2005–06 HNK Rijeka season

The 2005–06 season was the 60th season in Rijeka's history. It was their 15th season in the Prva HNL and 32nd successive top tier season.

Rijeka

2005–06 season
Chairman	Robert Ježić
Manager	Elvis Scoria, Dragan Skočić
Prva HNL	2nd
Croatian Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	Qualifying Round 2
Croatian Supercup	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Davor Vugrinec (15) All: Davor Vugrinec (19)
Highest home attendance	8,000 (3 times - Prva HNL and Croatian Cup)
Lowest home attendance	500 vs Varteks (26 November 2005 - Prva HNL)
Average home league attendance	4,250[1]

Competitions

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Prva HNL	23 July 2005	13 May 2006	Matchday 1	2nd	32	20	5	7	61	36	+25	062.50
Croatian Cup	20 September 2005	3 May 2006	First round	Winner	8	6	1	1	22	8	+14	075.00
UEFA Cup	11 August 2005	25 August 2005	QR2	QR2	2	1	0	1	2	2	+0	050.00
Croatian Supercup	–	15 July 2005	–	Runners-up	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Total					43	27	6	10	85	47	+38	062.79

Prva HNL

Main article: 2005–06 Croatian First Football League

Classification

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dinamo Zagreb	22	18	2	2	61	11	+50	56	Qualification to championship group
2	Rijeka	22	14	3	5	42	28	+14	45
3	Osijek	22	10	4	8	25	32	−7	34
4	Varteks	22	10	1	11	34	35	−1	31
5	Hajduk Split	22	7	8	7	28	21	+7	29

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored

Second stage (championship play-off)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	32	24	4	4	78	21	+57	76	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Rijeka	32	20	5	7	61	36	+25	65	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Varteks	32	15	2	15	51	48	+3	47
4	Osijek	32	13	5	14	31	48	−17	44	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
5	Hajduk Split	32	10	10	12	40	35	+5	40
6	Kamen Ingrad	32	11	5	16	33	47	−14	38

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champion.

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
32	20	5	7	61	36	+25	65	10	5	1	36	15	+21	10	0	6	25	21	+4

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
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	H	A	A	H	A	A	H
Result	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	W
Position	6	4	7	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Croatian Supercup

Main article: 2005 Croatian Football Super Cup

Match	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	15 Jul	A	Hajduk Split	0 – 1 (aet)	18,000		HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	23 Jul	H	Pula Staro Češko	2 – 2	4,500	Zekić, Krpan	HRnogomet.com
2	30 Jul	H	Cibalia	4 – 1	3,000	Prpić (3), Krpan	HRnogomet.com
3	6 Aug	A	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 5	10,000	Krpan	HRnogomet.com
4	14 Aug	A	Osijek	1 – 0	5,000	Ivančić	HRnogomet.com
5	20 Aug	H	Inter Zaprešić	0 – 0	2,000		HRnogomet.com
6	28 Aug	A	Varteks	4 – 1	3,500	Ah. Sharbini (3), Krpan	HRnogomet.com
7	10 Sep	H	Slaven Belupo	4 – 2	4,000	Vugrinec (2), o.g., Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
8	17 Sep	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 0	14,000	Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
9	24 Sep	H	Zagreb	0 – 0	4,000		HRnogomet.com
10	1 Oct	A	Kamen Ingrad	1 – 0	2,000	Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
11	15 Oct	H	Međimurje	4 – 1	4,000	Ah. Sharbini, Novaković (2), Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
12	22 Oct	A	Pula Staro Češko	0 – 3	3,000		HRnogomet.com
13	26 Oct	A	Cibalia	0 – 4	1,200		HRnogomet.com
14	29 Oct	H	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	8,000		HRnogomet.com
15	5 Nov	H	Osijek	4 – 1	2,000	Ah. Sharbini (2), Vugrinec, Novaković	HRnogomet.com
16	19 Nov	A	Inker Zaprešić	2 – 0	700	Ah. Sharbini, Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
17	26 Nov	H	Varteks	3 – 1	500	Novaković, Ivančić, Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
18	3 Dec	A	Slaven Belupo	3 – 1	600	Novaković, Linić (2)	HRnogomet.com
19	18 Feb	H	Hajduk Split	1 – 0	8,000	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
20	25 Feb	A	Zagreb	0 – 2	1,000		HRnogomet.com
21	4 Mar	H	Kamen Ingrad	3 – 1	3,000	Prišć, Novaković, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
22	11 Mar	A	Međimurje	4 – 2	1,400	Vugrinec (3), Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
23	18 Mar	H	Hajduk Split	1 – 1	7,000	Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
24	25 Mar	A	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 1	20,000	o.g., Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
25	1 Apr	H	Kamen Ingrad	3 – 0	4,000	Bobic, Novaković (2)	HRnogomet.com
26	8 Apr	H	Osijek	3 – 1	4,000	Rendulić, Linić, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
27	15 Apr	A	Varteks	0 – 1	5,000		HRnogomet.com
28	22 Apr	A	Hajduk Split	4 – 0	3,000	Vugrinec (3), Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
29	29 Apr	H	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 2	6,000	Linić, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
30	8 May	A	Kamen Ingrad	0 – 1	300		HRnogomet.com
31	10 May	A	Osijek	2 – 0	2,000	Linić (2)	HRnogomet.com
32	13 May	H	Varteks	2 – 1	4,000	Bobic, Tkalčević	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	20 Sep	A	Jedinstvo Omladinac	2 – 0	1,000	Knežević, Linić	HRnogomet.com
R2	18 Oct	H	Međimurje	3 – 1	1,500	Novaković (2), Zekić	HRnogomet.com
QF	9 Nov	A	Vinogradar	2 – 1	1,200	Zekić, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
QF	15 Nov	H	Vinogradar	8 – 0	800	Linić (5), Novaković (2), Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
SF	29 Mar	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 1	10,000	Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com
SF	5 Apr	H	Hajduk Split	1 – 0	7,000	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
F	26 Apr	H	Varteks	4 – 0	8,000	Vugrinec (2), Linić, Bobic	HRnogomet.com
F	3 May	A	Varteks	1 – 5	7,000	Vugrinec	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

