2015–16 HNK Rijeka season explained

Season:	2015–16
Mgrtitle:	Manager
Chrtitle:	Chairman
Stadium:	Kantrida (Jul 2015) Rujevica (from Aug 2015)
League Topscorer:	Roman Bezjak (13)
Season Topscorer:	Roman Bezjak (17)
Highest Attendance:	8,200 v Aberdeen (16 July 2015)
Lowest Attendance:	2,522 v RNK Split (1 May 2016)
Average Attendance:	4,216^[1]
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The 2015–16 season was the 70th season in HNK Rijeka’s history. It was their 25th successive season in the Prva HNL, and 42nd successive top tier season.

Competitions

Overall

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
MAXtv Prva Liga	10 Jul 2015	14 May 2016	Matchday 1	align=left bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up
Croatian Cup	23 Sep 2015	5 Apr 2016	First round	Semi-final
UEFA Europa League	16 Jul 2015	23 Jul 2015	QR2	QR2
Total

Last updated: 14 May 2016.

MAXtv Prva Liga

See main article: 2015–16 Croatian First Football League.

Results by opponent

Team	Results				Points
	width=40	1	width=40	2		width=40	3	width=40	4
	0–0	2–1	0–3	0–0	5
	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	10
	0–0	0–0	0–0	4–0	6
	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	12
	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	12
	5–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	8
	3–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	4
	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	10
	3–3	4–1	2–0	3–0	10

Source: 2015–16 Croatian First Football League article

Matches

MAXtv Prva Liga

See main article: article and 2015–16 Croatian First Football League. Source: Croatian Football Federation

Croatian Cup

See main article: article and 2015–16 Croatian Football Cup. Source: Croatian Football Federation

UEFA Europa League

See main article: article and 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. Source: uefa.com

Friendlies

On-season (2016)

Player seasonal records

Updated 14 May 2016. Competitive matches only.

Goals

width=40	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50	League	width=50	Europe	width=50	Cup	width=70 style="background: #DCDCDC"	Total
1	Roman Bezjak	13	–	4	17
2	Marin Tomasov	8	1	5	14
3	Bekim Balaj	9	–	1	10
4	Mario Gavranović	7	–	–	7
5	Miral Samardžić	4	–	2	6
6	Anas Sharbini	3	–	–	3
7	Marko Vešović	2	–	–	2
	Filip Bradarić	1	–	1	2
	Florentin Matei	1	–	1	2
	Moisés Lima Magalhães	1	–	1	2
	Odise Roshi	1	–	1	2
12	Josip Brezovec	1	–	–	1
	Marin Leovac	1	–	–	1
	Marko Lešković	1	–	–	1
	Mate Maleš	1	–	–	1
	Matej Mitrović	1	–	–	1
	Josip Radošević	1	–	–	1
	Zoran Kvržić	–	1	–	1
TOTALS		56	2	16	74

Source: Competitive matches

Assists

width=40	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50	League	width=50	Europe	width=50	Cup	width=70 style="background: #DCDCDC"	Total
1	Marin Tomasov	12	–	3	15
2	Roman Bezjak	5	–	1	6
	Stefan Ristovski	4	–	2	6
4	Florentin Matei	4	–	1	5
5	Ivan Močinić	4	–	–	4
6	Vedran Jugović	3	–	–	3
	Marko Vešović	3	–	–	3
	Josip Radošević	2	1	–	3
	Leonard Zuta	–	–	3	3
10	Bekim Balaj	2	–	–	2
	Josip Brezovec	2	–	–	2
	Mate Maleš	2	–	–	2
	Filip Bradarić	1	–	1	2
14	Mario Gavranović	1	–	–	1
	Marko Lešković	1	–	–	1
	Matej Mitrović	1	–	–	1
	Odise Roshi	1	–	–	1
	Anas Sharbini	1	–	–	1
	Ivan Vargić	1	–	–	1
	Zoran Kvržić	–	1	–	1
	Moisés Lima Magalhães	–	–	1	1
TOTALS		50	2	12	64

Source: Competitive matches

Clean sheets

width=40	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50	League	width=50	Europe	width=50	Cup	width=70 style="background: #DCDCDC"	Total
1	Ivan Vargić	21	–	1	22
2	Andrej Prskalo	1	–	2	3
TOTALS		22	0	3	25

