2010–11 GNK Dinamo Zagreb season

Dinamo Zagreb

2010–11 season
Chairman	Mirko Barišić
Manager	Velimir Zajec (until 9 August 2010) Vahid Halilhodžić (from 17 August 2010 until 6 May 2011) Marijo Tot (from 7 May 2011 until 26 May 2011)
Stadium	Maksimir Stadium
Prva HNL	1st (13th title)
Croatian Cup	Winners (11th title)
UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round (eliminated by Sheriff Tiraspol)
UEFA Europa League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Sammir (10) All: Sammir (19)
Highest home attendance	25,000 (vs PAOK, 15 December 2010)
Lowest home attendance	350 (vs Hrvatski Dragovoljac, 24 July 2010)
Home colours Away colours
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

GNK Dinamo Zagreb (also known as Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo and The Blues) are an association football club from Zagreb, Croatia. Home matches were played at the club's ground, Maksimir Stadium. Dinamo's season officially began 1 June 2010 and concluded on 30 May 2011, although competitive matches were played between 13 July and 25 May. During the season they competed in the Prva HNL, the highest division in Croatian football, and the Croatian Cup. They also played a total of twelve European games, first in the preliminary stages of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League and later in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.

After guiding the club to their 12th Croatian league title in 2009–10, Krunoslav Jurčić resigned as manager of Dinamo in May 2010. He was replaced as manager by ex-Dinamo player and coach Velimir Zajec. However, after spending less than three months at the helm and after getting knocked out in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol, Zajec was replaced in mid August by Bosnian manager Vahid Halilhodžić, whose last previous post was managing Côte d'Ivoire national team.

Early in the season, first-team players including Ivan Turina, Ivica Vrdoljak and Croatia international striker Mario Mandžukić left the club while veteran defender Robert Kovač retired. New arrivals included striker Ante Rukavina, former Portugal international defender Tonel, Montenegro international forward Fatos Bećiraj and midfielder Arijan Ademi.

After a surprising league defeat to Rijeka on 31 July and the unsuccessful attempt to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage, the club's fortunes stabilised under Halilhodžić and Dinamo found themselves top of the league table by early October, a position they kept throughout the season. In spite of Dinamo's domestic dominance Halilhodžić gradually became target of increased criticism by sections of the media for what they saw as an inefficient style of football practised by the club, which culminated in a much publicized conflict with club president Zdravko Mamić in the half-time of the league game against minnows Inter Zaprešić in early May 2011. Halilhodžić's contract was then de facto terminated, so in the last four games of the season Dinamo was led by caretaker manager Marijo Tot. In other competitions Dinamo won the 2010–11 Croatian Cup, their 11th title, and appeared in the Europa League group stage for the fourth consecutive season, picking up seven points in eight matches and finishing third in their group behind Villarreal and PAOK.

Pre-season

Legend

  Win (W)   Draw (D)   Loss (L)   Postponed (P–P)

Dinamo Zagreb v Koper

16 June 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 0	Koper	Hitrec-Kacijan, Zagreb
	Chago  25'	[1]		Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Dalibor Mlakar (Zagreb)

Dinamo Zagreb v Shandong Luneng

24 June 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 0	Shandong Luneng	Stadion Slobode, Varaždin
		[2]		Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Kovačić (Križevci)

Dinamo Zagreb v Metalurh Zaporizhya

26 June 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 1	Metalurh Zaporizhya	Langenfeld, Austria
	Sivonjić  55' Chago  58'	[3]	Nevmyvaka  65'

Dinamo Zagreb v Viktoria Plzeň

27 June 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 2	Viktoria Plzeň	Austria
	Sivonjić  77'	[4][5]	Bakoš  34' Horváth  83' (pen.)

Dinamo Zagreb v Olympiacos

1 July 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 1	Olympiacos	Illerstadion, Kempten
	Sammir  15' (pen.)	[6]	Zairi  85'	Attendance: 500

Dinamo Zagreb v Lech Poznań

4 July 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 1	Lech Poznań	Austria
	Ibáñez  27' Kramarić  55'	[7]	Bosacki  65' (pen.)

