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T-Com Prva HNL
Season	2009–10
Matches played	88
Goals scored	240 (2.73 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pedro Morales; (9 goals)
Biggest home win	Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961; Dinamo Zagreb 6-0 Rijeka; Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Slaven Belupo; Rijeka 6–0 Lokomoitva
Biggest away win	Croatia Sesvete 2–5 Dinamo Zagreb; Varteks 0-3 Hajduk Split; Zadar 0–3 Cibalia; NK Zagreb 0–3 Inter Zaprešić
Highest scoring	Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961
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The 2009–10 Prva HNL season is the nineteenth season of the Prva HNL (officially known as T-Com Prva HNL for sponsorship reasons) since its establishment in 1992. It began on 24 July 2009 and will end in May 2010. Dinamo Zagreb are the defending champions, having won their eleventh championship title (and fourth consecutive title) the previous season.

The league has been expanded from 12 to 16 clubs.

[edit] Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

Due to the expansion, no teams were directly relegated following the 2008–09 season.

Four teams from Druga HNL 2008–09 earned direct promotion. These were champions Istra 1961, runners-up Karlovac, third-placed Lokomotiva and fifth-placed Međimurje. Fourth-placed team Slavonac CO had to step back from promotion after they were not able to find a suitable ground.^[1]

Croatia Sesvete as last-placed team had to compete in a two-legged play-off against the sixth-placed team from Druga HNL, Hrvatski dragovoljac. After a scoreless first leg, Croatia Sesvete retained their Prva HNL status by winning the second leg, 2–1.^[2]

[edit] Overview

[edit] Teams

Team	Head coach	Team captain	2008–09 result	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Cibalia Cibalia	Stanko Mršić	Boris Leutar	h 8th	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Croatia Sesvete Croatia Sesvete	Vacant	Saša Mus	l 12th	Diadora	Croatia osiguranje
Dinamo Dinamo Zagreb	Krunoslav Jurčić	Igor Bišćan	a 1st	Diadora	INA, Croatia osiguranje
Hajduk Hajduk Split	Edoardo Reja	Srđan Andrić	b 2nd	Umbro	INA
Inter Zaprešić Inter Zaprešić	Borimir Perković	Tomislav Šarić	i 9th	Legea	Hidrocommerce
Istra 1961 Istra 1961	Valdi Šumberac*	Dalibor Pauletić	m 2.HNL, 1st	Legea	Puris, Favorit pivo
Karlovac Karlovac	Igor Pamić	Matija Štefančić	n 2.HNL, 2nd	Legea
Lokomotiva Lokomotiva	Roy Ferenčina	Željko Sopić	o 2.HNL, 4th	Legea
Medjimurje Međimurje	Srećko Bogdan	Mario Darmopil	p 2.HNL, 5th	Legea
Osijek Osijek	Tomislav Steinbrückner	Karlo Primorac	g 7th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Rijeka Rijeka	Nenad Gračan	Fausto Budicin	c 3rd	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Slaven Belupo Slaven Belupo	Zlatko Dalić	Dalibor Poldrugač	d 4th	Adidas	Belupo
Sibenik Šibenik	Branko Karačić	Ante Bulat	f 6th	Jako
Varteks Varteks	Dražen Besek	Miljenko Mumlek	j 10th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Zadar Zadar	Dalibor Zebić	Jakov Surać	k 11th	Jako
Zagreb NK Zagreb	Igor Štimac	Ivan Parlov	e 5th	Legea

Clubs indicated in bold qualified for the 2009-10 season's UEFA competitions, Champions League and Europa League, respectively. See European competitions section for further information.

