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Dinamo Zagreb is one of the most famous and successful
Croatian football clubs. Dinamo is based in
Zagreb, the capital city of
Croatia. It is the most popular club in the country with between 33% and 36% of the population supporting it.
History
Origins
After
WWII following the rise to power of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia, three very popular
Zagreb football clubs (HAŠK,
Građanski, Concordia) were disbanded overnight, and a municipal club was formed on
June 9 1945. Like other football clubs outside
Croatia in
Eastern Europe, it was also called
Dinamo ("Dynamo"), and all the best and prospective
Građanski players immediately joined the newly formed club. The newly formed club played at the old stadium of HAŠK, while most of the players were from
Građanski, a number of outstanding players were forced to join Partizan Belgrade (Stjepan Bobek, Miroslav Meho Brozović, Franjo Glaser and Florijan Matekalo). In fact, they were conscripted in
Yugoslav Army since they didn't participate actively in
World War II.
Florijan Matekalo was coach of FK Partizan and later lived and died in Serbia even after split up between Croatia and Yugoslavia. Franjo Glaser already played for the
BSK Belgrade before the World War II. Only
Miroslav Brozović, born in Herzegovina, claimed that he was forced to play for Partizan although he himself wanted to move to BSK Belgrade before the World War II.
It is often incorrectly associated with HAŠK (
Hrvatski akademski športski klub, Translated:
Croatian Academic Sports Club), formed on
November 6 1903 as a students' club.
Márton Bukovi, the former Građanski manager, continued to work at Dinamo together with masseur
Franjo Žlof, also a former Građanski player. Of the HAŠK players that transferred to Dinamo, the regulars in the first team were
Ratko Kacian,
Željko Čajkovski,
Svetozar Peričić and
Dragutin Lojen. Only Čajkovski remained in
Maksimir for a longer period, for a total 11 years. The newly formed club also took Građanski's blue colours and from
1969 onwards, the club's emblem was very similar to that of Građanski's.
1990s
The club controversially changed its name to
HAŠK-Građanski in
1992, and another name change followed in
1993, when the club was renamed to
Croatia Zagreb. The name change was widely seen as a political move by the leadership of then newly independent Croatia, with the goal of distancing the entire country from its Communist past. As the name change was also never accepted by its fans, on
February 14,
2000 the club changed back its name to Dinamo.
In the late 1990s, the club played two consecutive seasons in the
UEFA Champions League group stage. In the 1998-99 season, they were drawn to a group with
Ajax Amsterdam,
Olympiacos and
FC Porto. After disappointing performances in the first three matches in which they managed one draw against Ajax at home and lost their away matches against Olympiacos and Porto, they performed well in the remaining three matches, beating Porto at home and Ajax away, and drawing to Olympiacos at home. However, they failed to advance to the quarterfinals with a second-place finish behind Olympiacos. In the 1999-2000 season, they were in a group with defending champions
Manchester United,
Olympique de Marseille and
Sturm Graz, but managed only a fourth-place finish in the group with two draws and one win. They most notably held Manchester United to a goalless draw at
Old Trafford in their opening Champions League match that season.
2000 Onward
They subsequently participated three times in the third qualifying round for the Champions League, in 2000, 2003 and 2006. However, they played against
AC Milan,
Dynamo Kyiv,
Arsenal FC and most recently
Werder Bremen and failed to win a single match, losing 6-1 on
aggregate to AC Milan, 5-1 on aggregate to Dynamo Kiev and Arsenal and 5-3 on aggregate to Werder Bremen. Throughout the first half of the 2000s decade, they'd some international success in the
UEFA Cup as they advanced to the second round of the competition three times and also played in the group stage of the competition in the 2004-05 season, but were unlucky not to progress to the next round after, leading 2-0, conceding two late goals in their last game against
SC Heerenveen in a group which was also comprised of
VfB Stuttgart,
SL Benfica and
KSK Beveren behind. Dinamo's best UEFA Cup result since the Croatian independence was in the 1997-98 season, when they advanced to the third round and were eliminated with a narrow 2-1 defeat to
Atlético Madrid on aggregate.
Their UEFA Cup appearance in the 2006-07 season of the competition ended in the first round with a 5-2 defeat to
Auxerre on aggregate. They were, however, more successful in the following season of the competition in 2007-08, reaching the group stage after knocking out
Ajax in the first round. After losing 1-0 at home, Dinamo went on to beat the Dutch giants 3-2 in extra time of the second leg in
Amsterdam. They failed to advance through the group stage in competition with
Basel,
Brann,
Hamburger SV and
Rennes, recording two draws and two defeats.
Team honours
National honours
International honours
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Today's UEFA Cup): 1
Stadium
Dinamo's home ground is Maksimir Stadium, which is situated in the northeast borough of the city of Zagreb (called Maksimir) next to the famous Maksimir Park (forest) and the Zagreb Zoo. The stadium's current capacity is 38,923 and it's set to be rebuilt and renovated from 2008.
