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Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (English: Croatian Football Club Rijeka), commonly referred to as NK Rijeka or simply Rijeka, is a Croatian professional football club from the city of Rijeka.

It has been suggested that S.C.F. Quarnero be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since October 2021.

HNK Rijeka

Full name	Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (Croatian Football Club Rijeka)
Nickname(s)	Riječki bijeli (Rijeka's Whites)
Short name	RIJ, RJK
Founded	25 November 1906; 115 years ago (1906-11-25) (as Club Sportivo Olimpia)
Ground	Stadion Rujevica
Capacity	8,279[1]
Owner	Damir Mišković, via Teanna Limited (70%) City of Rijeka (30%)
President	Damir Mišković
Head coach	vacant
League	Prva HNL
2021–22	Prva HNL, 4th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

HNK Rijeka compete in Croatia's top division, HT Prva liga, of which they have been members since its foundation in 1992. During the reconstruction of Stadion Kantrida, their traditional home ground has been Stadion Rujevica. Rijeka's traditional home colours are all white.

The club was founded in 1906 as Club Sportivo Olimpia,[2] and following the tumultuous political changes that swept the border city of Rijeka in the following decades, it changed its name to U.S. Fiumana in 1926, to S.C.F. Quarnero in 1946, to NK Rijeka in 1954 and finally HNK Rijeka in 1995.[3][4][5] Rijeka is the third-most successful Croatian football club, having won one Croatian First League title, two Yugoslav Cups, six Croatian Cups, one Croatian Super Cup and the 1977–78 Balkans Cup.

History

1906–1926

The club was founded in mid April 1904 as Club Sportivo Olimpia, by the Antonio Marchich, Aristodemo Susmel, Agesilao Satti, Carlo Colussi, Romeo and Alessandro Mitrovich, when the city of Rijeka was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Corpus Separatum of the Hungarian Crown. The club was founded as a tennis-lawn, foot-ball, swimming, cycling and athletics club.[6] The first activities of the football section found by historians in the news was held on 25 November 1906. This date is at the moment considered the official beginning of HNK Rijeka.[4][2] This also makes it the oldest documented still active association football club in today's Croatia.

While many clubs in town and the region had often specific ethnic leanings, Olimpia had intentionally a very international soul with Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, German players all playing and working along each other.[7] Initially the club played its matches on the football field at Scoglietto, at the local Honved HQ, but moved to Kantrida stadium during the following decade (the stadium was then called Campo Sportivo Olympia). The initial official colours of Olimpia were black and white, but the club will start playing in a white kit in the second half of the 1910s.

Olimpia will be joined in the following 15 years by several other local football clubs from the city of Rijeka, and will continue the legacy of Club Atletico Fiumano as the main city club after Atletico discontinued its football section in the course of the 1910s.[8] Among the many clubs being founded in town during these years, Doria will soon rise as a fierce arch-rival to Olimpia. Doria (later renamd CS Gloria) arose from the proletarian classes and the humble old city dwellers of the industry-rich port town on the Adriatic. While Olympia symbolically represented a wealthier class of citizens, mostly players from working-class families performed in Gloria, so the club found its sympathisers among the poorer part of the population.[9] Olimpia was renamed into Olympia on 9 January 1918 during a meeting of its board and the new president became the Fiuman writer Antonio de Schlemmer. During these years it achieved its first major successes: it became the champion of the Free State of Fiume championship in 1921, and it won several Julian March and North-Eastern Italian tournaments in the following years, becoming the most successful club in the region.

1926–1945

On September 2, 1926, following Mussolini's reforms of the FIGC and the 1924 putsch led by Italian fascists, which brought to the annexation of the independent Free State of Fiume to fascist Italy, Olympia was forced to merge with its arch-rival Gloria into the Unione Sportiva Fiumana. Pietro Pasquali was picked as the new president of the club. Two years later, Fiumana was already playing in the Italian Serie A, and some of the biggest Italian clubs such as Ambrosiano (today's Inter, also forced into a brand change by the new regime), Juventus and Napoli played at the Kantrida stadium (renamed to Stadio Borgomarina in those years). Despite a not so bad performance in Serie A, the club was not in the financial position to compete with the biggest clubs in Italy and had to see many of its stars signed by major Italian sides and it passed most of the '30s and '40s between the second and third tier of the Italian competitions. At the reopening of a refurbished Kantrida (now called Stadio del Littorio) in 1935, Fiumana hosted AS Roma, and in June 1941, it became champion of the recently created Italian Serie C. Serie C's last season before the fall of fascist Italy in 1943 saw Fiumana end in third place. Championships in this part of Europe will be paused until 1946, but Fiumana will keep playing several matches with other local teams and German occupational authorities. Worth mentioning is a last ceremonial game between the old legends of Olympia and Gloria that was held on June the 15th 1944, played while allied planes were bombing the city's surroundings.[7]

