2000–01 HNK Rijeka season

Rijeka
2000–01 season
Chairman	Robert Ježić, Sanjin Kirigin
Manager	Nenad Gračan, Boris Tičić, Predrag Stilinović, Ivan Katalinić
Prva HNL	10th
Croatian Cup	Round 1
UEFA Cup	Round 1
Top goalscorer	League: Ante Milicic (10); All: Ante Milicic (11)
Highest home attendance	6,000 (2 times - Prva HNL)
Lowest home attendance	300 vs Marsonia (19 May 2001 - Prva HNL)
Average home league attendance	1,900
	← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 season was the 55th season in Rijeka's history. It was their 10th season in the Prva HNL and 27th successive top tier season.

Competitions

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Prva HNL	29 July 2000	27 May 2001	Matchday 1	10th	32	9	6	17	30	44	−14	028.13
Croatian Cup	5 September 2000	5 September 2000	First round	First round	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	000.00
UEFA Cup	10 August 2000	28 September 2000	Qualifying round	First round	4	2	1	1	8	7	+1	050.00
Total					37	11	7	19	38	53	−15	029.73

Prva HNL

First stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
8	Šibenik	22	7	5	10	21	30	−9	26	Qualification to relegation group
9	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	22	6	5	11	28	45	−17	23
10	Cibalia	22	3	11	8	23	38	−15	20
11	Rijeka	22	5	4	13	17	32	−15	19
12	Marsonia	22	4	4	14	28	49	−21	16

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

Second stage (relegation play-off)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
7	Šibenik	32	12	7	13	40	40	0	43
8	Čakovec	32	10	9	13	28	37	−9	39
9	Cibalia	32	5	18	9	31	45	−14	33
10	Rijeka	32	9	6	17	30	44	−14	33
11	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	32	8	9	15	35	57	−22	33
12	Marsonia (O)	32	7	8	17	41	68	−27	29	Qualification to relegation play-off

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners

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	30	44	−14	33	4	5	7	16	16	0	5	1	10	14	28	−14

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	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	L	D	D	W	D	L	L	L	D	W	L	L	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	L	W	W	W	L
Position	9	10	9	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	10	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	10