Source: Competitive matches

Disciplinary record

width=40 rowspan="2" align="center"	Number	width=40 rowspan="2" align="center"	Position	width=180 rowspan="2" align="center"	Name	width=120 colspan="3" align="center"	1. HNL	width=120 colspan="3" align="center"	Europe	width=120 colspan="3" align="center"	Croatian Cup	width=140 colspan="3" align="center" style="background: #DCDCDC"	Total
6	DF	Stefan Ristovski	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
7	MF	Marin Tomasov	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0
8	MF	Zoran Kvržić	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
8	DF	Leonard Zuta	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	0	0
9	FW	Bekim Balaj	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0
10	MF	Florentin Matei	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
10	MF	Anas Sharbini	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
11	FW	Roman Bezjak	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	0	1
13	DF	Marko Lešković	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1
15	DF	Matej Mitrović	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0
16	MF	Ivan Močinić	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0
17	FW	Mario Gavranović	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
18	MF	Filip Bradarić	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	1	0
19	DF	Miral Samardžić	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	0	0
22	DF	Marin Leovac	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
23	MF	Odise Roshi	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
25	GK	Ivan Vargić	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
26	MF	Mate Maleš	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	1	0
29	DF	Marko Vešović	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0
30	MF	Josip Brezovec	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0
33	MF	Josip Radošević	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
88	MF	Moisés Lima Magalhães	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	1
TOTALS			90	4	3	3	0	0	10	0	0	103	4	3

Source: nk-rijeka.hr

Appearances and goals

width=40 rowspan="2" align="center"	Number	width=40 rowspan="2" align="center"	Position	width=180 rowspan="2" align="center"	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Total	1. HNL	Europa League	Croatian Cup
1	GK	Simon Sluga	3	0	+0	0	+0	0	+0	0
6	DF	Stefan Ristovski	38	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
7	MF	Marin Tomasov	43	14	+4	8	+0	1	+1	5
8	MF	Zoran Kvržić	3	1	+1	0	+2	1	+0	0
8	DF	Leonard Zuta	30	0	+2	0	+0	0	+0	0
9	FW	Bekim Balaj	37	10	+11	9	+1	0	+2	1
10	MF	Florentin Matei	15	2	+3	1	+0	0	+0	1
10	MF	Anas Sharbini	14	3	+2	3	+0	0	+0	0
11	FW	Roman Bezjak	39	17	+2	13	+1	0	+1	4
11	DF	Ivan Tomečak	6	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
13	DF	Marko Lešković	21	1	+0	1	+0	0	+0	0
15	DF	Matej Mitrović	29	1	+3	1	+0	0	+0	0
16	MF	Ivan Močinić	34	0	+7	0	+1	0	+1	0
17	FW	Mario Gavranović	15	7	+0	7	+0	0	+0	0
18	MF	Filip Bradarić	33	2	+6	1	+0	0	+2	1
19	DF	Miral Samardžić	37	6	+0	4	+0	0	+0	2
20	FW	Dario Vizinger	2	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
21	DF	Aleš Mejač	2	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
22	DF	Marin Leovac	7	1	+0	1	+0	0	+0	0
23	MF	Odise Roshi	25	2	+19	1	+0	0	+2	1
24	DF	Mateo Bertoša	6	0	+2	0	+0	0	+0	0
25	GK	Ivan Vargić	36	0	+0	0	+0	0	+0	0
26	MF	Mate Maleš	31	1	+3	1	+0	0	+1	0
27	MF	Josip Mišić	1	0	+0	0	+0	0	+0	0
29	DF	Marko Vešović	22	2	+12	2	+0	0	+4	0
30	MF	Josip Brezovec	13	1	+5	1	+0	0	+0	0
32	GK	Andrej Prskalo	4	0	+0	0	+0	0	+0	0
33	MF	Josip Radošević	20	1	+9	1	+0	0	+0	0
33	DF	Mihael Rebernik	1	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
40	MF	Gerald Diyoke	1	0	+1	0	+0	0	+0	0
88	MF	Moisés Lima Magalhães	19	2	+4	1	+0	0	+1	1
89	MF	Vedran Jugović	13	0	+6	0	+0	0	+0	0

Source: nk-rijeka.hr

Suspensions

Updated 14 May 2016.