Mladost Petrinja v Dinamo Zagreb

7 July 2010	Mladost Petrinja	0 – 3	Dinamo Zagreb	Gradski stadion, Petrinja
		[8]	Slepička  10' Etto  60' Kramarić  75'	Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Vlado Svilokos (Sisak)

Super Cup

As champions of the 2009–10 Prva HNL Dinamo qualified for the 2010 Croatian Super Cup, a one-off match played between league champions and Croatian Cup winners which serves as a curtain raiser for the following football season. This was the ninth Supercup played since the formation of the Croatian football league in 1992 and the first since 2006, as it is never held when a club wins "The Double" (Dinamo had won three consecutive Doubles in 2006–07, 2007–08 and 2008–09).

The match was decided in an Eternal Derby, as Dinamo played 2009–10 Croatian Cup winners and their greatest rivals Hajduk Split at Maksimir. It was their second competitive match led by the newly appointed manager Velimir Zajec and Dinamo won the game 1–0 through a second-half header by Igor Bišćan after Dodô delivered a corner kick.^[9] It was Dinamo's fourth Super Cup win and it later proved to be Zajec's only silverware won with Dinamo as he was sacked on 9 August.

Dinamo Zagreb v Hajduk Split

17 July 2010	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 0	Hajduk Split	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb
	Bišćan  77'	[9]		Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Draženko Kovačić (Križevci)

Squad

As of 13 July and the first competitive match of the season against FC Koper.^[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Tomislav Butina 3 DF Luis Ibáñez 4 DF Leonard Mesarić 5 MF Adrián Calello 7 MF Etto 8 MF Ante Tomić 10 MF Sammir 12 GK Filip Lončarić 13 DF Dario Šimić

No. Position Player 15 MF Mathias Chago 16 MF Milan Badelj 17 FW Mario Mandžukić 19 DF Tomislav Barbarić 20 FW Miroslav Slepička 22 DF Igor Bišćan (captain) 23 FW Dodô 24 FW Ilija Sivonjić 77 MF Pedro Morales 99 FW Ante Rukavina

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final result	First match	Last Match
2010 Croatian Supercup	N/A	Winners	17 July
2010–11 Prva HNL	N/A	1st	24 July	21 May
2010–11 Croatian Cup	First round	Winners	22 September	25 May
2010–11 UEFA Champions League	QR2	QR3	13 July	4 August
2010–11 UEFA Europa League	Play-off round	Group stage	19 August	15 December

Prva HNL

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	30	22	6	2	52	12	+40	72	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Hajduk Split	30	16	7	7	54	32	+22	55	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	RNK Split	30	16	5	9	38	22	+16	53	2011–12 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	Cibalia	30	12	8	10	33	24	+9	44
5	Inter Zaprešić	30	12	6	12	31	35	−4	42

Updated to games played on 21 May 2011.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored
For deciding champions, qualification to UEFA Europa League and relegation: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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
30	22	6	2	52	12	+40	72	11	3	1	25	7	+18	11	3	1	27	5	+22

Last updated: 21 May 2011.
Source: Sportnet.hr

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
Ground	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	L	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	D
Position	2	7	8	6	4	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Last updated: 21 May 2011.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results by opponent

Team	Results		Points
	Home	Away
Cibalia	2–0	1–0	6
Hajduk Split	2–0	1–1	4
Hrvatski Dragovoljac	4–1	6–0	6
Inter Zaprešić	1–0	3–0	6
Istra 1961	4–0	1–2	3
Karlovac	4–2	1–0	6
Lokomotiva	1–0	2–0	6
Osijek	1–0	3–1	6
Rijeka	1–2	2–0	3
Šibenik	1–0	2–0	6
Slaven Belupo	0–0	2–0	4
RNK Split	1–1	1–0	4
Varaždin	1–1	1–1	2
Zadar	1–0	0–0	4
NK Zagreb	1–0	1–0	6

