NK Zadar
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| Full name | Nogometni klub Zadar |
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| Founded | 26 April 1945 as FD Zadar |
| Ground | Stadion Stanovi |
| Capacity | 5,860 |
| Chairman | Svetko Ćustić |
| Manager | Josip Butić |
| League | Treća HNL |
| 2015–16 | Druga HNL, 12th (relegated) |
| Website | Club home page |
NK Zadar is a Croatian football club based in Zadar, a city on the Adriatic coast. They currently play in the Croatian Third League.
The first football club in Zadar originated in 1876 and it was named . The club was running (mostly in Serie C) until 1945 when the communist government took over the country. A new club was founded on 26 April 1945 as the Fiskulturno društvo Zadar with the departments of football, basketball and athletics. On 9 February 1949, the football department was spun off as NK Zadar.
In 1992 as Zadarkomerc the club was founding member of the Prva HNL. Since then, the club has always played up to five seasons in the first division of Croatia. Since 2001, the club has been officially called NK Zadar.
Their greatest success in the Croatian Football Cup was achieved in the 1995–96 season when they reached the semi-finals.
In 2001, the club was returned to Prva HNL, where it spent four consecutive seasons, but was again relegated after it was heavily defeated by Dinamo Zagreb at Maksimir (7–0), which the match ended at 62 minutes after the Zadar remained with too small number of players due to red cards and injuries of players.
After two seasons the Zadar has returned to Prva HNL on 30 May 2007 after beating NK Pula in the promotion playoff, 6–2 on aggregate, but eight years later Zadar was relegated to the Druga HNL. The catastrophic situation in the club was most affected their results, and Zadar was in the following season again relegated to the Treća HNL.
NK Zadar's home stadium is the Stanovi with a capacity of 5,860.
The club's supporters are known as the Tornado Zadar, but currently do not support because they are not satisfied with the management of the club.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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