width=90	Date Incurred	width=90	Competition	width=140	Player	width=60	Games Missed	width=60	Reason
29 May 2015	1. HNL	Filip Bradarić	1
		Matej Mitrović
		Josip Radošević
26 Jul 2015		Josip Radošević
8 Aug 2015		Roman Bezjak	2
		Marin Leovac	1
15 Aug 2015		Moisés
		Anas Sharbini
22 Aug 2015		Marko Lešković
30 Aug 2015		Filip Bradarić
		Miral Samardžić
26 Sep 2015		Ivan Močinić
4 Oct 2015		Filip Bradarić
25 Oct 2015		Mate Maleš
1 Nov 2015		Bekim Balaj
8 Nov 2015		Moisés
21 Nov 2015		Roman Bezjak
4 Dec 2015		Marko Vešović
8 Dec 2015	Cup	Leonard Zuta
13 Dec 2015	1. HNL	Filip Bradarić
		Mate Maleš
18 Dec 2015		Stefan Ristovski
12 Feb 2016		Miral Samardžić
27 Feb 2016		Mate Maleš
		Ivan Močinić
2 Mar 2016		Leonard Zuta
		Bekim Balaj
19 Mar 2016		Matej Mitrović
9 Apr 2016		Roman Bezjak
		Mate Maleš
16 Apr 2016		Josip Brezovec
24 Apr 2016		Bekim Balaj
1 May 2016		Miral Samardžić
7 May 2016		Ivan Močinić
		Filip Bradarić

Penalties

For
width=90	Date	width=70	Competition	width=120	Player	width=90	Opposition	width=50	Scored?
10 Jul 2015	1. HNL	Marko Lešković	Inter Zaprešić
19 Jul 2015	1. HNL	Moisés	Slaven Belupo
19 Sep 2015	1. HNL	Filip Bradarić	Inter Zaprešić
8 Nov 2015	1. HNL	Marin Tomasov	RNK Split
Against
width=90	Date	width=70	Competition	width=120	Goalkeeper	width=90	Opposition	width=50	Scored?
19 Jul 2015	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	Slaven Belupo
8 Nov 2015	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	RNK Split
21 Nov 2015	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	Osijek
2 Mar 2016	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	RNK Split
6 Mar 2016	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	Osijek
16 Apr 2016	1. HNL	Ivan Vargić	Lokomotiva

Overview of statistics

Statistic	Overall			Europa League
Most appearances	Tomasov (43)	Tomasov (36)	6 players (5)	8 players (2)
Most starts	Tomasov (38)	Tomasov & Vargić (32)	Mitrović, Ristovski & Samardžić (5)	6 players (2)
Most substitute appearances	Roshi (21)	Roshi (19)	Vešović (4)	Kvržić (2)
Most minutes played	Samardžić (3,330)	Vargić (2,880)	Mitrović & Samardžić (450)	Leovac, Moisés & Samardžić (180)
Top goalscorer	Bezjak (17)	Bezjak (13)	Tomasov (5)	Kvržić & Tomasov (1)
Most assists	Tomasov (15)	Tomasov (12)	Tomasov & Zuta (3)	Kvržić & Radošević (1)
Most yellow cards	Maleš (11)	Maleš (11)	Zuta (3)	Kvržić, Leovac & Lešković (1)
Most red cards	7 players (1)	7 players (1)	–	–
Last updated: 14 May 2016.

Transfers

In

width=90	Date	width=30	Pos.	width=150	Player	width=120	Moving from	width=190	Type	width=75	Fee
19 Jun 2015	CF	Roman Bezjak	Ludogorets	Transfer	Free
19 Jun 2015	GK	Simon Sluga	Lokomotiva	Return from loan
3 Jul 2015	GK	Ivan Nevistić	Osijek	Transfer	€50,000
3 Jul 2015	CF	Dario Vizinger	Varaždin	Transfer	€50,000
6 Jul 2015	RW	Zoran Kvržić	Spezia	Return from loan
6 Jul 2015	RW	Odise Roshi	FSV Frankfurt	Transfer	Free
7 Jul 2015	RB	Stefan Ristovski	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
17 Jul 2015	CF	Juri Cisotti	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
20 Jul 2015	CB	Frane Ikić	Zadar	Transfer	€65,000
11 Aug 2015	RB	Marko Vešović	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
4 Sep 2015	LB	Leonard Zuta	Häcken	Transfer	€50,000
22 Jan 2016	CM	Josip Brezovec	Spezia	Return from loan
22 Jan 2016	CM	Asmir Kajević	Zürich	Transfer	Free
22 Jan 2016	RW	Tomislav Turčin	Cibalia	Transfer	€60,000
29 Jan 2016	LB	Jamilu Collins	Krka	Return from loan
5 Feb 2016	GK	Ivan Vargić	Lazio	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
9 Feb 2016	CF	Mario Gavranović	Zürich	Transfer	€600,000
9 Feb 2016	AM	Florentin Matei	Volyn Lutsk	Transfer	€500,000
9 Feb 2016	RB	Aleš Mejač	Maribor	Loan (until 31/5/2016)

