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| Full name | Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (Croatian Football Club Rijeka) | ||
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| Nickname | Riječki bijeli (Rijeka's Whites) | ||
| Short name | RIJ | ||
| Founded | 1906; 119 years ago (1906) | ||
| Ground | Stadion Rujevica | ||
| Capacity | 8,279[1] | ||
| Owner(s) | Damir Mišković, via Teanna Limited (70%) City of Rijeka (30%) | ||
| President | Damir Mišković | ||
| Head coach | Víctor Sánchez | ||
| League | Croatian Football League | ||
| 2024–25 | 1st of 10 (champions) | ||
| Website | nk-rijeka | ||
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Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (English:Croatian Football Club Rijeka), commonly referred to asHNK Rijeka, is a Croatian professionalfootball club based in the city ofRijeka.
HNK Rijeka competes in Croatia's top division,Supersport HNL, of which they have been members since its foundation in 1992 and is thecurrent champion. During the reconstruction ofStadion Kantrida, their traditional home ground, they have been based atStadion Rujevica. Rijeka's traditional home colours throughout its history have beenwhite,sky blue andgold.
The club was founded in 1904, with the football team being active at last since 1906,[2][3] and following the tumultuous political changes that swept the border city of Rijeka in the following decades, it changed its name toU.S. Fiumana in 1926, toS.C.F. Quarnero in 1946,[4] toNK Rijeka in 1954,[5] and finally HNK Rijeka in 1995.[6][7][8] Rijeka is the third-most successfulCroatian football club, having won twoCroatian First League titles, twoYugoslav Cups, sevenCroatian Cups, oneCroatian Super Cup, Serie C 1940–41, the Italian Federal Cup 1927–28 and the1977–78 Balkans Cup.
The club was founded on 21 April 1904 asClub Sportivo Olimpia by Antonio Marchich, Aristodemo Susmel, Agesilao Satti, Carlo Colussi, the brothers Romeo and Alessandro Mitrovich during the time Rijeka was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Corpus Separatum of the Hungarian Crown. The club was originally founded as a tennis-lawn, football, swimming, cycling and athletics club.[9] The first official activities of the football section recorded by contemporary chronicles happened on 25 November 1906, with historians still investigating the football activities in the previous 2,5 years. For lack of better data, this date is currently officially taken as the beginning of HNK Rijeka as a football club.[7][2] This also makes Rijeka the oldest still active association football club on the territory of today'sRepublic of Croatia.
While many clubs in town and the region often had specific ethnic leanings, Olimpia intentionally had a very international soul, with Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, and German players all playing and working with each other in unison.[10] The oldest line-up known from Rijeka's pioneer years was: Duimovic, Smoivar, Penka, Brosnich, R. Mittrovich, Lenardon, Satti, Novodnik, A. Mittrovich, Paulovatz, Cittovich (captain). Initially, the club played its matches on the main Scoglietto square, in front of the localHonved HQ, but moved to Kantrida stadium during the following decade (and the stadium changed its name to Campo Sportivo Olympia). Initially, Olimpia played in black and white garments, but in the 1910s, the club also used a fully white kit.
During the following years, Olimpia will be joined by several other local football clubs from the city of Rijeka and will continue the legacy ofFiumei Atletikai Club as the main city club, when Atletico discontinued its football section in the course of the 1910s.[11] Among the many clubs being founded in town during these years, a side, in particular, will soon rise as fierce arch-rival to Olimpia:Doria (later renamed intoCS Gloria) arose from the proletarian classes and the humble old town dwellers of the industry-rich port town on the Adriatic. WhileOlimpia was associated with the wealthier classes, mostly players from working-class families performed forGloria; therefore, the club found most of its sympathisers among the poorer part of the population.[12] Olimpia was renamed toOlympia on 9 January 1918 during a meeting of its board and the new president became the Fiuman writer Antonio de Schlemmer, possibly as an anti-irredentist move. During these years, it achieved its first major local and international successes: it became the champion of theFree State of Fiume championship in 1921, and it won several Julian March and North-Eastern Italian championships in the following years, soon becoming the strongest side in the Alpe-Adria region.
On 2 September 1926, following Mussolini's reforms of theFIGC and the 1924 Fiume putsch led by local Italians, which brought to the annexation of the independentFree State of Fiume to Italy, Olympia was then merged with its arch-rival Gloria into theUnione Sportiva Fiumana. Pietro Pasquali was picked as the new president of the club. Two years later, Fiumana won its first national trophy when it reached first place in the Italian Federal Cup.
