2008–09 HNK Hajduk Split season

The 2008–09 season was the 98th season in Hajduk Split’s history and their eighteenth in the Prva HNL. Their 5th place finish in the 2007–08 season meant it was their 18th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.

Hajduk Split

2008-09 season
Chairman	Mate Peroš
Manager	Goran Vučević (until 26 October 2008) Ante Miše
Prva HNL	2nd
Croatian Cup	Runners-up
UEFA Cup	Second qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Nikola Kalinić (15) All: Nikola Kalinić (18)
Highest home attendance	38,000 vs Dinamo Zagreb (22 February 2009)
Lowest home attendance	1,500 vs Šibenik (14 September 2008)
Average home league attendance	9,471[1]
Home colours Away colours

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CRO Danijel Subašić 2 DF  CRO Matej Jonjić 3 FW  CRO Tomislav Bušić 4 DF  CRO Anthony Šerić 5 DF  CRO Jurica Buljat 6 DF  CRO Boris Živković 7 DF  CRO Hrvoje Vejić 8 MF  CRO Siniša Linić 9 FW  CRO Nikola Kalinić 10 MF  BIH Senijad Ibričić 11 MF  CRO Srđan Andrić (captain) 12 GK  CRO Vjekoslav Tomić 13 FW  CRO Ante Vukušić 14 MF  CRO Marin Tomasov 15 MF  CRO Drago Gabrić 16 FW  BIH Mladen Bartolović

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  CRO Ivan Strinić 18 FW  CRO Mirko Oremuš 19 MF  CRO Marijan Buljat 20 MF  AUS Josip Skoko 21 MF  CRO Đovani Roso 22 DF  CRO Mario Maloča 23 DF  CRO Ante Aračić 24 MF  CRO Mario Tičinović 25 GK  CRO Božidar Radošević 26 MF  CRO Goran Rubil 27 MF  CRO Mario Brkljača 28 DF  BIH Boris Pandža 29 MF  CRO Dario Jertec 30 FW  CRO Tedi Surać 31 DF  CRO Mladen Pelaić

Competitions

Overall record

Performance by competition

Competition	Starting round	Final position/round	First match	Last match
Prva HNL	N/A	Runners-up	27 July 2008	31 May 2009
Croatian Football Cup	First round	Runners-up	23 September 2008	28 May 2009
UEFA Cup	First qualifying round	Second qualifying round	17 July 2008	28 August 2008

Statistics by competition

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%
Prva HNL	33	21	5	7	59	25	+34	063.64
Croatian Football Cup	8	4	3	1	13	5	+8	050.00
UEFA Cup	4	2	1	1	7	2	+5	050.00
Total	45	27	9	9	79	32	+47	060.00

Prva HNL

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	33	23	5	5	71	26	+45	74	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Hajduk Split	33	21	5	7	59	25	+34	68	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
3	Rijeka	33	17	5	11	50	44	+6	56	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
4	Slaven Belupo	33	16	7	10	46	39	+7	55	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5	NK Zagreb	33	13	8	12	38	39	−1	47

Source: prva-hnl.hr (in Croatian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. Because both cup finalists, Dinamo and Hajduk, qualified for Europe through their league positions, all three UEFA Europa League spots were given to teams according to their league positions, what means that fourth-placed Slaven Belupo also earned a spot in Europa League.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
33	21	5	7	59	25	+34	68	13	3	1	36	9	+27	8	2	6	23	16	+7

Last updated: 31 May 2009.
Source: Sportnet.hr

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Ground	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	D	L	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	D
Position	4	5	8	10	7	5	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2009. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results by opponent

Team	Results			Points
	1	2	3
Cibalia	2–0	1–1	2–0	7
Croatia Sesvete	0–1	1–0	5–0	6
Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	2–0	2–2	7
Inter Zaprešić	3–3	4–0	2–0	7
Osijek	2–1	3–1	0–1	6
Rijeka	1–3	2–0	1–2	3
Slaven Belupo	3–1	2–1	1–1	7
Šibenik	1–0	2–1	2–0	9
Varteks	1–1	2–0	0–1	4
Zadar	1–0	0–1	3–0	6
NK Zagreb	0–3	4–0	2–0	6

Source: 2008–09 Croatian First Football League article

Matches

Prva HNL

27 July 2008 1	Hajduk Split	1–0	Zadar	Split
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ibričić  86'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Ivo Krečak (Šibenik)

3 August 2008 2	Hajduk Split	1–1	Varteks	Split
20:10 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalinić  56'	Report	Smrekar  1'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Damir Batinić (Osijek)

10 August 2008 3	NK Zagreb	3–0	Hajduk Split	Zagreb
20:10 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Vugrinec  17' (pen.) Piškor  62' Parlov  68'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

17 August 2008 4	Rijeka	3–1	Hajduk Split	Rijeka
20:10 CEST (UTC+02:00)	An. Sharbini  66'  50'  67' Čagalj  66' Križman  90+3'	Report	Kalinić  45+1' J. Buljat  90+2'	Stadium: Stadion Kantrida Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Vlado Svilokos (Sisak)

