A
ScorersAttendanceRef
R1 (1st leg)19 September 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Atalanta A D0–029,033
R1 (2nd leg)3 October 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Atalanta HD1–1 Boban 54'19,488

Players

Dinamo used a total of 28 players during the 1990–91 season, and there were 15 different goalscorers for the club. The club played 41 competitive matches this season (36 in the league, 3 in the national cup, and 2 in the UEFA Cup). Five players were named in the starting lineup 30 or more times.

The leading player in appearances was goalkeeper Dražen Ladić, who started 35 out of 36 league matches. The leading goalscorers in the league were Davor Šuker (22) and Zvonimir Boban (16), who finished second and third in the 1990–91 season goalscoring table, behind only Crvena Zvezda's Darko Pančev (34) who also won the European Golden Shoe for that season.

Boban scored the club's only hat-trick of the season, in a 8–1 thrashing of FK Sarajevo at Maksimir, in April 1991. Šuker had six braces in the league, with Kujtim Shala scoring two braces, and Boban one.

Dinamo was the second-highest goalscoring team in the league in 1990–91, producing 88 goals in 36 matches (2.44 per game) and had shared third-best defense, conceding 36 goals, including 10 clean sheets.

A feature of the Yugoslav league in this period were penalty shoot-outs, played in case of tied results at the end of regular time, with only the winning team earning a point. The rule was introduced to encourage attacking football and combat allegations of match-fixing. In the 1990–91 season Dinamo had ten draws in the league, and went on to win six of these shoot-outs.

In 1990–91 Dinamo were undefeated at Maksimir across all competitions, recording 13 wins and 4 draws in 17 league matches at home, winning 29 points (26 for straight wins plus 3 penalty kick wins) out of the maximum 34 (85.3%). In the cup, Dinamo played five matches, one of them at home, a 0–0 draw vs. Borac Banja Luka in the second leg of the quarter-finals in November 1990.

This does not include two "home" matches which FSJ ordered to be played outside of Zagreb due to the pitch invasion and violent rioting in the abandoned home game vs Red Star at the end of the previous season, in May 1990. Dinamo played these two matches at Stadion Kantrida in Rijeka in August: the 2–1 league win against Velež on 12 August, and the 1–0 win against Sarajevo in the Marshal Tito Cup three days later.

In Europe Dinamo held Italy's Atalanta to a 1–1 draw at Maksimir in the UEFA Cup, only getting knocked out due to the away goals rule.

Boban scored the club's only European goal of the season, against Italian club Atalanta in the return leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup at Maksimir in October 1990. At the end of the season Boban was transferred to Milan, where he would spend the following decade, while Šuker was sold to Sevilla in Spain, where he would soon become one of the league's top scorers of the early 1990s.

Before the season, Dinamo's Šuker and Panadić had been part of the Yugoslavia squad under national manager Ivica Osim at the 1990 FIFA World Cup played in Italy in July 1990. Just before that summer's tournament, Yugoslavia played a friendly at Dinamo's Stadion Maksimir in June 1990, in a controversial match which proved to be the last game played by Yugoslavia in Zagreb or anywhere else in Croatia.

Nevertheless, during the 1990–91 season the following Dinamo players earned full international caps for Yugoslavia: Petrović (1) Boban (4), Ladić (2), Šuker (2). The last Yugoslavia match to feature players from Croatian clubs was a Euro 1992 qualifier against Faroe Islands, played in Belgrade in May 1991. Petrović, who also left for Sevilla along with Šuker at the end of season, later earned 16 caps for FR Yugoslavia (later renamed "Serbia and Montenegro"), while Ladić, Boban and Šuker went on to become stalwarts in the star-studded Croatia national football team which reached the quarter-final at the UEFA Euro 1996 in England and the semi-final at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France.

Squad statistics

Key

Numbers indicate starting appearances + appearances as substitute.
Goals column shows total goals, numbers in brackets indicate penalties scored in regular time, excluding penalty shoot-outs in case of ties.
Players with name struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.
Age as of 6 August 1990, first matchday of the season.

Pos.Nat.NameDoB (Age)LeagueCupEuropeTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
GK Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Dražen Ladić 1 January 1963 (aged 27)350020420
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Željko Petrović 13 November 1965 (aged 24)322020392
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Davor Šuker 1 January 1968 (aged 22)3222 (5)3203925
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Mladen Mladenović 13 September 1964 (aged 25)286320329
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Saša Peršon 28 February 1965 (aged 25)280020330
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Zvonimir Boban 8 October 1968 (aged 21)26160213017
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Gregor Židan 5 October 1965 (aged 24)26+22120353
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Slavko Ištvanić 12 July 1966 (aged 24)25+5000+10350
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Kujtim Shala 13 July 1964 (aged 26)2483202911
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Željko Adžić 28 August 1965 (aged 24)19+4400243
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Muhamed Preljević 16 June 1964 (aged 26)19+210000211
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Andrej Panadić 9 March 1969 (aged 21)180020230
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Josip Gašpar 15 March 1973 (aged 17)13+210000152
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Vjekoslav Škrinjar 2 June 1969 (aged 21)11+101100252
FW Flag of Costa Rica.svg Hernán Medford 23 May 1968 (aged 22)10+4300+20193
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Zvonko Lipovac 9 October 1964 (aged 25)100010140
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Damir Lesjak 31 March 1967 (aged 23)8+30010150
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Draženko Prskalo 18 April 1964 (aged 26)7+91010191
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Željko Cupan 30 December 1963 (aged 26)7+1100091
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Dražen Besek 10 March 1963 (aged 27)6+20100111
DF Flag of Costa Rica.svg Rónald González 8 August 1970 (aged 19)4+10001+1070
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Stjepan Deverić 20 August 1961 (aged 28)3+4200072
MF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Alen Peternac 16 January 1972 (aged 18)2+50100111
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Primož Gliha 8 October 1967 (aged 22)1+1200022
GK Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Miralem Ibrahimović 19 January 1963 (aged 27)1000010
DF Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Zoran Mamić 30 September 1971 (aged 18)1000020
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Miljenko Kovačić 19 March 1973 (aged 17)0+6000060
FW Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Dževad Turković 17 June 1972 (aged 18)0+4000050
MF Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nick Dasovic 5 December 1968 (aged 21)0000010

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