[edit] Stadia and locations

Since most Druga HNL stadiums failed to meet the licensing requirements for top-level football, the Croatian Football Federation announced on 8 May 2008 that clubs who are likely to win promotion berths have agreed to lease stadiums approved for top-flight football. Below is the list of all the stadiums which are licensed to be used in the Prva HNL, along with their home clubs and the promoted clubs who secured rights to use them as "guests" until their own grounds have sufficiently been upgraded to host top-level matches.^[3]

Locations of teams in 2009–10 Prva HNL

Stadium	City	Home club	Licensed club(s)	Capacity
Stadion HNK Cibalia	Vinkovci	Cibalia		9,920
ŠRC Zaprešić	Zaprešić	Inter Zaprešić		4,528
Kranjčevićeva	Zagreb	NK Zagreb	Croatia Sesvete	8,850
Kantrida	Rijeka	Rijeka	Istra 1961	10,275
Poljud	Split	Hajduk Split		35,000
Anđelko Herjavec	Varaždin	Varteks		10,800
Maksimir	Zagreb	Dinamo Zagreb	Lokomotiva	37,168
Gradski vrt	Osijek	Osijek		19,500
Gradski stadion	Koprivnica	Slaven Belupo		4,000
Šubićevac	Šibenik	Šibenik		8,000
Stanovi	Zadar	Zadar		5,860
Branko Čavlović-Čavlek	Karlovac	Karlovac		12,000
SRC Mladost	Čakovec	Međimurje		8,000

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Slaven Belupo	Mile Petković	Mutual consent	31 May 2009 ^[4]	Milivoj Bračun	9 June 2009 ^[5]	Pre-season
Hajduk Split	Ante Miše	Resigned	2 August 2009 ^[6]	Ivica Kalinić	3 August 2009 ^[7]	12th
Šibenik	Ivica Kalinić	Resigned	3 August 2009 ^[8]	Branko Karačić	11 August 2009 ^[9]	5th
Slaven Belupo	Milivoj Bračun	Mutual consent	6 August 2009 ^[10]	Zlatko Dalić	8 August 2009 ^[11]	6th
Hajduk Split	Ivica Kalinić	Mutual consent	18 August 2009	Edoardo Reja	18 August 2009 ^[12]	13th
Croatia Sesvete	Anto Petrović	Sacked	1 September 2009	Nenad Gračan	1 September 2009 ^[13]	15th
NK Zagreb	Luka Pavlović	Resigned	11 September 2009 ^[14]	Igor Štimac	14 September ^[15]	16th
Rijeka	Robert Rubčić	Resigned	21 September 2009 ^[16]	Zoran Vulić	22 September ^[17]	7th
Međimurje	Mario Ćutuk	Sacked	8 October 2009 ^[18]	Srećko Bogdan	9 October ^[19]	11th
Istra 1961	Elvis Scoria	Mutual consent	2 November 2009 ^[20]	Valdi Šumberac		14th
Rijeka	Zoran Vulić	Resigned	10 November 2009 ^[21]	Nenad Gračan	10 November ^[22]	7th
Croatia Sesvete	Nenad Gračan	Resigned	10 November ^[23]	Anto Petrović		15th

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb	16	11	3	2	47	9	+38	36	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Šibenik	16	10	3	3	18	14	+4	33	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	Cibalia	16	9	5	2	25	7	+18	32	2010–11 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	Osijek	16	8	4	4	32	25	+7	28
5	Slaven Belupo	16	8	4	4	29	25	+4	28
6	Karlovac	16	7	5	4	16	12	+4	26
7	Hajduk Split	16	7	4	5	21	12	+9	25
8	Rijeka	16	6	4	6	25	23	+2	22
9	Lokomotiva	16	7	1	8	19	22	−3	22
10	Inter Zaprešić	17	6	2	9	24	27	−3	20
11	Varteks	16	5	4	7	16	22	−6	19
12	Zadar	16	5	3	8	13	25	−12	18
13	Međimurje	16	5	2	9	20	34	−14	17
14	NK Zagreb	17	4	2	11	24	35	−11	14	Relegation to Druga HNL
15	Istra 1961	16	3	4	9	14	29	−15	13
16	Croatia Sesvete	16	1	4	11	17	39	−22	7

