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HMNK Jure Zrtva Delic, commonly referred to as JZD or simply Sacrifice, is an amateur Croatian football club founded in 2013, and is based in the city of Split. Since 2013, the club's home ground has been the 500-seat Karepovac Snova. The team's traditional home colors are black and yellow shirts with black shorts and black and yellow socks.

Sacrifice was founded by Split futsal enthusiasts Nikola Lepetic and Nikola Milivojevic, in cafe bar of stadium Karepovac Snova. Between the early 2013 and 2015, Sacrifice regularly participated in the Ozujsko Cup which was held at Karepovac Snova stadium. In 2015 with the formation of the Ozujsko League Turnovac Karepovac, Sacrifice went on to spend the entire period at the lower end of the league. The club started to climb up in league position every year for a few places, with explosion of good results in season 2017-2018.

The club's "golden era" came in the 2017, when they were on the top of the league for several weeks in front of rivals like Union (former league winners) and PSK. Sacrifice biggest achievements are wining the JZD Cup 2017 and appearances in three quarter-finals of Ozujsko Cup.

The club's main rival is Union football club, with matches between the two referred to as the "Old derby". Sacrifice fans are called Victims, who are the smallest organized fan club in Europe, being founded in 2015. They found inspiration for their name in the name of the club.

As of 2017, it is one of few fan-owned sports teams in Croatia, reaching over 15 members in 2016 JZD Clanovi, and over 17 members for current year.

Origins


The club was founded in the cafe bar within stadium Karepovac Snova, by a two amateur footballers from Split: Nikola Lepetic and Nikola Milivojevic. They went to the cafe for a beer after a match, heard from the cafe owner that a football cup is being started and then they decided it was time they founded an amateur club so they can participate. They knew how popular the sport was in their home town and how well their friends can play, so they called their friends to be a part of what turned out to be something great.

First they called Jure Delic and asked him if he would participate, but he refused because he was already playing for another team. The two founders then turned to other friends who would participate and after they had enough players, they needed a name for the new club. Since Jure declined to play, they decided to name a club after his name with little addition of 'sacrifice' in the middle of the name.

Their first game was that same year as the founding 2013 (*tocan datum) on the Ozujsko Cup, where Zrtva lost the game with the result 2-1, but made a historical first game. The first goal for the club was scored by player name Ante Rajevic. After that, Zrtva regularly participated in Ozujsko Cup every year from founding to this date. Club started to play Ozujsko League Karepovac Turnovac first year of league that was founded in the year 2016.

Miserable seasons 2015/2016 and 2016/2017


Zrtva started poorly first two seasons. In the first season, Zrtva placed 8th out of X teams, almost losing every game. The team was in bad form, losing games that were literally already won, with the manager shouting 'What are you doing?!', 'What is wrong with you?!' at the players. In the second season, club started good, but in the middle of the season some games were lost, the team played unrecognisable, and it all lead to another poor season. Although results were poor, Zrtva finished in 6th place at the end of season.

Iconic 2017


In July of 2017, team organised first JZD Cup, that took place in the stadium Karepovac Snova. Four teams participated in JZD Cup, including Zrtva. All teams played against each other on that beautiful sunny day and Zrtva won all three games, securing first trophy in the club history. First scorer at JZD Cup was Roko Juric with X goals.

After wining the JZD Cup, Zrtva started season 2017/2018 like real champs, wining 8 out of 10 games, with 2 draws, which put the team at the top of the table. In game 7 of the season, Zrtva played with the last year winners of the league, team Union that were second in the league. The match was full of tension, starting with the first goal for Union. After that, Zrtva equalised. Union scored again to take the lead 2-1. After a few minutes, Zrtva scored again, to make it a draw with 5 minutes of play remaining. Soon Zrtva scored again to take the lead 2-3, making fans delirious. With 4 minutes remaining, one of Union players made a terrible start on Zrtva captain Jure Delic, which lead to a brawl with all players participating and even fans entering the field. Stewards needed to introduce order in the field for the match to continue. After the brawl was over, both Union player and Zrtva's captain received red cards, so both teams played with 5 players. Union attacked and scored a goal with a minute remaining to make the final result a draw 3-3. With a draw JZD dropped to second place behind PSK who had played one match more.

Currently, Zrtva is at the top of the league, with the best defence in the league conceding only 18 goals from 10 matches, while second best team conceded (*tocan broj primljenih golova) goals. Also, Zrtva has the third best attack in the league scoring 52 goals in 10 games, which makes their goal difference +33.

Trophy Zrtva Kola (Sacrifice of the round)
In the season 2016/2017 players introduced a new award that was awarded after every league round. Players themselves awarded the award to the most valuable player of that round. Player could win the trophy after they left their heart on the field (several times won by Josip Ciprijan for that reason) or by their absence (like captain Jure Delic did). After the season is over, all awards are summed up and the player with the most round awards wins the award Zrtva godine (Sacrifice of the season). First Zrtva godine was awarded to ***********.

