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HNK Rijeka

Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (Croatian Football Club Rijeka), commonly referred to as HNK Rijeka, is a Croatian professional football club from the city of Rijeka.

HNK Rijeka competes in Croatia's top division, Supersport HNL, of which they have been members since its foundation in 1992. During the reconstruction of Stadion Kantrida, their traditional home ground, they have been based at Stadion Rujevica. Rijeka's traditional home colours are all white.

The club was founded in 1904, with the football team being active at last since 1906, and following the tumultuous political changes that swept the border city of Rijeka in the following decades, it changed its name to U.S. Fiumana in 1926, to S.C.F. Quarnero in 1946, to NK Rijeka in 1954, and finally HNK Rijeka in 1995. Rijeka is the third-most successful Croatian football club, having won one Croatian First League title, two Yugoslav Cups, six Croatian Cups, one Croatian Super Cup, Serie C 1940–41, the Italian Federal Cup 1927–28 and the 1977–78 Balkans Cup.

1906–1926
The club was founded in mid-April 1904 as Club Sportivo Olimpia by Antonio Marchich, Aristodemo Susmel, Agesilao Satti, Carlo Colussi, Romeo and Alessandro Mitrovich when the city of Rijeka was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Corpus Separatum of the Hungarian Crown. The club was founded as a tennis-lawn, football, swimming, cycling and athletics club. The first activities of the club's football section recorded by the cronicles happened the 25th November 1906, with historians still investigating the football activities in the earlier years. This date is, therefore,currently considered the official beginning of HNK Rijeka as a football club. This also makes Rijeka the oldest still active association football club on the territory of today's Republic of Croatia.

While many clubs in town and the region often had specific ethnic leanings, Olimpia intentionally had a very international soul, with Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, and German players all playing and working with each other in unison. The oldest line-up known from Rijeka's pioneer years was: Duimovic, Smoivar, Penka, Brosnich, R. Mittrovich, Lenardon, Satti, Novodnik, A. Mittrovich, Paulovatz, Cittovich (captain). Initially, the club played its matches on the main Scoglietto square, in front of the local Honved HQ, but moved to Kantrida stadium during the following decade (and the stadium changed its name to Campo Sportivo Olympia). Initially, Olimpia played in black and white garments, but in the 1910s, the club also used a fully white kit. During the following years, Olimpia will be joined by several other local football clubs from the city of Rijeka and will continue the legacy of Fiumei Atletikai Club as the main city club, when Atletico discontinued its football section in the course of the 1910s. Among the many clubs being founded in town during these years, a side, in particular, will soon rise as fierce arch-rival to Olimpia: Doria (later renamed into CS Gloria) arose from the proletarian classes and the humble old town dwellers of the industry-rich port town on the Adriatic. While Olimpia was associated with the wealthier classes, mostly players from working-class families performed for Gloria; therefore, the club found most of its sympathisers among the poorer part of the population. Olimpia was renamed into Olympia on 9 January 1918 during a meeting of its board and the new president became the Fiuman writer Antonio de Schlemmer, possibly as an anti-irredentist move. During these years, it achieved its first major local and international successes: it became the champion of the Free State of Fiume championship in 1921, and it won several Julian March and North-Eastern Italian championships in the following years, soon becoming the strongest side in the Alpe-Adria region.

1926–1943
On 2 September 1926, following Mussolini's reforms of the FIGC and the 1924 Fiume putsch led by Italian fascists, which brought to the annexation of the independent Free State of Fiume to Italy, Olympia was forced to merge with its arch-rival Gloria into the Unione Sportiva Fiumana. Pietro Pasquali was picked as the new president of the club. Two years later, Fiumana won its first national trophy when it reached first place in the Italian Federal Cup. The following season saw the club playing in the Italian Serie A, with some of the biggest Italian clubs such as Ambrosiana (today's Inter, also forced into a brand image change by the new regime), Juventus and Napoli played at the Kantrida stadium (renamed to Stadio Borgomarina in those years). Despite a decent performance in Serie A, the city, now impoverished by the annexation and cut off from its natural economic hinterland, was not in the financial position to compete with the biggest cities in Italy and following these successes, the club had to see many of its stars signed by major Italian sides. During most of the 1930s and 1940s, the club competed in the second and third tier of the Italian competitions. At the reopening of a refurbished Kantrida (then renamed Stadio del Littorio) in 1935, Fiumana hosted AS Roma. In June 1941, it became champion of the newly created Italian Serie C. Serie C's last season before the fall of fascist Italy in 1943 saw Fiumana end in third place. Mostly from workers' families, the players leaned heavily toward the partisan movement, often joining it outright. They didn't participate in the Italian Social Republic championships and the Adriatic Littoral championship set up by the German occupational force. Nonetheless, the players kept playing several matches with other local clubs and against sides organised or brought in by the German occupational authorities. Worth mentioning are the excessive celebrations for some victories against the German sides that brought several players to be imprisoned and sent to various concentration camps in Germany, and a last ceremonial game between the old legends of Olympia and Gloria that was held on 15 June 1944 while allied planes were bombing the city's surroundings. Most Fiumana players joined the partisan movement and helped the Yugoslav liberation movement, with many ending up in imprisonment and being sent to concentration camps.

