Last weekend the Croatian Minifootball Federation (CMF) organized its 9th national championship in the city of Ivanic-Grad. 12 clubs from 10 Croatian cities (Zagreb, Varaždin, Ivanić Grad, Krapina, Oroslavje, Šibenik, Skradin, Opuzen, Ivanec and Metković) reached the finals and they were joined for the first time by 3 women’s teams, winner of the 3 regional Croatian women’s minifootball leagues.
All matches were broadcasted live on CMF Facebook page, which attracted over 35,000 viewers online. Despite the Covid-19 situation, people were excited to finally be able to watch matches live on the venuea and over 500 spectators during the event came to Croatian minifootball centre.
Friday was scheduled for group stage matches and Saturday for play-off matches with wonderful weather on both days. Even if there is a global pandemic situation people were excited to finally be able to watch live sports and over 500 spectators showed up for the top matches.
This was also the first time CMF hosted a studio TV programme at the venue, which was a great addition to the event, thanks to the media team led by Petra Habdelić. Croatian mass media coverage was on the level of an important national sport event as major media houses covered the event (Jutarnji List, Sportske Novosti, RTL).
The final match was between MK Dinamo Zagreb and Art Metali Junajted Varaždin. The Zgreb team won 5-2 and went to lift the trophy in s stylish celebration wwith fireworks. The Women’s championship was won by ŠMK VICTORY Sisak.
Bruno Alpeza, CMF president:
”The 2020 National championship was our best so far, we had 12 very strong teams and any of them could have won the trophy. In the same time we gathered new OC that took the event up a level from previous ones. We had women’s finals for the first time, 3 teams from 3 regional championships came to Ivanić and made it into history of womens minifootball in Croatia. I am proud of our team and we promise to lift the bar a bit more on the next event. Mass media coverage was amazing, many relevant and regional media covered the event and gave us even more importance on the national level. Each year our technical team tries to make a better livestream than the year before and they are doing an amazing job.”
