# 1982–83 NK Rijeka season

The 1982–83 season was the 37th season in Rijeka’s history and their 21st season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 12th place finish in the 1981–82 season meant it was their ninth successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.

## Competitions

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Yugoslav First League | 15 August 1982 | 26 June 1983 | Matchday 1 | 15th | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 51 | 52 | −1 | 029.41 |
| Yugoslav Cup | 26 October 1982 | 27 April 1983 | First round | Semifinal | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 075.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 56 | +4 | 034.21 |

### Yugoslav First League
#### Classification

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 13 | Velež | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 54 | 57 | −3 | 31 | |
| 14 | Budućnost | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 39 | 52 | −13 | 31 | |
| 15 | Rijeka | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 51 | 52 | −1 | 30 | |
| 16 | Osijek | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 48 | 51 | −3 | 29 | |
| 17 | OFK Belgrade (R) | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 28 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | L | D | L | W | L | D | L | L | W | D | D | L | L | D | D | W | L | D | L | W | L | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | W | L | W | D |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |

## Matches
### First League

| Round | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Attendance | Rijeka Scorers |
| 1 | 15 Aug | A | Budućnost | 5 – 1 | 4,000 | Tomić (2), Desnica (2), Malbaša |
| 2 | 22 Aug | H | Red Star | 1 – 0 | 12,000 | Desnica |
| 3 | 29 Aug | A | Partizan | 0 – 2 | 12,000 | |
| 4 | 1 Sep | H | Hajduk Split | 1 – 1 | 12,000 | Tomić |
| 5 | 5 Sep | A | Velež | 1 – 3 | 3,000 | Lukić |
| 6 | 12 Sep | H | Osijek | 5 – 2 | 4,000 | Lukić, Gračan, Malbaša, Desnica, Fegic |
| 7 | 19 Sep | A | Sarajevo | 1 – 2 | 8,000 | Malbaša |
| 8 | 26 Sep | A | Sloboda | 1 – 1 | 4,000 | Fegic |
| 9 | 3 Oct | H | Vardar | 1 – 2 | 3,000 | Ćelović |
| 10 | 7 Oct | A | Vojvodina | 2 – 4 | 3,000 | Desnica, Malbaša |
| 11 | 17 Oct | H | Galenika | 3 – 2 | 2,000 | Tomić (2), Gračan |
| 12 | 24 Oct | A | OFK Beograd | 2 – 2 | 1,028 | Desnica, Tomić |
| 13 | 31 Oct | H | Radnički Niš | 1 – 1 | 2,000 | Fegic |
| 14 | 7 Nov | A | Dinamo Vinkovci | 1 – 3 | 2,000 | Lukić |
| 15 | 20 Nov | H | Željezničar | 0 – 1 | 1,500 | |
| 16 | 28 Nov | A | Olimpija | 1 – 1 | 1,000 | Radin |
| 17 | 5 Dec | H | Dinamo Zagreb | 1 – 1 | 12,000 | o.g. |
| 18 | 6 Mar | H | Budućnost | 2 – 0 | 4,000 | Lukić, Desnica |
| 19 | 13 Mar | A | Red Star | 1 – 2 | 15,000 | Desnica |
| 20 | 20 Mar | H | Partizan | 2 – 2 | 12,000 | Gračan, Matrljan |
| 21 | 27 Mar | A | Hajduk Split | 0 – 1 | 8,000 | |
| 22 | 3 Apr | H | Velež | 2 – 1 | 3,000 | Ružić, Kustudić |
| 23 | 10 Apr | A | Osijek | 0 – 2 | 5,000 | |
| 24 | 13 Apr | H | Sarajevo | 3 – 0 | 3,000 | Milenković, Ćelović, Ružić |
| 25 | 16 Apr | H | Sloboda | 1 – 1 | 2,000 | Matrljan |
| 26 | 1 May | A | Vardar | 0 – 1 | 5,000 | |
| 27 | 8 May | H | Vojvodina | 0 – 0 | 3,000 | |
| 28 | 15 May | A | Galenika | 1 – 3 | 1,500 | Desnica |
| 29 | 22 May | H | OFK Beograd | 2 – 0 | 4,500 | Gračan, Ružić |
| 30 | 29 May | A | Radnički Niš | 1 – 2 | 7,000 | Malbaša |
| 31 | 4 Jun | H | Dinamo Vinkovci | 6 – 3 | 3,000 | Matrljan (2), Gračan, Malbaša, Škerjanc, o.g. |
| 32 | 12 Jun | A | Željezničar | 0 – 3 | 1,500 | |
| 33 | 19 Jun | H | Olimpija | 2 – 1 | 3,000 | Desnica, Ružić |
| 34 | 26 Jun | A | Dinamo Zagreb | 1 – 1 | 15,000 | Desnica |
Source: rsssf.com