1945–1954

Following the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation and the subsequent occupation by Yugoslav troops, and due to the uncertain future status of the city at the Paris peace conference, the club resumed its activities under the slightly rebranded name Rappresentativa Sindacale Fiumana. It went on playing several games against the most notable teams of the newly constituted Yugoslav state, beating Dinamo Zagreb 4–2, Akademičar Zagreb 7–2 and Metalac Beograd 2–0.[7] During the interim post-war year, and prior to the first edition of the Yugoslav First League, R.S. Fiumana played against some of its future Balkan rivals. The authorities also set up an unofficial city league among factories named after Fiumana's late captain Giovanni Maras, who died heroically in partisan combat on the nearby Mount Risnjak.[10] Despite Maras and most of his colleagues' partisan allegiance and the many hardships endured by many of them in Nazi concentration camps, the name Fiumana came soon to be considered too Italian for a city that the Yugoslav occupational army was trying to annex as a fait accompli, before the official peace treaty could be signed. As in most other cities in Yugoslavia, in 1946 the communist authorities established a new identity for the city's most representative club[5] and rebranded and restructured the club into the bilingual Società Cultura Fisica Quarnero – Sportsko Društvo Kvarner (the name was initially only Italian but soon became bilingual Italian-Croatian).[11] The initiative came from Ettore Mazzieri, the city's sport commissioner for the Yugoslav military administration and a previous Fiumana manager. The first match of the rebranded club was played on 7 August 1946, setting a new victory over Hajduk Split, and the first goal for the club was scored by Petronius.[12] Luigi Sošić was chosen as president, and the former Fiumana's players and managers simply carried on playing in the renamed club for the next few years, before the Italian exodus slowly forced many to leave the city between the years 1947 and 1960. As all clubs in Yugoslavia had to undergo a transformation into general sport clubs following the Stalinist model imposed by Belgrade in 1945,[5] S.C.F. Quarnero incorporated 11 other sections in addition to football. This included boxing, fencing, basketball and tennis. The international tennis champion Orlando Sirola started his career at the club.[7]

The authorities in Belgrade decided that Rijeka's main football club should be invited to participate in the first Yugoslav First League in 1946-47 as an external guest, representing the occupied Zone B of the Julian March region, but only after a play-off with the Pula-based club Unione Sportiva Operaia. When the city of Rijeka was assigned to Yugoslavia in February 1947 and Tito broke all ties with Stalin in 1948, most Yugoslav clubs underwent a further re-organization of their sport activities. Thus in 1948 the club became once again an all-football club, and the name was also consequently modified once more into Club Calcio Quarnero – Nogometni Klub Kvarner. During the early period playing in Yugoslavia's competitions, Kvarner had moderate success in various national and local club championships. Still, the club was relegated at the end of their inaugural season in the Yugoslav First League in 1946–47, due to a purely political decision in favour of Ponziana, after it had already secured the stay in the first league at the end of the season. Upon securing Rijeka for Yugoslavia, the Belgrade authorities were now trying to gain the hearts of Trieste's residents through sport, in hope of annexing also that city.[13]

1954–1991

Losing many of its best players to the exodus, the club lingered between the second and third tier for the next several years. Following new Italian-Yugoslav tensions that arose during the Trieste Crisis, and the subsequent de facto abolition of the city's full bilingual rights by the communist authorities in Belgrade,[14] the club changed its name once again, into the now completely monolingual NK Rijeka (Rijeka FC) on 2 July 1954. NK Rijeka started to use a white kit for the second time in history during a match in Šibenik in the 1957–58 second league season. Previously, kit colour was constantly changed, depending on what was available to the management in any given season.[15] From then on the home kit remained white. Rijeka returned to the First League in 1958 and remained in the top tier for 11 consecutive seasons until 1969, when it got relegated once again to the Yugoslav Second League.[16] Despite finishing on top in four (out of five) seasons in the second tier, due to three failed play/off attempts, the club only gained promotion back to the top tier in 1974. Rijeka remained in top tier until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 with varying results.[16]