The following season saw the club playing in the ItalianSerie A, with some of the biggest Italian clubs such as Ambrosiana (today'sInter, also forced into a brand image change by the new regime),Juventus andNapoli played at the Kantrida stadium (renamed to Stadio Borgomarina in those years). Despite a decent performance in Serie A, the city, now impoverished by the annexation and cut off from its natural economic hinterland, was not in the financial position to compete with the biggest cities in Italy and following these successes, the club had to see many of its stars signed by major Italian sides. During most of the 1930s and 1940s, the club competed in the second and third tier of the Italian competitions. At the reopening of a refurbished Kantrida (then renamed Stadio del Littorio) in 1935, Fiumana hostedAS Roma. In June 1941, it becamechampion of the newly created Italian Serie C.
Serie C's last season before the fall of fascist Italy in 1943 saw Fiumana end in third place. Mostly from workers' families, the players leaned heavily toward the partisan movement, often joining it outright. They didn't participate in theItalian Social Republic championships and the Adriatic Littoral championship set up by the German occupational force. Nonetheless, the players kept playing several matches with other local clubs and against sides organised or brought in by the German occupational authorities. Worth mentioning are the excessive celebrations for some victories against the German sides that brought several players to be imprisoned and sent to various concentration camps in Germany, and a last ceremonial game between the old legends of Olympia and Gloria that was held on 15 June 1944 while allied planes were bombing the city's surroundings.[10] Most Fiumana players joined the partisan movement and helped the Yugoslav liberation movement, with many ending up in imprisonment and being sent to concentration camps.
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 during the longParis peace conference, the club resumed its activities in the post-war period under the slightly rebranded name ofRappresentativa 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.[10] During the interim post-war year, and before the first edition of theYugoslav First League, R.S. Fiumana played against some of its future Balkan rivals. The authorities also set up an unofficial city tournament among factories named after Fiumana's late captainGiovanni Maras, who died heroically in partisan combat on the nearby MountRisnjak.[13] Despite Maras and most of his colleagues' partisan allegiance and the many hardships endured by them in Nazi concentration camps, the name Fiumana came soon to be considered too Italian for a city that the Yugoslav occupational authorities were trying to annex by force 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 in order for it to take part in the upcoming Yugoslav championship[8] and rebranded and restructured the club intoSocietà Cultura Fisica Quarnero (S.C.F. Quarnero), which later added also the bilingual titleSportsko Društvo Kvarner.[4][14][15][16] The new name followed the geographic neutral naming conventions requested to local councils by the central authorities in Belgrade in order to approve the reestablishment of the local sport club activities and to participate in competitions. The initiative came from Ettore Mazzieri, the city's sports commissioner for the Yugoslav military administration and a previous Fiumana manager. The first match with the Quarnero identify was played on 7 August 1946, bringing revenge againstHajduk Split for the loss from the previous year. The club began the new course with a resounding 2–0 against the best Yugoslav side of the time.[17] Quarnero initially continued to play in the Fiumanaamaranto colours, but started switching colours after the first few championships games, and continued appearing with new kits every few matches until season 1957–58. Luigi Sošić and, in particular, Giovanni Cucera took over the role of the first post-war president, shaping the new communist direction of the club. At the same time, all former Fiumana players and staff carried on playing in the renamed club for the next few years before the Italianexodus slowly forced many of them to leave the city after the season 1947–48. As all clubs in Yugoslavia had to transform general sports clubs following the Stalinist model imposed by Belgrade in 1945,[8] S.C.F. Quarnero incorporated 11 other sections in addition to football, including boxing, fencing, basketball and tennis. The international tennis championOrlando Sirola started his career at the club before his exile.[10]
The authorities in Belgrade soon decided that Rijeka's club should be invited to participate in the firstYugoslav First League in 1946–47 as an external guest, representing the occupied Zone B of theJulian March region, but only after a play-off with thePula-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-organisation. Thus, in 1948, Quarnero became once again an all-football club, and the name was also modified intoSocietà Calcio Quarnero – Nogometni Klub Kvarner. During the early period playing inYugoslavia's competitions, Kvarner reached moderate success in various national and local leagues. Still, the club was relegated at the end of their inaugural season in theYugoslav First League in1946–47 due to a purely political decision to favourPonziana, after Quarnero had already secured its stay in the first league during the season. Upon securing Rijeka for Yugoslavia, the Belgrade authorities were now trying to pander to Trieste's residents through sport in the hope of annexing also that city to Yugoslavia.[18]
The club continued to play with mixed results in Yugoslav football's second and third divisions. The club achieved mediocre results over the next ten years, concurrently with Rijeka'sautochthonous population slowly leaving hometown over the years. Consequently, the club lost many of its best players because many opted to leave Yugoslavia and move overseas.