UEFA Cup

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
QR2	11 Aug	A	Litex Lovech	0 – 1	4,000		HRnogomet.com
QR2	25 Aug	H	Litex Lovech	2 – 1	6,000	Krpan, Rendulić	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Squad statistics

Competitive matches only.
Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.

Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	League		Cup		Europe		Supercup		Total
Dragan Žilić	29 (0)	0	7 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	38 (0)	0
Krunoslav Rendulić	28 (0)	1	8 (0)	0	2 (0)	1	1 (0)	0	39 (0)	2
Peter Lérant	19 (1)	0	5 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	26 (1)	0
Daniel Šarić	25 (3)	0	7 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	34 (3)	0
Siniša Linić	29 (0)	6	8 (0)	7	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	40 (0)	13
Igor Tkalčević	13 (9)	1	4 (3)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	18 (12)	1
Dragan Tadić	27 (5)	0	3 (3)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	33 (8)	0
Dario Knežević	28 (1)	0	7 (0)	1	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	38 (1)	1
Ahmad Sharbini	23 (5)	14	7 (1)	2	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	30 (7)	16
Dušan Kerkez	9 (13)	0	6 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	15 (15)	0
Davor Vugrinec	23 (1)	15	6 (0)	4	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	29 (1)	19
Igor Novaković	20 (6)	9	6 (2)	5	2 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	28 (9)	14
Zoran Ivančić	14 (4)	2	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	17 (4)	2
Mario Prišć	20 (5)	1	7 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	29 (7)	1
Petar Krpan	13 (4)	4	1 (2)	0	2 (0)	1	1 (0)	0	16 (6)	5
Fredi Bobic	4 (4)	2	0 (2)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	4 (6)	3
Eddy Bosnar	8 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	10 (0)	0
Zoran Zekić	5 (5)	1	2 (2)	2	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	9 (7)	3
Anas Sharbini	1 (7)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (8)	0
Marin Prpić	4 (4)	3	0 (2)	0	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	4 (9)	3
Fausto Budicin	5 (5)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	6 (5)	0
Velimir Radman	3 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	5 (2)	0
Goran Rubil	1 (3)	0	0 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (6)	0
Goran Paracki	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0
Neno Katulić	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0
Sandi Dobrić	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0
Krešimir Brkić	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0

See also

• 2005–06 Prva HNL
• 2005–06 Croatian Cup
• 2005–06 UEFA Cup

References

1. "Gledatelji po klubovima 2005-2006". HRnogomet.com. Retrieved 14 August 2016.

External sources

• 2005–06 Prva HNL at HRnogomet.com
• 2005–06 Croatian Cup at HRnogomet.com
• Prvenstvo 2005.-2006. at nk-rijeka.hr