2002–03 HNK Rijeka season

The 2002–03 season was the 57th season in Rijeka's history. It was their 12th season in the Prva HNL and 29th successive top tier season.

Rijeka

2002–03 season
Chairman	Duško Grabovac
Manager	Zlatko Kranjčar, Mladen Mladenović, Vjekoslav Lokica
Prva HNL	9th
Croatian Cup	Round 1
Intertoto Cup	Round 1
Top goalscorer	League: Sandro Klić (12) All: Sandro Klić (14)
Highest home attendance	6,000 vs Dinamo (9 March 2003 - Prva HNL)
Lowest home attendance	0 vs Varteks (16 November 2002 - Prva HNL)
Average home league attendance	2,763

Competitions

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Prva HNL	27 July 2002	31 May 2003	Matchday 1	9th	32	9	6	17	40	41	−1	028.13
Croatian Cup	12 September 2002	12 September 2002	First round	First round	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Intertoto Cup	22 June 2002	30 June 2002	First round	First round	2	1	0	1	3	3	+0	050.00
Total					35	10	6	19	43	45	−2	028.57

Prva HNL

Main article: 2002–03 Croatian First Football League

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
8	Osijek	22	6	5	11	21	39	−18	23	Qualification to relegation group
9	Zadar	22	5	6	11	21	40	−19	21
10	Rijeka	22	5	3	14	23	33	−10	18
11	Pomorac	22	3	8	11	26	41	−15	17
12	Šibenik	22	4	5	13	23	39	−16	17

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Second stage (relegation play-off)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Slaven Belupo	32	12	4	16	37	36	+1	40
8	Osijek	32	10	9	13	32	51	−19	39
9	Rijeka	32	9	6	17	40	41	−1	33
10	Zadar	32	9	6	17	36	71	−35	33
11	Pomorac (R)	32	7	11	14	42	52	−10	32	Qualification to relegation play-off
12	Šibenik (R)	32	8	7	17	37	53	−16	31	Relegation to Croatian Second Football League

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

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	9	6	17	40	41	−1	33	9	2	5	29	13	+16	0	4	12	11	28	−17

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	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	L	L	L	D	L	D	W	L	D	W	W	D	W	L
Position	1	7	3	5	7	5	7	5	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	9	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	12	12	10	9	9	9