In 1954, following rising ethnic tensions around the Trieste Crisis and the subsequent elimination of all forms of bilingualism in the city, paired with a desire to have a brand more recognizable and associated the club was further renamed intoNK Rijeka.[19]
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Given the political interferences in the club's life and the continuous mistreatment of ethnic Italians, many of Quarnero's best players were forced to join the Fiumanexodus, and the club lingered between the second and third tier of the Yugoslav competition for the next several years. Following new Italian-Yugoslav tensions that arose during the Trieste Crisis, and the subsequentde facto abolition of the city's full bilingual rights by the communist authorities in Belgrade,[20] the club changed its name once again, into the now completely monolingualNK Rijeka (Rijeka Football Club) on 2 July 1954, giving up onto the Italian language in its brand image for the first time in the club's history. Rijeka started to use a white kit for the second time in its history in a match inŠibenik in the 1957–58 second league season. During the previous seasons, the kit colours were constantly changing, depending on what was available to the management at any given time and what the sponsors could offer.[21] The main kit remained white since. 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 theYugoslav Second League.[22] Despite finishing at the top in four (out of five) seasons of the second league, due to three failed promotion play-off attempts, the club only gained promotion back to the top tier in 1974. Rijeka remained in the top tier until thebreakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, with varying but improving results.[22]
The club's greatest successes during this period are twoYugoslav Cup titles in1978 and1979 and a runner-up finish in1987, when Rijeka lost the final in thepenalty shoot-out.[23] The club never managed to finish the season higher than fourth place in theYugoslav First League. In1984, the club came closest to a Yugoslav championship title, finishing only two points behindRed Star Belgrade. Rijeka were also the best placed Croatian club in theYugoslav First League in1965,1984 and1987.[24]
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, Rijeka joined theCroatian First Football League in itsinaugural season. In 1995, the club changed its name toHNK Rijeka, adding the prefix "Croatian" to its name, following the example of many other clubs during theCroatian War for Independence. Today, Rijeka remains one of only four founding member clubs of the HNL to have never 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 in2017, endingDinamo Zagreb's run of 11 consecutive titles, and was a runner-up eight times.[25] Rijeka has also won sevenCroatian Cups, including back-to-back titles in2005 and2006 and most recently in2019 and2020. The club also won the cup in2014 and in2017, which helped them secure a historicDouble in that year.[26] Rijeka repeated this remarkable feat in the 2024–25 season, once again winning both the league and the cup to complete a second historic Double.
A refereeing error denied Rijeka their first championship title in the final round of the1998–99 season. With one match to play, Rijeka was one point ahead of Croatia Zagreb, needing a home win againstOsijek to secure the title. With the match tied at 1–1, in the 89th minute, Rijeka forwardAdmir Hasančić converted a cross byBarnabás Sztipánovics. However, moments later, assistant referee Krečak raised his flag, and referee Šupraha disallowed Rijeka's winning goal for an alleged offside.[27] Following an investigation,3D analysis revealed Hasančić was not, in fact, in an offside position, and that Rijeka was wrongfully denied their first championship title.[28][29] An investigation byNacional revealedFranjo 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, to ensure the Zagreb club wins the league title.[29]
Rijeka participated inUEFA competitions on 25 occasions, including 13 consecutive appearances since 2013–14. The greatest success was the quarter-final of the1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup, where they lost to Italian giantsJuventus 2–0 on aggregate.[30] The most memorable result in Europe was the home win (3–1) against eventual winnersReal Madrid in the1984–85 UEFA Cup.[31] Controversially, in the return leg atSantiago Bernabéu Stadium, which Rijeka lost 3–0, three of their players were sent off. Madrid scored their first goal from a dubious 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 notablyDamir 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 adeaf-mute since birth.[24] With Rijeka reduced to eight players, Madrid scored two additional goals, progressed to the next round and eventually won the trophy.[citation needed]
In 2013, after winning 4–3 on aggregate againstVfB Stuttgart, Rijeka qualified for the2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage.[32][33] Rijeka also participated in the2014–15 UEFA Europa League group stage, where they defeatedFeyenoord andStandard Liège and drew with title-holders and eventual winnersSevilla.[34][35][36] In 2017, Rijeka reached the2017–18 UEFA Champions League play-off, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to Greek championsOlympiacos, and automatically qualified for the2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage. In the group stage, they recorded a famous home win (2–0) againstAC Milan.[37] In2020–21 Rijeka reached the group stages of the Europa League for the fourth time in eight years but once again failed to progress to the knockout stages. In2021–22,2023–24 and2024–25, Rijeka was eliminated in the play-off round ofUEFA Conference League.[citation needed]