The club's greatest success during this period are two Yugoslav Cup titles in 1978 and 1979. Rijeka were also a Cup runner-up in 1987, when they lost the final after a penalty shoot-out.[17] Rijeka never finished higher than the fourth place in the Yugoslav First League. In 1984, the club came closest to their first championship title, finishing only two points behind Red Star Belgrade. Rijeka were also the best placed Croatian club in the Yugoslav First League in 1965, 1984 and 1987.[18]

1991–present

Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, in 1992 Rijeka joined the Croatian First Football League in its inaugural season. In 1995 the club changes one final time its name to HNK Rijeka, adding the prefix "Croatian" to its name, following the example of most clubs in the new Republic of Croatia during the Croatian War for Independence. Today Rijeka remains one of only four founding member clubs of the HNL to never have been relegated and is regarded as one of the country's top three clubs. Since the Croatian independence, the club won its first-ever league title in 2017, ending Dinamo Zagreb's run of 11 consecutive titles, and was a runner-up on seven occasions.[19] In the final round of the 1998–99 season, a refereeing error denied Rijeka their first championship title. With one match to play, Rijeka were one point ahead of Croatia Zagreb, needing a home win against Osijek to secure the title. With the match tied at 1–1, in the 89th minute, Rijeka forward Admir Hasančić converted a cross by Barnabás Sztipánovics. However, moments later, assistant referee Krečak raised his flag and referee Šupraha disallowed Rijeka's winning goal for an alleged offside.[20] Following an investigation, 3D analysis revealed Hasančić was not, in fact, in an offside position, and that Rijeka were wrongfully denied their first championship title.[21][22] An investigation by Nacional revealed Franjo Tuđman, the president of the Republic of Croatia and an ardent Croatia Zagreb supporter, earlier in 1999 ordered the country's intelligence agencies to spy on football referees, officials and journalists, with the aim of ensuring the Zagreb club wins the league title.[22]

Rijeka has also won six Croatian Cups, including back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006 and most recently in 2019 and 2020. It won the cup also in 2014 and in 2017, which helped them secure a historic Double in that year.[23]

HNK Rijeka in the European competitions

Rijeka participated in UEFA competitions on 21 occasions, including nine consecutive appearances since 2013–14. The greatest success was the quarter-final of the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup, where they lost to Italian giants Juventus 2–0 on aggregate.[24] The most memorable result in Europe was the home win (3–1) against eventual winners Real Madrid in the 1984–85 UEFA Cup.[25] Controversially, in the return leg at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, which Rijeka lost 3–0, three of their players were sent off. Madrid scored their first goal from a doubtful penalty in the 67th minute with Rijeka already down to ten men. Over the next ten minutes, two additional Rijeka players were sent off, most notably Damir Desnica. While Desnica received the first yellow card because he did not stop play after Schoeters blew his whistle, the second yellow was issued because he allegedly insulted the referee. However, unbeknownst to the referee, Desnica had been a deaf-mute since birth.[18] With Rijeka reduced to eight players, Madrid scored two additional goals, progressed to the next round and eventually won the trophy.

In 2013, after winning 4–3 on aggregate against VfB Stuttgart, Rijeka qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage.[26][27] Rijeka also participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group stage, where they defeated Feyenoord and Standard Liège and drew with title-holders and eventual winners Sevilla.[28][29][30] In 2017, Rijeka reached the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League play-off, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to Greek champions Olympiacos, and automatically qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage. In the group stage they recorded a famous home win (2–0) against AC Milan but once again failed to progress to the knockout stages.[31]

Private ownership

In February 2012, Gabriele Volpi – an Italian businessman and the founder of Orlean Invest, as well as the owner of football club Spezia and water polo club Pro Recco – injected much needed capital into the club. With the privatization process complete by September 2013, Volpi, through Dutch-based Stichting Social Sport Foundation, became the owner of 70% of the club, with the City of Rijeka in control of the remaining 30%.[32][33] On 29 December 2017 it was announced that chairman Damir Mišković, through London-based Teanna Limited, acquired the majority stake in the club from Stichting Social Sport Foundation.[34][35]

Record transfers

In January 2015, Rijeka sold their star striker Andrej Kramarić to Leicester City for a club-record £9.7 million transfer fee.[36]

