Hajduk Split Quiz
Hajduk Split were founded on 13 February 1911 by four students from Split who were studying in Prague, and named for the hajduks — the outlaws who fought Ottoman rule.
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Which coach, promoted from running Hajduk Split's youth academy, led the club to back-to-back Yugoslav league titles in 1973-74 and 1974-75?
WhyHe had run Hajduk's award-winning youth academy before taking charge in 1973. He left in 1976 to coach Ajax until 1978. -
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Which stadium has been Hajduk Split's home since 1979?
WhyThe 33,987-seat Poljud, with Torcida massed in the north stand. Maksimir is Dinamo Zagreb's ground in the capital. -
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Striker Nikola Kalinić left Hajduk Split in 2009 for a fee of about £6 million. Which English club did he join?
WhyHe signed for Sam Allardyce's side after an earlier move to Portsmouth fell through. Years later he became Hajduk's sporting director. -
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Hajduk Split's supporters' group, founded in 1950, holds which distinction?
WhyFounded on 28 October 1950 by three students in Zagreb — Ante Dorić, Ante Ivanišević and Vjenceslav Žuvela — a day before a decisive match against Red Star Belgrade. -
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In September 1944 Hajduk Split played the British Army in Bari in front of around 40,000 spectators — how did it end?
WhyA heavy 9-2 defeat on 23 September 1944, in front of a crowd that dwarfed anything the club had played before. -
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Along with Hajduk Split, Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star, which club made up the 'Big Four' of Yugoslav football?
WhyThe four dominated SFR Yugoslavia between them; Partizan also reached the 1966 European Cup final. -
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Hajduk Split have reached two European semi-finals: the 1973 Cup Winners' Cup and which competition in 1984?
WhyThe 1984 UEFA Cup run took in Metz, VfB Stuttgart, Torino, Dnipro and Universitatea Craiova before the semi-final. -
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Which British prime minister's son was present when Hajduk Split were re-formed on Vis in 1944?
WhyRandolph Churchill, Winston's son, was among the British officers present alongside Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito on 7 May 1944. -
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Which Croatia goalkeeper played for Hajduk Split before joining Monaco and starting the 2018 World Cup final?
WhySubašić kept goal in Moscow as Croatia lost 4-2 to France. Pletikosa and Gabrić also kept for Hajduk; Livaković came through at Dinamo Zagreb. -
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Which former Croatia defender was appointed Hajduk Split manager in April 2013?
WhyHe began his playing career at Hajduk in 1995 before joining Juventus. He resigned as Hajduk manager in February 2015. -
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Who holds Hajduk Split's official appearance record, with 390 matches?
WhyVedran Rožić made 390 official appearances. Matošić's 739 matches include wartime and friendly fixtures outside the official record. -
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In 1945 Charles de Gaulle proclaimed Hajduk Split the honorary team of what?
WhyThe honour was given on 27 May 1945, at the end of Hajduk's wartime tour, which finished in Beirut. -
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Hajduk Split's under-19s reached the 2022-23 UEFA Youth League final. Which club beat them 5-0 in it?
WhyOn the way to Geneva, Hajduk knocked out Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan. They were the first Croatian club to reach the final of a major European competition. -
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Hajduk Split were re-formed in 1944 on which Adriatic island, becoming the official football team of the Yugoslav resistance?
WhyWith the Adriatic islands serving as a haven for the resistance, the club was reborn on Vis on 7 May 1944 and its players joined the Partisan general headquarters there. -
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Hajduk Split's supporters' group took its name from a fan movement in which country?
WhyThe founders had seen the Brazilian torcida at the 1950 World Cup; the word comes from the Portuguese verb 'torcer', to cheer on. -
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Marko Livaja set a Hajduk Split record for league goals in a single season in 2021-22. How many did he score?
WhyHe was the league's top scorer that season. His total beat Leo Lemešić's 26 goals from 1934-35. -
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When Ivan Perišić returned to Hajduk Split on loan in January 2024, what base salary did club president Lukša Jakobušić say he would be paid?
WhyJakobušić said there was no loan fee and that the €1 base salary would apply to the rest of 2023-24 and to 2024-25, with bonuses on top. -
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Whose goal won the 1991 Yugoslav Cup final for Hajduk Split against Red Star Belgrade, the last final before Yugoslavia broke up?
WhyThe final was played in Belgrade on 8 May 1991. Red Star went on to win the European Cup later that season, and Hajduk kept the Yugoslav Cup trophy for good. -
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In 1957 Bernard Vukas left Hajduk Split for which Italian club?
WhyHajduk says Vukas was the first professional from the region to play abroad. He came back to Hajduk in 1959. -
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Hajduk Split reached the 2010-11 Europa League group stage by beating which Romanian club in the play-off round?
