From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month closes with Daniel Erceg out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Zadar have the division's most feared finisher.
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Daniel Erceg is the division's player of the month — 7.91
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Zadar man on 7.91 with 5 goal contributions.
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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Rudes
Matteo Pérez Vinlöf was marked 7.94 and had a hand in 1 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
Norman Díaz 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 Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
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Nobody made more than Marko Galić this month
4 assists, 7.09, and a Cibalia 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 Oct 2026
Matteo Pérez Vinlöf is the division's best-marked player — 7.94
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. 7.94 across 2 matches for Rudes.
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Gabrijel Boban up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Cibalia — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Viktor Kanižaj up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Sesvete — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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2 goals in 4 appearances for Dugopolje, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
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2 in 4 for Zadar. 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.
Market1 Oct 2026
12 months and counting on Ivan Čović
Still no offer on the table, and Ivan Čović’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market1 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Toni Španja’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The month closes with Daniel Erceg out in front — 3 goals in 5 games, and Zadar have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Marked 6.94 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zadar have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Sesvete
Mateo Bačić was marked 6.77 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hrvatski Dragovoljac can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Nobody made more than Pavao Vugdelija this month
2 assists, 7.67, and a Imotski 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.
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Highest marks in the league belong to a Imotski man
Pavao Vugdelija averaged 7.67 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.
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3 in 4 for Sibenik. 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.
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4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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2 in 5 for Sesvete. 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.
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3 goals in 2 appearances for Zadar, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Sep 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Aug 2026
Petar Brlek is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cibalia has been clear about where Petar Brlek stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market1 Aug 2026
10 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market1 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Tin Livaja may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.