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NK Novalja were in the headlines a few year back because they had a large number of Brazlians playing for them. They actually started a trend with clubs mainly 2nd division signing up lots of value for money Brazilians players.
Several years ago they were playing in the 2nd division and earned a spot for the play-off to win promotion into the 1st division but they ended up losing.
That season they had something like 4 Brazilians, and some other foreigners even a Japanese player, they even beat Hajduk Split 3:0 in a friendly game.
Now they are in the 3rd-West division. Last year they had 2 Brazilians deported because they were illegals ie. weren't registered to work.

As for Losinj and Pag I don't know which leagues they are in.

 

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With 5 rounds left in the season Novalja are stuck in the middle.


Poz Klub Uta Pob Ner Por Razlika pog. Bod
1Karlovac 29 24 2 3 83 : 19 +64 74
2 Lokomotiva 29 23 2 4 90 : 29 +61 71
3 Vrapče 29 14 9 6 42 : 35 +7 51
4 Rudeš 29 13 7 9 36 : 33 +3 46
5 Lučko 29 13 6 10 47 : 42 +5 45
6 Polet B 29 13 6 10 45 : 41 +4 45
7 Vrbovec 29 13 5 11 37 : 35 +2 44
8 Nehaj 29 13 4 12 36 : 37 -1 43
9 Novalja 29 12 6 11 43 : 37 +6 42
10 Rudar 29 11 8 10 37 : 36 +1 41
11 Rovinj 29 10 7 12 40 : 46 -6 37
12 Jadran 29 10 6 13 35 : 41 -6 36
13 Orijent 29 8 9 12 30 : 28 +2 33
14 Radnik 29 9 5 15 36 : 43 -7 32
15 HAŠK 29 8 5 16 36 : 53 -17 29
16 Istra 29 5 10 14 17 : 39 -22 25
17 Draga 29 6 6 17 32 : 60 -28 24
18 Žminj 29 4 1 24 23 : 91 -68 13

 

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I found that the year after playing in the 2nd div. in 2004 or 2005 Novalja was thrown back into the 3rd div. because the club didn't meet its standards, ie. it had no junior structure or reserve ground.

 

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This is the formate of the league structure in Croatia.

HNL Structure 07/08

1 HNL - 12 clubs x3 rounds

2 HNL - 16 clubs x2

3 HNL - East 18 clubs x2
------- West 18 clubs x2
------- South 18 clubs x2

4 HNL - East 16 clubs x2
------- West 14 clubs x2
------- South-A 11 clubs x3
------- South-B 10 clubs x3
------- North-A 14 clubs x2
------- North-B 16 clubs x2
------- Center-A 16 clubs x2
------- Center-B 18 clubs x2

5 HNL 21 regional Zupanija leagues which breaks down further depending on the number of clubs/leagues.


Here's a link of the structure but for 05/06 season which has changed.
Then there was two 2nd div. North-South now there's only one.
Also x5 3rd div. now 3 etc.
What was called the 4th was already the Županija leagues.
http://www.nk-maksimir.hr/cro_nogomet.htm