GNK Dinamo Zagreb in European football

This article lists results for GNK Dinamo Zagreb in European competition.

GNK Dinamo Zagreb is a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. The club was officially founded on 6 June 1945 as a municipal multi-sports club and was intended to replace the three Zagreb football powerhouses which had dominated the game in Croatia in the interwar period (Concordia, Građanski and HAŠK) and which were all disbanded by a government decree in 1945 for political reasons (because the three had continued to participate in the national championship sponsored by the fascist Independent State of Croatia during World War II).

Soon after that initial meeting, the football section was formed and its first chairman (and de facto the very first chairman of Dinamo Zagreb football club) was Ico Hitrec. The initial caretaker coach of the first team was Branko Kunst (former Kingdom of Yugoslavia international and HAŠK player), while the first generation of Dinamo's youth team was coached by Maks Mihelčić, former goalkeeper at Građanski and also a former international. Former Građanski players such as Urch, Dubac, Kokotović, Wölfl, Lešnik, Pleše, Cimermančić, Antolković and Reiss also joined the newly formed club.

After winning the first post-war Zagreb municipal championship held in January and February 1946 and finishing runners-up in the Croatian regional championship (behind Hajduk Split), they qualified for the nationwide 1946–47 Yugoslav First League. For the first three years the club played their games at Građanski's old ground at Koturaška street, but in 1948 they moved to HAŠK's Stadion Maksimir which remained their home ground to the present day.

The club spent their entire existence paying top-flight football, and they soon established themselves as one of the Yugoslav Big Four (along with Hajduk Split, Partizan and Red Star Belgrade), finishing runners-up in the inaugural season of the national championship, and then winning Yugoslav titles in 1948, 1954 and 1958.

They were the third Yugoslav club to play in an UEFA-sponsored competition (after Partizan in 1955 and Red Star in 1956) and their first European Cup tie was against Czechoslovak side Dukla Prague in 1958. In the 1960s Dinamo experienced their most successful period in both domestic and European football which saw them win four Yugoslav Cups but failing to clinch a single championship title, finishing runners-up five times between 1960 and 1969. On the European stage, the club had two successful campaigns in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, reaching the finals on two occasions. In the 1963 final Dinamo lost to Valencia, but in 1967 they beat England's Leeds United. This was the only European silverware won by a Yugoslav club until Red Star Belgrade won the 1990–91 European Cup 24 years later.

Dinamo in Europe

• Dinamo played their first European match on 10 September 1958 against Dukla Prague. The match ended in a 2–2 draw, with Luka Lipošinović netting a brace and Jaroslav Borovička and Jan Brumovský scoring for the Czech side. The second leg was played on 1 October, with Franjo Gašpert scoring in a 1–2 loss and a 3–4 aggregate defeat.
• Biggest defeat was against Barcelona in the away game of the second round of ICFC. The game was played on 13 December 1961 and ended in a 5–1 trashing, with Evaristo de Macedo scoring a hat-trick. Other scorers for Barcelona were Sándor Kocsis and Jesús María Pereda, while Dražan Jerković claimed a consolation goal in the 87th minute. The second leg in Zagreb ended in a 2–2 draw, with two goals from Stjepan Lamza and another goal from Evaristo de Macedo and Pedro Zaballa to make it 7–3 on aggregate for the Catalan club.
• In the 1962–63 season Dinamo enjoyed a successful campaign in the ICFC. Dinamo beat Porto 2–1 with goals from Borislav Ribic and Ilijas Pašić.
• In the 1982–83 season Dinamo was knocked out in the first round, this time by Sporting CP. Dinamo won the first leg at Maksimir by a single goal from Snješko Cerin, but then lost the away leg 3–0 with a hat-trick from Sporting's António Oliveira.
• In the 1988–89 season Dinamo was knocked out in the second round of the UEFA cup by VfB Stuttgart, coached by Arie Haan and featuring Jurgen Klinsmann and Srečko Katanec. Stuttgart later reached the finals of the competition, only to be beaten by Diego Maradona's Napoli.

Summary

List of matches

Note: Dinamo score always listed first.