1943–1954
Following the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation and the subsequent occupation by Yugoslav troops, and due to the uncertain future status of the city during the long Paris peace conference, the club resumed its activities in the post-war period under the slightly rebranded name of Rappresentativa Sindacale Fiumana. It went on playing several games against the most notable teams of the newly constituted Yugoslav state, beating Dinamo Zagreb 4–2, Akademičar Zagreb 7–2 and Metalac Beograd 2–0. During the interim post-war year, and before the first edition of the Yugoslav First League, R.S. Fiumana played against some of its future Balkan rivals. The authorities also set up an unofficial city tournament among factories named after Fiumana's late captain Giovanni Maras, who died heroically in partisan combat on the nearby Mount Risnjak. Despite Maras and most of his colleagues' partisan allegiance and the many hardships endured by them in Nazi concentration camps, the name Fiumana came soon to be considered too Italian for a city that the Yugoslav occupational authorities were trying to annex by force before the official peace treaty could be signed.

As in most other cities in Yugoslavia, in 1946 the communist authorities established a new identity for the city's most representative club in order for it to take part in the upcoming Yugoslav championship and rebranded and restructured the club into Società Cultura Fisica Quarnero (S.C.F. Quarnero), which later added also the bilingual title Sportsko Društvo Kvarner. The new name followed the geographic neutral naming conventions requested to local councils by the central authorities in Belgrade in order to approve the reestablishment of the local sport club activities and to participate in competitions. The initiative came from Ettore Mazzieri, the city's sports commissioner for the Yugoslav military administration and a previous Fiumana manager. The first match with the Quarnero identify was played on 7 August 1946, bringing revenge against Hajduk Split for the loss from the previous year. The club began the new course with a resounding 2–0 against the best Yugoslav side of the time. Quarnero initially continued to play in the Fiumana amaranto colours, but started switching colours after the first few championships games, and continued appearing with new kits every few matches until season 1957–58. Luigi Sošić and, in particular, Giovanni Cucera took over the role of the first post-war president, shaping the new communist direction of the club. At the same time, all former Fiumana players and staff carried on playing in the renamed club for the next few years before the Italian exodus slowly forced many of them to leave the city after the season 1947–48. As all clubs in Yugoslavia had to transform general sports clubs following the Stalinist model imposed by Belgrade in 1945, S.C.F. Quarnero incorporated 11 other sections in addition to football, including boxing, fencing, basketball and tennis. The international tennis champion Orlando Sirola started his career at the club before his exile.

The authorities in Belgrade soon decided that Rijeka's club should be invited to participate in the first Yugoslav First League in 1946–47 as an external guest, representing the occupied Zone B of the Julian March region, but only after a play-off with the Pula-based club Unione Sportiva Operaia. When the city of Rijeka was assigned to Yugoslavia in February 1947, and Tito broke all ties with Stalin in 1948, most Yugoslav clubs underwent a further re-organisation. Thus, in 1948, Quarnero became once again an all-football club, and the name was also modified into Società Calcio Quarnero – Nogometni Klub Kvarner. During the early period playing in Yugoslavia's competitions, Kvarner reached moderate success in various national and local leagues. Still, the club was relegated at the end of their inaugural season in the Yugoslav First League in 1946–47 due to a purely political decision to favour Ponziana, after Quarnero had already secured its stay in the first league during the season. Upon securing Rijeka for Yugoslavia, the Belgrade authorities were now trying to pander to Trieste's residents through sport in the hope of annexing also that city to Yugoslavia.

