HAŠK ''(full name Hrvatski akademski športski klub, en, Croatian Academic Sports Club)'' was a

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n football club established in

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in 1903 which ceased operating in 1945. The club was one of the most successful sides in Zagreb and the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

in the period between the two

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. Since then several sports clubs have claimed to descend from it, the most significant of which is HAŠK Mladost

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History

Early days

HAŠK was founded as a

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in November 1903 by nine Zagreb students (August Adam, Dragutin Albrecht, Petar Čerlek, Vjekoslav Jurković, Marko Kostrenčić, Krešimir Miskić, Oskar Mohr, Lav Wodwarška and Hinko Würth) who are today seen as pioneers of organized sports at the

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. The club's purpose was to popularize sports among Croatian students, as well as to counter the ongoing magyarization of Croatian public life, since Croatia was at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The club's colours were red, white and golden, chosen to represent the colours of Croatian provinces. At first, the club had sections for

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and sports shooting, but ever since football was introduced in the spring of 1904, it became the most popular and well-known department of the club. The club played its first official game on 16 October 1906 against PNIŠK Zagreb (''Prvi nogometni i športski klub Zagreb, First football and sports club Zagreb'') which ended in a 1–1 draw in front of 800 spectators. The club played many non-league games against local sides and against foreign opponents in the following years, such as the game against BEAC (The

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sports club) in 1909. When the first Croatian football championship was started in 1912, HAŠK were heading the table in mid-season and were later declared champions as the competition was abandoned after the winter break due to poor organization. The championship was never relaunched, and during

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the club went on hiatus.

Revival and demise

In the period from 1918 to 1945 the club grew in popularity and membership, and in the years following the war new sections for

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, and motorsport were formed. After experiencing a financial crisis in the 1920s and a fire that destroyed stands on their ground in the summer of 1936, the following decade saw immediate revival and the time of HAŠK's greatest success. The first success came in 1923 when they won the first edition of the

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...

, named back then as the King Alexander Cup. The club will regularly compete in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

since 1927, and their finest hour came in the 1937–38 season when they won the Yugoslav title. They even went on to compete in the 1938

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, when they were knocked out in the first round of the tournament by the

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n side

SK Kladno Sportovní klub Kladno, commonly known as SK Kladno or Kladno, is a football club from Kladno, Czech Republic. It was founded on February 15, 1903. The team plays at the Stadion Františka Kloze, named after legendary player of this club Frant ...

with 5:2 on aggregate. On a local level, in the period from 1911 to 1945 the club played a total of 120 matches against city rivals Građanski. Their last game was a 2–2 draw on 10 April 1945, just before both clubs were disbanded by the communist government. The newly formed

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...

, which was established by the authorities two months later, took over HAŠK's Maksimir ground (originally opened in May 1912), along with many players who switched from Građanski or HAŠK to Dinamo. Other sports sections of the club were renamed ''FD Akademičar (Academic Sports Society)'' and later merged with ''ASD Mladost (Youth Academic Sports Society)'' which survives today as the HAŠK Mladost sports society, most famous for their later

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and

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success on both the national and continental levels. The most prominent of HAŠK's football players who later joined Dinamo was Zlatko Čajkovski, who spent the next 11 seasons playing for Zagreb's powerhouse. Dinamo's current youth academy and training ground located next to their stadium both bear the name ''Hitrec-Kacian'', in honour of two HAŠK players, Ico Hitrec and Ratko Kacian.

Post-Yugoslavia

After the fall of communism and in the midst of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the club was reactivated and officially registered in November 1990, but in name only – no sports activities were started as the new club leadership centered their activities on promoting HAŠK's legacy and organizing events intended to raise the public awareness of the contribution HAŠK has made to the development of sports in Croatia. In an attempt to revive their glory days, the newly restarted club decided to enter competition sports again in 1993 so they merged with a local amateur football side called ''NK TPK'' from the Peščenica neighbourhood of Zagreb. In 2006 they merged again with the Druga HNL side ''NK Naftaš Ivanić'' from Ivanić Grad to form the present day

NK HAŠK NK HAŠK is a Croatian football club from Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands ...

, currently a second tier club in the Croatian football league system. They play their games at the ''Donje Svetice'' ground in Zagreb, which has a capacity of 3,000.

Managers

*1913–15: František Koželuh *1930: Josef Uridil *1932–33:

Johann Strnad Johann "Hans" Strnad (~1893 – ~1950) was an Austrian football player and manager. Club career Born in Vienna. While playing with Wiener Sport-Club, he played one match for the Austria national football team on April 14, 1918 in a match in Buda ...

*1937–38: Zoltán Opata * Rudolf Rupec *1943-44: Ratko Kacian

Honours

Croatian First League The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football (soccer), football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, i ...

: 1 :: 1912. * Kingdom of Yugoslavia Champions: 1 :: 1937–38 * King Aleksander Cup: 1 :: 1923

Presidents

* Hinko Würth (1903) *Vladimir Rukavina *Levin Polc *Branko Arko *Zvonko Kunz *Marko Krema *Branko Domac (1911-1913) *Hinko Würth (1913-1920) *Milorad Stražnicky *Stjepan Miletić Mlinarić *Marijan Dujmović *Mato Vene Starčević *Lovro Celio-Cega *Vjekoslav Župančić (1943–1945)

References

External links

Official website
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