Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football.
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Between the early 1920s and 1940, Hajduk Split regularly participated in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national championship.
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Hajduk Split is thus the only ex-Yugoslav side to have never been relegated from the top flight since the foundation of the original Yugoslavia, though a number of ex-Yugoslav clubs have long spells in the top flight dating to the SFR Yugoslavia era.
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Hajduk Split is the only club in Yugoslav football history that has won five-straight Yugoslav Cups, and the only unbeaten champion.
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Hajduk Split fans are called Torcida Split, who are the oldest organized firm in Europe, being founded in 1950.
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Apart from national championship, from 1920 to 1936 Hajduk Split continuously competed in Dalmatian Championship, having won all but one of them.
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Hajduk Split reached their first period of glory in the late 1920s, when they won their first two Yugoslav championships, which earned them a slot in the Central European Cup.
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Residents and players were both opposed to the assimilation to Italy, thus the club ceased to compete in defiance throughout the occupation of Hajduk Split, declining an offer to join the Italian first division under the name "AC Spalato".
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On 7 May 1944, on the Feast of Saint Domnius, the patron saint of Split, in presence of Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito's and British officers Hajduk was formed again and began playing as the official football team of the Yugoslav resistance.
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However, Hajduk Split continued to enjoy the reputation of "Tito's favorite" long after the war, and it was because of the friendly relationship with the resistance, it became one of the few Yugoslav football clubs not to be disbanded after the war by the communist government.
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Hajduk Split's leadership was sanctioned, the team's captain expelled from the communist party, and Vjenceslav Zuvela imprisoned.
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From 1970 to 1980, Hajduk Split had achieved its most successful years in Yugoslavia.
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In 1979, Hajduk Split moved to the newly designed stadium at Poljud, built to host the 1979 Mediterranean Games.
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Hajduk Split eliminated clubs such as Metz, VfB Stuttgart, Torino, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Universitatea Craiova and Sparta Prague, reaching UEFA Cup semi-final in 1984 and quarter-final in 1986.
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On 13 February 2011, Hajduk commemorated its 100th anniversary with a massive celebration in Split and all of Croatia, with both Hajduk players and fans honouring the club.
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The entire city was decorated with Hajduk banners, flags, posters and paraphernalia, and there was a spectacular firework show over Split.
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However, in July 2011, inspired by examples in Germany and Sweden and organized under the association "Nas Hajduk Split", fans managed to gain rights of organizing elections for members of the club's supervisory board, making Hajduk Split only fan-owned football club in Croatian First League, and one of only two in former Yugoslavia.
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In 2012, the club fell into yet another financial trouble caused by former Hajduk Split presidents, leaving it with more than 100 million kunas in debt, and one town meeting away of being bankrupt.
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Since then, according to the club's annual financial report, Hajduk Split is under continuous financial and managerial recovery.
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From 1911 to 1979, Hajduk Split played on a stadium called Kod stare Plinare, used today by RK Nada rugby club.
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Hajduk Split played its first game in a strip with red and white vertical stripes, which symbolized the Croatian coat of arms.
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Hajduk Split changed its kit design to red and blue vertical stripes with white "Hajduk Split" written in the middle.
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However, Hajduk Split did not wear the original crest before World War II as it was not obligatory at the time.
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Hajduk Split's all-time leading scorer in all competitions is Frane Matosic, scoring 211 official goals for the club, while Zlatko Vujovic is all-time leading goalscorer in European competition with 19 goals.
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Hajduk Split won two Kingdom of Yugoslavia championships, seven Yugoslav championships, six Croatian championships, as well as nine Yugoslav Cup titles, seven Croatian Cup titles and five Croatian Super Cup titles.
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