Our JZD
All this time supporters who were led by Roko Juric led a struggle to end what they considered to be politically driven management of the club, and wanted to install experts to save Zrtva. In 2015, they started an initiative called "Nas JZD" (Our JZD) that should have prompted fans to buy up clubs shares and gain control of the club, which all 10 fans did and fans gained rights of organizing elections for members of the club's supervisory board, making Zrtva one of few fan-owned football club in Croatia. In 2016, the club fell into yet another miserable season, but with the help of fans, the club has risen up and now we see Zrtva playing beautiful futsal.

Stadium
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Zrtva's home ground is the stadium Karepovac Snova. It has 500 seats and is one of the two largest stadiums in this part of the Split, designed by the architect Frane Bucan. The stadium was built in the 2003, and was the venue for many Ozujsko Cup's and Ozujsko League Karepovac Turnovac. The stadium is affectionately known to the locals as the "Karepovac". The largest crowd recorded was in 2015 at the final game of Ozujsko Cup.

Colours
Zrtva played its first game in a white shirts and all sorts of shorts, which symbolized solidarity for all. After some time, Zrtva changed colours to black and yellow stripes, black shorts symbolising bumblebees making it new home kit. Zrtva introduced first away kit design in season 2017/2018 to green and white horizontal stripes with white shorts.

Crest
Crest on the top has club name 'Jure Zrtva Delic' in one horizontal green stripe. Zrtva's crest consists of the three vertical stripes (green, black, green) every stripe containing tree with year of the founding.

Supporters


Zrtva supporters, Zrtve, were formed on the same day as the club by same group that formed club, namely Nikola lepetic and Nikola Milivojevic, and are considered the one of the newest organized supporters group in Croatia. They took their name from the club fan group they idolised. Fan club members and other fervent fans gather in the west stand at the Karepovac Snova from where they support their club. "JZD" is their slogan.

Rivalries


Today, Zrtva's biggest rivals are Union, as the matches between the two teams are referred to as "Eternal derby". Former major rivalries used to include club Srijane who along with Zrtva and Union were part of the so-called Karepovac Big Three, the biggest and most successful clubs in legaue.

Current squad
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Squad 2016/2017
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Squad 2015/2016
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Club statistics and records
Vedran Rožić holds the club's overall official games appearance record by playing in 390 matches over the course of 12 seasons from 1972 to 1984. Hajduk's all-time leading scorer in all competitions is Frane Matošić, scoring 211 official goals for the club, while Zlatko Vujović is all-time leading goalscorer in European competition with 19 goals.

Hajduk's record home attendance is 62,000 during a Yugoslav Championship match against Dinamo Zagreb on 28 February 1982. The record modern (all-seated) attendance is 38,000 for a match against Dinamo Zagreb on 22 February 2009.

Hajduk's first competitive game was a 9–0 victory against Calcio Spalato. 14–0 win over Slavija Sarajevo in 1934 was their largest league win during Yugoslav era. In Prva HNL club's largest league win was 10–0 against Radnik in 1994, while their biggest defeat was against Varteks in 2001, losing 1–5. Hajduk's biggest victory in European competitions was 8–0 against Gøtu Ítróttarfelag in 2002, while their heaviest defeat, 0–6, came against Ajax in 1993.

UEFA club coefficient ranking
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Honours
Hajduk won two Kingdom of Yugoslavia championships, seven Yugoslav championships, six Croatian championships, as well as nine Yugoslav Cup titles, four Croatian Cups and five Croatian Super Cups. Abroad, the club has reached five European quarterfinals: three times in European Cup (now UEFA Champions League), once in UEFA Cup and once in Cup Winners' Cup, as well as two European semifinals: Cup Winners' Cup 1973, and UEFA Cup 1984.

Competitions indicated in italics are defunct.

Others:


 * Croatian Indoor Championships (2): 2008, 2009
 * Dalmatia Champions (14): 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1926 (Spring champ.), 1926 (Autumn champ.), 1927 (Spring champ.), 1927 (Autumn champ.), 1928 (Spring champ.), 1928 (Autumn champ.), 1929 (Spring champ.), 1932 (Spring champ.), 1936 (Spring champ.)

Best results in European competitions
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Awards

 * May, 1945: Charter of honorable team of Free France, personally signed by Charles de Gaulle.
 * September, 1945: Order of Merits for the People with Silver Rays.
 * September, 1945: Order of Brotherhood and Unity with Golden Wreath.
 * 1980: "Youth Trophy" by Croatian Football Federation.
 * 1986: State Sports Award "Franjo Bučar".