2006–07 HNK Rijeka season

Rijeka
2006–07 season
Chairman	Robert Ježić
Manager	Dragan Skočić, Milivoj Bračun, Josip Kuže
Prva HNL	7th
Croatian Cup	Semifinal
UEFA Cup	Qualifying Round 1
Croatian Supercup	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Ahmad Sharbini (21); All: Ahmad Sharbini (25)
Highest home attendance	8,000 vs Dinamo Zagreb (17 February 2007 - Prva HNL)
Lowest home attendance	300 vs Konavljanin (22 November 2006 - Croatian Cup)
Average home league attendance	2,019
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 season was the 61st season in Rijeka's history. It was their 16th season in the Prva HNL and 33rd successive top tier season.

Competitions

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Prva HNL	30 July 2006	19 May 2007	Matchday 1	7th	33	12	6	15	51	53	−2	036.36
Croatian Cup	20 September 2006	4 April 2007	First round	Semifinal	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	033.33
UEFA Cup	13 July 2006	27 July 2006	QR1	QR1	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	000.00
Croatian Supercup	–	19 July 2006	–	Runners-up	1	0	0	1	1	4	−3	000.00
Total					42	14	9	19	63	68	−5	033.33

Prva HNL

Classification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
5	Slaven Belupo^[a]	33	14	7	12	40	37	+3	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
6	Osijek	33	11	10	12	42	45	−3	43
7	Rijeka	33	12	6	15	51	53	−2	42
8	Varteks	33	12	6	15	49	62	−13	42
9	Međimurje	33	11	4	18	40	60	−20	37

Source: prva-hnl.hr (in Croatian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

^ Qualified for Europe as 2006–07 Croatian Football Cup finalists.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
33	12	6	15	51	53	−2	42	7	3	6	29	23	+6	5	3	9	22	30	−8

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	D	L	L	D	W	W	L	D	W	L	L	L	D	W	L	D	W
Position	3	2	5	6	6	8	8	10	10	10	10	10	8	7	5	6	7	7	8	9	8	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	7

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Croatian Supercup

Match	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	19 Jul	A	Dinamo Zagreb	1 – 4	15,000	Bolić	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Prva HNL

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
1	30 Jul	A	Cibalia	4 – 3	2,500	Bolić, Tkalčević, Ah. Sharbini, Rubil	HRnogomet.com
2	5 Aug	H	Kamen Ingrad	4 – 2	2,000	Bolić (3), Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
3	12 Aug	A	Zagreb	0 – 1	1,500		HRnogomet.com
4	19 Aug	A	Slaven Belupo	2 – 3	2,000	Ah. Sharbini (2)	HRnogomet.com
5	26 Aug	H	Hajduk Split	0 – 1	6,000		HRnogomet.com
6	9 Sep	A	Varteks	1 – 2	3,000	Prišć	HRnogomet.com
7	16 Sep	H	Osijek	2 – 2	2,000	Ah. Sharbini, Linić	HRnogomet.com
9	30 Sep	H	Šibenik	1 – 3	1,200	Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
10	14 Oct	A	Pula	3 – 2	2,500	Toñito (2), Bule	HRnogomet.com
11	21 Oct	H	Međimurje	1 – 3	1,000	Tkalčević	HRnogomet.com
12	28 Oct	H	Cibalia	4 – 1	1,500	Ah. Sharbini (3), Toñito	HRnogomet.com
8	31 Oct	A	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	1,200		HRnogomet.com
13	4 Nov	A	Kamen Ingrad	1 – 0	300	Toñito	HRnogomet.com
14	8 Nov	H	Zagreb	2 – 1	1,000	Bule (2)	HRnogomet.com
15	11 Nov	H	Slaven Belupo	2 – 0	2,000	Ah. Sharbini (2)	HRnogomet.com
16	18 Nov	A	Hajduk Split	0 – 3	6,500		HRnogomet.com
17	25 Nov	H	Varteks	2 – 2	1,000	Kerkez, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
18	2 Dec	A	Osijek	0 – 1	1,000		HRnogomet.com
19	17 Feb	H	Dinamo Zagreb	2 – 3	8,000	Ivanov, Štrok	HRnogomet.com
20	24 Feb	A	Šibenik	2 – 2	3,500	Ivanov, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
21	3 Mar	H	Pula	2 – 0	2,000	Ah. Sharbini, Ivanov	HRnogomet.com
22	10 Mar	A	Međimurje	2 – 1	1,500	Starčević, Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
23	17 Mar	A	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	5,000		HRnogomet.com
24	31 Mar	A	Međimurje	1 – 1	1,200	Budicin	HRnogomet.com
25	7 Apr	H	Varteks	3 – 0	1,000	Ah. Sharbini (2), Novaković	HRnogomet.com
26	14 Apr	A	Slaven Belupo	0 – 3	1,800		HRnogomet.com
27	18 Apr	H	Osijek	0 – 2	1,000		HRnogomet.com
28	21 Apr	A	Šibenik	1 – 3	2,500	Novaković	HRnogomet.com
29	28 Apr	H	Pula	1 – 1	800	Brajković	HRnogomet.com
30	2 May	A	Zagreb	3 – 1	1,000	Ah. Sharbini (3)	HRnogomet.com
31	5 May	H	Cibalia	1 – 2	1,000	Ah. Sharbini	HRnogomet.com
32	12 May	A	Hajduk Split	2 – 2	2,500	Budicin, Ivanov	HRnogomet.com
33	19 May	H	Kamen Ingrad	2 – 0	800	Bule, Sertić	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
R1	20 Sep	A	Đakovo	2 – 1	1,500	Ah. Sharbini (2)	HRnogomet.com
R2	25 Oct	A	Hrvatski Dragovoljac	0 – 0 (5–3 p)	2,500		HRnogomet.com
QF	22 Nov	H	Konavljanin	3 – 1	300	Ah. Sharbini, Kerkez, Bule	HRnogomet.com
QF	29 Nov	A	Konavljanin	1 – 2	2,500	Žilić	HRnogomet.com
SF	13 Mar	H	Slaven Belupo	0 – 0	3,000		HRnogomet.com
SF	4 Apr	A	Slaven Belupo	2 – 3	3,000	Ah. Sharbini, Ivanov	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Attendance	Rijeka Scorers	Report
QR1	13 Jul	H	Omonia	2 – 2	7,000	Bule, Kerkez	HRnogomet.com
QR1	27 Jul	A	Omonia	1 – 2	18,000	Lukunić	HRnogomet.com

