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NK Zadarkomerc-GB Promet is Croatian football club,based in Zadar! The club was founded on November 7th 2007 and currently plays in 5th tier of Croatian national championship. Early years were not so good for the newely started team.In the lowest,6th division of championship in their first year club finished 7th out of 8 clubs with only 6 points in 14 matches.Stabilization of clubs financies led to stadium expansion and transfers of some international players,hoping they can get the team towards mid-table in season 2. Unfortunately,club ended season 2 at bottom of the table with only 7 points and it seemed that future is not so bright for Zadar team.Due to bad placement in championship ,even more players were bought,which turned out to be a very good investment as the team finished 6th in the next 2 seasons winning 10 points each season!But in their 4th season in championship they finnaly grabbed mid-table finish,finishing 4th with respective 20 points and for the first time in history the team got a place in round 1 of Croatian cup,were they were knocked-out.But a huge step forward was made in season 5 winning first place surprisingly with 32 points and earning qualification match.Eventually they lost to upper division side,but the new era of NK Zadarkomerc-GB Promet has started. For the next 3 seasons club was ranked 2nd in the divison,not making any impact in the cup neither.Season 10 launched club wright back on the top,ending league first with 39 points,8 more than the 2nd,biggest rival Razum United!Again promotion slliped by a hair in qualificiations!For the next 5 seasons matches beetwen Razum and Zadar decided champion directlly!In that period Razum won 3,and Zadar 2 championships,neither club managing to get promoted through qualification matches!Club was financialy stable,arena was upgraded to 40 000 places and squad was slowly strenghtend by supernatural player to finnaly get team in divison 5!Also in that period club had very strong youth academy and training procces,with many players being sold expensivly to make more funds avalible for better, and younger players.Even though Zadar is very rich club,they lost 130 million KN due to squad strenghtening.In year 2011 Zadar changed its name as Croatian company GB Promet took sponsorship of the team giving it big financial injection.After that the club finished first, 2 years in a row respectivlly with 37 points in first and unbelieveble 42 points with goal difference of 96-0 in 2nd,or 185-2 in these 2 seasons.Naturally club finnaly got promoted to divison 5 and currently plays important role there.Cup on the other hand made no breakthrough,with only reaching 2nd round high.

Arena Stanovi has capacity of 40 000.With capacity of 40 000 it was one of the biggest in division 6,and its sold-out for most of the mathces.It has 18,500 terrace places, 11 000 seated, 9,400 places under-roof and 1 100 VIP seats, as such is considered one of the most modern in Eastern Europe.Last improvment was made in summer of 2011,and its not expected to be further improved,as the club management decided to put all cash in transfer funds,and considered that current capacity of arena is perfect.Season tickets holder fill out fascinating 31 000 seats.

Fans of Zadar,Tornado, are known as most heroic,courageuos and loyal fans in Europe.Founded in 2008 they followed team on every away match with average number of 3 000.Their mood often variates but not much as the club has great results,making them satisfied.On home mathes its not rear to see beautiful coreographies and flares,nor a fight with visiting supporters.

Main sponsor is GB Promet,but other local companies and manufactures are sponsoring this well known sport brand,helping him to stay in touch with the rest of teams in championship.

Clubs official colours are red and blue and whole range of clubs items can be bought in the Official Zadar Fan Shop in downtown Zadar,with affordable prices and great quality.Also,Zadar is the only club in lower divisions having its fan shop.

Biggest rivals of Zadar is team from capital Zagreb,Razum United.Rivarly that started way back in season 22 of championship and throught years these matches were real derby,often crowning champion,but never easilly.Both team suffered heavy losses in derbies,Zadar lost 7-1 in Zagreb,but won 6-0 in Zadar making it even.Other not so fierced rival is new team from the capital,AC Jablanovec that often took points that could directly promote Zadar in upper divison.Also Jablanovec was best known for playing catenaccio,ultra defensive style of football,finishing derbies 0-0 quite often.

The future is bright for Zadar for sure.With young team full of potential,great support form fans,city and sponsors,board that has a clear vision of succes and young coach ready to aim for the stars its only question of time when Zadar makes it through to the Top division,maybe even winning it,who knows!

FACTS:

Country:Croatia

City:Zadar

Division:5

Arena:Stanovi

Fans:Tornado

Nationalities: 14

Avg. age: 24 Team capitan:Joseba Izaurralde

Team star:Alfonso Perez de Lucas

Biggest transfers: < Kolja Lehrberger 30 000 000 KN                  > Knut Hermanrud   26 520 000 KN

Starting 11 (3-5-2) : GK:                              Dumitru DEF : Badot                      Granziol                     Pérez de Lucas MID: Lehrberger     Trifonov     Bonnemann        Izaurralde       Bjerg ATT:                    Bobet                     Balawejder