HNK Segesta

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HNK Segesta
File:HNKSegestaSisak.png
Full nameHrvatski nogometni klub Segesta Sisak
Nickname(s)Stara dama (The Old Lady)
Founded1906; 117 years ago (1906)
GroundGradski stadion, Sisak
Capacity8,000
League3. HNL - Center
2020–2113th
WebsiteClub website

HNK Segesta is a Croatian football club located in the city of Sisak. It is named after the Illyrian settlement Segesta from which modern city of Sisak developed. Segesta is one of the oldest Croatian football clubs, although there are no written records of its precise founding date, the first mention in a news outlet is from year 1909,[1] which makes the club older than many a famous side in the country, and definitely one among the oldest mentioned clubs in the country's history.

History

The first written trace of "Segesta" can be found in the weekly "Novi Sisački Glas" from the 8th of August 1909, when a club named Segesta played a match against Concordia Zagreb. The most important information about the club and people who organized it can be found only on the occasion of the celebration of its 20th anniversary. That anniversary was marked from the 26th to the 29th of June 1927, when the first club playground was also inaugurated. The event was covered by the local weekly magazine "Hrvatske novine" and some of the original founders were interviewed and claimed the club was created in June or early July 1906 by a group of school students: The story goes that 12 year old Ivo Stipčić and about twenty of his friends gathered at Ivo's uncle Ivan Šešek (today's Ivana Kukuljevića-Sakcinskog Street, number 4) inn, and decided to found a sport club. The founders agreed that the first president of the club would be the owner of the ball, that is Ivo Stipčić, and "Segesta" was chosen as the name of the club after the name of the old Celtic-Illyrian settlement in the area of Sisak - Segestica. Since the members of the club were mostly pupils and students who stayed in Sisak during the summer school holidays, it was named "Holiday Sports Club Segesta".[1]

The weekly magazine "Sisak" in a 1912 edition featured a list of Sisak-based football clubs, and Segesta is said to exist only through holidays, and the following year the weekly Posavac says of Segesta that it was "the first club in Sisak" and that it "kept somewhat afloat and functioned". The Zagreb-based newspaper Šport from 1919 mentions Segesta as "the first Sisak-based club, Holiday sports club Segesta". Thus the precise and real founding date is not sure, due to a lack of any documentation about the happening.

With the establishment of the communist regime in Jugoslavia, Segesta, as all other sport clubs in the country gets dissolved by the communist authorities, only for Sport Club Naprijed to be established in its place. The club will play as Naprijed between 1946 and 1952, when it is renamed Segesta again and since then it plays in the lower leagues of the Yugoslav competitions. In the 1977/78 season, Segesta achieved great success by winning the title of Croatian champion-region north. With this success, she achieved the right to play in the finals of the Croatian Championship with the champion of the Croatian Football League - Region South, NK Solin. That match was automatically a qualification to enter the 2nd Federal Football League. The first match was played in Sisak on June 18, 1978. There were about eight thousand spectators at the "Bratstvo-jedinstvo" stadium, and Segesta won 2-0 with goals from Josip Cavrić. In the return match in Solin, the hosts won 1-0, which was enough for Segesti to celebrate the club's greatest success since World War II. In 1978, Segesta achieved another notable result, when the club won the title of Croatian amateur champion.

In independent Croatia, Segesta played in the first state league several times. In the 1992/93 season it finished in 10th place; 1993/94 in 9th place; 1994/95 in 8th place; 1995/96 in 6th place in the first A league; in 1996/97 im 11th place, after which it no longer managed to stay in the first league.

The club played in the Croatian Football Cup in the 1992/93 and 1993/94 seasons (quarterfinals), 1994/95 (round of 16), 1996/97 (round of 16), 1998/99 (quarterfinals), 2000/01 (round of 16), as well as in 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04.

Honours

  • Treća HNL – Center:
    • Winners (2): 2002–03, 2012–13

Recent seasons

Season League Cup Other Competitions
Division P W D L F A Pts Pos
1992 2. HNL North 10 4 0 6 12 13 8 4th ↑
1992–93 1. HNL 30 10 5 15 31 44 25 10th R1
1993–94 1. HNL 34 12 10 12 48 44 34 9th QF
1994–95 1. HNL 30 10 8 12 32 31 38 8th QF
1995–96 1. A HNL 36 14 7 15 51 53 56 8th R2
1996–97 1. A HNL 30 9 12 9 35 34 39 11th ↓ R2 UEFA Intertoto Cup RU
1997–98 2. HNL Centre 32 21 7 4 71 15 70 1st R1
1998–99 2. HNL 36 22 4 10 84 34 70 3rd QF
1999–2000 2. HNL 32 15 11 6 58 29 56 6th R1
2000–01 2. HNL 34 13 7 14 38 47 46 11th R2
2001–02 2. HNL South 30 9 8 13 25 33 35 13th ↓ R1
2002–03 3. HNL Centre 30 20 8 2 71 25 68 1st ↑ R1
2003–04 2. HNL South 32 15 4 13 51 46 49 3rd R1
2004–05 2. HNL South 32 12 12 8 51 38 48 5th
2005–06 2. HNL South 32 9 4 19 34 59 31 11th ↓ R2
2006–07 3. HNL West 34 18 8 8 72 39 62 2nd ↑ R2
2007–08 2. HNL 30 11 10 9 39 37 43 7th QF
2008–09 2. HNL 30 8 9 13 33 47 33 11th
2009–10 2. HNL 26 4 4 18 17 46 16 14th ↓ R2
2010–11 3. HNL West 30 14 8 12 51 48 50 8th R1
2011–12 3. HNL West 34 12 12 10 44 47 48 6th R1
2012–13 3. HNL Center 30 22 2 6 80 35 68 1st ↑ R1
2013–14 2. HNL 33 13 7 13 40 39 46 6th R1
2014–15 2. HNL 30 9 7 14 31 42 34 8th R1
2015–16 2. HNL 33 10 8 15 44 54 38 11th ↓ PR
2016–17 3. HNL West 30 8 12 10 45 53 36 11th
2017–18 3. HNL West 34 9 4 21 36 76 31 18th ↓
2018–19 4. HNL - Center 30 17 3 10 55 43 54 5th PR
2019–20* 4. HNL - Center 16 8 3 5 31 20 27 5th ↑ PR
2020–21 3. HNL - Center 34 10 8 16 43 59 38 13th PR
  • – COVID-19 season

Key

1st 2nd ↑ ↓
Champions Runners-up Promoted Relegated

Top scorer shown in bold when he was also top scorer for the division.

European record

Segesta qualified for the 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup, reaching the final stage before losing over two legs to Silkeborg IF on the away goals rule.

Summary

Competition Pld W D L GF GA Last season played
UEFA Intertoto Cup 8 5 1 2 14 9 1996
Total 8 5 1 2 14 9

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

By season

Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Agg.
1996–97 Intertoto Cup Group
6 		Sweden Örgryte 1–1  –  –
Israel Hapoel Tel Aviv  – 3–1  –
France Rennes 2–1  –  –
Switzerland Luzern  – 1–0  –
SF Sweden Örebro 4–0 1–4 5–4
Finals Denmark Silkeborg 1–2 1–0 2–2 (a)

Manager history

References

  1. ^ a b "segesta tekst". Udruga prijatelja sisačko-moslavačke regije. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

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