NK Medimurje

NK Medimurje is a Croatian football club based in Cakovec. The club is named after Medimurje, the region in northern Croatia where Cakovec is located. In 2020–21 season, they will compete in the Croatian Second Football League.

The club play their home games at the Stadion SRC Mladost, Cakovec, which has a total capacity of approximately 6,000. The club's supporters group is called the Angels.

History

The club was founded in June 2003 and started to compete in the Croatian Second League, where they replaced NK Omladinac, a club based in the Cakovec suburb of Novo Selo Rok. They finished top of the league at the end of the 2003–04 season, clinching promotion to the Croatian First League.

They started their first season in the top flight with three defeats in their opening three matches, before beating Zagreb 1–0 on the road on Day 4 to clinch their first win of the season. However, they continued to experience very little success after that, only grabbing two further wins in the following 18 matches and being bottom of the table as the league split into two groups in March 2005. Their performance improved in the bottom-6 group, the Relegation League, where they had a streak of seven games undefeated and finished fifth, overtaking Zadar on the final day of the season.

In their second top-flight season in 2005–06, they once again found themselves bottom of the table in March, although with five wins and only one point fewer than both Inter Zapresic and Slaven Belupo. After three defeats in their opening three matches in the Relegation League, they managed a streak of seven games undefeated and overtook Inter Zapresic after beating them on the penultimate day of the season.

In 2006–07, they experienced mixed fortunes in their opening seven games, but then managed four consecutive wins and even found themselves in fourth place after Day 11. They eventually finished the season in ninth place, their best result in the top flight, with 11 wins in 33 matches. The 2007–08

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