Source: 2010–11 Prva HNL article

2010–11 UEFA Europa League

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Villarreal 6 4 0 2 8 5 +3 12 PAOK 6 3 2 1 5 3 +2 11 Dinamo Zagreb 6 2 1 3 4 5 −1 7 Club Brugge 6 0 3 3 4 8 −4 3

BRG DZ PAOK VLR Club Brugge – 0–2 1–1 1–2 Dinamo Zagreb 0–0 – 0–1 2–0 PAOK 1–1 1–0 – 1–0 Villarreal 2–1 3–0 1–0 –

Matches

Key

Tournament 1. HNL = 2010–11 Prva HNL Supercup = Croatian Supercup Cup = 2010–11 Croatian Cup UCL = 2010–11 UEFA Champions League UEL = 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Ground H = Home A = Away HR = Home replacement AR = Away replacement

Round R1 = Round 1 (Round of 32) R2 = Round 2 (Round of 16) QF = Quarter-finals SF = Semi-finals F = Final QR2 = Second Qualifying Round QR3 = Third Qualifying Round Play-off = Play-off Round Group = Group Stage

Win

Draw

Loss

Competitive

M	Date	Tournament	Round	Ground	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Dinamo Scorers	Report
1	13 Jul	UCL	QR2	H	Koper	5 – 1	7,000	Mandžukić (2), Slepička, Sammir, Etto	Sportnet.hr
2	17 Jul	Supercup	N/A	H	Hajduk Split	1 – 0	8,000	Bišćan	Sportnet.hr
3	20 Jul	UCL	QR2	AR	Koper	0 – 3	2,000		Sportnet.hr
4	24 Jul	1. HNL	1	H	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	4 – 1	350	Morales, Sammir, Slepička, Mesarić	Sportnet.hr
5	27 Jul	UCL	QR3	A	Sheriff Tiraspol	1 – 1	10,000	Sammir	Sportnet.hr
6	31 Jul	1. HNL	2	H	Rijeka	1 – 2	3,500	Sammir	Sportnet.hr
7	04 Aug	UCL	QR3	H	Sheriff Tiraspol	1 – 1	10,000	Sammir	Sportnet.hr
8	07 Aug	1. HNL	3	A	Varaždin	1 – 1	3,000	Rukavina	Sportnet.hr
9	14 Aug	1. HNL	4	H	Karlovac	4 – 2	400	Sammir (2), Kramarić, Rukavina	Sportnet.hr
10	19 Aug	UEL	Play-off	A	Győri ETO	2 – 0	8,000	Rukavina (2)	Sportnet.hr
11	22 Aug	1. HNL	5	A	Slaven Belupo	2 – 0	4,000	Rukavina, Sammir	Sportnet.hr
12	26 Aug	UEL	Play-off	H	Győri ETO	2 – 1	8,000	Sammir (2)	Sportnet.hr
13	28 Aug	1. HNL	6	H	Cibalia	2 – 0	3,500	Vrsaljko, Tomečak	Sportnet.hr
14	11 Sep	1. HNL	7	A	Hajduk Split	1 – 1	30,000	Sammir	Sportnet.hr
15	16 Sep	UEL	Group	H	Villarreal	2 – 0	21,000	Rukavina, Sammir	Sportnet.hr
16	19 Sep	1. HNL	8	H	NK Zagreb	1 – 0	11,000	Barbarić	Sportnet.hr
17	22 Sep	Cup	R1	A	Zadrugar	6 – 0	1,500	Bećiraj (2), Kramarić (3), Sylvestr	Sportnet.hr
18	26 Sep	1. HNL	9	AR	Lokomotiva	2 – 0	50	Chago, Tonel	Sportnet.hr
19	30 Sep	UEL	Group	A	PAOK	0 – 1	25,000		Sportnet.hr
20	03 Oct	1. HNL	10	H	Istra 1961	4 – 0	1,500	Sylvestr, Bećiraj, Sammir (2)	Sportnet.hr
21	16 Oct	1. HNL	11	A	Osijek	3 – 1	5,000	Sammir, Badelj, Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
