The Croatian First Football League (Croatian: Prva hrvatska nogometna liga or shortly Prva HNL) is the top football league in Croatia. The league is currently officially known as Prva HNL Ožujsko as it is primarily sponsored by the brewery that produces the Ožujsko beer. Image File history File links HNL_Logo. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... See also: 1990 in sports, other events of 1991, 1992 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Ernie Irvan won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt CART Racing - Michael Andretti won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One Championship - Ayrton... Image File history File links Flag_of_Croatia. ... Dinamo is a football club from Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Ožujskos logo Ožujsko beer (Ožujsko pivo) is a Croatian lager beer, which is produced by the Zagrebačka pivovara (Zagreb Brewery) since 1893. ...

The Croatian First Football League was formed in 1991, following the dissolution of the Yugoslav First League, and is operated by the Croatian Football Federation. The first season started in February 1992. Since its formation, the league went through many changes in its system and number of participating clubs. Currently, there are 12 teams participating in the league. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Yugoslav First League (Prva Liga) was the premier football league in the former Yugoslavia (1945-1991), and served the same role in Serbia and Montenegro before the countrys name change (1991-2003). ... Categories: Football (soccer) stubs | Football (soccer) governing bodies | Croatian football ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Each season of the First League starts in late July or early August and ends in May, with a two-month hiatus between December and February. Historically, the teams were split into two groups of six which continued to play separately starting in March. These two groups were known as the Championship League and the Relegation League. However, the 2006-07 season introduced a new system in which everybody plays everybody three times in the season. Upon the end of the first part of the season, consisting of 22 matchdays, a draw is held to pair the teams and decide host teams for the last 11 matchdays of the season. This system brought one additional matchday in comparison to the preceding seasons.

At the end of each season, the last team is directly relegated to the Croatian Second League and the second-last team goes in the relegation play-off, the champions are qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, the runners-up and third-placed team for the UEFA Cup qualifying, just like the winners of the Croatian Cup, and the fourth-placed team wins a spot in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The Croatian Second League (Druga hrvatska nogometna liga) is the second highest football league in Croatia. ... “European Cup” redirects here. ... The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... The Croatian Cup (Croatian: Hrvatski nogometni kup) is an annually held football tournament for Croatian football clubs and is the second most important national title in Croatian football after the Croatian First League title. ... The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup is a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. ...

First League in the 2006-2007 season

• HNK Cibalia
• NK Dinamo Zagreb
• HNK Hajduk Split
• NK Kamen Ingrad
• NK Međimurje
• NK Osijek
• NK Pula Staro Češko
• HNK Rijeka
• NK Slaven Belupo
• HNK Šibenik
• NK Varteks Varaždin
• NK Zagreb

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Progression in 2006

The 2006 league champions Dinamo Zagreb reached the third qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League after beating Ekranas in the second round, but were eliminated by Arsenal and continued to play in the UEFA Cup, exiting the competition in the first round after losing to Auxerre. Cup winners and league runners-up Rijeka as well as Cup runners-up and league's third-placed Varteks Varaždin played in the first qualifying round for the UEFA Cup, but both failed to advance to the next round. The league's fourth-placed club Osijek qualified for the second round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, but failed to advance to the next round as well. Futbolo Klubas Ekranas is a Lithuanian football club, playing in the town of Panevėžys. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in Holloway, north London. ... Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise, or AJ Auxerre, is a French football team, founded in 1905, playing in the town of Auxerre. ...

The 12th-place finishers in the league, Inter Zaprešić, were directly relegated to the Second League and they were replaced in the First League by Šibenik, the champions of the Southern Second League. The 11th-place finishers Međimurje stayed in the First League without having to play two play-off matches against Belišće, the champions of the Northern Second League, because the club's stadium did not meet the criteria required to host matches in the First League. NK Inter ZapreÅ¡ićs Logo NK Inter ZapreÅ¡ić is a Croatian football club, from ZapreÅ¡ić near the Croatian capital of Zagreb. ...

First League Champions

Croatia previously had its own football league which operated from 1940to 1944(under the Banovina of Croatia1939-1941 and the Independent State of Croatia1941-1945). The Croatian Football Federation seems to recognize this league as being equivalent to the current First League, despite the fact the territory covered by these leagues was not the same as today, and that most of this was during World War II. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Banovina of Croatia (1939-1941). ... Capital Zagreb Language(s) Croatian Religion Roman Catholicism Government Monarchy King  - 1941-1943 Tomislav II1 Poglavnik  - 1941-1945 Ante Pavelić Legislature Hrvatski državni Sabor NDH (briefly in 1942) Historical era World War II  - Invasion of Yugoslavia April 6, 1941  - Established April 10, 1941  - Roma Contract May 19, 1941  - Italy... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

• 1941 Hajduk Split
• 1942 Concordia Zagreb
• 1943 Građanski Zagreb

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Record League Champions

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External links

• Croatian First League website (in Croatian)
• Croatian First League - all time table