Supporters
Although Dinamo has had a large army of followers throughout its history, its first organized group of followers emerged in 1986. The most hardcore and faithful followers, formed the Bad Blue Boys. As legend has it, the name was inspired by the then very popular 1983 film Bad Boys starring Sean Penn.
Throughout the Zagreb boroughs, BBB chapters emerged, and at the matches one could see banners from various parts of the city (like Maksimir, Tresnjevka, and Dubrava). At first, the supporters privately organized visits to the games in former Yugoslavia. They were present at Dinamo's matches in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Niš, Podgorica, Split and Skopje.
At the start of the 1990s, the first organized BBB Fan Club was established and quickly became popular.
Dinamo youth school - ONS Hitrec - Kacijan
Dinamo's football school Hitrec - Kacijan is named after two football greats from Zagreb.
Ico Hitrec, centre-forward from HAŠK is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian player before World War II. He became a legend after scoring twice against then famous Spanish keeper Ricardo Zamora during the first night game in the capital of Croatia between Selection of Zagreb and Real Madrid in 1931. As on of the first Croatian international players, he went on to play for Grasshopper-Club Zürich of Switzerland, and Kicker, at the time the foremost sports journal in Europe, chose him as a member of the European elite 11. He was also the first technical officer and in his office in Zagreb power-works in Gundulićeva Street, the best players from Građanski met and discussed forming a new club with blue shirts.
Ratko Kacijan played with Hitrec and won the title with HAŠK in 1938. Ten years later, he was a member of the team that won Dinamo its first Championship title.
The current director of the school is Romeo Jozak.
Current squad
As of May 24, 2008
Summer transfers 2008
In:
Tomislav Butina - Olympiacos
Ivan Strinić - Hrvatski Dragovoljac
Out:
Luka Modrić - Tottenham Hotspur
Hrvoje Čale - Trabzonspor
Ognjen Vukojević - Dynamo Kyiv
Notable former players
Croatian
Foreigners
Eddie Krnčević
Mark Viduka
Eddy Bosnar
Branko Strupar
Jens Nowotny
Georg Koch
Željko Petrović
Hernán Medford
Kazuyoshi Miura
Goce Sedloski
Edin Mujčin
Dumitru Mitu
Sead Halilović
Coaches
| Marton Bukovi, 1945-1947.
Mirko Kokotović, 1947.
Karl Mütsch, 1948.
Bruno Knežević, 1948-1949.
Bernard Hügl, 1950-1952.
Milan Antolković, 1952-1953.
Ivan Jazbinšek, 1953-1955.
Bogdan Cuvaj, 1956.
Milan Antolković, 1957.
Gustav Lechner, 1957-1958.
Milan Antolković, 1959-1960.
Marton Bukovi, 1960-1961.
Milan Antolković, 1961-1964.
Vlatko Konjevod, 1964-1965.
Branko Zebec, 1965-1967.
Ivica Horvat, 1967-1970.
Zlatko Čajkovski,1970-1971.
Dražan Jerković, 1971-1972.
Stjepan Bobek, 1972.
Domagoj Kapetanović, 1973.
Ivan Marković, 1973-1974.
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Mirko Bazić, 1974-1977.
Rudolf Belin, 1977-1978.
Vlatko Marković, 1978-1980.
Ivan Marković. 1980.
Miroslav Blažević, 1980-1983.
Rudolf Belin, 1983.
Vlatko Marković, 1983.
Branko Zebec, 1984.
Tomislav Ivić, 1984-1985.
Zdenko Kobeščak, 1985.
Miroslav Blažević, 1986-1988.
Josip Skoblar, 1988-1989.
Rudolf Belin, 1989.
Josip Kuže, 1989-1990.
Vlatko Marković, 1990-1991.
Zdenko Kobeščak, 1991-1992.
Vlatko Marković, 1992.
Miroslav Blažević, 1992-1994.
Ivan Bedi, 1994.
Zlatko Kranjčar, 1994-1996.
Otto Barić, 1996-1997.
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Marijan Vlak, 1997-1998.
Zlatko Kranjčar, 1998.
Ivan Bedi / Hrvoje Braović, 1998.
Velimir Zajec, 1998-1999.
Ilija Lončarević, 1999.
Osvaldo Ardiles, 1999.
Marijan Vlak, 1999-2000.
Hrvoje Braović, 2000-2001.
Ilija Lončarević, 2001-2002.
Marijan Vlak, 2002.
Miroslav Blažević, 2002-2003.
Nikola Jurčević, 2003-2004.
Đuro Bago, 2004.
Nenad Gračan, 2004.
Ilija Lončarević, 2005.
Zvjezdan Cvetković, 2005.
Josip Kuže, 2005-2006.
Branko Ivanković, 2006.-2008.
Zvonimir Soldo, 2008.
Branko Ivanković, 2008.-present
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