Appreciation:  Full recognition and acknowledgement is made to the work of the contributors to the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation who have catalogued the above tables.


(b) divisional index


Appreciation:  Full recognition and acknowledgement is made to the work of the contributors to the HRnogomet-db (Croatian Football database) and Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation who have catalogued the above tables.


Croatian Champions

Before 1922 - Zagreb league

1912-13       abandoned
1914            abandoned
1915-17         not held
1918        HAŠK and Građanski [shared]
1918-19   Građanski   
1919-20   Građanski   
1920-21   HAŠK  [Hajduk won Split league]
1922       HAŠK  [Hajduk won Split league]

NB: from the 1922/23 season on, the Zagreb league (like other regional leagues) served as qualifier (and later as feeder league) for the national championship of the Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (Kingdom of Yugoslavia since 1929).

World War II

1940-41   Hajduk Split
1941         not finished
1941-42   Concordia Zagreb
1942-43   Građanski Zagreb
1943-44      not finished
1946      Hajduk Split


Since Independence

1991        Inker Zaprešič [unofficial championship]
1992        Hajduk Split
1992-93   Croatia Zagreb
1993-94   Hajduk Split
1994-95   Hajduk Split
1995-96   Croatia Zagreb
1996-97   Croatia Zagreb
1997-98   Croatia Zagreb
1998-99   Croatia Zagreb
1999-00   Dinamo Zagreb
2000-01   Hajduk Split
2001-02   Zagreb
2002-03   Dinamo Zagreb
2003-04   Hajduk Split
2004-05   Hajduk Split
2005-06   Dinamo Zagreb
2006-07   Dinamo Zagreb
2007-08   Dinamo Zagreb
2008-09   Dinamo Zagreb
2009-10   Dinamo Zagreb
2010-11   Dinamo Zagreb
2011-12   Dinamo Zagreb
2012-13   Dinamo Zagreb
2013-14   Dinamo Zagreb
2014-15   Dinamo Zagreb
2015-16   Dinamo Zagreb
2016-17   Rijeka


Review of sources

HRnogomet-db (Croatian Football database) - This database provides details of Croatian football league tables (covering up to 7 tiers) between 1992 and 2007/08. The database also includes Yugoslavia football league tables back to 1946/47.
Prva HNL arhiva - Prve HNL tables from 1992.
Claudio Nicoletti - Croatian first tier league tables back to 1911-12.
EuroCupsHistory - Croatian Prva HNL back to 1992.
Eurofussball.at - League tables for the Croatian HNL Ozujsko from 1992/93.
Foot.dk: Fodboldstatistik - Croatia league tables (top tier) back to 1940/41.
Sportergebnisse / Sportstatistiken - Croatian league standings and results matrices back to 1994/95.
SoccerBase - Croatian HNL League tables and statistics going back to 2006/2007.
Croatian Wikipedia - Croatian football league first tier seasons back to 1992 and earlier seasons from 1912/13. All of the second tier Druga HNL seasons can be viewed back to 1992.
English Wikipedia - Croatian Prva HNL seasons can be viewed back to 1992 and the first league seasons earlier in the twentieth century. The second tier Druga HNL seasons can also be viewed.


​Present league standings