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

Matches

Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	29 Jul	H	Šibenik	0 – 1	2,500		HRnogomet.com
2	4 Aug	H	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	6,000		HRnogomet.com
3	14 Aug	A	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	0 – 0	2,500		HRnogomet.com
4	19 Aug	H	Varteks	2 – 2	1,500	Hasančić, Milicic	HRnogomet.com
5	29 Aug	A	Osijek	2 – 1	3,000	Milicic, G. Brajković	HRnogomet.com
6	9 Sep	H	Hajduk Split	0 – 0	6,000		HRnogomet.com
7	19 Sep	A	Marsonia	0 – 2	2,000		HRnogomet.com
8	23 Sep	H	Zagreb	0 – 1	1,000		HRnogomet.com
10	4 Oct	H	Čakovec	1 – 1	1,000	Milicic	HRnogomet.com
11	14 Oct	A	Cibalia	2 – 1	500	o.g., Čaval	HRnogomet.com
9	17 Oct	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 1	?		HRnogomet.com
12	22 Oct	A	Šibenik	0 – 1	1,500		HRnogomet.com
13	30 Oct	A	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 4	700	Matulović	HRnogomet.com
14	4 Nov	H	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	2 – 0	700	Kremenović, Skočibušić	HRnogomet.com
15	11 Nov	A	Varteks	1 – 6	2,000	Dragičević	HRnogomet.com
16	17 Nov	H	Osijek	2 – 3	2,000	Čaval (2)	HRnogomet.com
17	26 Nov	A	Hajduk Split	0 – 3	2,500		HRnogomet.com
18	2 Dec	H	Marsonia	2 – 0	600	Hasančić, Milicic	HRnogomet.com
19	25 Feb	A	Zagreb	1 – 0	700	Mikac	HRnogomet.com
20	4 Mar	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 1	1,000		HRnogomet.com
21	11 Mar	A	Čakovec	0 – 1	2,000		HRnogomet.com
22	18 Mar	H	Cibalia	1 – 2	1,000	Milicic	HRnogomet.com
23	1 Apr	A	Šibenik	0 – 3	1,000		HRnogomet.com
24	8 Apr	H	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	1 – 1	1,500	Mijatović	HRnogomet.com
25	14 Apr	A	Cibalia	0 – 1	500		HRnogomet.com
26	22 Apr	A	Marsonia	3 – 1	2,500	Flego (2), Čaval	HRnogomet.com
27	29 Apr	H	Čakovec	1 – 1	1,500	Milicic	HRnogomet.com
28	2 May	H	Šibenik	1 – 2	800	Flego	HRnogomet.com
29	6 May	A	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	4 – 1	300	Flego, Milicic (3)	HRnogomet.com
30	13 May	H	Cibalia	1 – 0	3,000	Flego	HRnogomet.com
31	19 May	H	Marsonia	2 – 0	300	Milicic, Rački	HRnogomet.com
32	27 May	A	Čakovec	0 – 2	400		HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	5 Sep	A	Kamen Ingrad	0 – 2	3,000		HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
QR	10 Aug	H	Valletta	3 – 2	4,730	Mijatović (2), Hasančić	HRnogomet.com
QR	24 Aug	A	Valletta	5 – 4 (aet)	3,932	Kremenović, Milicic, G. Brajković, o.g., Hasančić	HRnogomet.com
R1	14 Sep	A	Celta Vigo	0 – 0	8,300		HRnogomet.com
R1	28 Sep	H	Celta Vigo	0 – 1 (aet)	4,691		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
Name	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Đoni Tafra	30 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	4 (0)	0	34 (0)	0
Miroslav Vajs	23 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	3 (0)	0	27 (0)	0
Andre Mijatović	28 (0)	1	0 (0)	0	4 (0)	2	32 (0)	3
Dalibor Višković	24 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	4 (0)	0	29 (0)	0
Ratko Kremenović	19 (4)	1	0 (0)	0	4 (0)	1	23 (4)	2
Božidar Čačić	13 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	16 (0)	0
Stjepan Skočibušić	26 (0)	1	0 (1)	0	4 (0)	0	30 (1)	1
Goran Brajković	28 (1)	1	1 (0)	0	4 (0)	1	33 (1)	2
Admir Hasančić	12 (0)	2	0 (0)	0	2 (0)	2	14 (0)	4
Damir Matulović	24 (0)	1	0 (1)	0	4 (0)	0	28 (1)	1
Ivan Maroslavac	13 (8)	0	1 (0)	0	2 (2)	0	16 (10)	0
Mauro Tomišić	10 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (3)	0	10 (3)	0
Ante Milicic	15 (14)	10	1 (0)	0	3 (1)	1	19 (15)	11
Kristijan Čaval	19 (3)	4	0 (0)	0	3 (0)	0	22 (3)	4
Sandro Klić	6 (7)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (1)	0	7 (8)	0
Marijan Buljat	5 (7)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (7)	0
Mate Dragičević	13 (6)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	13 (6)	1
Goran Burčul	7 (3)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	7 (4)	0
Matko Djarmati	6 (4)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (4)	0
Edo Flego	9 (1)	5	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	9 (1)	5
Natko Rački	1 (4)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (4)	1
Boris Pavić	3 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	4 (3)	0
Marin Mikac	4 (3)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	4 (3)	1
Josip Modrić	6 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (0)	0
Stjepan Ostojić	4 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	4 (1)	0
Darko Horvat	2 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	3 (2)	0
Alen Zidarić	0 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (2)	0
Mate Brajković	2 (2)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	2 (2)	0
Vanja Iveša	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0
Paulino Gomes	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (3)	0
Stipe Režić	0 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (1)	0
Saša Kolić	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0