Stadium

The club initially played at the Honved training field, in front of today's Popular University of Rijeka in the central Scoglietto suburb of Rijeka. During the 1920s the club was allowed to build a new and very modern for the time facility in Scoglietto, and toward the end of the decade it started using Stadium Kantrida as its main field, naming it Campo Sportivo Olympia. Kantrida was the club's traditional home ground for over 95 years (with a small hiatus between 1947 and 1951, due to refurbishing), until July 2015. With a new project for a refurbished and bigger Kantrida Stadium being presented, and the field awaiting demolition and reconstruction, in August 2015, Rijeka have been based at the newly built Stadion Rujevica, a modern all-seater with a capacity of 8,279. Stadion Rujevica is part of Rijeka's new training centre and serves as the club's temporary home ground. Following the demolition of old Kantrida, a new, state-of-the art, 14,600-capacity all-seater stadium should be built on the same location. In addition to the stadium, investors are planning to build a commercial complex that will include a shopping mall and a hotel.[37] The project is on hold as the club is seeking funding and co-investors to make the project viable.[38]

Support

Rijeka's ultras group are called Armada Rijeka, or simply Armada. The group has been active since 1987, but some forms of organised (albeit not registered as associations) support were present and following the club already in the decades before, and the earliest we know reach well into the '20s of the XX. century.

During most home matches, the majority of the seats are occupied by season ticket holders. For the 2017–18 season the club had 5,922 season ticket holders and 8,403 members.

Rivalries

Rijeka's greatest rivalry nowadays is with Hajduk Split. Since 1946, the Adriatic derby is contested between the two most popular Croatian football clubs from the Adriatic coast, Rijeka and Hajduk. Other rivalries exist with other major clubs in Croatia Dinamo Zagreb and a milder with Osijek. The main regional derby is that with Istra Pula. The origins of the Rijeka–Pula rivalry date back to the clashes between Fiumana and Grion Pola since the late 1920s. The city derby with Orijent is probably the most ancient, with its roots in the clashes between CS Olimpia and CS Gloria against Orijent and the other more successful in those early years Sušak based club, Victoria.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt partner
1998–1999	Adidas	INA
1999–2002	Kronos
2002–2003	Torpedo
2003–2004		Lero
2004–2005	Legea
2005–2006		INA
2006–2008	Kappa	Croatia Osiguranje
2008–2012	Jako
2012–2014	Lotto	–
2014–2016	Jako
2017–2018		Sava Osiguranje
2018–	Joma

Players

Current squad

As of 19 October 2022[39]

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 Nediljko Labrović 3 DF  RUS Mikhail Merkulov 4 DF  CRO Mateo Pavlović 5 DF  CRO Niko Galešić 6 DF  CRO Matej Mitrović 7 MF  BIH Mario Vrančić (on loan from Stoke City) 8 MF  CRO Adrian Liber 9 FW  COL Jorge Obregón 10 MF  CRO Alen Halilović 11 MF  GHA Prince Ampem 12 DF  MNE Andrija Vukčević 14 FW  CRO Niko Gajzler 15 DF  CRO Anton Krešić 16 MF  CRO Dominik Simčić 17 MF  CRO Matej Vuk 18 MF  ALB Lindon Selahi 19 FW  SVN Haris Vučkić 20 DF  COL Andrés Solano 21 DF  SUI Nikita Vlasenko 22 DF  CRO Roko Jurišić

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  CRO Denis Bušnja 24 FW  CRO Matija Frigan 25 MF  CRO Veldin Hodža 26 MF  CRO Marino Kukoč 27 FW  BIH Admir Bristrić 28 DF  CRO Ivan Smolčić 29 MF  CRO Andro Babić 30 MF  CAN Antoine Coupland 32 DF  CRO Alen Grgić 33 GK  NGA David Nwolokor 34 MF  GHA Jacob Aboosah (on loan from EurAfrica FC) 40 MF  ESP Pablo Álvarez 45 GK  SRB Aleksa Todorović 47 MF  SRB Damjan Pavlović 55 DF  CRO Duje Dujmović 80 MF  ALB Bernard Karrica 92 FW  AUT Marco Djuricin 96 MF  ITA Gabriel Lunetta 98 GK  BIH Martin Zlomislić 99 MF  FRA Naïs Djouahra