### Yugoslav Cup

| Round | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Rijeka Scorers |
| R1 | 26 Oct | A | Viko-Omladinac | 4 – 0 | Gračan, Desnica, Matrljan, Juričić |
| R2 | 10 Nov | A | Red Star | 3 – 1 | Lukić, Desnica, Gračan |
| QF | 23 Mar | H | Vojvodina | 1 – 0 | o.g. |
| SF | 27 Apr | H | Dinamo Zagreb | 1 – 3 | Lukić |
Source: rsssf.com

### Squad statistics

Competitive matches only. Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.
| Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Name | League | League | Cup | Cup | Total | Total |
| Mauro Ravnić | 16 (0) | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 18 (0) | 0 |
| Nikica Milenković | 32 (0) | 1 | 4 (0) | 0 | 36 (0) | 1 |
| Zvjezdan Radin | 32 (0) | 1 | 3 (0) | 0 | 35 (0) | 1 |
| Nikola Marjanović | 32 (0) | 0 | 4 (0) | 0 | 36 (0) | 0 |
| Feriz Ćelović | 8 (14) | 2 | 1 (1) | 0 | 9 (15) | 2 |
| Srećko Juričić | 32 (0) | 0 | 4 (0) | 1 | 36 (0) | 1 |
| Damir Desnica | 32 (1) | 11 | 3 (1) | 2 | 35 (2) | 13 |
| Nenad Gračan | 31 (0) | 5 | 4 (0) | 2 | 35 (0) | 7 |
| Adriano Fegic | 15 (0) | 3 | 2 (0) | 0 | 17 (0) | 3 |
| Milan Ružić | 17 (1) | 4 | 2 (0) | 0 | 19 (1) | 4 |
| Edmond Tomić | 9 (3) | 6 | 0 (0) | 0 | 9 (3) | 6 |
| Duško Lukić | 25 (3) | 4 | 2 (0) | 2 | 27 (3) | 6 |
| Danko Peranić | 7 (1) | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 10 (1) | 0 |
| Danko Matrljan | 11 (9) | 4 | 2 (1) | 1 | 13 (10) | 5 |
| Nebojša Malbaša | 30 (1) | 6 | 3 (1) | 0 | 33 (2) | 6 |
| Zoran Šestan | 13 (2) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 13 (4) | 0 |
| Jovan Savić | 8 (0) | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 9 (0) | 0 |
| Neshat Zhavelli | 10 (0) | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 11 (0) | 0 |
| Mladen Stipančić | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 |
| Boris Tičić | 5 (2) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 5 (2) | 0 |
| Robert Rubčić | 0 (8) | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 1 (8) | 0 |
| Miodrag Kustudić | 1 (2) | 1 | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 (2) | 1 |
| Rade Ljepojević | 3 (3) | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 (3) | 0 |
| Zoran Mršić | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 |
| Milan Bačvarević | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 |
| Mladen Mladenović | 0 (7) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (7) | 0 |
| Zoran Škerjanc | 3 (3) | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 | 3 (3) | 1 |