23 August 2008 5	Hajduk Split	3–1	Slaven Belupo	Split
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalinić  40', 71' (pen.), 77' (pen.)	Report	Jurić  6'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

31 August 2008 6	Osijek	1–2	Hajduk Split	Osijek
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Primorac  63'	Report	Linić  38'  66' Kalinić  39' Gabrić  52'	Stadium: Stadion Gradski vrt Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Zlatko Šimčić (Koprivnica)

14 September 2008 7	Hajduk Split	1–0	Šibenik	Split
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gabrić  24'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Andrej Burilo (Osijek)

21 September 2008 8	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	Hajduk Split	Zagreb
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Gabrić  51' Ibričić  76'	Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Vlado Svilokos (Sisak)

28 September 2008 9	Hajduk Split	3–3	Inter Zaprešić	Split
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalinić  37' (pen.), 43' (pen.) Andrić  79'	Report	Gulić  16', 42' Batarelo  35'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Bruno Marić (Daruvar)

5 October 2008 10	Croatia Sesvete	1–0	Hajduk Split	Zagreb
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Palić  8'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Kranjčevićeva Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Igor Križarić (Čakovec)

19 October 2008 11	Hajduk Split	2–0	Cibalia	Split
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalinić  13' (pen.), 67' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Danijel Trampus (Osijek)

26 October 2008 12	Zadar	1–0	Hajduk Split	Zadar
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ljubičić  59'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Stanovi Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Ivo Krečak (Šibenik)

2 November 2008 13	Varteks	0–2	Hajduk Split	Varaždin
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Bušić  36' Ibričić  47'	Stadium: Stadion Varteks Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

9 November 2008 14	Hajduk Split	4–0	NK Zagreb	Split
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Linić  27' Oremuš  29' Rubil  30' Bartolović  75'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Domagoj Ljubičić (Osijek)

16 November 2008 15	Hajduk Split	2–0	Rijeka	Split
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bodrušić  8' (o.g.) Ibričić  24' Strinić  61'  83'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Igor Pristovnik (Zagreb)

23 November 2008 16	Slaven Belupo	1–2	Hajduk Split	Koprivnica
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Čaval  50'	Report	Oremuš  58', 73'	Stadium: Gradski stadion Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Domagoj Vučkov (Rijeka)

30 November 2008 17	Hajduk Split	3–1	Osijek	Split
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Andrić  25', 49'  73' Ibričić  57'	Report	Barišić  60'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

7 December 2008 18	Šibenik	1–2	Hajduk Split	Šibenik
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Milanović  70'	Report	Kalinić  5' Gabrić  52'	Stadium: Stadion Šubićevac Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Draženko Kovačić (Križevci)

22 February 2009 19	Hajduk Split	2–0	Dinamo Zagreb	Split
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kalinić  45+2' (pen.) Ibričić  51' J. Buljat  82'  87'	Report	Lovren  40'  90+4'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

1 March 2009 20	Inter Zaprešić	0–4	Hajduk Split	Zaprešić
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Pecelj  41'  64'	Report	Gabrić  11' Ibričić  55' Andrić  65' Bartolović  81'	Stadium: Stadion ŠRC Zaprešić Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Igor Križarić (Čakovec)

8 March 2009 21	Hajduk Split	1–0	Croatia Sesvete	Split
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Tomasov  52'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Andrej Burilo (Osijek)

15 March 2009 22	Cibalia	1–1	Hajduk Split	Vinkovci
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Pavličić  90'	Report	Kalinić  52'	Stadium: Stadion HNK Cibalia Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Zlatko Šimčić (Koprivnica)

22 March 2009 23	Hajduk Split	2–0	NK Zagreb	Split
20:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kalinić  45+2' (pen.) Andrić  54'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Damir Batinić (Osijek)

5 April 2009 24	Osijek	1–0	Hajduk Split	Osijek
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Barišić  76'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Gradski vrt Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Igor Pristovnik (Zagreb)

11 April 2009 25	Hajduk Split	2–0	Cibalia	Split
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gabrić  47' Ibričić  62'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Ante Vučemilović-Šimunović (Osijek)

19 April 2009 26	Inter Zaprešić	0–2	Hajduk Split	Zaprešić
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Budimir  40'  65'	Report	Gabrić  40', 66' Kalinić 66'	Stadium: Stadion ŠRC Zaprešić Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Domagoj Ljubičić (Osijek)

22 April 2009 27	Hajduk Split	5–0	Croatia Sesvete	Split
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ibričić  11', 18' Vejić  54' Tičinović  57' Jertec  72'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Danijel Trampus (Osijek)

26 April 2009 28	Zadar	0–3	Hajduk Split	Zadar
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ljubičić  56'	Report	Ibričić  6' Andrić  63' Tičinović  69'	Stadium: Stadion Stanovi Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Bruno Marić (Daruvar)

3 May 2009 29	Hajduk Split	0–1	Varteks	Split
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Smrekar  57'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Dalibor Mlakar (Zagreb)

10 May 2009 30	Rijeka	2–1	Hajduk Split	Rijeka
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pamić  85' An. Sharbini  90+2'	Report	Vejić  75'	Stadium: Stadion Kantrida Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Igor Pristovnik (Zagreb)

