May 6 – Nearly 200 football ultras from HNK Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb were arrested before, during, and after the derby between the two Croatian giants at the Poljud Stadium in Split.
August 29 – Historic rivals Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade won their Champions League qualifying playoffs on Wednesday and can now potentially be drawn to meet for the first time in 33 years.
April 5 – Scenes of violence marked the Croatian Cup semi-final between Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb. After the match at the Poljud Stadium, which ended with a 1-0 victory to the visitors from Zagreb, the home team’s ultras broke through security on to pitch to confront the Hajduk players.
March 14 – Police in Greece were put on alert after they received information that a group of about 100 supporters of Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb were traveling to Thessaloniki for the UEFA Europa Conference League match against PAOK.
August 21 – Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb are to play UEFA club competition matches without away fans “for a minimum” of the remainder of the 2023/24 season.
August 10 – Greece’s AEK Athens, Greek media and fan groups have called on UEFA to ban Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb from European competition after clashes before a Champions League third qualifying round match in Athens left one fan stabbed to death and the match being postponed.
August 8 – In a dramatic move, UEFA has postponed tonight’s Champions League third qualifying round clash between AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb following the death of a 29-year-old Greek fan caught up in overnight clashes between rival supporters.
June 12 – Zagreb mayor Tomislav Tomašević has announced the construction of what he said will be the most modern stadium in Croatia.
March 29 – UEFA has stepped in to remove Damir Vrbanović from its National Team Competitions Committee after the Croatian was imprisoned for fraud and tax evasion.
March 16 – The coach of Dinamo Zagreb, who play Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League on Thursday, has resigned after having a prison sentence for fraud and tax evasion confirmed by Croatia’s supreme court.
April 2 – UEFA have lost patience with Dinamo Zagreb who have been ordered to play their next home European match behind closed doors following racist behaviour by their fans in this season’s Europa League tie against Benfica.
September 20 – Liverpool’s Croatian World Cup defender Dejan Lovren has been charged with perjury in the trial of ex-officials of Dinamo Zagreb, his former club.
By Andrew Warshaw and Mark Baber
April 27 – Croatia’s anti-corruption authorities say they have charged three current and former officials from 17-time champions Dinamo Zagreb with tax evasion and siphoning off profits from player transfers – including a senior Croatian FA official who Insideworldfootball has discovered is a member of a leading FIFA trouble-shooting body.