The HNK Rijeka Chronicle
Match17 Sep 2026
HNK Rijeka beaten on the continent
1‑3 against AZ, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Abdullah Al-Muaiouf keeps HNK Rijeka in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Daniel Adu-Adjei, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81
A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for HNK Rijeka — 7.79
1 for Karlo Muhar, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market21 Sep 2026
Imotski come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and HNK Rijeka did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Ante Matej Jurić — 7.98
Marked 7.98. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Door shut on Lovre Lončar
HNK Rijeka asked and Slaven Belupo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ante Matej Jurić sends HNK Rijeka past Istra 1961
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ante Matej Jurić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to HNK Rijeka.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
HNK Rijeka supporters have found a favourite in Ante Matej Jurić
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ante Matej Jurić has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- The dugout Abdullah Al-Muaiouf gets it from the manager
- Squad Words exchanged at HNK Rijeka
- The dugout No place for Dejan Petrovič on the big day