Source: HRnogomet.com

Squad statistics

Competitive matches only.
Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.

Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Name	League		Cup		Europe		Supercup		Total
Dragan Žilić	27 (0)	0	6 (0)	1	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	36 (0)	1
Krunoslav Rendulić	28 (0)	0	4 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	35 (0)	0
Peter Lérant	15 (0)	0	4 (0)	0	1 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	20 (1)	0
Daniel Šarić	20 (3)	0	5 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	27 (3)	0
Siniša Linić	23 (3)	1	6 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	32 (3)	1
Igor Tkalčević	15 (0)	2	3 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	19 (1)	2
Ahmad Sharbini	16 (11)	21	4 (2)	4	1 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	21 (14)	25
Dušan Kerkez	19 (0)	1	2 (1)	1	2 (0)	1	1 (0)	0	24 (1)	3
Nino Bule	19 (2)	4	3 (2)	1	2 (0)	1	0 (0)	0	24 (4)	6
Manuel Pamić	12 (8)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	14 (11)	0
Mario Prišć	17 (5)	1	5 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	25 (5)	1
Toñito	16 (4)	4	4 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	20 (5)	4
Mihael Mikić	12 (3)	0	1 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	15 (5)	0
Duje Baković	17 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	19 (0)	0
Fausto Budicin	11 (2)	2	1 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	12 (3)	2
Dalibor Starčević	15 (0)	1	4 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	19 (0)	1
Georgi Ivanov	11 (2)	4	2 (0)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	13 (2)	5
Luka Vučko	12 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	14 (0)	0
Dragan Tadić	2 (9)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (1)	0	4 (11)	0
Josip Lukunić	7 (5)	0	1 (2)	0	0 (1)	1	0 (1)	0	8 (9)	1
Igor Novaković	7 (4)	2	0 (2)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	7 (6)	2
Mate Brajković	3 (8)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	3 (8)	1
Goran Rubil	5 (5)	1	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (0)	0	7 (7)	1
Dario Knežević	5 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	2 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	8 (0)	0
Anas Sharbini	4 (4)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	5 (4)	0
Vedran Turkalj	7 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	7 (1)	0
Velimir Radman	6 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (0)	0
Hrvoje Štrok	4 (2)	1	2 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	6 (2)	1
Elvir Bolić	5 (1)	4	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	1	6 (1)	5
Domagoj Verhas	2 (2)	0	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	3 (2)	0
Admir Malkić	0 (5)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (5)	0
Ivan Sertić	0 (4)	1	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (5)	1
Edin Junuzović	0 (2)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (2)	0
Ivor Weitzer	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	0
Mateo Bertoša	1 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0
Eddy Bosnar	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	2 (0)	0