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The Croatian Cup 2008–09 is the eighteenth season of Croatia's football knockout competition. Dinamo Zagreb are the defending champions since they won the last year's cup by defeating Hajduk Split 3–0 on aggregate.

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Round	Main date	Number of fixtures	Clubs	New entries this round
Preliminary round	27 August 2008	16	48 → 32	none
First round	23 and 24 September 2008	16	32 → 16	16
Second round	29 October 2008	8	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	12 and 26 November 2008	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	4 and 18 March 2009	4	4 → 2	none
Final	13 and 28 May 2009	2	2 → 1	none

The preliminary round was held on 27 August 2008.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Žminj	0–2	Gaj Mače
2	Moslavina	7–0	Istra Tar
3	Croatia Đakovo	1–3	Polet Buševec
4	Bjelovar	2–4	Zagora Unešić
5	Orijent	1–0	Raštane
6	Novalja	0–1	Metalac Sisak
7	Međimurje	3–0	Trogir
8	Suhopolje	1–1 (aet), (5–4 p)	Križevci
9	Mladost Cernik	2–0	Slavija Pleternica
10	Vukovar '91	3–2	Podravina
11	Nedelišće	1–3	Karlovac
12	Garić Garešnica	1–4	Grafičar Vodovod
13	Mladost Molve	3–4 (aet)	Konavljanin
14	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	1–0	Graničar
15	Lučko	11–1	Sračinec
16	Vinogradar	1–2	Oriolik

The matches were played on 23 and 24 September 2008.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Gaj Mače	1–5	Dinamo Zagreb
2	Metalac Sisak	0–6	Rijeka
3	Orijent	1–4	Hajduk Split
4	Mladost Cernik	0–1	Varteks
5	Polet Buševec	0–2	Slaven Belupo
6	Zagora Unešić	2–1	Osijek
7	Grafičar Vodovod	1–3	NK Zagreb
8	Suhopolje	1–2	Cibalia
9	Oriolik	w/o¹	Kamen Ingrad
10	Lučko	3–5	Inter Zaprešić
11	Karlovac	1–1 (aet), (7–6 p)	Istra 1961
12	Moslavina	2–1	Šibenik
13	Vukovar '91	0–1	Pomorac
14	Konavljanin	1–0	Belišće
15	Zadar	3–0	Naftaš HAŠK
16	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	1–0	Međimurje

¹Due to financial difficulties, Kamen Ingrad ceased competing on a senior professional level, and therefore withdrew from the competition.

The matches were played on 29 October 2008.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	0–6	Dinamo Zagreb
2	Zadar	2–2 (aet), (6–7 p)	Rijeka
3	Konavljanin	0–2	Hajduk Split
4	Pomorac	2–0	Varteks
5	Moslavina	0–2	Slaven Belupo
6	Zagora Unešić	2–1	Karlovac
7	Inter Zaprešić	0–2	NK Zagreb
8	Oriolik	0–4	Cibalia

The draw was held on 30 October. First legs were held on 12 November and second legs on 26 November 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rijeka	4–4 (2–4 p)	NK Zagreb	2–2	2–2 (aet)
Pomorac	2–2 (2–4 p)	Cibalia	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Hajduk Split	0–0 (7–6 p)	Slaven Belupo	0–0	0–0 (aet)
Zagora Unešić	2–7	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	1–5

4 March 2009 15:30 CET	Hajduk Split	4 – 1	Cibalia	Poljud, Split Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Domagoj Vučkov (Rijeka)
	Tomasov 12' Gabrić 34' Oremuš 37' Pandža 85'	Report (Croatian)	Malčić 29'

4 March 2009 17:00 CET	NK Zagreb	0 – 2	Dinamo Zagreb	Kranjčevićeva, Zagreb Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Zagreb)
		Report (Croatian)	Sivonjić 29' Morales 55'

18 March 2009 17:00 CET	Cibalia	0 – 0	Hajduk Split	Stadion Cibalia, Vinkovci Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Danijel Trampus (Osijek)
		Report (Croatian)

Hajduk Split won 4–1 on aggregate

18 March 2009 17:00 CET	Dinamo Zagreb	4 – 1	NK Zagreb	Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Igor Pristovnik (Zagreb)
	Mandžukić 10' 18' 38' Morales 88'	Report (Croatian)	Vugrinec 87' (pen.)

Dinamo Zagreb won 6–1 on aggregate

13 May 2009 20:15 CEST	Dinamo Zagreb	3 – 0	Hajduk Split	Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Bruno Marić (Daruvar)
	Mandžukić 13' 57' Sammir 29' (pen.)	Report (Croatian)	J. Buljat 34' Linić 45+1'

28 May 2009 20:00	Hajduk Split	3 – 0	Dinamo Zagreb	Poljud, Split Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Domagoj Ljubičić (Osijek)
	Kalinić 56' 75' Bartolović 58'	Report (Croatian)

		Penalties
	Kalinić Rosso Bartolović Ibričić Andrić	3 – 4	Bišćan Sammir Badelj Morales Hrgović

3–3 on aggregate. Dinamo Zagreb won 4–3 in penalty shootout.