2017–18 Croatian First Football League

Hrvatski Telekom Prva liga
Season	2017–18
Champions	Dinamo Zagreb
Relegated	Cibalia
Champions League	Dinamo Zagreb
Europa League	Rijeka; Hajduk Split; Osijek
Matches played	180
Goals scored	496 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	El Arabi Hillel Soudani (17)
Biggest home win	Rijeka 7–0 Cibalia
Biggest away win	Cibalia 0–5 Hajduk Split
Highest scoring	Rijeka 7–0 Cibalia; Cibalia 2–5 Dinamo Zagreb; Lokomotiva 5–2 Slaven Belupo
Longest winning run	Dinamo Zagreb (6)
Longest unbeaten run	Dinamo Zagreb (21)
Longest winless run	Slaven Belupo (11)
Longest losing run	Cibalia, Istra 1961 (5)
Highest attendance	31,751; Hajduk Split 1–2 Dinamo Zagreb
Lowest attendance	80; Lokomotiva 2–3 Inter Zaprešić
Total attendance	530,638
Average attendance	2,948
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Croatian First Football League (officially Hrvatski Telekom Prva liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th season of the Croatian First Football League, the national championship for men's association football teams in Croatia, since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 14 July 2017 and ended on 19 May 2018.

The league was contested by 10 teams.

Teams

On 21 April 2017, Croatian Football Federation announced that the first stage of licensing procedure for 2017–18 season was complete. For the 2017–18 Prva HNL, only seven clubs were issued a top level license: Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Inter Zaprešić, Lokomotiva, Osijek, Rijeka and Slaven Belupo. All of these clubs except Inter Zaprešić were also issued a license for participating in UEFA competitions.^[3] In the second stage of licensing, clubs that were not licensed in the first stage can appeal on the decision. On 23 May 2017, it was announced that all remaining Prva HNL clubs except RNK Split were granted top level license. Four teams from Druga HNL acquired the top level license: Gorica, Rudeš, Solin and NK Zagreb.^[4]

Stadia and locations

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Ref.
Cibalia	Vinkovci	Stadion HNK Cibalia	9,958	^[5]
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	Maksimir	35,123	^[6]
Hajduk Split	Split	Poljud	35,000	^[7]
Inter Zaprešić	Zaprešić	ŠRC Zaprešić	5,228	^[8]
Istra 1961	Pula	Aldo Drosina	10,000	^[9]
Lokomotiva	Zagreb	Kranjčevićeva¹	8,850	^[10]
Osijek	Osijek	Gradski vrt	22,050	^[11]
Rijeka	Rijeka	Rujevica	8,191	^[12]
Rudeš	Zagreb	Kranjčevićeva¹	8,850	^[10]
Slaven Belupo	Koprivnica	Gradski stadion	3,205	^[13]

¹ Lokomotiva and Rudeš host their home matches at Stadion Kranjčevićeva as their own grounds failed to get license for top level football. The stadium was originally the home ground of third-level side NK Zagreb.

Teams by county

Cibalia

Dinamo
Lokomotiva
Rudeš

Locations of teams in 2017–18 Prva HNL

Rank	Counties of Croatia	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	City of Zagreb	3	Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva, and Rudeš
2	Istria	1	Istra 1961
	Koprivnica-Križevci		Slaven
	Osijek-Baranja		Osijek
	40px Primorje-Gorski Kotar		Rijeka
	40px Split-Dalmatia		Hajduk Split
	Vukovar-Srijem		Cibalia
	40px Zagreb County		Inter Zaprešić

