HNK Rijeka - Notable Players

Notable Players

For a list of many former and current HNK Rijeka players, see Category:HNK Rijeka players.

The list includes players who have been capped by their respective national team (in brackets: caps/goals, and YU if played for the former Yugoslav national team), or have otherwise had a significant impact for HNK Rijeka, collecting over 100 caps, as highlighted in Marinko Lazzarich's definitive history of the club. In total, 93 Rijeka players have had caps with 16 national teams.

  • Redi Jupi (19/0)
  • Bledi Shkëmbi (14/0)
  • Ramón Fernández
  • Ante Milicic (6/5)
  • Elvir Bolić (52/22)
  • Ekrem Bradarić (2/0)
  • Senad Brkić (7/1)
  • Boško Bursać
  • Kenan Čejvanović (2/0)
  • Salih Durkalić
  • Nedim Halilović (16/0)
  • Sejad Halilović (15/0)
  • Admir Hasančić (2/0)
  • Sergej Jakirović (5/0)
  • Dušan Kerkez (4/0)
  • Vlado Kotur
  • Jasmin Mujdža (9/0)
  • Fenan Salčinović (1/0)
  • Sead Seferović (3/1)
  • Borče Sredojević
  • Fuad Šašivarević (1/0)
  • Alen Škoro (4/0)
  • Georgi Ivanov (34/4)
  • Yves Belle-Belle (2/1)
  • Jasmin Agić (14/0)
  • Boško Balaban (35/10)
  • Zoran Ban
  • Leon Benko (2/0)
  • Ivan Bošnjak (14/1)
  • Elvis Brajković (8/2)
  • Goran Brajković (2/0)
  • Marijan Brnčić (YU 10/0)
  • Mario Brnjac
  • Igor Budan (6/0)
  • Marijan Buljat (2/0)
  • Zvonko Canjuga
  • Mladen Cukon
  • Nikica Cukrov (YU 14/0)
  • Damir Desnica (YU 1/1)
  • Duško Devčić
  • Dino Drpić (1/0)
  • Tomislav Erceg (4/1)
  • Drago Gabrić (5/1)
  • Tonči Gabrić (9/0)
  • Nenad Gračan (YU 10/2)
  • Tonči Gulin
  • Miloš Hrstić (YU 10/0)
  • Janko Janković (YU 2/0)
  • Marijan Jantoljak (YU 2/0)
  • Ive Jerolimov (YU 6/0)
  • Srećko Juričić
  • Dario Knežević (12/1)
  • Ivan Kocjančić
  • Fabijan Komljenović (1/1)
  • Petar Krpan (3/0)
  • Mišo Krstičević (YU 7/1)
  • Stjepan Lamza (YU 3/0)
  • Siniša Linić (1/0)
  • Antun Lokošek (1/1)
  • Vladimir Lukarić (YU 6/1)
  • Sergio Machin
  • Jozo Matošić (YU 24/0)
  • Danko Matrljan
  • Ivan Medle (1/0)
  • Andre Mijatović
  • Leo Milašinović
  • Nikica "Dido" Milenković
  • Anđelo Milevoj (YU 4/0)
  • Damir Milinović (4/0)
  • Mladen Mladenović (19/3)
  • Josip Mohorović
  • Igor Musa
  • Mato Neretljak (10/1)
  • Stojan Osojnak
  • Roberto Paliska
  • Alen Pamić
  • Manuel Pamić
  • Dubravko Pavličić (22/0)
  • Borimir Perković
  • Saša Peršon (3/0)
  • Renato Pilipović (1/0)
  • Berislav Poldrugovac
  • Petar Radaković (YU 19/3)
  • Zvjezdan Radin
  • Davor Radmanović
  • Mauro Ravnić (YU 6/0)
  • Mladen Romić (3/0)
  • Robert Rubčić (1/0)
  • Milan Ružić (YU 2/0)
  • Elvis Scoria
  • Ahmad Sharbini
  • Anas Sharbini
  • Josip Skoblar (YU 32/11)
  • Dario Smoje (1/0)
  • Slavko Stojanović (YU 8/0)
  • Nikola Šafarić (3/0)
  • Daniel Šarić (30/0)
  • Zoran Škerjanc
  • Miroslav Šugar
  • Ðoni Tafra
  • Mario Tokić (28/0)
  • Mile Tomljenović
  • Predrag Valenčić
  • Bruno Veselica
  • Dalibor Višković
  • Mladen Vranković
  • Jurica Vranješ (26/0)
  • Davor Vugrinec (28/7)
  • Zoran Vujčić
  • Nedeljko Vukoje (YU 1/0)
  • Kazimir Vulić (2/0)
  • Vincenzo Zadel
  • Fredi Bobič (37/10)
  • Ernest Erbstein
  • Barnabás Sztipánovics (1/0)
  • Alceo Lipizer
  • Ezio Loik (9/4)
  • Marcello Mihalich (1/2)
  • Bruno Quaresima
  • Giovanni Varglien (3/0)
  • Mario Varglien (1/0)
  • Rodolfo Volk (5/5)
  • Yoshika Matsubara (2/0)
  • Edmond Tomić
  • Naum Batkoski (2/0)
  • Vlade Lazarevski (43/0)
  • Miroslav Weiss (9/0)
  • Radomir Đalović (26/7)
  • Miodrag Kustudić (YU 3/0)
  • Łukasz Mierzejewski (4/0)
  • Dumitru Mitu
  • Radojko Avramović (YU 3/0)
  • Savo Filipović
  • Nebojša Malbaša
  • Nikola Marjanović
  • Velimir Naumović (YU 2/0)
  • Milan Radović
  • Dragan Žilić (8/0)
  • Igor Benedejčič (8/1)
  • Nastja Čeh (46/6)
  • Sebastjan Cimirotič (33/6)
  • Adriano Fegic
  • Matjaž Florjančič (20/1)
  • Vlado Miloševič (2/1)
  • Senad Tiganj (4/1)
  • Gino Gardassanich

All Time Best 11

According to a 2005-07 survey of former players (older than 40 years of age) and respected journalists, Marinko Lazzarich found that the best all time team of Rijeka is as follows:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Milevoj, 3. Hrstić, 4. Radaković, 5. Radin, 6. Juričić, 7. Lukarić, 8. Gračan, 9. Osojnak, 10. Naumović, 11. Desnica.

Rijeka's daily, Novi List, in 2011 declared the following 11 players as Rijeka's best all time team:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Šarić, 3. Radin, 4. Juričić, 5. Hrstić, 6. Loik, 7. Radaković, 8. Mladenović, 9. Naumović, 10. Skoblar, 11. Desnica.

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