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Full name
  
Nogometni klub Zadar

Ground Capacity
  
5,860

League
  
Treća HNL

Location
  
Zadar, Croatia

Founded
  
1949

Ground
  
Stadion Stanovi

Chairman
  
Svetko Ćustić

Arena/Stadium
  
Stadion Stanovi

Manager
  
Josip Butić

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2015–16
  
Druga HNL, 12th (relegated)

NK Zadar is a Croatian football club based in Zadar, a city on the Adriatic coast. They currently play in the Croatian Third League.

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History

The first football club in Zadar originated in 1876 and it was named AC Dalmazia. The club was running (mostly in Serie C) until 1945 when the communist government took over the country. A new club was founded on 26 April 1945 as the Fiskulturno društvo Zadar with the departments of football, basketball and athletics. On 9 February 1949, the football department was spun off as NK Zadar.

In 1992 as Zadarkomerc the club was founding member of the Prva HNL. Since then, the club has always played up to five seasons in the first division of Croatia. Since 2001, the club has been officially called NK Zadar.

Their greatest success in the Croatian Football Cup was achieved in the 1995–96 season when they reached the semi-finals.

In 2001, the club was returned to Prva HNL, where it spent four consecutive seasons, but was again relegated after it was heavily defeated by Dinamo Zagreb at Maksimir (7–0), which the match ended at 62 minutes after the Zadar remained with too small number of players due to red cards and injuries of players.

After two seasons the Zadar has returned to Prva HNL on 30 May 2007 after beating NK Pula in the promotion playoff, 6–2 on aggregate, but eight years later Zadar was relegated to the Druga HNL. The catastrophic situation in the club was most affected their results, and Zadar was in the following season again relegated to the Treća HNL.

Stadium

NK Zadar's home stadium is the Stanovi with a capacity of 5,860.

Supporters

The club's supporters are known as the Tornado Zadar, but currently do not support because they are not satisfied with the management of the club.

Honours

  • Prva B HNL:
  • Runners-up (1): 1995–96
  • Druga HNL:
  • Runners-up (1): 2006–07

    • Current squad

    As of 10 March 2017

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

    Seasons

    Key

    Top scorer shown in bold when he was also top scorer for the division.

    Notable players

    To appear in this section a player must have:

  • Played at least 150 league games for the club;
  • Scored at least 50 league goals for the club; or
  • Played at least one international match for their national team while playing for NK Zadar.

    • Years in brackets indicate their spells at the club.

  • Jakov Surać (1992–1998, 2001–)
  • Fahrudin Šehić (1992–1999)
  • Zvonimir Jurić (1994–2005)
  • Dalibor Zebić (1996–1999, 2001–2005)
  • Dragan Blatnjak (2001–2003)
  • Josip Bilaver (2003–)
  • Želimir Terkeš (2004–2011, 2012–2013, 2014–)

    • Note: For a complete list of NK Zadar players, see Category:NK Zadar players.

    References

    NK Zadar Wikipedia
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