22	21 Oct	UEL	Group	H	Club Brugge	0 – 0	22,000		Sportnet.hr
23	23 Oct	1. HNL	12	H	Šibenik	1 – 0	3,000	Tomečak	Sportnet.hr
24	27 Oct	Cup	R2	A	Karlovac	2 – 0	1,500	Bećiraj, Cufré	Sportnet.hr
25	30 Oct	1. HNL	13	A	Inter Zaprešić	3 – 0	3,000	Tonel, Sammir, Ibáñez	Sportnet.hr
26	04 Nov	UEL	Group	A	Club Brugge	2 – 0	15,000	Sammir, Bišćan	Sportnet.hr
27	07 Nov	1. HNL	14	H	Zadar	1 – 0	4,000	Tomečak	Sportnet.hr
28	13 Nov	1. HNL	15	A	RNK Split	1 – 0	4,000	Calello	Sportnet.hr
29	20 Nov	1. HNL	16	A	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	6 – 0	1,000	Tomečak, Chago, Ibáñez, Kovačić, Badelj, Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
30	23 Nov	Cup	QF	H	Osijek	2 – 0	1,000	Tonel, Kramarić	Sportnet.hr
31	27 Nov	1. HNL	17	A	Rijeka	2 – 0	2,500	Bećiraj, Badelj	Sportnet.hr
32	02 Dec	UEL	Group	A	Villarreal	0 – 3			Sportnet.hr
33	05 Dec	1. HNL	18	H	Varaždin	1 – 1	1,000	Morales	Sportnet.hr
34	09 Dec	Cup	QF	A	Osijek	3 – 1	300	Bećiraj (2), Bišćan	Sportnet.hr
35	15 Dec	UEL	Group	H	PAOK	0 – 1	25,000		Sportnet.hr
36	26 Feb	1. HNL	19	A	Karlovac	1 – 0	1,000	Šitum	Sportnet.hr
37	05 Mar	1. HNL	20	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0	500		Sportnet.hr
38	12 Mar	1. HNL	21	A	Cibalia	1 – 0	6,000	Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
39	19 Mar	1. HNL	22	H	Hajduk Split	2 – 0	15,000	Badelj, Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
40	02 Apr	1. HNL	23	A	NK Zagreb	1 – 0	3,000	Calello	Sportnet.hr
41	06 Apr	Cup	SF	H	Slaven Belupo	4 – 1	1,000	Sammir, Sylvestr, Badelj, Tomečak	Sportnet.hr
42	09 Apr	1. HNL	24	H	Lokomotiva	1 – 0	1,693	Sylvestr	Sportnet.hr
43	16 Apr	1. HNL	25	A	Istra 1961	1 – 2	2,500	Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
44	20 Apr	Cup	SF	A	Slaven Belupo	1 – 0	3,000	Tomečak	Sportnet.hr
45	23 Apr	1. HNL	26	H	Osijek	1 – 0	1,850	Badelj	Sportnet.hr
46	30 Apr	1. HNL	27	A	Šibenik	2 – 0	2,000	Morales, Rukavina	Sportnet.hr
47	6 May	1. HNL	28	H	Inter Zaprešić	1 – 0	600	Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr
48	11 May	Cup	Final	H	Varaždin	5 – 1	5,000	Sammir, Tonel, Bećiraj (2), Badelj	Sportnet.hr
49	14 May	1. HNL	29	A	Zadar	0 – 0	2,500		Sportnet.hr
50	21 May	1. HNL	30	H	RNK Split	1 – 1	3,000	Badelj	Sportnet.hr
51	25 May	Cup	Final	A	Varaždin	3 – 1	3,500	Ibáñez, Badelj, Bećiraj	Sportnet.hr

Last updated 25 May 2011
Sources: Prva-HNL.hr, Sportske novosti, Sportnet.hr

Players

Statistics

Competitive matches only. Updated to games played 25 May 2011.

