HNK Hajduk Split

Origins

The club was founded in its city of Split after the idea to form a football club came to the founders during their time studying in Prague. The idea came to them while at the centuries-old pub U Fleků in Prague (then also part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). The founders were Fabjan Kaliterna, Lucijan Stella, Ivan Šakić and Vjekoslav Ivanišević. They went to the pub following a match between AC Sparta and SK Slavia and decided it was time their own city had a professional football club. They all knew how popular the sport was in their home city of Split, and how well their friends could play. The club was officially registered with the authorities on 13 February 1911. While trying to come up with a name for the club (other options including "Velebit", "Uskok", "Marjan", and "Jedinstvo"), the students went to their old teacher Josip Barač for advice on what name to give the club. When the students enthusiastically stormed into his office, he told them they charged in like "Hajduks", who were Robin Hood-like guerilla warriors, freedom fighters and Croatian patriots. Professor Barač told them to take the name "Hajduk" which symbolized, as the professor said, "that which is best in our people: bravery, humanity, friendship, love of freedom, defiance to powers, and protection of the weak. Be worthy of that great name". Hajduks were romanticized outlaws that fought the rule of the Ottoman Turks. It is speculated that famed hajduk Andrijica Šimić, who triumphantly…

Hajduk won two Kingdom of Yugoslavia championships, seven Yugoslav championships, six Croatian championships, nine Yugoslav Cup titles, eight Croatian Cup titles and five Croatian Super Cup titles. Abroad, the club has reached five European quarterfinals: three times in the European Cup (now UEFA Champions League), once in the UEFA Cup and once in the Cup Winners' Cup, as well as two European semi-finals: Cup Winners' Cup in 1973, UEFA Cup in 1984 and 2022–23 UEFA Youth League final.

Domestic (40)

Croatian football league system Croatian First League Winner (6): 1992, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05 Croatian Cup Winner (8): 1992–93, 1994–95, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2021–22, 2022–23 Croatian Super Cup Winner (5): 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005 Banovina of Croatia Winner (1): 1940–41 Socialist Republic of Croatia Winner (2): 1945, 1946 Yugoslav football league system Yugoslav First League Winner (9): 1927, 1929, 1950, 1952, 1954–55, 1970–71, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1978–79 Yugoslav Cup Winner (9): 1966–67, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1990–91

Doubles

League and Cup: 1973–74, 1994–95 League and Super Cup: 1992, 1994, 2004, 2005 Cup and Super Cup: 1993

Best results in European competitions

May, 1945: Charter of honorable team of Free France, personally signed by Charles de Gaulle September, 1945: Order of Merits for the People with Silver Rays September, 1945: Order of Brotherhood and Unity with Golden Wreath 1980: "Youth Trophy" by Croatian Football Federation 1986: State Sports Award "Franjo Bučar"