Out on loan

As of 12 August 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  CRO Filip Braut (at Orijent 1919 until 30 June 2023) 13 MF  CRO Ivan Lepinjica (at Arminia Bielefeld until 30 June 2023) 14 MF  BIH Mato Stanić (at Varaždin until 30 June 2023) 33 DF  NIG Djibrilla Ibrahim (at Orijent 1919 until 30 June 2023) 44 MF  CRO Filip Dujmović (at Orijent 1919 until 30 June 2023)

Youth system

Club officials and technical staff

Position	Staff
President	Damir Mišković
Vice-president	Dean Šćulac Zlatan Hreljac
Managing director	Luka Ivančić
Administrative director	Marina Vela
Director of finance	Marina Cesarac Dorčić
Director of communications	Alen Fućak
Director of football	Srećko Juričić
Sporting director	Robert Palikuča
Sporting director (assistant)	Antonini Čulina
Academy director	Luka Pavlović
Club secretary	Milica Alavanja
Press secretary	Sandra Nešić
Power of attorney	Vlatko Vrkić
Head coach	Serse Cosmi
Assistant coach	Radomir Đalović
Team manager	Alen Rivetti
Performance analyst	Rade Ljepojević
Chief scout	Ranko Buketa
Fitness coach	Antonio Cinotti
Goalkeeping coach	Gojko Mrčela
Team doctor	Nataša Bakarčić Boban Dangubić
Physiotherapist	Marin Polonijo Matija Čargonja Matej Lulić
Kit manager	Denis Miškulin

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have satisfied all of the following three criteria:

• (1) player has at least 100 appearances in official matches, including first division (Yugoslav First League and Croatian First Football League), domestic cup (Yugoslav Cup, Croatian Cup and Croatian Supercup) and UEFA club competitions;
• (2) player has scored at least 20 goals in official matches if forward, 5 if midfielder and no goal requirement if defender or goalkeeper in first division (Yugoslav First League and Croatian First Football League), domestic cup (Yugoslav Cup, Croatian Cup and Croatian Supercup) and UEFA club competitions; and
• (3) player has played at least one international match for their national team while under contract with Rijeka.
• Otherwise, also included are 30 of the club's top scorers and most capped players in the first division.

Source: Appearances and Goals. Last updated 23 April 2022.

All-time Best 11

According to a 2005–07 survey of former players (older than 40 years of age) and respected journalists, Marinko Lazzarich found that the best all-time team of Rijeka is as follows:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Milevoj, 3. Hrstić, 4. Radaković, 5. Radin, 6. Juričić, 7. Lukarić, 8. Gračan, 9. Osojnak, 10. Naumović, 11. Desnica.[40]

Rijeka's daily, Novi list, in 2011 declared the following 11 players as Rijeka's best all time team:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Šarić, 3. Radin, 4. Juričić, 5. Hrstić, 6. Loik, 7. Radaković, 8. Mladenović, 9. Naumović, 10. Skoblar, 11. Desnica.[41]

Best 11 (2010–20)

In 2020, the club's fans voted to select the best squad over the past decade to fit in a 4–2–3–1 formation:

Prskalo – Ristovski, Župarić, Mitrović, Zuta – Kreilach, Moisés – Vešović, Andrijašević, Sharbini – Kramarić. Manager: Kek.[42]

Managers

Source:[43][44]

Winning managers

Name	Nationality	Honours	Total
Matjaž Kek	Slovenia	2013–14 Croatian Cup, 2014 Croatian Super Cup, 2016–17 Croatian First League, 2016–17 Croatian Cup	4
Dragutin Spasojević	Yugoslavia	1977–78 Yugoslav Cup, 1977–78 Balkans Cup	2
Marijan Brnčić	Yugoslavia	1978–79 Yugoslav Cup	1
Elvis Scoria	Croatia	2004–05 Croatian Cup	1
Dragan Skočić	Croatia	2005–06 Croatian Cup	1
Igor Bišćan	Croatia	2018–19 Croatian Cup	1
Simon Rožman	Slovenia	2019–20 Croatian Cup	1

Presidents

Source:[43][44]

Seasons, statistics and records

Honours

Rijeka has won one Croatian First Football League title, two Yugoslav Cups and six Croatian Cups. In European competitions, the club has reached the quarter-final of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1979–80, UEFA Cup Round of 32 in 1984–85, and group stages of the UEFA Europa League in 2013–14, 2014–15, 2017–18 and 2020–21. The club has also won the 1977–78 Balkans Cup.[45]

