2004–05 Croatian First Football League

The 2004–05 Croatian First Football League (officially known as the Prva HNL Ožujsko for sponsorship reasons) was the fourteenth 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 23 July 2004 and ended on 28 May 2005. Hajduk Split were the defending champions, having won their seventeenth championship title the previous season, and they defended the title again, after a win against Varteks on 28 May 2005.

Prva HNL Ožujsko

Season	2004–05
Champions	Hajduk Split 6th Croatian title 18th domestic title
Relegated	Zadar
Champions League	Hajduk Split
UEFA Cup	Inter Zaprešić Rijeka
Intertoto Cup	Varteks Slaven Belupo
Matches played	192
Goals scored	519 (2.7 per match)
Best Player	Mladen Bartolović
Top goalscorer	Tomislav Erceg (17)
Biggest home win	Dinamo Z. 7–0 Zadar
Biggest away win	Zadar 1–5 Slaven B.
Highest scoring	Zagreb 7–1 Slaven B.
Average attendance	2,868
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

Teams

Stadia and personnel

 

 

Dinamo
NK Zagreb

 

Inter

 

Hajduk

 

K. Ingrad

 

Međimurje

 

Osijek

 

Pula 1856

 

Rijeka

 

S. Belupo

 

Varteks

 

Zadar

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Locations of teams in 2004–05 Prva HNL

Team	Manager^1	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Dinamo Zagreb	Zvjezdan Cvetković	Zagreb	Stadion Maksimir	37,168
Hajduk Split	Igor Štimac	Split	Stadion Poljud	35,000
Inter Zaprešić	Srećko Bogdan	Zaprešić	Stadion ŠRC Zaprešić	5,000
Kamen Ingrad	Hrvoje Braović	Velika	Stadion Kamen Ingrad	8,000
Međimurje	Miljenko Dovečer	Čakovec	Stadion SRC Mladost	8,000
Osijek	Stjepan Čordaš	Osijek	Stadion Gradski vrt	19,500
Pula 1856	Igor Pamić	Pula	Stadion Veruda	3,000
Rijeka	Elvis Scoria	Rijeka	Stadion Kantrida	10,275
Slaven Belupo	Branko Karačić	Koprivnica	Gradski stadion u Koprivnici	4,000
Varteks	Miroslav Blažević	Varaždin	Stadion Varteks	10,800
Zadar	Vjeran Simunić	Zadar	Stadion Stanovi	5,860
NK Zagreb	Mile Petković	Zagreb	Stadion Kranjčevićeva	8,850

• ¹ On final match day of the season, played on 28 May 2005.

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hajduk Split	22	13	3	6	39	23	+16	42	Qualification to championship group
2	Rijeka	22	10	8	4	37	23	+14	38
3	Slaven Belupo	22	11	4	7	29	25	+4	37
4	Inter Zaprešić	22	10	5	7	25	22	+3	35
5	Varteks	22	11	1	10	39	30	+9	34
6	NK Zagreb	22	10	3	9	27	24	+3	33^[a]
7	Dinamo Zagreb	22	9	6	7	38	30	+8	33^[a]	Qualification to relegation group
8	Kamen Ingrad	22	10	2	10	30	28	+2	32
9	Osijek	22	7	9	6	29	32	−3	30
10	Pula 1856	22	6	8	8	21	23	−2	26
11	Zadar	22	5	1	16	25	55	−30	16
12	Međimurje	22	3	4	15	18	42	−24	13

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: NK Zagreb–Dinamo Zagreb 2–1, Dinamo Zagreb–NK Zagreb 1–2.