1950s–1970

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
1958–59	European Cup	QR	Dukla Prague	2–2	1–2	3–4
1960–61	Cup Winners' Cup	QF	RH Brno	2–0	0–0	2–0
		SF	Fiorentina	2–1	0–3	2–4
1961–62	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	Stævnet	2–2	7–2	9–4
		R2	Barcelona	2–2	1–5	3–7
1962–63	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	FC Porto	0–0	2–1	2–1
		R2	Union Saint-Gilloise	2–1	0–1	2–2, (pm 3–2)
		QF	Bayern Munich	0–0	4–1	4–1
		SF	Ferencváros	2–1	1–0	3–1
		Final	Valencia	1–2	0–2	1–4
1963–64	Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Linzer ASK	1–0	0–1	1–1, (pm 1–1)
		R1	Celtic	2–1	0–3	2–4
1964–65	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	AEK Athens	3–0	0–2	3–2
		R2	Steaua Bucharest	2–0	3–1	5–1
		QF	Torino	1–2	1–1	2–3
1965–66	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Atlético Madrid	0–1	0–4	0–5
1966–67	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	Spartak Brno	2–0	0–2	2–2 (c)
		R2	Dunfermline Athletic	2–0	2–4	4–4 (a)
		R3	Dinamo Piteşti	0–0	1–0	1–0
		QF	Juventus	3–0	2–2	5–2
		SF	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	0–3	4–3
		Final	Leeds United	2–0	0–0	2–0
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	Petrolul Ploieşti	5–0	0–2	5–2
		R2	Bologna FC	1–2	0–0	1–2
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	Fiorentina	1–1	1–2	2–3
1969–70	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Slovan Bratislava	3–0	0–0	3–0
		R2	Olympique Marseille	2–0	1–1	3–1
		QF	Schalke 04	1–3	0–1	1–4

1970–1990

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
1970–71	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1	Barreirense	6–1	0–2	6–3
		R2	Hamburger SV	4–0	0–1	4–1
		R3	FC Twente	2–2	0–1	2–3
1971–72	UEFA Cup	R1	Botev Vratsa	6–1	2–1	8–2
		R2	Rapid Vienna	2–2	0–0	2–2 (a)
1973–74	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	AC Milan	1–3	0–1	1–4
1976–77	UEFA Cup	R1	ASA Târgu Mureş	3–0	1–0	4–0
		R2	1. FC Magdeburg	2–2	0–2	2–4
1977–78	UEFA Cup	R1	Olympiacos	5–1	1–3	6–4
		R2	Torino	1–0	1–3	2–3
1979–80	UEFA Cup	R1	Perugia	0–0	0–1	0–1
1980–81	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Benfica	0–0	0–2	0–2
1982–83	European Cup	R1	Sporting CP	1–0	0–3	1–3
1983–84	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	FC Porto	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
1988–89	UEFA Cup	R1	Beşiktaş	2–0	0–1	2–1
		R2	VfB Stuttgart	1–3	1–1	2–4
1989–90	UEFA Cup	QR	Auxerre	1–3	1–0	2–3

1990–2000

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
1990–91	UEFA Cup	R1	Atalanta	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
1991–92	UEFA Cup	R1	Trabzonspor	2–3	1–1	3–4
1993–94	Champions League	PR	B68 Toftir	6–0	5–0	11–0
		R1	Steaua Bucharest	2–3	2–1	4–4 (a)
1994–95	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Auxerre	3–1	0–3	3–4
1996–97	UEFA Cup	PR	KF Tirana	4–0	6–2	10–2
		QR	Spartak Moscow	3–1	0–2	3–3 (a)
1997–98	Champions League	QR1	Partizan	5–0	0–1	5–1
		QR2	Newcastle United	2–2 (aet)	1–2	3–4
	UEFA Cup	R1	Grasshopper	4–4	5–0	9–4
		R2	MTK Budapest	2–0	0–1	2–1
		R3	Atlético Madrid	1–1	0–1	1–2
1998–99	Champions League	QR2	Celtic	3–0	0–1	3–1
		GS	Ajax	0–0	1–0	2nd out of 4
			Olympiacos	1–1	0–2
			FC Porto	3–1	0–3
1999–2000	Champions League	QR3	MTK Budapest	0–0	2–0	2–0
		GS	Manchester United	1–2	0–0	4th out of 4
			Marseille	1–2	2–2
			Sturm Graz	3–0	0–1