WhyHajduk won the first leg 4-1 in Split and drew the return leg 1-1 in Bucharest. -
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For Hajduk Split's 15th anniversary in 1926, Split composer Ivo Tijardović wrote what kind of work about the club?
WhyThe operetta was called 'Queen of a Ball'. The club says this makes Hajduk probably the only club in the world with its own operetta. -
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Which future Shakhtar Donetsk and Croatia captain began his senior career at Hajduk Split?
WhySrna left Split for Shakhtar in 2003 and stayed 15 years, becoming their record appearance holder and captaining Croatia over 130 times. -
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In 1945 Hajduk Split toured Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Malta — roughly how many matches did they play?
WhyMore than 90 matches on that post-war tour, winning 74 of them — the club was effectively touring as the face of the new Yugoslavia. -
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What made Hajduk Split's 1950 Yugoslav championship remarkable?
WhyAn unbeaten league title that no Yugoslav club matched in the 40 years before the league broke up. -
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Hajduk Split won the 2022 Croatian Cup final 3-1. Who were their opponents?
WhyThe final was played in Split on 26 May 2022 in front of 29,411 spectators. -
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Hajduk Split were founded in 1911 by a group of Split students who were studying in which city?
WhyFour students from Split, studying in Prague, took the idea home and founded the club on 13 February 1911 — the name means 'outlaw' or 'bandit', for the rebels who fought Ottoman rule. -
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After Italy occupied Split in 1941, Hajduk refused to play in the Italian league under which name?
WhyHajduk would neither change its name nor join the Italian league. -
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Which English club signed 19-year-old Nikola Vlašić from Hajduk Split on deadline day in August 2017?
WhyThe fee was around £8 million. Vlašić had played against his new club for Hajduk in the Europa League shortly before the move. -
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Who suggested the name 'Hajduk' for the new Split football club in 1911?
WhyJosip Barač was a professor in Split. He worked with the four student founders: Fabjan Kaliterna, Vjekoslav Ivanišević, Lucijan Stella and Ivan Šakić. -
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Which ground was Hajduk Split's home from 1911 until 1979?
WhyStari plac means 'Old ground'. It opened in 1911 and was Hajduk's home until 1979. -
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By the end of the 2025-26 season, Hajduk Split's record sale was the roughly €11 million transfer of defender Luka Vušković. Which club bought him?
WhyThe deal was agreed in September 2023, when Vušković was 16. He stayed a Hajduk player until he was registered with his new club in July 2025. -
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In 1924 Yugoslavia fielded a team in which every player except the goalkeeper came from Hajduk Split. Who were the opponents?
WhyTen Hajduk players started. Hajduk's own goalkeeper, Otmar Gazzari, was an Italian citizen and could not play for Yugoslavia. -
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Which 2006 World Cup winner coached Hajduk Split in 2024-25, then left to take charge of the Italy national team?
WhyHe was appointed in June 2024 by sporting director Nikola Kalinić on a two-year contract. He left after one season. -
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By the end of the 2025-26 season, in which season had Hajduk Split most recently won the Croatian league title?
WhyThe 2004-05 title was Hajduk's sixth Croatian championship. Inter Zaprešić finished as runners-up that season. -
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Which player is Hajduk Split's all-time leading scorer, with 729 goals for the club?
WhyFrane Matošić scored 729 goals in 739 matches for Hajduk — a strike rate nobody at the club has come near since. -
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Hajduk Split's name comes from the hajduks. Who or what were they?
WhyHajduks were romanticised outlaws who fought the rule of the Ottoman Turks. The club says the name was meant to stand for the Croatian struggle for freedom. -
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Which Premier League club signed midfielder Mario Pašalić from Hajduk Split in July 2014?
WhyHe never played a league match for the club. He went out on loan to Elche, Monaco and AC Milan, among others. -
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Which club knocked Hajduk Split out in the quarter-finals of the 1994-95 Champions League?
WhyThe first leg in Split finished 0-0 and Hajduk lost the second leg 3-0. Ajax went on to win the trophy.
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About Hajduk Split
This free Hajduk Split quiz covers the whole story of the Bili: Poljud, Torcida, the Eternal Derby with Dinamo Zagreb, and a history unlike any other club's in Europe.
That history includes the strangest rebirth in football. With Split occupied and the Adriatic islands sheltering the resistance, Hajduk were re-formed on the island of Vis on 7 May 1944, in front of Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito and British officers — among them Randolph Churchill, son of the wartime prime minister. The club became the official football team of the Yugoslav resistance, and that September played the British Army in Bari before a crowd of some 40,000, losing 9-2. In 1945 they toured Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Malta, playing more than 90 matches.