Rounds 1–22 results

Home \ Away	DIN	HAJ	INT	KAM	MEĐ	OSI	PUL	RIJ	SLA	VAR	ZAD	ZAG
Dinamo Zagreb		3–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–2
Hajduk Split	1–0		2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	2–4
Inter Zaprešić	1–0	1–3		0–0	3–0	1–3	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–2	4–1	1–0
Kamen Ingrad	0–0	2–1	0–1		2–0	3–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	3–2	2–0	4–1
Međimurje	1–3	1–3	0–0	1–4		2–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	4–0	0–1
Osijek	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	3–1	1–1
Pula 1856	3–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0		0–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1
Rijeka	4–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	1–1		1–1	3–0	2–0	2–1
Slaven Belupo	3–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0		0–1	1–0	1–1
Varteks	2–2	0–4	0–1	3–0	5–0	4–0	1–0	2–0	6–0		3–0	1–0
Zadar	3–4	1–3	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–4	3–0	2–2	1–5	3–1		2–1
NK Zagreb	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	0–1	4–1

Source: RSSSF.org
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hajduk Split (C)	32	16	8	8	58	33	+25	56	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Inter Zaprešić	32	15	9	8	44	39	+5	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	NK Zagreb	32	15	5	12	50	42	+8	50
4	Rijeka	32	11	14	7	52	40	+12	47	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Varteks	32	14	3	15	53	50	+3	45	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6	Slaven Belupo	32	12	9	11	37	41	−4	45

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champion

Rounds 23–32 results

Home \ Away	HAJ	INT	RIJ	SLA	VAR	ZAG
Hajduk Split		5–1	1–1	0–0	6–0	0–1
Inter Zaprešić	1–1		3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1
Rijeka	1–1	3–3		0–0	1–1	4–2
Slaven Belupo	1–1	0–1	1–1		2–2	2–0
Varteks	1–2	1–2	3–1	2–0		3–1
NK Zagreb	3–2	3–3	2–1	7–1	3–1

Source: RSSSF.org
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Dinamo Zagreb	32	12	11	9	55	37	+18	47
8	Osijek	32	9	14	9	41	45	−4	41
9	Kamen Ingrad	32	12	5	15	36	39	−3	41
10	Pula 1856	32	7	14	11	28	31	−3	35
11	Međimurje (O)	32	9	6	17	29	52	−23	33	Qualification to relegation play-off
12	Zadar (R)	32	10	2	20	36	70	−34	32	Relegation to Croatian Second Football League

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated

Rounds 23–32 results

Home \ Away	DIN	KAM	MEĐ	OSI	PUL	ZAD
Dinamo Zagreb		0–0	5–1	3–3	0–0	7–0
Kamen Ingrad	0–1		0–1	2–0	1–1	1–0
Međimurje	2–1	1–0		2–2	1–0	1–0
Osijek	0–0	3–0	1–2		1–0	1–1
Pula 1856	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1		3–1
Zadar	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1

Source: RSSSF.org
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-off

First leg

1 June 2005

Međimurje	2 – 0	Novalja
Silva   29' Dujmović   78'	Report (in Croatian)

Stadion SRC Mladost, Čakovec

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Zagreb)

Second leg

5 June 2005

Novalja	1 – 1	Međimurje
Con   52'	Report (in Croatian)	Šarić   90'

Stadion Cissa-Straško, Novalja

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Ante Vučemilović (Osijek)

Međimurje win 3–1 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tomislav Erceg	Rijeka	17
2	Ivica Žuljević	Međimurje	12
3	Tomislav Bušić	Hajduk Split	11
	Stjepan Jukić	Osijek
	Ivica Karabogdan	Slaven Belupo
	Karlo Primorac	Osijek
7	Leonardo Barnjak	Zadar	10
	Ivan Bošnjak	Dinamo Zagreb
	Eduardo da Silva	Dinamo Zagreb
10	Mladen Bartolović	Zagreb	9
	Dragan Blatnjak	Hajduk Split
	Nedim Halilović	Varteks
	Goran Ljubojević	Dinamo Zagreb

Source: (in Croatian)

See also

• 2004–05 Croatian Second Football League
• 2004–05 Croatian Football Cup

External links

• Season statistics at HRNogomet
• 2004–05 in Croatian Football at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation