HAŠK

HAŠK

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

.

History

Early days

HAŠK was founded as a

. The club's colours were red, white and golden, chosen to represent the colours of Croatian provinces.

At first, the club had sections for

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

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 track and field athletics, tennis, swimming, field hockey, cycling, table tennis, 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

. 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

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

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

Honours

• Croatian First League
  : 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)

See also

• HAŠK's contemporaries:

Građanski Zagreb

(HAŠK's biggest city rivals, banned in 1945)

Concordia Zagreb

(HAŠK's other city rivals, also banned in 1945)

Yugoslav First League (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football league that HAŠK successfully competed in through the 1920s and 1930s)

• HAŠK's legacy:

Dinamo Zagreb

(Today's most successful Croatian football club based in Zagreb, which took over HAŠK's ground and some of their players in 1945)

Naftaš HAŠK (Today's successor of the historic HAŠK football section)

HAŠK Mladost

(Today's successor of HAŠK's other sports sections)

References

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External links

• Official website (in Croatian)