Marked for Daniel Lovren
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match30 Nov 2026
Zadar up to position 1
42 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrej Kramaric is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zadar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Andrej Kramaric falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Zadar
Daniel Lovren was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Antonio Vlasic’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zadar.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tin Colak is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.21 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Zadar
Marin Erceg was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Zadar
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Andrej Kramaric falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Lovren, and the manager let it.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Dinamo Zagreb to sit and watch. I want to come back to Zadar and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
In brief
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Player ratings
The afternoon belonged to Livio Milts
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Squad
When it matters, Tin Colak plays
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Match
Point won or two lost for Zadar?
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Loan watch
Dario Srna watches his loan from the bench
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Triumph
Match24 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Zadar
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tin Colak is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.26 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wins at Zadar
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Tin Colak at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zadar.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Damir Kovac at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zadar.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andrej Kovac falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
13 unbeaten for Zadar
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Zadar did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrej Kramaric is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Triumph
Match10 Oct 2026
Zadar cannot stop winning
11 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match10 Oct 2026
Zadar keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrej Kramaric. 2‑1 against Segesta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Zadar game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dinamo Zagreb runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Zadar
Daniel Lovren was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Triumph
Match3 Oct 2026
Zadar make it 10 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zadar have 10 straight wins of it.
Match5 Oct 2026
Zadar are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 28 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Tin Colak’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zadar.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tin Colak is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.21 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrej Kovac is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mislav Cop, and the manager let it.
Market5 Oct 2026
Tin Colak linked with a move away
The name of Tin Colak keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zadar say nothing, which says plenty.
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Triumph
Match7 Sep 2026
Zadar refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 16 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Zurich deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Tin Colak reports back to Zadar with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match5 Sep 2026
Zadar make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zadar have 6 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrej Kramaric is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match5 Sep 2026
Imotski made Zadar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mislav Cop, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tin Colak named player of the month
The award goes to Tin Colak, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Zadar support went home talking about one name.
In brief
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Squad
A place in the month's best eleven for Niko Šepić
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The terraces
Supporters make their feelings known about Tin Colak
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Market
The window shut and Daniel Lovren is still in the building
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match19 Aug 2026
Zadar through in the cup
A 4‑0 win over Imotski, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both of them Tin Colak's — 8.64
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Domagoj Horvat, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00
A mark of 8.00 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.
Market24 Aug 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 Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
Zadar cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Damir Kovac was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.89. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Sibenik, and it could have been more.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Tin Colak takes the afternoon — 9.30
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tin Colak provided it, and the 9.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Both of them Mislav Cop's — 9.26
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $600.0K sale of Josip Vrsaljko
He is going to HNK Gorica, the club has $600.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
Josip Vrsaljko has left for HNK Gorica in a $600.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Zadar
Daniel Lovren was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Marko Budimir
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Marko Budimir 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Sibenik blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 3 times before the twentieth minute. Sibenik tried to reorganise, Zadar did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.