The club continued to play with mixed results in Yugoslav football's second and third divisions. The club achieved mediocre results over the next ten years, concurrently with Rijeka's autochthonous population slowly leaving hometown over the years. Consequently, the club lost many of its best players because many opted to leave Yugoslavia and move overseas.

In 1954, following rising ethnic tensions around the Trieste Crisis and the subsequent elimination of all forms of bilingualism in the city, paired with a desire to have a brand more recognizable and associated the club was further renamed into NK Rijeka.

1954–1991
Given the political interferences in the club's life and the continuous mistreatment of ethnic Italians, many of Quarnero's best players were forced to join the Fiuman exodus, and the club lingered between the second and third tier of the Yugoslav competition for the next several years. Following new Italian-Yugoslav tensions that arose during the Trieste Crisis, and the subsequent de facto abolition of the city's full bilingual rights by the communist authorities in Belgrade, the club changed its name once again, into the now completely monolingual NK Rijeka (Rijeka Football Club) on 2 July 1954, giving up onto the Italian language in its brand image for the first time in the club's history. Rijeka started to use a white kit for the second time in its history in a match in Šibenik in the 1957–58 second league season. During the previous seasons, the kit colours were constantly changing, depending on what was available to the management at any given time and what the sponsors could offer. The main kit remained white since. Rijeka returned to the First League in 1958 and remained in the top tier for 11 consecutive seasons until 1969, when it got relegated once again to the Yugoslav Second League. Despite finishing at the top in four (out of five) seasons of the second league, due to three failed promotion play-off attempts, the club only gained promotion back to the top tier in 1974. Rijeka remained in the top tier until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, with varying but improving results.

The club's greatest successes during this period are two Yugoslav Cup titles in 1978 and 1979 and a runner-up finish in 1987, when Rijeka lost the final in the penalty shoot-out. The club never managed to finish the season higher than fourth place in the Yugoslav First League. In 1984, the club came closest to a Yugoslav championship title, finishing only two points behind Red Star Belgrade. Rijeka were also the best placed Croatian club in the Yugoslav First League in 1965, 1984 and 1987.

1991–present
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, Rijeka joined the Croatian First Football League in its inaugural season. In 1995, the club changed its name to HNK Rijeka, adding the prefix "Croatian" to its name, following the example of many other clubs during the Croatian War for Independence. Today, Rijeka remains one of only four founding member clubs of the HNL to have never been relegated and is regarded as one of the country's top three clubs. Since the Croatian independence, the club won its first-ever league title in 2017, ending Dinamo Zagreb's run of 11 consecutive titles, and was a runner-up in seven different seasons. Rijeka has also won six Croatian Cups, including back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006 and most recently in 2019 and 2020. The club also won the cup in 2014 and in 2017, which helped them secure a historic Double in that year.

A refereeing error denied Rijeka their first championship title in the final round of the 1998–99 season. With one match to play, Rijeka was one point ahead of Croatia Zagreb, needing a home win against Osijek to secure the title. With the match tied at 1–1, in the 89th minute, Rijeka forward Admir Hasančić converted a cross by Barnabás Sztipánovics. However, moments later, assistant referee Krečak raised his flag, and referee Šupraha disallowed Rijeka's winning goal for an alleged offside. Following an investigation, 3D analysis revealed Hasančić was not, in fact, in an offside position, and that Rijeka was wrongfully denied their first championship title. An investigation by Nacional revealed Franjo Tuđman, the president of the Republic of Croatia and an ardent Croatia Zagreb supporter, earlier in 1999 ordered the country's intelligence agencies to spy on football referees, officials and journalists, to ensure the Zagreb club wins the league title.

HNK Rijeka in the European competitions
Rijeka participated in UEFA competitions on 23 occasions, including 11 consecutive appearances since 2013–14. The greatest success was the quarter-final of the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup, where they lost to Italian giants Juventus 2–0 on aggregate. The most memorable result in Europe was the home win (3–1) against eventual winners Real Madrid in the 1984–85 UEFA Cup. Controversially, in the return leg at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, which Rijeka lost 3–0, three of their players were sent off. Madrid scored their first goal from a dubious penalty in the 67th minute with Rijeka already down to ten men. Over the next ten minutes, two additional Rijeka players were sent off, most notably Damir Desnica. While Desnica received the first yellow card because he did not stop play after Schoeters blew his whistle, the second yellow was issued because he allegedly insulted the referee. However, unbeknownst to the referee, Desnica had been a deaf-mute since birth. With Rijeka reduced to eight players, Madrid scored two additional goals, progressed to the next round and eventually won the trophy.