In February 2012,Gabriele Volpi – an Italian businessman and the founder of Orlean Invest, as well as the owner of football clubSpezia and water polo clubPro Recco – injected much-needed capital into the club. With the privatization process complete by September 2013, Volpi, through Dutch-based Stichting Social Sport Foundation, owned 70% of the club, with the City of Rijeka in control of the remaining 30%.[38][39] On 29 December 2017 it was announced that chairmanDamir Mišković, through London-based Teanna Limited, acquired the majority stake in the club from Stichting Social Sport Foundation.[40][41]
In January 2015, Rijeka sold their star strikerAndrej Kramarić toLeicester City for a club-record £9.7 million transfer fee.[42]
The club initially played at theHonved training field in front of today's Popular University of Rijeka in the centralScoglietto suburb of Rijeka. During the 1920s, the club was allowed to build a new and, at the time, modern facility in Scoglietto, and toward the end of the decade, it started usingStadion Kantrida as its primary field, naming itCampo Sportivo Olympia. Kantrida was the club's traditional home ground for over 95 years (with a short hiatus between 1947 and 1951 due to refurbishing) until July 2015. Since August 2015, Rijeka has been based at the newly builtStadion Rujevica, a modernall-seater with a capacity of 8,279. Stadion Rujevica is part of Rijeka's new training centre and is the club's temporary home ground. Following the club's move to Rujevica, plans emerged to build a new, state-of-the-art, all-seater Stadion Kantrida.[43][44] The project was on hold for close to a decade as the club was seeking funding and co-investors to make the project viable. In December 2023, plans were unveiled that, in addition to the stadium, investors plan to build a commercial complex, which may include three residential highrise towers and a hotel, with a total cost exceeding €100 million. The new Kantrida stadium will be located at the previous location but rotated 90 degrees from the previously proposed location, facing north–south. The facility is designed to accommodate 12,000 to 14,000 spectators and will meet UEFA's fourth-category standards.[45]
Rijeka'sultras group is calledArmada 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, with the earliest reported in the 1920s.
During most home matches, the majority of the seats are occupied byseason ticket holders. For the2024–25 season, the club had more than 4,600 season ticket holders and 16,500 members.
Rijeka's greatest rivalry nowadays is withHajduk Split. Since 1946, the Adriatic derby has been contested between the two most popular Croatian football clubs from theAdriatic coast. Other rivalries exist with major clubs in Croatia likeDinamo Zagreb and a milder withOsijek. The primary regional derby is withIstra Pula. The origins of the Rijeka–Pula rivalry date back to the clashes betweenFiumana andGrion Pola since the late 1920s. The city derby withOrijent is probably the oldest, 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.
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt partner |
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| 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 | |
| 2018–2023 | Joma | |
| 2023– | Favbet |
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| Position | Staff |
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| President |  Damir Mišković |
| Supervisory board president |  Francesco Cuzzocrea |
| Supervisory board member | Srećko Juričić |
| Supervisory board member | Veljko Karabaić |
| Supervisory board member |  Ndiomu Didi Dinepre Peter |
| Procurator | Vlatko Vrkić |
| Board member | Nikola Ivaniš |
| Director of finance | Marina Cesarac Dorčić |
| Administrative director | Marina Vela |
| Director of football | Srećko Juričić |
| Sporting director | Darko Raić-Sudar |
| Sporting director (assistant) | Antonini Čulina |
| Club secretary | Milica Alavanja |
| Press secretary | Sandra Nešić |
| Head coach |  Víctor Sánchez |
| Assistant coach | Ramiro Muñoz |
| Goalkeeping coach | Ivan Vargić |
| Fitness coach | Fedor Kulušić Dominik Rilov |
| Team manager | Alen Rivetti |
| Doctor | Boban Dangubić |
| Physiotherapists | Enio Krajač Matija Čargonja Dragan Marijanović |
| Analysts | Matija Drnjević |
| Kit managers | Denis Miškulin Arsen Smolić |
Last updated: 10 November 2025
Source:Organization
Ezio LoikRodolfo VolkMario VarglienGiovanni VarglienLuigi OssoinachAndrea KregarGiovanni Maras
Ernő Egri ErbsteinFerenc MolnárBalassa Béla
Alexander Gorgon
Senad BrkićAdmir HasančićZoran Kvržić
Héber Araujo dos Santos
Fredi BobicFilip BradarićElvis BrajkovićAntonio ČolakDario KneževićAndrej KramarićNediljko LabrovićMate MalešMatej MitrovićMladen MladenovićRoberto PaliskaDubravko PavličićMladen RomićDaniel Šarić
Leonard Zuta
Radomir ĐalovićMarko Vešović
Roman Bezjak
Josip DrmićMario Gavranović
Radojko AvramovićMarijan BrnčićBoško BursaćNikica CukrovDamir DesnicaAdriano FegicNenad GračanTonči GulinMiloš HrstićJanko JankovićMarijan JantoljakSrećko JuričićMiodrag KustudićVladimir LukarićSergio MachinDanko MatrljanNikica MilenkovićAnđelo MilevojVelimir NaumovićPetar RadakovićZvjezdan RadinMilan RadovićMauro RavnićMilan RužićMiroslav ŠugarEdmond TomićBruno VeselicaMladen VrankovićNedeljko VukojeSource:Appearances and Goals. Last updated 26 March 2024.