In peacetime Hajduk became one of the "Big Four" of Yugoslav football alongside Dinamo Zagreb, Partizan and Red Star Belgrade, winning the 1950 championship without losing a match. Europe brought two semi-finals — the 1973 Cup Winners' Cup and the 1984 UEFA Cup, that run taking in Metz, Stuttgart, Torino, Dnipro and Universitatea Craiova. Torcida, formed on 28 October 1950, is the oldest organised supporters' group in Europe and still fills Poljud's north stand.
Expect questions on Vis and the war years, the club's record-breakers, the players who left for bigger leagues, and Torcida itself. Every answer is explained, so you finish knowing why.
Hajduk Split quiz answers, explained
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Which coach, promoted from running Hajduk Split's youth academy, led the club to back-to-back Yugoslav league titles in 1973-74 and 1974-75?
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Tomislav Ivić. He had run Hajduk's award-winning youth academy before taking charge in 1973. He left in 1976 to coach Ajax until 1978.
Which stadium has been Hajduk Split's home since 1979?
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Stadion Poljud. The 33,987-seat Poljud, with Torcida massed in the north stand. Maksimir is Dinamo Zagreb's ground in the capital.
Striker Nikola Kalinić left Hajduk Split in 2009 for a fee of about £6 million. Which English club did he join?
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Blackburn Rovers. He signed for Sam Allardyce's side after an earlier move to Portsmouth fell through. Years later he became Hajduk's sporting director.
Hajduk Split's supporters' group, founded in 1950, holds which distinction?
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The oldest organised supporters' group in Europe. Founded on 28 October 1950 by three students in Zagreb — Ante Dorić, Ante Ivanišević and Vjenceslav Žuvela — a day before a decisive match against Red Star Belgrade.
In September 1944 Hajduk Split played the British Army in Bari in front of around 40,000 spectators — how did it end?
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Hajduk lost 9-2. A heavy 9-2 defeat on 23 September 1944, in front of a crowd that dwarfed anything the club had played before.
Along with Hajduk Split, Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star, which club made up the 'Big Four' of Yugoslav football?
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Partizan Belgrade. The four dominated SFR Yugoslavia between them; Partizan also reached the 1966 European Cup final.
Hajduk Split have reached two European semi-finals: the 1973 Cup Winners' Cup and which competition in 1984?
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The UEFA Cup. The 1984 UEFA Cup run took in Metz, VfB Stuttgart, Torino, Dnipro and Universitatea Craiova before the semi-final.
Which British prime minister's son was present when Hajduk Split were re-formed on Vis in 1944?
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Winston Churchill. Randolph Churchill, Winston's son, was among the British officers present alongside Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito on 7 May 1944.
Which Croatia goalkeeper played for Hajduk Split before joining Monaco and starting the 2018 World Cup final?
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Danijel Subašić. Subašić kept goal in Moscow as Croatia lost 4-2 to France. Pletikosa and Gabrić also kept for Hajduk; Livaković came through at Dinamo Zagreb.
Which former Croatia defender was appointed Hajduk Split manager in April 2013?
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Igor Tudor. He began his playing career at Hajduk in 1995 before joining Juventus. He resigned as Hajduk manager in February 2015.
Who holds Hajduk Split's official appearance record, with 390 matches?
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Vedran Rožić. Vedran Rožić made 390 official appearances. Matošić's 739 matches include wartime and friendly fixtures outside the official record.
In 1945 Charles de Gaulle proclaimed Hajduk Split the honorary team of what?
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Free France. The honour was given on 27 May 1945, at the end of Hajduk's wartime tour, which finished in Beirut.
Hajduk Split's under-19s reached the 2022-23 UEFA Youth League final. Which club beat them 5-0 in it?
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AZ. On the way to Geneva, Hajduk knocked out Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan. They were the first Croatian club to reach the final of a major European competition.
Hajduk Split were re-formed in 1944 on which Adriatic island, becoming the official football team of the Yugoslav resistance?
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Vis. With the Adriatic islands serving as a haven for the resistance, the club was reborn on Vis on 7 May 1944 and its players joined the Partisan general headquarters there.
Hajduk Split's supporters' group took its name from a fan movement in which country?
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Brazil. The founders had seen the Brazilian torcida at the 1950 World Cup; the word comes from the Portuguese verb 'torcer', to cheer on.
Marko Livaja set a Hajduk Split record for league goals in a single season in 2021-22. How many did he score?
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28. He was the league's top scorer that season. His total beat Leo Lemešić's 26 goals from 1934-35.
When Ivan Perišić returned to Hajduk Split on loan in January 2024, what base salary did club president Lukša Jakobušić say he would be paid?
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€1. Jakobušić said there was no loan fee and that the €1 base salary would apply to the rest of 2023-24 and to 2024-25, with bonuses on top.
Whose goal won the 1991 Yugoslav Cup final for Hajduk Split against Red Star Belgrade, the last final before Yugoslavia broke up?