In 2013, after winning 4–3 on aggregate against VfB Stuttgart, Rijeka qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage. Rijeka also participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group stage, where they defeated Feyenoord and Standard Liège and drew with title-holders and eventual winners Sevilla. In 2017, Rijeka reached the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League play-off, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to Greek champions Olympiacos, and automatically qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage. In the group stage, they recorded a famous home win (2–0) against AC Milan. In 2020–21 Rijeka reached the group stages of the Europa League for the fourth time in eight years but once again failed to progress to the knockout stages.

Private ownership
In February 2012, Gabriele Volpi – an Italian businessman and the founder of Orlean Invest, as well as the owner of football club Spezia and water polo club Pro Recco – injected much-needed capital into the club. With the privatization process complete by September 2013, Volpi, through Dutch-based Stichting Social Sport Foundation, owned 70% of the club, with the City of Rijeka in control of the remaining 30%. On 29 December 2017 it was announced that chairman Damir Mišković, through London-based Teanna Limited, acquired the majority stake in the club from Stichting Social Sport Foundation.

Record transfers
In January 2015, Rijeka sold their star striker Andrej Kramarić to Leicester City for a club-record £9.7 million transfer fee.

Historical names

 * 1904 – C.S. Olimpia (Club Sportivo Olimpia)
 * 1918 – C.S. Olympia (Club Sportivo Olympia)
 * 1926 – U.S. Fiumana (Unione Sportiva Fiumana), after merger with C.S. Gloria
 * 1945 – R.S. Fiumana (Rappresentativa Sindacale Fiumana)
 * 1946 – S.C.F. Quarnero (Società Cultura Fisica Quarnero), after rebranding to partake in the Yugoslav football championships system
 * 1948 – S.C. Quarnero - N.K. Kvarner (Società Calcio Quarnero - Nogometni Klub Kvarner)
 * 1954 – N.K. Rijeka (Nogometni Klub Rijeka)
 * 1995 – H.N.K. Rijeka (Hrvatski Nogometni Klub Rijeka)

Stadium
The club initially played at the Honved training field in front of today's Popular University of Rijeka in the central Scoglietto suburb of Rijeka. During the 1920s, the club was allowed to build a new and, at the time, modern facility in Scoglietto, and toward the end of the decade, it started using Stadion Kantrida as its primary field, naming it Campo Sportivo Olympia. Kantrida was the club's traditional home ground for over 95 years (with a short hiatus between 1947 and 1951 due to refurbishing) until July 2015. Since August 2015, Rijeka has been based at the newly built Stadion Rujevica, a modern all-seater with a capacity of 8,279. Stadion Rujevica is part of Rijeka's new training centre and is the club's temporary home ground. Following the club's move to Rujevica, plans emerged to build a new, state-of-the-art, all-seater Stadion Kantrida. The project was on hold for close to a decade as the club was seeking funding and co-investors to make the project viable. In December 2023, plans were unveiled that, in addition to the stadium, investors plan to build a commercial complex, which may include three residential highrise towers and a hotel, with a total cost exceeding €100 million. The new Kantrida stadium will be located at the previous location but rotated 90 degrees from the previously proposed location, facing north–south. The facility is designed to accommodate 12,000 to 14,000 spectators and will meet UEFA's fourth-category standards.

Support
Rijeka's ultras group is called Armada Rijeka, or simply Armada. The group has been active since 1987, but some forms of organised (albeit not registered as associations) support were present and following the club already in the decades before, with the earliest reported in the 1920s.

During most home matches, the majority of the seats are occupied by season ticket holders. For the 2023–24 season, the club has more than 6,200 season ticket holders and 15,300 members.

Rivalries
Rijeka's greatest rivalry nowadays is with Hajduk Split. Since 1946, the Adriatic derby has been contested between the two most popular Croatian football clubs from the Adriatic coast, Rijeka and Hajduk. Other rivalries exist with other major clubs in Croatia Dinamo Zagreb and a milder with Osijek. The primary regional derby is with Istra Pula. The origins of the Rijeka–Pula rivalry date back to the clashes between Fiumana and Grion Pola since the late 1920s. The city derby with Orijent is probably the oldest, with its roots in the clashes between CS Olimpia and CS Gloria against Orijent and the other more successful in those early years Sušak-based club, Victoria.

