From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
The month closes with Iuri Tavares out in front — 3 goals in 2 games, and NK Varazdin have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
7.46 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Dinamo Zagreb player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hajduk Split have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Aug 2027
Zadar say no — this time
The offer from Hajduk Split for Marin Brekalo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at HNK Rijeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Marin Brekalo leads the division for assists — 7.54
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Zadar player marked 7.54, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Michele Šego is the division's best-marked player — 8.39
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.39 across 2 matches for Hajduk Split.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
2 appearances, 1 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
2 in 2 for Hajduk Split. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
2 goals in 2 appearances for Hajduk Split, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Marcelo Sucic up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Zadar — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Market1 Jul 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Josip Mitrović had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. NK Varazdin have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slaven Belupo can pretend not to have heard.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at NK Osijek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jun 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Robin Gonzalez wants continental football; whether Dinamo Zagreb can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 May 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 May 2027
Yannick Reuten has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around NK Osijek they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Steady
Market1 Apr 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jan Koutný had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slaven Belupo can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at NK Varazdin is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Mar 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. HNK Rijeka moved on, Šimun Mikolčić reports back to NK Osijek, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
Terms done: Dion Beljo is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Olympique Lyonnais waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slaven Belupo can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
Villarreal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Zagreb did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2027
Marko Maučec hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what NK Varazdin can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2027
The offer from Universidad Catolica for Jan Koutný was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Jan 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The month closes with Silvio Goričan out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and Istra 1961 have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Marked 7.79 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Istra 1961 have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Krešimir Radoš is the month's best young player — 7.15
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.15 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Dinamo Zagreb U20 player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Nobody made more than Vinko Rozić this month
3 assists, 7.24, and a Istra 1961 player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a NK Osijek man
Martin Ádám averaged 7.79 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Dec 2026
Dion Beljo wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dinamo Zagreb hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for NK Osijek leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for NK Varazdin, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 2 appearances for Dinamo Zagreb, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for NK Osijek, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Dec 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Martin Ádám tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 5 appearances for NK Osijek.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Player of the month: Martin Ádám — 7.97
Everybody in the division was measured and a NK Osijek man came out on top: 7.97 across the month and 6 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
7.45 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Dinamo Zagreb player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at HNK Rijeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The division’s top provider is Arbër Hoxha — 7.41
5 assists across the month from a Dinamo Zagreb player marked 7.41. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Dion Beljo is the division's best-marked player — 8.81
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.81 across 3 matches for Dinamo Zagreb.
Market1 Nov 2026
Mislav Oršić wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dinamo Zagreb hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
A productive month at Hajduk Split — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Marko Livaja up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Hajduk Split — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
5 in 3 for Dinamo Zagreb. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 goals in 5 appearances for Istra 1961 leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Market1 Nov 2026
No place for Josip Mišić in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Josip Mišić has his answer from Dinamo Zagreb; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Hajduk Split.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 7.96 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Hajduk Split have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Lokomotiva Zagreb
Ibrahim Sabra was marked 7.23 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Krunoslav Hendija had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division’s top provider is Vinko Rozić — 7.33
3 assists across the month from a Istra 1961 player marked 7.33. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Oct 2026
The deal that would have taken Leon Belcar to HNK Rijeka has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Lokomotiva Zagreb with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Dinamo Zagreb man
Dion Beljo averaged 8.31 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Oct 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Hajduk Split leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 in 2 for Dinamo Zagreb. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Marko Livaja is the division’s leading scorer
7 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Hajduk Split have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Player of the month: Marko Livaja — 8.89
Everybody in the division was measured and a Hajduk Split man came out on top: 8.89 across the month and 8 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lokomotiva Zagreb have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Young player of the month: Anton Matković — 7.25
7.25 across the month and 4 goal contributions from a NK Osijek player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Sep 2026
NK Osijek come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Zagreb did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division’s top provider is Michele Šego — 7.90
4 assists across the month from a Hajduk Split player marked 7.90. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lokomotiva Zagreb, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Best marks in the division for Marko Livaja — 8.89
8.89 on average across 4 matches for Hajduk Split. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.