Season trivia for SuperSport HNL 2019/2020
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2019/2020 SuperSport HNL season in Croatia.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Ognjen Mudrinski and Matija Dvornekovic. Together they were behind 2 goals for Gorica in the 2019/2020 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2019/2020 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Serder Serderov, playing for Inter Zapresic, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 31 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Inter Zapresic-Osijek.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In June 2020, Mijo Caktas (Hajduk Split) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2019/2020 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored three times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Lirim Kastrati (Lokomotiva Zagreb)
Mijo Caktas (Hajduk Split)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2019/2020 season was Mirko Maric in Osijek, in total he did it ten times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were two players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, six times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Kristijan Lovric (Gorica)
Samuel Eduok (Hajduk Split)
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2019/2020 season was Mijo Caktas, in total he scored seven penalties for his Hajduk Split.
Most penalty goals by team
Hajduk Split was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2019/2020 season, in total they scored ten of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Kristijan Lovric was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2019/2020 season, in total he scored three stoppage time goals for his Gorica.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was five goals, which two teams managed to do, and these were Lokomotiva Zagreb and Gorica.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2019/2020 season was Kévin Théophile-Catherine, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in SuperSport HNL, which he did two times.
Most own goals by team
two teams each scored three own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were Gorica and Dinamo Zagreb.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Mirko Maric in Osijek scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2019/2020 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Mijo Caktas in Hajduk Split who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 10 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
two players were the best at scoring in the second half, something they did 10 times, and the players who did this were Mirko Maric (Osijek) and Kristijan Lovric (Gorica).
Most consecutive wins
Dinamo Zagreb was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2019/2020 season, with a total of 6 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Dinamo Zagreb were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2019/2020 season, playing 13 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Istra 1961 had a streak of 5 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in SuperSport HNL during the 2019/2020 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Istra 1961 managed the feat of not winning a single match in 17 consecutive matches during the 2019/2020 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were Osijek, Hajduk Split and Lokomotiva Zagreb, and these teams turned the game around three times in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Inter Zapresic have managed this in four matches during the 2019/2020 season, more than any other team in SuperSport HNL.