Source: Glasilo Hrvatskog nogometnog saveza

Out

width=90	Date	width=30	Pos.	width=160	Player	width=140	Moving to	width=200	Type	width=85	Fee
23 Jun 2015	CF	Josip Ivančić	Koper	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
24 Jun 2015	DM	Domagoj Pušić	Lugano	Transfer	Free
1 Jul 2015	CM	Álex Fernández	Espanyol	End of loan
6 Jul 2015	RB	Marko Vešović	Torino	End of loan
9 Jul 2015	LB	Jamilu Collins	Krka	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
9 Jul 2015	CF	Ventsislav Hristov	Skënderbeu Korçë	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
9 Jul 2015	GK	David Nwolokor	Šibenik	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
9 Jul 2015	CF	Solomon Theophilus	Šibenik	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
14 Jul 2015	CF	Filip Dangubić	Krka	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
16 Jul 2015	AM	Aliyu Okechukwu	Šibenik	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
19 Jul 2015	CB	Jozo Špikić	Široki Brijeg	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
19 Jul 2015	CM	Damir Zlomislić	Istra 1961	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
22 Jul 2015	CB	Niko Datković	Lugano	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
23 Jul 2015	AM	Antonini Čulina	Lugano	Transfer	Undisclosed
30 Jul 2015	LW	Goodness Ajayi	Široki Brijeg	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
3 Aug 2015	CF	Andrija Filipović	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
3 Aug 2015	RB	Mato Miloš	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
5 Aug 2015	RW	Zoran Kvržić	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
12 Aug 2015	GK	Simon Sluga	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
17 Aug 2015	LB	Marin Leovac	PAOK	Transfer	€1.7 million
23 Aug 2015	CM	Josip Mišić	Spezia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
31 Aug 2015	RB	Ivan Tomečak	Dnipro	Transfer	€1 million
21 Sep 2015	CB	Dario Knežević		Retirement
12 Oct 2015	CM	Goran Cvijanović	Gorica	Transfer	Free
19 Nov 2015	RW	Drago Gabrić	Koper	Transfer	Free
13 Jan 2016	CF	Juri Cisotti	Spezia	End of loan
15 Jan 2016	AM	Mislav Oršić	Jeonnam Dragons	Transfer	$1 million
18 Jan 2016	RB	Mato Miloš	Perugia	Loan (until 30/6/2016)
21 Jan 2016	DM	Josip Radošević	Napoli	End of loan
30 Jan 2016	LB	Muhammed Kabiru	Krka	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
1 Feb 2016	GK	Ivan Vargić	Lazio	Transfer	€2.559 million
3 Feb 2016	CF	Ventsislav Hristov	Levski Sofia	Transfer	€80,000
7 Feb 2016	CM	Moisés	Palmeiras	Transfer	€1 million
11 Feb 2016	RW	Tomislav Turčin	Cibalia	Loan (until 15/6/2016)
15 Feb 2016	LB	Jamilu Collins	Šibenik	Loan (until 14/6/2016)
15 Feb 2016	RM	Vedran Jugović	Jeonnam Dragons	Loan (until 31/12/2016; option to buy)
15 Feb 2016	LW	Anas Sharbini	Osmanlıspor	Loan (until 15/6/2016; option to buy)	€100,000
19 Feb 2016	CF	Josip Ivančić	Sheriff Tiraspol	Transfer	€100,000

Source: Glasilo Hrvatskog nogometnog saveza

Spending: €1,375,000
Income: €7,414,000
Expenditure: €6,039,000

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gledatelji po klubovima 2015-2016 . HRnogomet.com . 15 May 2016.