2000–2010

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
2000–01	Champions League	QR3	Milan	0–3	1–3	1–6
	UEFA Cup	R1	Slovan Bratislava	1–1	3–0	4–1
		R2	Parma	1–0	0–2	1–2
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	Flora Tallinn	1–0	1–0	2–0
		R1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–2	1–1	3–3 (a)
2002–03	UEFA Cup	R1	Zalaegerszeg	6–0	3–1	9–1
		R2	Fulham	0–3	1–2	1–5
2003–04	Champions League	QR2	Maribor	2–1	1–1	3–2
		QR3	Dynamo Kiev	0–2	1–3	1–5
	UEFA Cup	R1	MTK Budapest	3–1	0–0	3–1
		R2	Dnipro	0–2	1–1	1–3
2004–05	UEFA Cup	QR2	Primorje	4–0	0–2	4–2
		R1	Elfsborg	2–0	0–0	2–0
		GS	Beveren	6–1	N/A	4th out of 5
			Benfica	N/A	0–2
			Heerenveen	2–2	N/A
			VfB Stuttgart	N/A	1–2
2006–07	Champions League	QR2	Ekranas	5–2	4–1	9–3
		QR3	Arsenal	0–3	1–2	1–5
	UEFA Cup	R1	Auxerre	1–2	1–3	2–5
2007–08	Champions League	QR1	Khazar Lankaran	3–1	1–1	4–2
		QR2	Domžale	3–1	2–1	5–2
		QR3	Werder Bremen	2–3	1–2	3–5
	UEFA Cup	R1	Ajax	0–1	3–2	3–3 (a)
		GS	FC Basel	0–0	N/A	4th out of 5
			Brann	N/A	1–2
			Hamburger SV	0–2	N/A
			Rennes	N/A	1–1
2008–09	Champions League	QR1	Linfield	1–1	2–0	3–1
		QR2	Domžale	3–2	3–0	6–2
		QR3	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–3	0–2	1–5
	UEFA Cup	R1	Sparta Prague	0–0	3–3	3–3 (a)
		GS	NEC	3–2	N/A	5th out of 5
			Tottenham Hotspur	N/A	0–4
			Spartak Moscow	0–1	N/A
			Udinese	N/A	1–2
2009–10	Champions League	QR2	Pyunik	3–0	0–0	3–0
		QR3	Red Bull Salzburg	1–2	1–1	2–3
	Europa League	Playoff	Hearts	4–0	0–2	4–2
		GS	Ajax	0–2	1–2	3rd out of 4
			Anderlecht	0–2	1–0
			Timişoara	1–2	3–0

2010–present

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
2010–11	Champions League	QR2	Koper	5–1	0–3	5–4
		QR3	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1	1–1	2–2 (5–6 p)
	Europa League	Playoff	Győri ETO	2–1	2–0	4–1
		GS	Club Brugge	0–0	2–0	3rd out of 4
			PAOK	0–1	0–1
			Villarreal	2–0	0–3
2011–12	Champions League	QR2	Neftchi Baku	3–0	0–0	3–0
		QR3	HJK Helsinki	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Playoff	Malmö FF	4–1	0–2	4–3
		GS	Ajax	0–2	0–4	4th out of 4
			Lyon	1–7	0–2
			Real Madrid	0–1	2–6
2012–13	Champions League	QR2	Ludogorets Razgrad	3–2	1–1	4–3
		QR3	Sheriff Tiraspol	4–0	1–0	5–0
		Playoff	Maribor	2–1	1–0	3–1
		GS	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–2	4th out of 4
			Paris Saint-Germain	0–2	0–4
			FC Porto	0–2	0–3
2013–14	Champions League	QR2	Fola Esch	1–0	5–0	6–0
		QR3	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	3–0	4–0
		Playoff	Austria Wien	0–2	3–2	3–4
	Europa League	GS	Chornomorets Odesa	1–2	1–2	4th out of 4
			Ludogorets Razgrad	1–2	0–3
			PSV Eindhoven	0–0	0–2
2014–15	Champions League	QR2	Žalgiris Vilnius	2–0	2–0	4–0
		QR3	Aalborg BK	0–2	1–0	1–2
	Europa League	Playoff	Petrolul Ploiești	2–1	3–1	5–2
		GS	Astra Giurgiu	5–1	0–1	3rd out of 4
			Celtic	4–3	0–1
			Red Bull Salzburg	1–5	2–4
2015–16	Champions League	QR2	Fola Esch	1–1	3–0	4–1
		QR3	Molde	1–1	3–3	4–4 (a)
		Playoff	Skënderbeu	4–1	2–1	6–2
		GS	Arsenal	2–1	0–3	4th out of 4
			Bayern Munich	0–2	0–5
			Olympiacos	0–1	1–2
2016–17	Champions League	QR2	Vardar	3–2	2–1	5–3
		QR3	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–0	1–0	3–0
		Playoff	Red Bull Salzburg	1–1	2–1 (aet)	3–2
		GS	Lyon	0–1	0–3	4th out of 4
			Juventus	0–4	0–2
			Sevilla	0–1	0–4
2017–18	Europa League	QR3	Odds	2–1	0–0	2–1
Playoff	Skënderbeu	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
2018–19	Champions League	QR2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	5–0	2–2	7–2
		QR3	Astana	1–0	2–0	3–0
		Playoff	Young Boys	1–1	1–2	2–3
	Europa League	GS	Fenerbahçe	4–1	–	TBC
			Anderlecht	–	2–0
			Spartak Trnava	–	–

Last updated: 4 October 2018.

References

General

• Purić, Bojan (22 December 1999). "NK Croatia/Dinamo Zagreb: Euro Cup Games (1958–1999)". RSSSF. Retrieved 28 January 2010.

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