Dinamo Zagabria

Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Stadium: Maksimir Stadium
Founded: 1945

Dinamo is one of the most famous and successful Croatian football clubs. Dinamo is based in Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia.

The club was formed on June 9, 1945, after that three very popular Zagreb football clubs (HASK, Grananski, Concordia) were dissolved. The newly formed club played at the old stadium of HASK, while most of the players and the coach, Márton Bukovi, were from Grananski.The club took also Grananski's blue colours and like other football clubs outside Croatia in Eastern Europe, it was also called Dinamo. Later was renamed other two times: to HASK-Grananski in 1992 and to Croatia Zagreb in 1993.

During the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia years, the club won the Yugoslav Championship 4 times, the Yugoslav Cup seven times, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1967 and the Balkans Cup in 1977. In the late 1990s, the club played two consecutive seasons in the UEFA Champions League group stage. They subsequently participated three times in the third qualifying round for the Champions League, in 2000, 2003 and 2006. Throughout the first half of the 2000s decade, they had some international success in the UEFA Cup as they advanced to the second round of the competition three times and also played in the group stage of the competition both in the 2004-05 and 2006-07 season.

Currently, Dinamo's home ground is Maksimir Stadium, which is situated in the northeast borough of the city of Zagreb. The stadium has 37,168 seats and is in the process of being renovated and rebuilt. When rebuilding finishes, it will have capacity of 60.000 seats, all covered.