2016/2017 Croatian clubs in Europe

So the Europa League and Champions league qualifying have started. The first qualifying round has already finished in the Europa League.

Round 1 ; Lokomotiva Zagreb beat UE Santa Coloma(Andorra) 7-2 on Aggregate.

Round 2 opponents , with the games being played on July 14th and 21st:
Lokomotiva Zagreb vs RoPS(Finland)
Hajduk Split vs CSMS lasi(Romania)

HNK Rijeka is a seeded team in the Third round of Europa qualifying.
While Dinamo Zagreb is a seeded in the Third Round of qualifying of the Champions League.

 

Seconded Round of the Europa and Champions League qualifiers has been played.

The Results, In Champions League qualifying Dinamo Zagreb vs Vardar Skopje was played over 2 match days. Dinamo won on aggregate 5:3. Winning both games by scorelines of 2:1 and 3:2.

Lokomotiva Zagreb beat RoPS(Finland) by an aggregate of 4:1. The first game was a 1:1 draw and second was a 3:0 win
Hajduk Split beat CSMS Iasi(Romania) by an aggregate of 4:3. The first game was a 2:2 draw. And Hajduk won the second game 2:1.

So our Coefficient stands like so :
DINAMO ZAGREB
Vardar: 2.0

RIJEKA

HAJDUK SPLIT
Iasi: 1.5

LOKOMOTIVA ZAGREB
Santa Coloma: 2.0
RoPS: 1.5

TOTAL: 7/4 = 1.750

Current Uefa Coefficient League standings

13. Netherlands 22.763
14. Greece 22.300
15. CROATIA 21.875
16. Romania 21.150
17. Austria 19.850

The Dutch and Greeks haven't really started their Euro campaigns yet, Dutch not a single game while the Greeks only had PAS Giannina so far. Austrian teams are always tough, but they have some ground to make up. Dinamo just eliminated Iasi so 1 less club from Romanian in the race for that 15th spot.

Next round matches for Europa teams

Istanbul BB - Rijeka
Oleksandriya - Hajduk
Lokomotiva - Vorskla Poltava

Next round for Champions League

Dinamo Zagreb vs Dinamo Tbilisi

Some tough matches in there for all 3 Europa league clubs. Anything Lokomotiva adds to the coefficient is considered a success going forward, as progress for them going further will be difficult. Hajduk will be in with an unknown Ukraine side which only qualified for Europe due to license issues in Ukraine. I have never heard of them before, so we'll see how those matches go. Rijeka probably got the toughest draw they could of probably got. Istanbul BB is an unknown quantity though in Europe, but they have a few international players in their squad.

 

Thanks EvanJ for the results for the clubs. Yes Rijeka is now out. Saw their second half against Istanbul. Just could not hold onto that win.

So our coefficient is now so:

DINAMO ZAGREB
Vardar: 2.0
Dinamo Tbilisi: 2.0

RIJEKA
Istanbul BB: 1.0

HAJDUK SPLIT
Iasi: 1.5
Oleksandriya: 2.0

LOKOMOTIVA ZAGREB
Santa Coloma: 2.0
RoPS: 1.5
Vorskla Poltava: 1.5

TOTAL: 13.5/4 = 3.375

13. Netherlands 23.663
14. CROATIA 23.500
15. Greece 23.000
16. Romania 21.650
17. Austria 20.975

Next round has Dinamo drawing Red Bull Salzburg(Aut). While Lokomotiva has drawn Racing Genk (BEL) and Hajduk has drawn Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR).

 

Thanks again Evan. You beat me to it today.

Anyway this is now our coefficient currently in Europe.

DINAMO ZAGREBVardar: 2.0
Dinamo Tbilisi: 2.0
RB Salzburg: 1.5
CL Bonus: 4.0

RIJEKA
Istanbul BB: 1.0

HAJDUK SPLIT
Iasi: 1.5
Oleksandriya: 2.0
Maccabi Tel-Aviv: 1.0

LOKOMOTIVA
Santa Coloma: 2.0
RoPS: 1.5
Vorskla: 1.5
Genk: 0.5

TOTAL: 20.5/4 = 5.125

It will be tight to finish in the top 15 this year as the countries right below us have more clubs left in CL and EL combined.

13. CROATIA 25.250 (Dinamo in CL)
14. Greece 24.100 (Olympiakos, Panathinaikos & PAOK in EL)
15. Netherlands 24.063 (PSV in CL; Ajax, Feyenoord & AZ in EL)
16. Romania 21.950 (Steaua & Astra in EL)
17. Austria 21.850 (Salzburg, Rapid & Austria in EL)

 

Hajduk is not the Hajduk from the 90's so I don't get too high or too low with where Hajduk is nowadays. I think their biggest issue is that their youth academy has really let them down since the turn of the millennium. They probably though don't have the money to run it effectively, as least thats what I believe. And they have no continuous strategy that I see. But again this too could be down to money and competing with the juggernaut that is Dinamo Zagreb(and their youth academy) is made Hajduk's down fall appear greater than what it really is.

 

So Croatian clubs have ended their Euro adventure for another year. With Dinamo losing all their games in the Champions league Group stages. So this is now our coefficient for next season(as I don't think Romania will surpass us ):

13. Netherlands 28.663 (Ajax & AZ in Europe still)
14. Greece 26.900 (Olympiakos and PAOK in Europe still)
15. Austria 25.350 (none)
16. CROATIA 25.250 (none)
17. Romania 24.150 (Astra is Europe still)