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.[47]
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.[48]
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.[49]
Karoly Bela (September 1926 – July 1927)
Delfino Costanzo Valle (August 1927 – July 1929) Imre Emmerich Poszonyi (August 1929 – July 1932) Luigi Ossoinak (August 1932 – July 1933) Andrea Kregar (August 1933 – July 1936) Eugen Payer (August 1936 – July 1938) Marcello Mihalich (August 1938 – July 1940) Angelo Piccalunga (August 1940 – July 1942)
Artur Kolisch (August 1942 – 1944)
Hans Bloch (July 1946 – August 1946)Jozo Matošić (August 1946 – August 1947) Ivan Smojver & Ante Vukelić (September 1947 – October 1947)Franjo Glaser (October 1947 – July 1948)Zvonko Jazbec (September 1948 – December 1948)Franjo Glaser (January 1949 – December 1950)Slavko Kodrnja (January 1951 – December 1951)Ljubo Benčić (January 1952 – August 1952) Nikola Duković (September 1952 – April 1953)Antun Lokošek (May 1953 – December 1953)Ratomir Čabrić (January 1954 – July 1954)Franjo Glaser (August 1954 – July 1956) Nikola Duković (September 1956 – July 1957) Milorad Ognjanov (September 1957 – October 1959)Luka Kaliterna (November 1959 – May 1960)Stojan Osojnak (May 1960 – June 1961) Ostoja Simić (June 1961 – May 1962) Angelo Ziković (August 1962 – December 1962)
Virgil Popescu (January 1963 – September 1964)Stojan Osojnak (October 1964 – June 1967)Vladimir Beara (May 1967 – November 1968) Angelo Ziković (November 1968 – June 1970)Ilijas Pašić (June 1970 – June 1971)Stevan Vilotić (June 1971 – June 1972)Marcel Žigante (June 1972 – May 1973)Ivica Šangulin (May 1973 – June 1974)Gojko Zec (June 1974 – June 1976)Dragutin Spasojević (June 1976 – April 1979)Marijan Brnčić(interim) (April 1979 – June 1979)Miroslav Blažević (June 1979 – January 1981)Marijan Brnčić (January 1981 – April 1983)Josip Skoblar (May 1983 – December 1986)Mladen Vranković (January 1987 – June 1989)Vladimir Lukarić (June 1989 – January 1991) Nikola "Pape" Filipović (January 1991)Mladen Vranković (February 1991) Željko Mudrovičić (March 1991 – June 1991)Marijan Jantoljak (June 1991 – November 1992)Srećko Juričić & Mile Tomljenović (November 1992)Srećko Juričić (January 1993 – June 1994)Zvjezdan Radin (June 1994 – March 1995)Mladen Vranković (April 1995)Josip Skoblar (April 1995 – June 1995)Marijan Jantoljak (June 1995 – September 1995) Ranko Buketa(interim) (September 1995 – October 1995)Josip Skoblar (October 1995 – November 1995)Miroslav Blažević &Nenad Gračan (January 1996 – June 1996)Luka Bonačić (June 1996 – August 1996)Ivan Kocjančić(interim) (August 1996)Branko Ivanković (August 1996 – March 1998)Nenad Gračan (March 1998 – November 2000)Boris Tičić(interim) (November 2000 – December 2000)Predrag Stilinović (December 2000 – 1 May)Ivan Katalinić (May 2001 – 2 May)Zlatko Kranjčar (May 2002 – 2 November)Mladen Mladenović (November 2002 – 3 March)Vjekoslav Lokica (March 2003 – 3 July)Ivan Katalinić (July 2003 – 4 May)Elvis Scoria (1 July 2004 – 30 September 2005)Dragan Skočić (1 October 2005 – 30 September 2006)Milivoj Bračun (1 October 2006 – 13 March 2007)Josip Kuže (12 March 2007 – 4 June 2007)Zlatko Dalić (1 June 2007 – 30 June 2008)Mladen Ivančić (7 July 2008 – 8 October 2008)Stjepan Ostojić(interim) (4 October 2008 – 13 October 2008)Robert Rubčić (13 October 2008 – 21 