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Alen Bokšić. The final was played in Belgrade on 8 May 1991. Red Star went on to win the European Cup later that season, and Hajduk kept the Yugoslav Cup trophy for good.
In 1957 Bernard Vukas left Hajduk Split for which Italian club?
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Bologna. Hajduk says Vukas was the first professional from the region to play abroad. He came back to Hajduk in 1959.
Hajduk Split reached the 2010-11 Europa League group stage by beating which Romanian club in the play-off round?
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Unirea Urziceni. Hajduk won the first leg 4-1 in Split and drew the return leg 1-1 in Bucharest.
For Hajduk Split's 15th anniversary in 1926, Split composer Ivo Tijardović wrote what kind of work about the club?
Show answer
An operetta. The operetta was called 'Queen of a Ball'. The club says this makes Hajduk probably the only club in the world with its own operetta.
Which future Shakhtar Donetsk and Croatia captain began his senior career at Hajduk Split?
Show answer
Darijo Srna. Srna left Split for Shakhtar in 2003 and stayed 15 years, becoming their record appearance holder and captaining Croatia over 130 times.
In 1945 Hajduk Split toured Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Malta — roughly how many matches did they play?
Show answer
More than 90. More than 90 matches on that post-war tour, winning 74 of them — the club was effectively touring as the face of the new Yugoslavia.
What made Hajduk Split's 1950 Yugoslav championship remarkable?
Show answer
They won it without losing a single match. An unbeaten league title that no Yugoslav club matched in the 40 years before the league broke up.
Hajduk Split won the 2022 Croatian Cup final 3-1. Who were their opponents?
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Rijeka. The final was played in Split on 26 May 2022 in front of 29,411 spectators.
Hajduk Split were founded in 1911 by a group of Split students who were studying in which city?
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Prague. Four students from Split, studying in Prague, took the idea home and founded the club on 13 February 1911 — the name means 'outlaw' or 'bandit', for the rebels who fought Ottoman rule.
After Italy occupied Split in 1941, Hajduk refused to play in the Italian league under which name?
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AC Spalato. Hajduk would neither change its name nor join the Italian league.
Which English club signed 19-year-old Nikola Vlašić from Hajduk Split on deadline day in August 2017?
Show answer
Everton. The fee was around £8 million. Vlašić had played against his new club for Hajduk in the Europa League shortly before the move.
Who suggested the name 'Hajduk' for the new Split football club in 1911?
Show answer
Josip Barač. Josip Barač was a professor in Split. He worked with the four student founders: Fabjan Kaliterna, Vjekoslav Ivanišević, Lucijan Stella and Ivan Šakić.
Which ground was Hajduk Split's home from 1911 until 1979?
Show answer
Stari plac. Stari plac means 'Old ground'. It opened in 1911 and was Hajduk's home until 1979.
By the end of the 2025-26 season, Hajduk Split's record sale was the roughly €11 million transfer of defender Luka Vušković. Which club bought him?
Show answer
Tottenham Hotspur. The deal was agreed in September 2023, when Vušković was 16. He stayed a Hajduk player until he was registered with his new club in July 2025.
In 1924 Yugoslavia fielded a team in which every player except the goalkeeper came from Hajduk Split. Who were the opponents?
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Czechoslovakia. Ten Hajduk players started. Hajduk's own goalkeeper, Otmar Gazzari, was an Italian citizen and could not play for Yugoslavia.
Which 2006 World Cup winner coached Hajduk Split in 2024-25, then left to take charge of the Italy national team?
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Gennaro Gattuso. He was appointed in June 2024 by sporting director Nikola Kalinić on a two-year contract. He left after one season.
By the end of the 2025-26 season, in which season had Hajduk Split most recently won the Croatian league title?
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2004-05. The 2004-05 title was Hajduk's sixth Croatian championship. Inter Zaprešić finished as runners-up that season.
Which player is Hajduk Split's all-time leading scorer, with 729 goals for the club?
Show answer
Frane Matošić. Frane Matošić scored 729 goals in 739 matches for Hajduk — a strike rate nobody at the club has come near since.
Hajduk Split's name comes from the hajduks. Who or what were they?
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Romanticised outlaw-rebels who fought Ottoman rule. Hajduks were romanticised outlaws who fought the rule of the Ottoman Turks. The club says the name was meant to stand for the Croatian struggle for freedom.
Which Premier League club signed midfielder Mario Pašalić from Hajduk Split in July 2014?
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Chelsea. He never played a league match for the club. He went out on loan to Elche, Monaco and AC Milan, among others.
Which club knocked Hajduk Split out in the quarter-finals of the 1994-95 Champions League?
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Ajax. The first leg in Split finished 0-0 and Hajduk lost the second leg 3-0. Ajax went on to win the trophy.
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