Croatian Football Super Cup

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Croatian Football Super Cup
Founded1992
RegionCroatia
Teams2
Current champions Dinamo Zagreb
(8th title)
Most championships Dinamo Zagreb
(8 titles)

The Croatian Football Super Cup is a football match between the winners of the Croatian national top league and football cup. The Super Cup is always held at the beginning of a new football season, and is only held when different clubs win the two most important competitions in the previous season (i.e. the match is not played when a club completes the domestic double).

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Since the establishment of Croatian football competitions in 1992, the two local powerhouses Dinamo, Hajduk and HNK Rijeka have won doubles on sixteen occasions (Dinamo Zagreb 13, Rijeka 2, Hajduk Split 1). The Super Cup was not held in periods between 1995–2001, 2007–2009, 2011–2012 and 2015–2018. On three occasions the Super Cup was not played for various reasons - in 1999 Dinamo refused to play Osijek, saying the fixture did not fit into their schedule and in 2000 and 2001 Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb could not agree on the rules and whether it should be played as a single match or over two legs, and in what order.

In 2002 the Croatian Football Federation took over the organisation of the Super Cup and made it an official single-legged fixture, with 30 minutes of extra time followed by a penalty shoot-out if necessary, which must be played a week before the following football season kicks off. [1]

Since 2002, the match has always been hosted by the club which won the league title, with the exception of 2002 when NK Zagreb were reigning champions, but chose to "host" the match at crosstown rivals Dinamo's Maksimir Stadium saying that playing at Maksimir would help them prepare for their upcoming UEFA Champions League qualifying fixture. Their home stadium at Kranjčevićeva had been declared unfit for UEFA competitions and they were forced to host their European ties at Maksimir. [1]

Winners

Dinamo Zagreb (8 times), Hajduk Split (5 times) and Rijeka (1 time) are the only clubs who won the Super Cup. Seven out of thirteen Super Cup matches played so far have been decided in Eternal Derbies featuring Hajduk and Dinamo.

Key

*Match went to extra time
Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time
Match decided by a golden goal in extra time
Two-legged tie
YearWinnerScoreRunners–upVenueAttendance
1992 Hajduk Split (1)0–0 (aet), (3–1 p) Inker Zaprešić Maksimir, Zagreb 10,000
1993 Hajduk Split (2)4–4, 0–0 (a) Croatia Zagreb Maksimir, Zagreb
Poljud, Split
30,000
30,000
1994 Hajduk Split (3)1–0, 0–1 (aet),
(5–4 p)
Croatia Zagreb Poljud, Split
Maksimir, Zagreb
30,000
15,000
1995HAJDUK SPLIT (WON THE DOUBLE IN 1994–95)
1996N/A (CROATIA ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 1995–96)
1997N/A (CROATIA ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 1996–97)
1998N/A (CROATIA ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 1997–98)
1999
N/A (CROATIA ZAGREB (L) AND OSIJEK (C) QUALIFIED)
2000
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB (L) AND HAJDUK SPLIT (C) QUALIFIED)
2001
N/A (HAJDUK SPLIT (L) AND DINAMO ZAGREB (C) QUALIFIED)
2002 Dinamo Zagreb (1)3–2 ‡ NK Zagreb Maksimir, Zagreb10,000
2003 Dinamo Zagreb (2)4–1 Hajduk Split Maksimir, Zagreb7,000
2004 Hajduk Split (4)1–0 Dinamo Zagreb Poljud, Split17,000
2005 Hajduk Split (5)1–0 * Rijeka Poljud, Split18,000
2006 Dinamo Zagreb (3)4–1 Rijeka Maksimir, Zagreb15,000
2007
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2006–07)
2008
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2007–08)
2009
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2008–09)
2010 Dinamo Zagreb (4)1–0 Hajduk Split Maksimir, Zagreb8,000
2011
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2010–11)
2012
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2011–12)
2013 Dinamo Zagreb (5)1–1 (4–1 p) Hajduk Split Maksimir, Zagreb12,000
2014 Rijeka (1)2–1 Dinamo Zagreb Kantrida, Rijeka 8,000
2015
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2014–15)
2016
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2015–16)
2017
N/A (RIJEKA WON THE DOUBLE IN 2016–17)
2018
N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2017–18)
2019 Dinamo Zagreb (6)1–0 Rijeka Maksimir, Zagreb5,075
2020
POSTPONED INDEFINITELY (DINAMO ZAGREB (L) AND RIJEKA (C) QUALIFIED)
2021N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2020–21)
2022 Dinamo Zagreb (7)0–0 (4–1 p) Hajduk Split Maksimir, Zagreb16,532
2023 Dinamo Zagreb (8)1–0 Hajduk Split Maksimir, Zagreb17,707
2024N/A (DINAMO ZAGREB WON THE DOUBLE IN 2023–24)
2025N/A (RIJEKA WON THE DOUBLE IN 2024–25)

Results by team

Only five clubs participated in the Super Cup since 1992. Osijek also qualified for the Super Cup by winning the 1998–99 Croatian Football Cup, but the match was not held as clubs could not agree on the date of the fixture. [1]

ClubWinnersRunners-up
Dinamo Zagreb [2] 84
Hajduk Split 55
Rijeka 13
Inter Zaprešić [3] 01
NK Zagreb 01

Winning managers

FinalWinning managerWinning clubLosing managerLosing club
1992 Stanko Poklepović Hajduk Split Ilija Lončarević Inker Zaprešić
1993 Ivan Katalinić Hajduk Split Miroslav Blažević Croatia Zagreb
1994 Ivan Katalinić Hajduk Split Ivan Bedi Croatia Zagreb
2002 Miroslav Blažević Dinamo Zagreb Ivan Katalinić NK Zagreb
2003 Nikola Jurčević Dinamo Zagreb Zoran Vulić Hajduk Split
2004 Ivan Katalinić Hajduk Split Nikola Jurčević Dinamo Zagreb
2005 Miroslav Blažević Hajduk Split Elvis Scoria Rijeka
2006 Josip Kuže Dinamo Zagreb Dragan Skočić Rijeka
2010 Velimir Zajec Dinamo Zagreb Stanko Poklepović Hajduk Split
2013 Krunoslav Jurčić Dinamo Zagreb Igor Tudor Hajduk Split
2014 Matjaž Kek Rijeka Zoran Mamić Dinamo Zagreb
2019 Nenad Bjelica Dinamo Zagreb Igor Bišćan Rijeka
2022 Ante Čačić Dinamo Zagreb Valdas Dambrauskas Hajduk Split
2023 Igor Bišćan Dinamo Zagreb Ivan Leko Hajduk Split

By individual

RankNameWinnersClub(s)Winning years
1 Flag of Croatia.svg Ivan Katalinić
3
Hajduk Split 1993, 1994, 2004
2 Flag of Croatia.svg Miroslav Blažević
2
Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split 2002, 2005

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Hrvatski superkup". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 15 July 2005. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
  2. During the 1990s, Dinamo Zagreb was known as HAŠK Građanski, and later as Croatia Zagreb until going back to Dinamo Zagreb in 2000.
  3. Inter Zaprešić was known as Inker Zaprešić until 2003.