Inter Zaprešić

NK Inter Zaprešić
	NK Inter Zaprešić
Basic data
Surname	Nogometni club Inter Zaprešić
Seat	Zaprešić
founding	1929
president	Josip Kordic
Website	inter.hr
First soccer team
Head coach	Ilija Lončarević
Venue	Gradski stadium
Places	4,528
league	2. HNL
2019/20	10th place ▼
home	Away

NK Inter Zaprešić is a football club from the city of Zaprešić, west of the Croatian capital Zagreb , and currently plays in the 1st HNL , the highest Croatian football league.

history

The club was founded in 1929 as NK Sava and, after two renaming, since 1962 has been called Jugokeramika Zaprešić , named after the main sponsor. After the breakup of Yugoslavia and Croatia's independence , the company Jugokeramika was renamed INKER (INdustrija KERamike). At the same time, the club name also changed. When the main sponsorship agreement expired in 2003, the name was finally changed to NK Inter Zaprešić . The association's nickname Keramičari is also derived from the longstanding main sponsor. Another nickname is div iz predgrađa , which means something like "the giant from the suburbs".

The greatest club successes are the first place in the football tournament of 1991 , which was held as the unofficial Croatian championship, in which, however, not all Croatian clubs could take part due to the Croatian war . The tournament was held in a kind of waiting status, as there was no official league after the fall of Yugoslavia. In the following year, the first season of the now recognized 1st HNL took place and parallel to it the first Croatian cup competition. In the 1992 final, Inter became the first club to secure the title of Croatian Cup winner.

Fans

Divlje Svinje (dt. "Wild boar") - founded in 1993, dissolved in 1997 when Inter (at that time still under the name Inker) was relegated from the first division, re-established in 2003 when Inter managed to return to the first division.

Stadion

NK Inter plays its home games in the NK Intera stadium in Zaprešić, which was built in 1962 and expanded to include an east stand in 1987 and a floodlight system in 2005. The stadium has a capacity of 4,528 seats.

successes

1 × Croatian cup winner : 1992 (as NK Inker)

Coach and player

Ivan Cvjetković and Ilija Lončarević are among the club's better-known players and coaches . In 1992, when Inter won the cup, Zvonimir Soldo , later a VfB Stuttgart player and former coach of 1. FC Cologne , also played for the club. In the 2003/04 season the club was coached by Josip Kuže , who also looked after several German clubs.