The 2004–05 Croatian First Football League (also known as 1. HNL; officially styled as Prva HNL Ožujsko for sponsorship reasons) was the fourteenth season of the Croatian First Football League, the national championship for men's association football teams in Croatia, since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 23 July 2004 and ended on 28 May 2005. Hajduk Split were the defending champions, having won their seventeenth championship title the previous season, and they defended the title again, after a win against Varteks on 28 May 2005.
Teams
Stadia and personnel
TeamManager1LocationStadiumCapacityDinamo Zagreb Zvjezdan CvetkovićZagrebStadion Maksimir37,168Hajduk Split Igor ŠtimacSplitStadion Poljud35,000Inter Zaprešić Srećko BogdanZaprešićStadion ŠRC Zaprešić5,000Kamen Ingrad Hrvoje BraovićVelikaStadion Kamen Ingrad8,000Međimurje Miljenko DovečerČakovecStadion SRC Mladost8,000Osijek Stjepan ČordašOsijekStadion Gradski vrt19,500Pula 1856 Igor PamićPulaStadion Veruda3,000Rijeka Elvis ScoriaRijekaStadion Kantrida10,275Slaven Belupo Branko KaračićKoprivnicaGradski stadion u Koprivnici4,000Varteks Miroslav BlaževićVaraždinStadion Varteks10,800Zadar Vjeran SimunićZadar Stadion Stanovi5,860NK Zagreb Mile PetkovićZagrebStadion Kranjčevićeva8,850 1 On final match day of the season, played on 28 May 2005.
First stage
Rounds 1–22 results
Championship group
Rounds 23–32 results
Relegation group ("Liga za bedaka")
Rounds 23–32 results
Relegation play-off
First leg
Second leg
Međimurje win 3–1 on aggregate.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Tomislav Erceg Rijeka172 Ivica Žuljević Međimurje123 Tomislav Bušić Hajduk Split11 Stjepan Jukić Osijek Ivica Karabogdan Slaven Belupo Karlo Primorac Osijek7 Leonardo Barnjak Zadar10 Ivan Bošnjak Dinamo Zagreb Eduardo da Silva Dinamo Zagreb10 Mladen Bartolović Zagreb9 Dragan Blatnjak Hajduk Split Nedim Halilović Varteks Goran Ljubojević Dinamo Zagreb Source: 1.hnl.net
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Hajduk 7,750 2 Rijeka 4,250 3 Dinamo Zagreb 2,806 4 Osijek 2,400 5 Slaven 2,275 6 Varteks 2,125 7 Zadar 2,119 8 Zaprešić 2,113 9 Zagreb 1,813 10 Istra 1,644 11 Međimurje 1,463 12 Kamen 1,431
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See also 2004–05 Croatian Second Football League 2004–05 Croatian Football Cup
References
External links Season statistics at HRNogomet 2004–05 in Croatian Football at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation