Football in Croatia
Competition Season Round Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UCWC 1960-61 SF Fiorentina 4-2 Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 1-2
UCWC 1972-73 SF Leeds United 1-0 Hajduk Split 1-0 0-0
EC 1975-76 QF Hajduk Split 2-3 PSV Eindhoven 2-0 0-3 ( aet )
EC 1979-80 QF Hamburger SV 3-3 ( a ) Hajduk Split 1-0 2-3
UC 1983-84 SF Hajduk Split 2-2 ( a ) Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 0-1
UCL 1994-95 QF Hajduk Split 0-3 Ajax 0-0 0-3
UC 1997-98 R16 Croatia Zagreb 1-2 Atlético Madrid 1-1 0-1
EL 2018-19 R16 Dinamo Zagreb 1-3 Benfica 1-0 0-3 ( aet )
UCWC 1998-99 QF Varteks 1-3 Mallorca 0-0 1-3
Clubs in European competitions -- Best results
The table below lists Croatian clubs ' best results in elimination rounds of European club competitions :
Football in Croatia, called nogomet, is the most popular sport in the country and is led by the Croatian Football Federation. It is played in four official components; the domestic league consists of three hierarchical echelons, and a single national team represents the entire state. The first Croat clubs were founded prior to the First World War and participated in the Yugoslavian league structure after Croatia became a part of Yugoslavia following the war. From 1940 to 1944, nineteen friendly matches were played by a Croatia national side representing the Second World War-era puppet states of the Banovina of Croatia and Independent State of Croatia. After the war, most of the prominent Yugoslavian clubs, including clubs in Croatia, were dissolved and replaced with new sides by Marshal Tito's Communist regime. Today, club football in Croatia is dominated by Hajduk Split, HNK Rijeka and Dinamo Zagreb. Since independence, the country has produced a string of players who have performed well in many of Europe's most highly regarded leagues and who took the national team to third place at the 1998 World Cup and the final at the 2018 World Cup.