2004–05 HNK Rijeka season

Rijeka
2004–05 season
Chairman	Robert Ježić
Manager	Elvis Scoria
Prva HNL	4th
Croatian Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	Qualifying Round 2
Top goalscorer	League: Tomislav Erceg (17) All: Tomislav Erceg (26)
Highest home attendance	8,000 vs Hajduk Split (12 March 2005 - Prva HNL)
Lowest home attendance	500 vs Crikvenica (26 October 2004 - Croatian Cup)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 season was the 58th season in Rijeka’s history. It was their 14th season in the Prva HNL and 31st successive top tier season.

Competitions

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Prva HNL	24 July 2004	28 May 2005	Matchday 1	4th	7001320000000000000♠32	7001110000000000000♠11	7001140000000000000♠14	7000700000000000000♠7	7001520000000000000♠52	7001400000000000000♠40	+12	7001343800000000000♠34.38
Croatian Cup	22 September 2004	25 May 2005	First round	Winner	7000800000000000000♠8	7000600000000000000♠6	7000200000000000000♠2	5000000000000000000♠0	7001180000000000000♠18	7001100000000000000♠10	+8	7001750000000000000♠75.00
UEFA Cup	12 August 2004	26 August 2004	QR2	QR2	7000200000000000000♠2	7000100000000000000♠1	5000000000000000000♠0	7000100000000000000♠1	7000200000000000000♠2	7000200000000000000♠2	+0	7001500000000000000♠50.00
Total					7001420000000000000♠42	7001180000000000000♠18	7001160000000000000♠16	7000800000000000000♠8	7001720000000000000♠72	7001520000000000000♠52	+20	7001428600000000000♠42.86

Prva HNL

First stage


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Hajduk Split	22	13	3	6	39	23	+16	42	0 Championship group0
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		ZAG 2–1 DIN DIN 1–2 ZAG

7	Dinamo Zagreb	22	9	6	7	38	30	+8	33	0 Relegation group0
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

Updated to games played on 19 March 2005.
Source: RSSSF.com
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; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Second stage (championship play-off)


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hajduk Split (C)	32	16	8	8	58	33	+25	56	2005–06 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Inter Zaprešić	32	15	9	8	44	39	+5	54	2005–06 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	2005–06 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round
5	Varteks	32	14	3	15	53	50	+3	45	2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
6	Slaven Belupo	32	12	9	11	37	41	−4	45	2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round

Updated to games played on 28 May 2005.
Source: RSSSF.com
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; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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
32	11	14	7	52	40	+12	47	10	6	0	35	14	+21	1	8	7	17	26	−9

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
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	W	D	W	D	W	L	D	W	L	W	W	L	D	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	L	D	D	W	D	L	L	D	L	D	D
Position	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4

Last updated: 2 February 2014.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	24 Jul	A	Međimurje	2 – 1	2,500	Novaković, Brkić	HRnogomet.com
2	31 Jul	H	Kamen Ingrad	2 – 1	2,000	Erceg, Butić	HRnogomet.com
3	7 Aug	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0	2,200		HRnogomet.com
4	16 Aug	H	Zadar	2 – 0	2,500	Erceg (2)	HRnogomet.com
5	21 Aug	A	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 1	5,000	Butić	HRnogomet.com
6	29 Aug	H	Osijek	4 – 0	3,000	Erceg (2), Tadić, Katulić	HRnogomet.com
7	11 Sep	A	Varteks	0 – 2	2,000		HRnogomet.com
8	18 Sep	A	Pula 1856	0 – 0	3,500		HRnogomet.com
9	25 Sep	H	Inter Zaprešić	2 – 0	2,500	Erceg, Čaval	HRnogomet.com
10	2 Oct	A	Hajduk Split	0 – 2	5,000		HRnogomet.com
11	16 Oct	H	Zagreb	2 – 1	2,000	Erceg, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
12	23 Oct	H	Međimurje	3 – 1	1,500	Erceg, Dunković, Šarić	HRnogomet.com
13	30 Oct	A	Kamen Ingrad	2 – 3	1,500	Čaval, Linić	HRnogomet.com
14	6 Nov	H	Slaven Belupo	1 – 1	2,000	Linić	HRnogomet.com
15	13 Nov	A	Zadar	2 – 2	800	Ivančić, Linić	HRnogomet.com
16	20 Nov	H	Dinamo Zagreb	4 – 2	5,000	Dunković, Linić, Erceg (2)	HRnogomet.com
17	27 Nov	A	Osijek	1 – 1	3,000	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
18	4 Dec	H	Varteks	3 – 0	5,000	Erceg, Katulić, Linić	HRnogomet.com
19	26 Feb	H	Pula 1856	1 – 1	4,000	Tadić	HRnogomet.com
20	5 Mar	A	Inker Zaprešić	2 – 2	1,500	Lérant, Butić	HRnogomet.com
21	12 Mar	H	Hajduk Split	2 – 0	8,000	Lérant, Mujdža	HRnogomet.com
22	19 Mar	A	Zagreb	1 – 2	1,500	Erceg	HRnogomet.com
23	2 Apr	H	Varteks	1 – 1	3,500	Mitu	HRnogomet.com
24	9 Apr	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 1	15,000	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
25	16 Apr	H	Zagreb	4 – 2	3,000	Erceg (2), Lérant, Katulić	HRnogomet.com
26	23 Apr	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0	5,000		HRnogomet.com
27	30 Apr	A	Inker Zaprešić	2 – 3	3,500	Novaković, Erceg	HRnogomet.com
28	7 May	A	Varteks	1 – 3	1,500	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
29	14 May	H	Hajduk Split	1 – 1	7,000	Erceg	HRnogomet.com
30	18 May	A	Zagreb	1 – 2	600	Erceg	HRnogomet.com
31	21 May	A	Slaven Belupo	1 – 1	1,500	Mitu	HRnogomet.com
32	28 May	H	Inter Zaprešić	3 – 3	5,000	Linić, Katulić (2)	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	22 Sep	A	Rudeš	4 – 1	1,000	Linić, Čaval, Knežević, Erceg	HRnogomet.com
R2	26 Oct	H	Crikvenica	2 – 1	500	Erceg (2)	HRnogomet.com
QF	8 Mar	H	Slaven Belupo	1 – 1	1,000	Erceg	HRnogomet.com
QF	16 Mar	A	Slaven Belupo	2 – 2	2,200	Mitu (2)	HRnogomet.com
SF	20 Apr	H	Varteks	3 – 2	1,500	Knežević, Erceg (2)	HRnogomet.com
SF	27 Apr	A	Varteks	3 – 2	3,500	Tadić, Lérant, Katulić	HRnogomet.com
F	1 May	H	Hajduk Split	2 – 1	7,000	Mitu, Erceg	HRnogomet.com
F	25 May	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 0	20,000	Mitu	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

