Global InformationHNK Rijeka information
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| Full name | Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (Croatian Football Club Rijeka) | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Riječki bijeli (Rijeka's Whites) | ||
| Short name | RIJ, RJK | ||
| Founded | 1906 | ||
| Ground | Stadion Rujevica | ||
| Capacity | 8,279[1] | ||
| Owner | Damir Mišković, via Teanna Limited (70%) City of Rijeka (30%) | ||
| President | Damir Mišković | ||
| Head coach | Željko Sopić | ||
| League | SuperSport HNL | ||
| 2022–23 | SuperSport HNL, 4th of 10 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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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.
HNK Rijeka competes in Croatia's top division, Supersport HNL, of which they have been members since its foundation in 1992. During the reconstruction of Stadion Kantrida, their traditional home ground, they have been based at Stadion Rujevica. Rijeka's traditional home colours are all white.
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 to U.S. Fiumana in 1926, to S.C.F. Quarnero in 1946,[4] to NK Rijeka in 1954,[5] and finally HNK Rijeka in 1995.[6][7][8] 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, Serie C 1940–41, the Italian Federal Cup 1927–28 and the 1977–78 Balkans Cup.
- ^ "Stadion HNK Rijeka". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Official pages of the City of Rijeka municipality – Rijeka sport clubs". Grad Rijeka (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Rijeka – SuperSport HNL". hnl.hr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Povijest". HNK RIJEKA (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Istraživanje riječke nogometne povijesti: "NK Rijeka sigurno nije osnovana 1946. godine, poveznica s Fiumanom je jako čvrsta"". Novi list. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ Lazzarich, Marinko (2014). "Stoljetno iščitavanje povijesti pod stijenama riječkoga sportskog hrama". Problemi sjevernog Jadrana (in Croatian). 13 (13). Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: 47–76. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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