Personnel and kits

Club	Chairman	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Cibalia	Josip Kuterovac	Davor Rupnik	Frane Vitaić	Jako	DOBRO
Dinamo Zagreb	Mirko Barišić	Nenad Bjelica	Arijan Ademi	adidas
Hajduk Split	Ivan Kos	Željko Kopić	Zoran Nižić	Macron	Tommy
Inter Zaprešić	Branko Laljak	Samir Toplak	Tomislav Šarić	Joma	Veleučilište Baltazar Zaprešić
Istra 1961	Vacant	Darko Raić-Sudar	Aljoša Vojnović	Nike	Croatia Osiguranje
Lokomotiva	Tin Dolički	Goran Tomić	Ivan Šunjić	Nike	Crodux
Osijek	Ivan Meštrović	Zoran Zekić	Borna Barišić	Nike	DOBRO
Rijeka	Damir Mišković	Matjaž Kek	Filip Bradarić	Jako	Sava Osiguranje
Rudeš	Ivan Knežević	José Manuel Aira	Leonard Mesarić	Kelme
Slaven Belupo	Hrvoje Kolarić	Tomislav Ivković	Vedran Purić	adidas	Belupo

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Istra 1961	Marijo Tot	Sacked	2 June 2017	Darko Raić-Sudar	2 June 2017	Pre-season
Rudeš	Igor Bišćan	Signed by Olimpija	2 June 2017	Iñaki Alonso	10 June 2017	Pre-season
Dinamo Zagreb	Ivaylo Petev	Sacked	13 July 2017	Mario Cvitanović	13 July 2017	Pre-season
Slaven Belupo	Željko Kopić	Resigned	24 October 2017	Tomislav Ivković	26 October 2017	7th
Hajduk Split	Joan Carrillo	Sacked	6 November 2017	Vik Lalić (caretaker)	6 November 2017	4th
Hajduk Split	Vik Lalić (caretaker)	Signing of Kopić	-	Željko Kopić	13 November 2017	4th
Lokomotiva	Mario Tokić	Removed from position	5 December 2017	Draženko Prskalo (caretaker)	5 December 2017	6th
Rudeš	Iñaki Alonso	Removed from position	26 December 2017	Dinko Jeličić	27 December 2017	10th
Lokomotiva	Draženko Prskalo (caretaker)	Signing of Tomić	27 December 2017	Goran Tomić	27 December 2017	6th
Dinamo Zagreb	Mario Cvitanović	Resigned	10 March 2018	Nikola Jurčević	12 March 2018	1st
Rudeš	Dinko Jeličić	Sacked	10 March 2018	José Manuel Aira	12 March 2018	10th
Cibalia	Mladen Bartolović	Sacked	19 March 2018	Davor Rupnik	19 March 2018	9th
Dinamo Zagreb	Nikola Jurčević	Sacked	15 May 2018	Nenad Bjelica	15 May 2018	1st
Rudeš	José Manuel Aira	Signed by Sochaux	22 May 2018			8th

League table

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Results

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league twice, for a total of 36 matches each played.

First round

Home \ Away	DIN	RIJ	HAJ	OSI	LOK	INT	SLA	RUD	IST	CIB
Dinamo Zagreb	—	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	4–0
Rijeka	0–2	—	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	7–0
Hajduk Split	2–2	0–2	—	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	2–1
Osijek	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1
Lokomotiva	0–3	1–0	1–3	2–3	—	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–3
Inter Zaprešić	1–3	1–3	2–2	3–1	1–1	—	0–1	3–1	2–2	3–1
Slaven Belupo	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	—	2–2	2–0	2–1
Rudeš	1–1	1–5	0–4	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–2	—	1–0	1–1
Istra 1961	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	0–1
Cibalia	2–5	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	1–4	—

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Second round

Home \ Away	DIN	RIJ	HAJ	OSI	LOK	INT	SLA	RUD	IST	CIB
Dinamo Zagreb	—	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–4	3-1	1–0	2–0	5–1	1–0
Rijeka	4–1	—	3–1	1–0	3–1	5–1	2–0	3–0	4–0	5–1
Hajduk Split	1-2	1–1	—	1–1	1–0	5–0	0–1	1–0	3–2	4–0
Osijek	2–4	2–1	3–3	—	0–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–1
Lokomotiva	3–1	1-0	0–2	1–1	—	2–3	5–2	2–2	0–0	2-1
Inter Zaprešić	0–0	0–3	0–3	1-0	1-2	—	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–2
Slaven Belupo	2-2	1–3	0–0	2-1	2–2	3–3	—	2–0	1–0	2–0
Rudeš	1-0	4–2	2-1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	—	2–1	3–2
Istra 1961	0-4	0–1	1-5	1–1	1–0	2-4	2–1	1-1	—	0–0
Cibalia	0–2	0–0	0–5	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–3	1–1	1-1	—

