2008–09 HNK Hajduk Split season

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 v Dinamo Zagreb, 22 February 2009
Lowest home attendance	2,000 v Šibenik, 14 September 2008
Home colours Away colours
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

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.

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. Position Player 1 GK Danijel Subašić 2 DF Matej Jonjić 3 FW Tomislav Bušić 4 DF Anthony Šerić 5 DF Jurica Buljat 6 DF Boris Živković 7 DF Hrvoje Vejić 8 MF Siniša Linić 9 FW Nikola Kalinić 10 MF Senijad Ibričić 11 MF Srđan Andrić (captain) 12 GK Vjekoslav Tomić 13 FW Ante Vukušić 14 MF Marin Tomasov 15 MF Drago Gabrić 16 FW Mladen Bartolović

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

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last Match
2008–09 Prva HNL	–	2nd	27 July	31 May
2008–09 UEFA Cup	QR1	QR2	17 July	28 August
2008–09 Croatian Football Cup	First round	Runners-up	23 September	28 May

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	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Hajduk Split	33	21	5	7	59	25	+34	68	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
3	Rijeka	33	17	5	11	50	44	+6	56	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
4	Slaven Belupo	33	16	7	10	46	39	+7	55	2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round 1
5	NK Zagreb	33	13	8	12	38	39	−1	47
6	Šibenik	33	13	7	13	44	35	+9	46
7	Osijek	33	10	11	12	40	41	−1	41
8	Cibalia	33	10	8	15	33	53	−20	38
9	Inter Zaprešić	33	9	9	15	41	50	−9	36
10	Varteks	33	10	5	18	41	55	−14	35
11	Zadar	33	7	8	18	28	49	−21	29
12	Croatia Sesvete (O)	33	6	8	19	31	66	−35	0252	0 Relegation play-off0

Updated to games played on 31 May 2009.
Source: prva-hnl.hr (Croatian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of 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
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

Last updated: 31 May 2009.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

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 Prva HNL article

Matches

Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Hajduk Scorers	Report
1	27 Jul	H	Zadar	1 – 0	12,000	Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
2	3 Aug	H	Varteks	1 – 1	10,000	Kalinić	Sportnet.hr
3	10 Aug	AR	NK Zagreb	0 – 3	2,000		Sportnet.hr
4	17 Aug	A	Rijeka	1 – 3	4,000	Kalinić	Sportnet.hr
5	23 Aug	H	Slaven Belupo	3 – 1	4,000	Kalinić (3)	Sportnet.hr
6	31 Aug	A	Osijek	2 – 1	7,000	Kalinić, Gabrić	Sportnet.hr
7	14 Sep	H	Šibenik	1 – 0	2,000	Gabrić	Sportnet.hr
8	21 Sep	A	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 0	8,000	Gabrić, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
9	28 Sep	H	Inter Zaprešić	3 – 3	9,000	Kalinić (2), Andrić	Sportnet.hr
10	5 Oct	AR	Croatia Sesvete	0 – 1	4,000		Sportnet.hr
11	19 Oct	H	Cibalia	2 – 0	4,000	Kalinić (2)	Sportnet.hr
12	26 Oct	A	Zadar	0 – 1	3,500		Sportnet.hr
13	2 Nov	A	Varteks	2 – 0	4,000	Bušić, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
14	9 Nov	H	NK Zagreb	4 – 0	5,000	Linić, Oremuš, Rubil, Bartolović	Sportnet.hr
15	16 Nov	H	Rijeka	2 – 0	7,000	Pandža, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
16	23 Nov	A	Slaven Belupo	2 – 1	3,000	Oremuš (2)	Sportnet.hr
17	30 Nov	H	Osijek	3 – 1	8,000	Andrić (2), Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
18	7 Dec	A	Šibenik	2 – 1	6,000	Kalinić, Gabrić	Sportnet.hr
19	22 Feb	H	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 0	38,000	Kalinić, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
20	1 Mar	A	Inter Zaprešić	4 – 0	5,000	Gabrić, Ibričić, Andrić, Bartolović	Sportnet.hr
21	8 Mar	H	Croatia Sesvete	1 – 0	18,000	Tomasov	Sportnet.hr
22	15 Mar	A	Cibalia	1 – 1	8,000	Kalinić	Sportnet.hr
23	22 Mar	H	NK Zagreb	2 – 0	10,000	Kalinić, Andrić	Sportnet.hr
24	5 Apr	A	Osijek	0 – 1	15,000		Sportnet.hr
25	11 Apr	H	Cibalia	2 – 0	10,000	Gabrić, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
26	19 Apr	A	Inter Zaprešić	2 – 0	4,000	Gabrić (2)	Sportnet.hr
27	22 Apr	H	Croatia Sesvete	5 – 0	5,000	Ibričić (2), Vejić, Jertec, Tičinović	Sportnet.hr
28	26 Apr	A	Zadar	3 – 0	6,000	Ibričić, Andrić, Tičinović	Sportnet.hr
29	3 May	H	Varteks	0 – 1	8,000		Sportnet.hr
30	10 May	A	Rijeka	1 – 2	7,000	Vejić	Sportnet.hr
31	17 May	H	Šibenik	2 – 0	4,000	Pandža, Kalinić	Sportnet.hr
31	24 May	A	Slaven Belupo	1 – 1	3,500	Aračić	Sportnet.hr
33	31 May	H	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 2	10,000	Ibričić, Vukušić	Sportnet.hr

Source: hajduk.hr

Croatian Football Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Hajduk Scorers	Report
R1	23 Sep	A	Orijent	4 – 1	2,000	Jertec (2), Maloča, M. Buljat	Sportnet.hr
R2	29 Oct	A	Konavljanin	2 – 0	5,000	Andrić, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
QF	12 Nov	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0	5,000		Sportnet.hr
QF	26 Nov	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0 (7 – 6 p)	3,000		Sportnet.hr
SF	4 Mar	H	Cibalia	4 – 1	5,000	Tomasov, Gabrić, Oremuš, Pandža	Sportnet.hr
SF	18 Mar	A	Cibalia	0 – 0	2,000		Sportnet.hr
Final	13 May	A	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 3	20,000		Sportnet.hr
Final	27 May	H	Dinamo Zagreb	3 – 0 (3 – 4 p)	18,000	Kalinić (2), Bartolović	Sportnet.hr

Source: hajduk.hr

UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Hajduk Scorers	Report
QR1	17 Jul	H	Birkirkara	4 – 0	20,000	Ibričić, Kalinić, Bušić, Tičinović	Sportnet.hr
QR1	31 Jul	A	Birkirkara	3 – 0	1,800	Strinić, Bartolović, Ibričić	Sportnet.hr
OR2	14 Aug	A	Deportivo La Coruna	0 – 0	13,000		Sportnet.hr
QR2	28 Aug	H	Deportivo La Coruna	0 – 2	35,000		Sportnet.hr

Source: hajduk.hr

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 Prva HNL
• 2008–09 Croatian Football Cup

External sources

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

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