Updated to games played on 4 December 2009
Source: TBD
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
Winners of 2009–10 Croatian Cup qualify for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	CIB	CRS	DIN	HAJ	INT	IST	KAR	LOK	MEĐ	OSI	RIJ	SLA	ŠIB	VAR	ZAD	ZAG
Cibalia				0–0			2–2		3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0		4–0	2–0
Croatia Sesvete	0–3		2–5			2–2				1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–2
Dinamo Zagreb	1–1			a		7–1			4–0	5–0	6–0	6–0	5–0	2–1
Hajduk Split		6–0	2–1		2–2			1–0		1–0			0–1		0–1	2–0
Inter Zaprešić	1–0	1–2	0–1			1–0					3–0		0–1	1–1	4–3	1–3
Istra 1961	0–0		0–0	0–1			2–0	3–1					1–2	0–1		2–1
Karlovac		0–0	1–3	1–0	1–0			0–1	2–0						2–0	0–0
Lokomotiva	2–0	3–2	0–1		0–1						3–0		0–0		1–0
Međimurje		2–1		1–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	0–3							3–0	4–2
Osijek				1–1	4–2	3–0	0–1	3–0	3–1						3–0	5–3
Rijeka				2–0		2–0	1–1	6–0	4–0	1–1		2–3				3–1
Slaven Belupo				2–1	5–2	3–0	1–3	1–0	3–2	5–2						2–0
Šibenik	0–2	2–0					1–0		1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0		2–1
Varteks				0–3	2–1		0–1	2–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–0				1–0
Zadar	0–3	2–0	0–0			1–1					1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
NK Zagreb	0–1	4–2	1–0		0–3			2–4				3–3	0–2		4–0

Updated to games played on 4 December 2009
Source: TBA
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] Season statistics

First goal of the season: Tomislav Bosec for Inter Zaprešić against Varteks, 40th minute (24 July 2009).^[24]
Fastest goal in a match: 1st minute – Eliomar for Međimurje against Zadar (29 August 2009).^[25]
Most goals in a match: 8 goals – Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961 (25 July 2009).^[26]
Widest winning margin: 6 goals

Dinamo Zagreb 7–1 Istra 1961 (25 July 2009).^[26]

Rijeka 6–0 Lokomotiva (26 July 2009).^[27]

Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Slaven Belupo (30 August 2009).^[28]

Dinamo Zagreb 6–0 Rijeka (20 September 2009).^[29]

Hajduk Split 6–0 Croatia Sesvete (21 November 2009).^[30]

First own goal of the season: Marko Puškarić (Croatia Sesvete) for Šibenik, 50th minute (25 July 2009).^[31]
First penalty kick of the season: Bojan Vručina (Slaven Belupo), missed against NK Zagreb, 21st minute (26 July 2009).^[32]
First hat-trick of the season: Ahmad Sharbini for Rijeka against Lokomotiva (26 July 2009).
First yellow card of the season: Igor Prahić for Varteks against Inter Zaprešić, 36th minute (24 July 2009).
First direct red card of the season: Ivan Parlov for NK Zagreb against Rijeka, 58th minute (9 August 2009).^[33]

[edit] Top goalscorers

As of 4 December 2009; Source: Prva-HNL

12 goals

Pedro Morales (Dinamo Zagreb)

10 goals

Davor Vugrinec (NK Zagreb)

8 goals

Mario Mandžukić (Dinamo Zagreb)

7 goals

6 goals

[edit] Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Date	Report
Sharbini, AnasAnas Sharbini	Rijeka	Lokomotiva	26 July 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Sharbini, AhmadAhmad Sharbini	Rijeka	Lokomotiva	26 July 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Sammir	Dinamo Zagreb	Osijek	16 August 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Miroslav Šarić	Inter Zaprešić	Zadar	16 October 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)
Davor Vugrinec	NK Zagreb	Osijek	7 November 2009	Sportnet.hr (Croatian)