UEFA Cup

Main article: 2004–05 UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
QR2	12 Aug	A	Gençlerbirliği	0 – 1	8,000		HRnogomet.com
QR2	26 Aug	H	Gençlerbirliği	2 – 1	7,000	Erceg (2)	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Squad statistics

Competitive matches only.
Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.

Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Name	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Radman, VelimirVelimir Radman	18 (0)	0	6 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	24 (0)	0
Marić, IvicaIvica Marić	14 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	18 (0)	0
Lérant, PeterPeter Lérant	30 (0)	3	6 (0)	1	2 (0)	0	38 (0)	4
Šarić, DanielDaniel Šarić	19 (2)	1	2 (1)	0	2 (0)	0	23 (3)	1
Linić, SinišaSiniša Linić	29 (2)	6	8 (0)	1	2 (0)	0	39 (2)	7
Mujdža, JasminJasmin Mujdža	27 (2)	1	5 (1)	0	2 (0)	0	34 (3)	1
Čaval, KristijanKristijan Čaval	10 (13)	2	6 (1)	1	0 (2)	0	16 (16)	3
Tkalčević, IgorIgor Tkalčević	20 (3)	0	4 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	25 (4)	0
Tadić, DraganDragan Tadić	26 (1)	2	8 (0)	1	2 (0)	0	36 (1)	3
Knežević, DarioDario Knežević	24 (2)	0	8 (0)	2	1 (0)	0	33 (2)	2
Butić, JosipJosip Butić	15 (7)	3	0 (2)	0	2 (0)	0	17 (9)	3
Brkić, KrešimirKrešimir Brkić	9 (3)	1	0 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	11 (3)	1
Sharbini, AhmadAhmad Sharbini	1 (11)	1	1 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	2 (13)	1
Mitu, DumitruDumitru Mitu	12 (2)	2	6 (0)	4	0 (0)	0	18 (2)	6
Erceg, TomislavTomislav Erceg	31 (1)	17	8 (0)	7	2 (0)	2	41 (1)	26
Novaković, IgorIgor Novaković	25 (2)	5	3 (1)	0	2 (0)	0	30 (3)	5
Katulić, NenoNeno Katulić	7 (15)	5	3 (4)	1	0 (1)	0	10 (20)	6
Dunković, AntunAntun Dunković	14 (11)	2	4 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	18 (14)	2
Ivančić, ZoranZoran Ivančić	10 (3)	1	4 (2)	0	0 (0)	0	14 (5)	1
Prišć, MarioMario Prišć	8 (4)	0	4 (2)	0	0 (0)	0	12 (6)	0
Sertić, IvanIvan Sertić	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (2)	0
Prpić, MarinMarin Prpić	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0
Dobrić, SandiSandi Dobrić	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0

External sources

2004–05 Prva HNL at HRnogomet.com
2004–05 Croatian Cup at HRnogomet.com
Prvenstvo 2004.-2005. at nk-rijeka.hr

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2004–05 HNK Rijeka season

Competitions

Prva HNL

First stage

Second stage (championship play-off)

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Prva HNL

Croatian Cup

UEFA Cup

Squad statistics

See also

External sources