Key

	Player left the club during season
	Player joined the club during season

Rank	Name	League	Cup	Europe	Supercup	Total
1	Sammir	10	2	7	–	19
2	Fatos Bećiraj ^B	8	8	–	–	16
3	Milan Badelj	6	3	–	–	9
4	Ante Rukavina	4	–	3	–	7
5	Ivan Tomečak	4	2	–	–	6
6	Andrej Kramarić	1	4	–	–	5
7	Jakub Sylvestr ^C	2	2	–	–	4
	Tonel ^D	2	2	–	–	4
9	Igor Bišćan	–	1	1	1	3
	Luis Ibáñez	2	1	–	–	3
	Pedro Morales	3	–	–	–	3
12	Adrián Calello	2	–	–	–	2
	Mathias Chago	2	–	–	–	2
	Mario Mandžukić ^A	–	–	2	–	2
	Miroslav Slepička ^E	1	–	1	–	2
16	Tomislav Barbarić	1	–	–	–	1
	Leandro Cufré	–	1	–	–	1
	Etto ^F	–	–	1	–	1
	Mateo Kovačić	1	–	–	–	1
	Leonard Mesarić	1	–	–	–	1
	Mario Šitum	1	–	–	–	1
	Šime Vrsaljko	1	–	–	–	1

Source: Competitive matches
Notes:
A: Mandžukić was transferred out to VfL Wolfsburg on 14 July 2010.
B: Bećiraj joined Dinamo in August 2010 from FK Budućnost Podgorica
C: Sylvestr joined Dinamo in August 2010 from ŠK Slovan Bratislava
D: Tonel joined Dinamo in August 2010 from Sporting CP
E: Slepička went on a six-months loan to SpVgg Greuther Fürth in January 2011
F: Etto left Dinamo to join PAOK in January 2011

Transfers

In

Unless a country is specified, all clubs play in the Croatian football league system.

Date	Player	From	Fee
25 May 2010	Leonard Mesarić	Lokomotiva	Free
16 June 2010	Arijan Ademi	Šibenik	€120,000
18 July 2010	Almir Bekić	Sloboda (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	€100,000
31 July 2010	Ante Rukavina	Panathinaikos (Greece)	€700,000
1 September 2010	Fatos Bećiraj	Budućnost (Montenegro)	€650,000
1 September 2010	Jakub Sylvestr	Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)	€1,500,000
1 September 2010	Tonel	Sporting CP (Portugal)	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Player	From	Fee
15 May 2010	Guillermo Suárez	Released
28 May 2010	Ivan Turina	AIK (Sweden)	Undisclosed
28 May 2010	Ivica Vrdoljak	Legia Warsaw (Poland)	€1,500,000
16 July 2010	Mario Mandžukić	VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)	€7,000,000
18 August 2010	Ante Tomić	Released
20 September 2010	Karlo Primorac	Released

References

1. "Dinamo pred punim Hitrecom pobijedio Koper" (in Croatian). NK Dinamo Zagreb. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
2. Strahija, Ivana (24 June 2010). "Zajec: "Još smo neuigrani"". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 23 September 2010.
3. Pavlić, Antonija (27 June 2010). "Zajecu prva austrijska pobjeda". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 23 September 2010.
4. "Viktoria Plzen pobijedila modre" (in Croatian). NK Dinamo Zagreb. 27 June 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
5. "Zápas s Dinamem se nakonec odehrál, Viktoria si připsala vítězství" (in Czech). FC Viktoria Plzeň. 27 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
6. "Dinamo : Olympiakos: 1:1" (in Croatian). NK Dinamo Zagreb. 1 July 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
7. "Dinamo : Lech: 2:1" (in Croatian). NK Dinamo Zagreb. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
8. Korać, Branimir (7 July 2010). "Dinamo bez problema u Petrinji". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 23 September 2010.
9. Pacak, Tomislav; Rupnik, Borna (17 July 2010). "Bišćan presudio Hajduku". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
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External links

• Dinamo Zagreb official website