September 2009)Zoran Vulić (22 September 2009 – 10 November 2009)Nenad Gračan (10 November 2009 – 6 November 2010)Elvis Scoria (7 November 2010 – 16 June 2011)Alen Horvat (20 June 2011 – 4 October 2011)Ivo Ištuk (4 October 2011 – 18 March 2012)Dragan Skočić (19 March 2012 – 30 April 2012)Mladen Ivančić(interim) (30 April 2012 – 2 May 2012)Elvis Scoria (2 May 2012 – 24 February 2013)Matjaž Kek (27 February 2013 – 6 October 2018)Igor Bišćan (9 October 2018 – 22 September 2019)Simon Rožman (23 September 2019 – 27 February 2021)Goran Tomić (1 March 2021 – 27 May 2022)Dragan Tadić (20 June 2022 – 16 August 2022)Fausto Budicin(interim) (16 August 2022 – 5 September 2022)Serse Cosmi (5 September 2022 – 13 November 2022)Sergej Jakirović (30 November 2022 – 21 August 2023)Darko Raić-Sudar(interim) (22 August 2023 – 25 August 2023)Željko Sopić (25 August 2023 – 13 August 2024)Radomir Đalović (13 August 2024 – 1 September 2025)Víctor Sánchez (3 September 2025 – present)Rijeka has won twoCroatian First Football League titles, twoYugoslav Cups and sevenCroatian Cups, one Italian Coppa Federale. In European competitions, the club has reached the quarter-final of theCup Winners' Cup in1979–80,UEFA Cup Round of 32 in1984–85, and group stages of theUEFA Europa League in2013–14,2014–15,2017–18 and2020–21. The club has also won the1977–78 Balkans Cup.[52]
| Type | Competition | Titles | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | Croatian First League | 2 | 2016–17,2024–25 |
| Croatian Cup | 7 | 2004–05,2005–06,2013–14,2016–17,2018–19,2019–20,2024–25 | |
| Croatian Super Cup | 1 | 2014 |
Yugoslavia
Italy
Friuli and Julian March Cup
Free State of Fiume
Austria-Hungary
Source:,[53] Last updated 29 May 2025.
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Last season played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA Champions League | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 2025–26 |
| UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | 76 | 29 | 19 | 28 | 105 | 97 | 2025–26 |
| UEFA Conference League | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 26 | 21 | 2025–26 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 1979–80 |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2008 |
| Total | 118 | 43 | 30 | 45 | 153 | 146 |
Source:uefa.com, Fully up to date on 2 October 2025.
Pld = Matches played;W = Matches won;D = Matches drawn;L = Matches lost;GF = Goals for;GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.
| Ground | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 59 | 30 | 15 | 14 | 92 | 54 | +38 |
| Away | 59 | 13 | 15 | 31 | 61 | 92 | −31 |
| Total | 118 | 43 | 30 | 45 | 153 | 146 | +7 |
Source:uefa.com, Fully up to date on 2 October 2025.
Pld = Matches played;W = Matches won;D = Matches drawn;L = Matches lost;GF = Goals for;GA = Goals against.
Non-UEFA competitions are listed initalics.
Last updated on 2 October 2025.
Note: List includes matches played in competitions not endorsed byUEFA.
† Matches played at neutral ground inAscoli andPisa,Italy.
Correct as of 21 May 2025.[55]
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 133 |  Rio Ave F.C. | 12.453 |
| 134 |  FC Astana | 12.000 |
| 135 | HNK Rijeka | 12.000 |
| 136 |  FK Žalgiris | 12.000 |
| 137 |  FC Spartak Moscow | 12.000 |
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