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Positions by round

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Relegation play-offs

At the end of the season, ninth placed team Istra 1961 will contest a two-legged relegation play-off tie against Varaždin, runners-up of the 2017–18 Croatian Second Football League.

First leg

Istra 1961 v Varaždin

30 May 2018
19:00 CEST

Istra 1961	3–1	Varaždin
Golubar 55' (o.g.) Vojnović 64' Roce 88'		Drožđek 10'

Aldo Drosina
Attendance: 4,107
Referee: Fran Jović (Zagreb)

Second leg

Varaždin v Istra 1961

2 June 2018
19:00 CEST

Varaždin	1–0	Istra 1961
Drožđek 55'

Stadion Varteks
Attendance: 8,153
Referee: Duje Strukan (Split)

Istra 1961 won 3–2 on aggregate.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 19 May 2018^[14]^[15]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	El Arabi Hillel Soudani	Dinamo Zagreb	17
2	Héber	Rijeka	16
3	Mario Gavranović	Rijeka (7), Dinamo Zagreb (8)	15
3	Mirko Ivanovski	Slaven Belupo	15
5	Mario Budimir	Rudeš (13), Dinamo Zagreb (1)	14
6	Jakov Puljić	Inter Zaprešić (4), Rijeka (8)	12
7	Lovro Majer	Lokomotiva	11
7	Said Ahmed Said	Hajduk Split	11
9	Ante Erceg	Hajduk Split	9
	Haris Hajradinović	Osijek
	Franck Ohandza	Hajduk Split

References

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External links

Official website Script error: No such module "In lang".
Croatian First League at UEFA.com

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v t e Croatian First Football League
2015–16 teams	Dinamo Zagreb Hajduk Split Inter Zaprešić Istra 1961 Lokomotiva Osijek Rijeka Slaven Belupo RNK Split NK Zagreb
Former teams	Belišće Cibalia Croatia Sesvete Čakovec Dubrava Dubrovnik Hrvatski Dragovoljac Istra Pula Kamen Ingrad Karlovac Lučko Marsonia Međimurje Mladost 127 Neretva Orijent Pazinka Pomorac Primorac Radnik Velika Gorica Samobor Segesta Šibenik TŠK Topolovac Varaždin Vukovar '91 Zadar
Statistics and awards	Players Top scorers Hat-tricks Records and statistics Player awards: Večernji list Sportske novosti Slobodna Dalmacija Tportal
Associated competitions	Croatian Cup Croatian Super Cup Second League Third League Academy League Women's League
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v t e 2017–18 in Croatian football
« 2016–17
Domestic leagues	Prva HNL Druga HNL Treća HNL Prva HNLŽ
Domestic cups	Croatian Football Cup
European competitions	Champions League Europa League
Related to national team	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (Group I) Ante Čačić
Club seasons
Prva HNL	Cibalia Dinamo Zagreb Hajduk Split Inter Zaprešić Istra 1961 Lokomotiva Osijek Rijeka Rudeš Slaven Belupo

v t e 2017–18 in European men's football (UEFA)
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International competitions	2018 FIFA World Cup UEFA qualification 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019 Euro Under-21 qualification 2018 Euro Under-19 qualification 2018 Euro Under-17 qualification

2017–18 Croatian First Football League

Contents

Teams

Stadia and locations

Teams by county

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

First round

Second round

Positions by round

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Second leg

Statistics

Top scorers

References

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