Chicago Croatian

Chicago Croatian

Chicago Croatian was a semi-professional soccer club based in Chicago Illinois. The club competed in the National Soccer League of Chicago. All there home matches were played in Hanson Stadium Chicago Illinois.

The club was founded in the 1950s and is historically the most successful Croatian soccer club in the USA. The height of Croatians success came in the 1970s and 1980s making the final of the prestigious Lamar Hunt US Open Cup on three occasions. They qualified for the 1985 CONCACAF Champions Cup and lost in the 1st round to Club Deportivo Olimpia of Honduras. The 1st leg was played in San Pedro Sula and the 2nd leg in Tegucigalpa Honduras the attendance was over 40,000 spectators for each match.


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Honours

Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Results

  • June 2 1974 New York Greek American 2 Chicago Croatian 0
  • June 17 1979 Brooklyn Dodgers 2 Chicago Croatian 1
  • June 24 1984 New York Crete 4 Chicago Croatian 2

CONCACAF Champions Cup 1985

Roster

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 United States GK Yaro Dachniwsky
2 Croatia DF John Galovic
3 United States DF Leo Kulinczenko
4 Croatia DF Vlado Crnjak
5 Croatia DF Dusko Budimir
6 Croatia MF Slavko Petrina
No. Position Player
7 Poland MF Joseph Konarsky
8 Canada MF Tony Novacio
9 Croatia MF Joseph Malkoc
10 United States FW Tony Tadijanovic
11 Poland FW Zygmund Tryna
12 United States FW George Budman

Managers

  • CroatiaJoe Tadijanovic
  • CroatiaFrano Basan

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