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

Matches

Prva HNL

Main article: 2002–03 Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	27 Jul	H	Zadar	3 – 1	3,000	Rački, Meštrović, Batkoski	HRnogomet.com
2	3 Aug	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 2	8,000	G. Brajković	HRnogomet.com
3	10 Aug	H	Zagreb	3 – 2	3,000	Rački, Klić (2)	HRnogomet.com
4	18 Aug	A	Varteks	1 – 2	4,000	Rački	HRnogomet.com
5	25 Aug	H	Osijek	0 – 1	4,500		HRnogomet.com
6	31 Aug	H	Šibenik	5 – 1	3,000	Klić (2), Vincetić, G. Brajković, Rački	HRnogomet.com
7	14 Sep	A	Kamen Ingrad	1 – 2	4,000	Shkëmbi	HRnogomet.com
8	21 Sep	H	Cibalia	2 – 1	2,000	Klić, Rački	HRnogomet.com
9	28 Sep	A	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 2	7,000	M. Brajković	HRnogomet.com
10	5 Oct	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 1	2,000		HRnogomet.com
11	19 Oct	A	Pomorac	0 – 1	3,000		HRnogomet.com
12	26 Oct	A	Zadar	0 – 1	2,000		HRnogomet.com
13	2 Nov	H	Hajduk Split	0 – 1	5,000		HRnogomet.com
14	9 Nov	A	Zagreb	1 – 4	1,000	G. Brajković	HRnogomet.com
15	16 Nov	H	Varteks	0 – 2	0		HRnogomet.com
16	23 Nov	A	Osijek	1 – 1	600	Klić	HRnogomet.com
17	30 Nov	A	Šibenik	0 – 0	1,000		HRnogomet.com
18	22 Feb	H	Kamen Ingrad	2 – 1	2,000	Šarić, Klić	HRnogomet.com
19	1 Mar	A	Cibalia	1 – 3	1,800	Mijatović	HRnogomet.com
20	9 Mar	H	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	6,000		HRnogomet.com
21	15 Mar	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 2	2,500		HRnogomet.com
22	22 Mar	H	Pomorac	1 – 1	1,500	Rački	HRnogomet.com
23	5 Apr	A	Zadar	1 – 2	2,500	Mijatović	HRnogomet.com
24	12 Apr	A	Šibenik	0 – 0	500		HRnogomet.com
25	19 Apr	H	Pomorac	2 – 0	2,000	Samardžić, Klić	HRnogomet.com
26	26 Apr	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 2	2,000		HRnogomet.com
27	3 May	H	Osijek	0 – 0	1,200		HRnogomet.com
28	7 May	H	Zadar	7 – 0	3,000	Skočibušić, Samardžić, Klić (2), M. Brajković, Rački (2)	HRnogomet.com
29	10 May	H	Šibenik	2 – 0	4,000	Klić, Mijatović	HRnogomet.com
30	17 May	A	Pomorac	1 – 1	3,000	Samardžić	HRnogomet.com
31	24 May	H	Slaven Belupo	2 – 0	2,000	Klić, Čaval	HRnogomet.com
32	31 May	A	Osijek	2 – 3	300	G. Brajković (2)	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Main article: 2002–03 Croatian Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	12 Sep	A	Grafičar Vodovod	0 – 1	600		HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Intertoto Cup

Main article: 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	22 Jun	H	St Patrick's Athletic	3 – 2	3,000	Vincetić, Klić (2)	HRnogomet.com
R1	30 Jun	A	St Patrick's Athletic	0 – 1	3,000		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
	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Đoni Tafra	18 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	20 (0)	0
Matko Kalinić	14 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	15 (0)	0
Andre Mijatović	20 (0)	3	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	21 (0)	3
Naum Batkoski	15 (7)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	15 (7)	1
Mate Lacić	10 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	11 (0)	0
Goran Vincetić	26 (1)	1	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	1	29 (1)	2
Mladen Ivančić	7 (7)	0	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	10 (7)	0
Stjepan Skočibušić	23 (2)	1	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	26 (2)	1
Goran Brajković	12 (10)	5	0 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	14 (10)	5
Natko Rački	19 (6)	8	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	22 (6)	8
Mate Brajković	8 (12)	2	0 (0)	0	1 (1)	0	9 (13)	2
Mario Meštrović	10 (1)	1	0 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	12 (1)	1
Siniša Linić	17 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	18 (3)	0
Jasmin Samardžić	11 (3)	3	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	11 (3)	3
Kristijan Čaval	17 (7)	1	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	20 (7)	1
Bledi Shkëmbi	21 (2)	1	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	24 (2)	1
Damir Milinović	12 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	12 (0)	0
Sandro Klić	25 (4)	12	1 (0)	0	1 (1)	2	27 (5)	14
Ibrahim Duro	13 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	13 (0)	0
Martin Šarić	17 (1)	1	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	18 (1)	1
Vedran Celiščak	6 (5)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	7 (5)	0
Dario Knežević	7 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	7 (0)	0
Miroslav Vajs	10 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	10 (1)	0
Marin Mikac	1 (11)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	1 (14)	0
Sejad Halilović	6 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (3)	0
Josip Modrić	3 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	3 (4)	0
Josip Butić	3 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	3 (3)	0
Anton Rukavina	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0
Ivan Sertić	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0

See also

• 2002–03 Prva HNL
• 2002–03 Croatian Cup
• 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup

External links

• 2002–03 Prva HNL at HRnogomet.com
• 2002–03 Croatian Cup at HRnogomet.com
• Prvenstvo 2002.-2003. at nk-rijeka.hr