Domestic

Croatia

• Croatian First League
  • Winners: 2016–17
  • Runners-up (7): 1998–99, 2005–06, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19
• Croatian Cup
  • Winners (6): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20
  • Runners-up: (2) 1993–94, 2021–22
• Croatian Super Cup
  • Winners: 2014
  • Runners-up: 2005, 2006, 2019

Yugoslavia

• Yugoslav Second League
  • Winners (6): 1952, 1957–58, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74
• Yugoslav Cup
  • Winners (2): 1977–78, 1978–79
  • Runners-up: 1986–87

Italy

• Italian Coppa Federale
  • Winners (1): 1927–28
• Italian North-East league
  • Winners (1): 1923–24
  • Runners-up: 1924–25
• Italian Third League
  • Winners (1): 1940–41
• Julian March Championship
  • Winners (2): 1921–22, 1922–23
• Friuli and Julian March Cup
  • Winners (1): 1922–23

Free State of Fiume

• Fiuman championship
  • Winners (1): 1920–21
• Fiuman-Julian Cup
  • Winners (1): 1921

Austria-Hungary

• Grazioli Cup
  • Runners-up: 1919

International

• Balkans Cup
  • Winners: 1977–78
  • Runners-up: 1979–80
• The Atlantic Cup:
  • Winners: 2017

Source:,[46] Last updated 31 July 2020.

Rankings

UEFA club coefficient ranking

All time UEFA ranking:[49] 271

European record

By competition

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Last season played
UEFA Champions League	8	2	2	4	10	11	2017–18
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	68	26	17	25	98	86	2020–21
UEFA Europa Conference League	8	3	2	3	10	9	2022–23
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	10	3	3	4	8	9	1979–80
UEFA Intertoto Cup	4	1	1	2	3	5	2008
Total	98	35	25	38	129	120

Source:,[50] Last updated on 28 July 2022.
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

By ground

Ground	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Home	49	25	11	13	77	48	+29
Away	49	10	14	25	52	72	−20
Total	98	35	25	38	129	120	+9

Source:,[50] Last updated on 21 July 2022.
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against.

