Varaždin

Croatia

Founded

2012

Arena

Stadion Varteks · 10,800 cap

Nogometni klub Varaždin, commonly referred to as Varaždin, is a professional Croatian football club, based in the town of Varaždin. It currently competes in the Croatian First Football League. Varaždin ŠN was established by the management of NK Varaždin (1931–2015) in 2012. after the suspension of its predecessor, a club which was suspended during the second part of the 2011–12 Prva Liga season, due to a high financial debt. Legally, the two clubs' track records and honours are kept separate by the Croatian Football Federation, but the 2012. club is a continuation of the older club, which did return to competition in 2013, overlapping with the life of Varaždin ŠN. However, the older club declared bankruptcy in 2015, and changed its name to VŠNK Varaždin. That allow the follower club Varaždin ŠN to change its own name to the newly available NK Varaždin. After steadily progressing through the levels of the Croatian football league system, NK Varaždin competed in the Prva Liga for the first time in the 2019–20 season, a league that predecessor NK Varaždin had competed in for 21 seasons.

Osijek

Croatia

Founded

1947

Arena

Opus Arena · 17,061 cap

Nogometni klub Osijek is a professional football club from Osijek in Eastern Croatia. Founded in 1947, it was the club from Slavonia with the most seasons in the Yugoslav First League, and, after the independence of Croatia in 1992, it is one of the four clubs that have never been relegated from the Croatian First League, the others being Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split and Rijeka.