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The 2009–10 Croatian First Football League (officially known as the T-Com Prva HNL for sponsorship reasons) was the nineteenth season of the Croatian First Football League, the national championship for men's association football teams in Croatia, since its establishment in 1992. It began on 24 July 2009 and ended on 13 May 2010. Dinamo Zagreb were the defending champions, having won their eleventh championship title (and fourth consecutive title) the previous season, and they defended the title again, after a goalless draw with Hajduk Split on 1 May 2010.

The format was changed from previous season in that the league was expanded from 12 to 16 clubs.

Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

Due to the expansion, no teams were directly relegated following the 2008–09 season.

Four teams from 2008–09 Druga HNL earned direct promotion. These were champions Istra 1961, runners-up Karlovac, third-placed Lokomotiva and fifth-placed Međimurje. Fourth-placed team Slavonac CO had to step back from promotion after they were not able to find a suitable ground.

Croatia Sesvete as last-placed team had to compete in a two-legged play-off against the sixth-placed team from Druga HNL, Hrvatski Dragovoljac. After a scoreless first leg, Croatia Sesvete retained their Prva HNL status by winning the second leg, 2–1.

Overview

Teams

Team	Head coach	Team captain	2008–09 result	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Cibalia	Stanko Mršić	Boris Leutar	8th	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Croatia Sesvete	Goran Jerković	Saša Mus	12th	Diadora
Dinamo Zagreb	Krunoslav Jurčić	Igor Bišćan	1st	Diadora	INA, Croatia osiguranje
Hajduk Split	Stanko Poklepović	Srđan Andrić	2nd	Umbro	INA
Inter Zaprešić	Ilija Lončarević	Tomislav Šarić	9th	Legea	Hidrocommerce
Istra 1961	Zoran Vulić	Dalibor Pauletić	2. HNL, 1st	Legea	Puris, Favorit pivo
Karlovac	Igor Pamić	Matija Štefančić	2. HNL, 2nd	Legea
Lokomotiva	Roy Ferenčina	Željko Sopić	2. HNL, 3rd	Legea
Međimurje	Tomislav Ivković	Mario Darmopil	2. HNL, 5th	Legea
Osijek	Tomislav Steinbrückner	Domagoj Vida	7th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Rijeka	Nenad Gračan	Fausto Budicin	3rd	Jako	Croatia osiguranje
Slaven Belupo	Zlatko Dalić	Dalibor Poldrugač	4th	Adidas	Belupo
Šibenik	Branko Karačić	Arijan Ademi	6th	Jako
Varteks	Samir Toplak	Miljenko Mumlek	10th	Legea	Croatia osiguranje
Zadar	Dalibor Zebić	Jakov Surać	11th	Jako
NK Zagreb	Igor Štimac	Ivan Parlov	5th	Legea

Stadia and locations

Since most Druga HNL stadiums failed to meet the licensing requirements for top-level football, the Croatian Football Federation announced on 8 May 2008 that clubs who are likely to win promotion berths have agreed to lease stadiums approved for top-flight football. Below is the list of all the stadiums which are licensed to be used in the Prva HNL, along with their home clubs and the promoted clubs who secured rights to use them as "guests" until their own grounds have sufficiently been upgraded to host top-level matches.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Slaven Belupo	Mile Petković	Mutual consent	31 May 2009	Milivoj Bračun	9 June 2009	Pre-season
Hajduk Split	Ante Miše	Resigned	2 August 2009	Ivica Kalinić	3 August 2009	12th
Šibenik	Ivica Kalinić	Resigned	3 August 2009	Branko Karačić	11 August 2009	5th
Slaven Belupo	Milivoj Bračun	Mutual consent	6 August 2009	Zlatko Dalić	8 August 2009	6th
Hajduk Split	Ivica Kalinić	Mutual consent	18 August 2009	Edoardo Reja	18 August 2009	13th
Croatia Sesvete	Anto Petrović	Sacked	1 September 2009	Nenad Gračan	1 September 2009	15th
NK Zagreb	Luka Pavlović	Resigned	11 September 2009	Igor Štimac	14 September 2009	16th
Rijeka	Robert Rubčić	Resigned	21 September 2009	Zoran Vulić	22 September 2009	7th
Međimurje	Mario Ćutuk	Sacked	8 October 2009	Srećko Bogdan	9 October 2009	11th
Istra 1961	Elvis Scoria	Mutual consent	2 November 2009	Valdi Šumberac		14th
Rijeka	Zoran Vulić	Resigned	10 November 2009	Nenad Gračan	10 November 2009	7th
Croatia Sesvete	Nenad Gračan	Resigned	10 November 2009	Anto Petrović		15th
Croatia Sesvete	Anto Petrović	Resigned	24 November 2009	Adolf Pinter	19 January 2010	16th
Varteks	Dražen Besek	Mutual consent	26 December 2009	Damir Jagačić	4 January 2010	11th
Hajduk Split	Edoardo Reja	Signed by Lazio	9 February 2010	Stanko Poklepović	12 February 2010	7th
Istra 1961	Valdi Šumberac	Sacked	28 February 2010	Zoran Vulić	28 February 2010	15th
Croatia Sesvete	Adolf Pinter	Sacked	5 March 2010	Goran Jerković	5 March 2010	16th
Varteks	Damir Jagačić	Sacked	15 March 2010	Samir Toplak	15 March 2010	11th
Međimurje	Srećko Bogdan	Sacked	2 April 2010	Tomislav Ivković	3 April 2010	12th
Inter Zaprešić	Borimir Perković	Sacked	11 April 2010	Ilija Lončarević	11 April 2010	12th

League table

1. Hajduk Split won the 2009–10 Croatian Cup and thus qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
2. ^ Head-to-head record: Inter Zaprešić–NK Zagreb 1–3, NK Zagreb–Inter Zaprešić 0–3.
3. Despite finishing 14th NK Zagreb eventually avoided relegation as only two second level clubs were granted first division licences by the Croatian Football Federation.

Results

Top goalscorers

As of 13 May 2010; Source: HRnogomet.com

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Davor Vugrinec	NK Zagreb	18
2	Senijad Ibričić	Hajduk Split	17
3	Asim Šehić	Istra 1961	15
4	Nino Bule	Lokomotiva	14
	Mario Mandžukić	Dinamo Zagreb
6	Bojan Golubović	Međimurje	13
	Pedro Morales	Dinamo Zagreb
8	Milan Badelj	Dinamo Zagreb	11
	Miljenko Mumlek	Varteks
	Ermin Zec	Šibenik

Transfers

• List of Croatian football transfers summer 2009
• List of Croatian football transfers winter 2009–10

See also

• 2009–10 Croatian Football Cup
• 2009–10 Croatian Second Football League

References

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External links

• Season statistics at HRNogomet
• Official website (in Croatian)
• Prva HNL at UEFA.com
• 2009–10 in Croatian Football at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

• Croatian Football League seasons
• 2009–10 in European association football leagues
• 2009–10 in Croatian football