NK Zadar

NK Zadar
	NK Zadar
Basic data
Surname	Nogometni Club Zadar
Seat	Zadar
founding	1945/1949
president	Josip Bajlo
Website	nkzadar.hr
First soccer team
Head coach	Zvonimir Janketic
Venue	Stanovi
Places	5,860
league	3. HNL
2018/19	8th place
home	Away

NK Zadar is a Croatian football club from the city of Zadar . He currently plays in the 3rd HNL . Zadar is on the Adriatic coast halfway between the traditional clubs HNK Hajduk Split and NK Rijeka . There are therefore only a few designated fans, as the majority of football fans feel they belong to the Dalmatian cult club Hajduk Split. GNK Dinamo Zagreb also has a strong followingbut nowhere near as strong as Hajduk's. Only in third place is your own club, closely followed by NK Rijeka. Due to the lack of attractiveness for sponsors as a result, the financial situation is also rather critical, and the club mostly only strives to keep the class.

history

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Fiskulturno društvo Zadar was founded on April 26, 1945 with the football , basketball and athletics departments . On February 9, 1949, the football department was spun off as NK Zadar.

In 1992 the association was a founding member of the 1st HNL as Zadarkomerc . Since then, the club has always played in the first division of Croatia for five seasons. Since 2001 the association has been officially called NK Zadar.

In 1995/96 the Croatian Cup made it to the semi-finals .

In the 2014/15 season, the club was relegated from the 1st HNL and then in 2016, bottom of the table, the crash into the 3rd HNL. Thanks to the expansion of the 2nd HNL to 14 clubs, the club rose again to the 2nd division with a third place in 2018, but could not hold the class there and has been playing in the 3rd national league again since the 2019/20 season.

Stadion

The Stanovi stadium is named after the district in which it is located and has 2,860 seats and 3,000 standing places. There is also a VIP box with 30 seats.

In its current form, it was completed on the occasion of the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split. Due to new licensing conditions of the Croatian Football Association , it was provided with a floodlight system in 2008 , and further expansion work is planned. Upon completion, 5 500 seats will be available.