17 May 2009 31	Hajduk Split	2–0	Šibenik	Split
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pandža  25' Kalinić  44'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Damir Batinić (Osijek)

24 May 2009 32	Slaven Belupo	1–1	Hajduk Split	Koprivnica
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Maras  87'	Report	Aračić  90+3'	Stadium: Gradski stadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Damir Batinić (Osijek)

31 May 2009 33	Hajduk Split	2–2	Dinamo Zagreb	Split
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ibričić  67' Vukušić  81'	Report	Chago  8' Mandžukić  14'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Andrej Burilo (Osijek)

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Football Cup

23 September 2008 R1	Orijent	1–4	Hajduk Split	Rijeka
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Weitzer  34' (pen.)	Report	Jertec  5', 15' Maloča  50' M. Buljat  86'	Stadium: Stadion Krimeja Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Domagoj Ljubičić (Osijek)

29 October 2008 R2	Konavljanin	0–2	Hajduk Split	Gruda, Konavle
14:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Andrić  24' Ibričić  49'	Stadium: Igralište Gnjile Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Rijeka)

12 November 2008 QF	Hajduk Split	0–0	Slaven Belupo	Split
17:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Vlado Svilokos (Sisak)

26 November 2008 QF	Slaven Belupo	0–0 (0–0 agg.) (6–7 p)	Hajduk Split	Koprivnica
17:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: Gradski stadion Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Bruno Marić (Daruvar)
	Penalties
	Vručina Šafarić Maras Jajalo Bilen Kokalović Purić		Kalinić Andrić Bušić J. Buljat Skoko Gabrić Rubil

4 March 2009 SF	Hajduk Split	4–1	Cibalia	Split
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Tomasov  12' Gabrić  34' Oremuš  37' Pandža  85'	Report	Malčić  29'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Domagoj Vučkov (Rijeka)

18 March 2009 SF	Cibalia	0–0 (1–4 agg.)	Hajduk Split	Vinkovci
17:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadion HNK Cibalia Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Danijel Trampus (Osijek)

13 May 2009 Final	Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Hajduk Split	Zagreb
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Mandžukić  13', 57' Sammir  29' (pen.)	Report	J. Buljat  34' Linić  45+1'	Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Bruno Marić (Daruvar)

28 May 2009 Final	Hajduk Split	3–0 (3–3 agg.) (3–4 p)	Dinamo Zagreb	Split
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kalinić  56', 75' Bartolović  58'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Domagoj Ljubičić (Osijek)
	Penalties
	Kalinić Roso Bartolović Ibričić Andrić		Bišćan Sammir Badelj Morales Hrgović

Source: HRnogomet.com

UEFA Cup

17 July 2008 QR1	Hajduk Split	4–0	Birkirkara	Split, Croatia
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ibričić  3' Kalinić  24' Bušić  55' Tičinović  71'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Carlo Bertolini (Switzerland)

31 July 2008 QR1	Birkirkara	0–3 (0–7 agg.)	Hajduk Split	Ta' Qali, Malta
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Strinić  5' Bartolović  45' Ibričić  90+2'	Stadium: Ta' Qali National Stadium Attendance: 1,800 Referee: David McKeon (Republic of Ireland)

14 August 2008 QR2	Deportivo La Coruña	0–0	Hajduk Split	A Coruña, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report		Stadium: Estadio Riazor Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

28 August 2008 QR2	Hajduk Split	0–2 (0–2 agg.)	Deportivo La Coruña	Split, Croatia
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Andrić  55'  65'	Report	Riki  42' Verdú  87' (pen.) De Guzman  15'  90'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Source: uefa.com

Player seasonal records

Competitive matches only. Updated to games played 31 May 2009.

Top scorers

Rank	Name	League	Europe	Cup	Total
1	Nikola Kalinić	15	2	1	18
2	Senijad Ibričić	12	1	2	15
3	Drago Gabrić	8	1	–	9
4	Srđan Andrić	6	1	–	7
5	Mirko Oremuš	3	1	–	4
6	Boris Pandža	2	1	–	3
	Mario Tičinović	2	–	1	3
	Dario Jertec	1	2	–	3
	Mladen Bartolović	1	1	1	3
10	Hrvoje Vejić	2	–	–	2
	Marin Tomasov	1	1	–	2
	Tomislav Bušić	1	–	1	2
13	Ante Aračić	1	–	–	1
	Siniša Linić	1	–	–	1
	Goran Rubil	1	–	–	1
	Ante Vukušić	1	–	–	1
	Marijan Buljat	–	1	–	1
	Mario Maloča	–	1	–	1
	Ivan Strinić	–	–	1	1
	TOTALS	58	13	7	78

Source: Competitive matches

See also

• 2008–09 Croatian First Football League
• 2008–09 Croatian Football Cup

References

1. "Gledatelji po klubovima 2008-2009". HRnogomet.com. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

External links

• 2008–09 Prva HNL at HRnogomet.com
• 2008–09 Croatian Cup at HRnogomet.com
• 2008–09 UEFA Cup at rsssf.com