By season

Non-UEFA competitions are listed in italics.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
1962–63	Intertoto Cup	Group B3	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	2–1	3–4	1st out of 4
			Basel	5–1	2–2
			PSV	3–1	3–2
		QF	Dozsa Pecs	2–2	1–2	3–4
1965–66	Intertoto Cup	Group B1	Motor Jena	0–3	1–3	4th out of 4
			Tatran Prešov	0–0	1–3
			Szombierki Bytom	0–3	1–0
1974–75	Mitropa Cup	Group A	Tatabánya	3–1	1–3	2nd out of 3
			Wacker Innsbruck	1–3	0–0
1977	Intertoto Cup	Group 6	Frem Kobenhavn	2–2	0–2	3rd out of 4
			Ruch Chorzów	0–1	4–2
			Grazer AK	1–1	3–0
1978	Balkans Cup	Group B	Skënderbeu	6–0	0–1	1st out of 3
			Aris Thessaloniki	2–0	2–1
		Final	Jiul Petroșani	4–1	0–1	4–2
1978–79	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Wrexham	3–0	0–2	3–2
		R2	Beveren	0–0	0–2	0–2
1979–80	Balkans Cup	Group A	PAS Giannina	2–1	3–1	1st out of 3
			Partizani Tirana	3–0	1–4
		Final	Sportul Studențesc	1–1	0–2	1–3
1979–80	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Germinal Beerschot	2–1	0–0	2–1
		R2	Lokomotíva Košice	3–0	0–2	3–2
		QF	Juventus	0–0	0–2	0–2
1984–85	UEFA Cup	R1	Real Valladolid	4–1	0–1	4–2
		R2	Real Madrid	3–1	0–3	3–4
1985–86	Mitropa Cup	SF	Debreceni	0–1†		–
		3rd Pl.	Sigma Olomouc	3–2†		–
1986–87	UEFA Cup	R1	Standard Liège	0–1	1–1	1–2
1999–00	UEFA Champions League	QR2	Partizan	0–3	1–3	1–6
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	Valletta	3–2	5–4 (aet)	8–6
		R1	Celta Vigo	0–1 (aet)	0–0	0–1
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	R1	St Patrick's Athletic	3–2	0–1	3–3 (a)
2004–05	UEFA Cup	QR2	Gençlerbirliği	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2005–06	UEFA Cup	QR2	Litex Lovech	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2006–07	UEFA Cup	QR1	Omonia	2–2	1–2	3–4
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	R1	Renova	0–0	0–2	0–2
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	QR2	Differdange	3–0	0–1	3–1
		QR3	Metalist Kharkiv	1–2	0–2	1–4
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	QR2	Prestatyn Town	5–0	3–0	8–0
		QR3	Žilina	2–1	1–1	3–2
		PO	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	2–2	4–3
		Group I	Vitória de Guimarães	0–0	0–4	4th out of 4
			Real Betis	1–1	0–0
			Lyon	1–1	0–1
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	QR2	Ferencváros	1–0	2–1	3–1
		QR3	Víkingur	4–0	5–1	9–1
		PO	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	3–0	4–0
		Group G	Standard Liège	2–0	0–2	3rd out of 4
			Sevilla	2–2	0–1
			Feyenoord	3–1	0–2
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	QR2	Aberdeen	0–3	2–2	2–5
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	QR3	İstanbul Başakşehir	2–2	0–0	2–2 (a)
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	QR2	The New Saints	2–0	5–1	7–1
		QR3	Red Bull Salzburg	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		PO	Olympiacos	0–1	1–2	1–3
	UEFA Europa League	Group D	AEK Athens	1–2	2–2	3rd out of 4
			Milan	2–0	2–3
			Austria Wien	1–4	3–1
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	QR3	Sarpsborg 08	0–1	1–1	1–2
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	QR3	Aberdeen	2–0	2–0	4–0
		PO	Gent	1–1	1–2	2–3
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	QR3	Kolos Kovalivka	2–0 (aet)	—	—
		PO	Copenhagen	—	1–0	—
		Group F	Napoli	1–2	0–2	4th out of 4
			Real Sociedad	0–1	2–2
			AZ	2–1	1–4
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	QR2	Gżira United	1–0	2–0	3–0
		QR3	Hibernian	4–1	1–1	5−2
		PO	PAOK	0–2	1–1	1–3
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	QR2	Djurgårdens IF	1–2	0–2	1–4

Last updated on 28 July 2022.
Note: List includes matches played in competitions not endorsed by UEFA.
^† Matches played at neutral ground in Ascoli and Pisa, Italy.

Player records

• Most appearances in UEFA club competitions: 38 appearances[51]
  • Zoran Kvržić
  • Ivan Tomečak
• Top scorer in UEFA club competitions: 8 goals[51]
  • Andrej Kramarić

References

External links

• Official
  • HNK Rijeka official website (in English and Croatian)
  • HNK Rijeka at UEFA.com
• Unofficial
  • Hoću Ri (in Croatian)
  • Forza Fiume (in Croatian)
• Supporters
  • Armada Rijeka official website (in Croatian)

На других языках

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[de] HNK Rijeka

Der HNK Rijeka ist ein Fußballverein aus der kroatischen Stadt Rijeka und spielt derzeit in der ersten kroatischen Fußballliga (1. HNL). Die Bezeichnung HNK steht für Hrvatski nogometni klub und bedeutet Kroatischer Fußballverein. Seit September 2017 ist der Verein zu 70 Prozent im Besitz des Geschäftsmanns Damir Mišković (mit seiner Firma Teanna Ltd), und 30 Prozent im Besitz der Gemeinde Rijeka.[1]

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- [en] HNK Rijeka

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[es] HNK Rijeka

El HNK Rijeka (en inglés, Croatian Football Club Rijeka) es un club de fútbol croata de la ciudad de Rijeka. Los colores tradicionales del club son el blanco y el azul, con los que viste su primera y segunda equipación, respectivamente. El Rijeka disputa sus partidos como local en el Stadion Rujevica y juega en la Prva HNL, la primera división croata.

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[ru] Риека (футбольный клуб)

«Рие́ка» (хорв. Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka) — хорватский профессиональный футбольный клуб из одноимённого города. Клуб основан в 1904 г..[2] Домашние матчи команда проводит на стадионе «Руевица» общей вместимостью 8279 зрителей. Действующий участник Первой лиги, высшего дивизиона чемпионата Хорватии по футболу.

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