Notable players

 * To appear in this section a player must have satisfied all of the following three criteria:

 * (1) player has at least 100 appearances in official matches, including first division (Yugoslav First League and Croatian First Football League), domestic cup (Yugoslav Cup, Croatian Cup and Croatian Supercup) and UEFA club competitions;
 * (2) player has scored at least 20 goals in official matches if forward, 5 if midfielder and no goal requirement if defender or goalkeeper in first division (Yugoslav First League and Croatian First Football League), domestic cup (Yugoslav Cup, Croatian Cup and Croatian Supercup) and UEFA club competitions; and
 * (3) player has played at least one international match for their national team while under contract with Rijeka.
 * Otherwise, also included are 30 of the club's top scorers and most capped players in the first division.

 * 🇮🇹 Ezio Loik
 * 🇮🇹 Rodolfo Volk
 * 🇮🇹 Mario Varglien
 * 🇮🇹 Giovanni Varglien
 * 🇮🇹 Luigi Ossoinach
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Kregar
 * 🇮🇹 Giovanni Maras
 * 🇭🇺 Ernő Egri Erbstein
 * 🇭🇺 Ferenc Molnár
 * 🇭🇺 Balassa Béla
 * 🇦🇹 Alexander Gorgon
 * 🇧🇦 Senad Brkić
 * 🇧🇦 Admir Hasančić
 * 🇧🇦 Zoran Kvržić
 * 🇧🇷 Héber Araujo dos Santos
 * 🇩🇪 Fredi Bobic
 * 🇭🇷 Filip Bradarić
 * 🇭🇷 Elvis Brajković
 * 🇭🇷 Antonio Čolak
 * 🇭🇷 Dario Knežević
 * 🇭🇷 Andrej Kramarić
 * 🇭🇷 Nediljko Labrović
 * 🇭🇷 Mate Maleš
 * 🇭🇷 Matej Mitrović
 * 🇭🇷 Mladen Mladenović
 * 🇭🇷 Roberto Paliska
 * 🇭🇷 Dubravko Pavličić
 * 🇭🇷 Mladen Romić
 * 🇭🇷 Daniel Šarić
 * 🇲🇰 Leonard Zuta
 * 🇲🇪 Radomir Đalović
 * 🇲🇪 Marko Vešović
 * 🇸🇮 Roman Bezjak
 * 🇨🇭 Josip Drmić
 * 🇨🇭 Mario Gavranović
 * Radojko Avramović
 * Marijan Brnčić
 * Boško Bursać
 * Nikica Cukrov
 * Damir Desnica
 * Adriano Fegic
 * Nenad Gračan
 * Tonči Gulin
 * Miloš Hrstić
 * Janko Janković
 * Marijan Jantoljak
 * Srećko Juričić
 * Miodrag Kustudić
 * Vladimir Lukarić
 * Sergio Machin
 * Danko Matrljan
 * Nikica Milenković
 * Anđelo Milevoj
 * Velimir Naumović
 * Petar Radaković
 * Zvjezdan Radin
 * Milan Radović
 * Mauro Ravnić
 * Milan Ružić
 * Miroslav Šugar
 * Edmond Tomić
 * Bruno Veselica
 * Mladen Vranković
 * Nedeljko Vukoje

Source: Appearances and Goals. Last updated 26 March 2024.

All-time Best 11
According to a 2005–07 survey of former players (older than 40 years of age) and respected journalists, Marinko Lazzarich found that the best all-time team of Rijeka is as follows:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Milevoj, 3. Hrstić, 4. Radaković, 5. Radin, 6. Juričić, 7. Lukarić, 8. Gračan, 9. Osojnak, 10. Naumović, 11. Desnica.

Rijeka's daily, Novi list, in 2011 declared the following 11 players as Rijeka's best all time team:

1. Jantoljak, 2. Šarić, 3. Radin, 4. Juričić, 5. Hrstić, 6. Loik, 7. Radaković, 8. Mladenović, 9. Naumović, 10. Skoblar, 11. Desnica.

Best 11 (2010–20)
In 2020, the club's fans voted to select the best squad over the past decade to fit in a 4–2–3–1 formation:

Prskalo – Ristovski, Župarić, Mitrović, Zuta – Kreilach, Moisés – Vešović, Andrijašević, Sharbini – Kramarić. Manager: Kek.

Historical list of coaches

 * 🇭🇺 Karoly Bela (September 1926 – July 27)
 * 🇮🇹 Delfino Costanzo Valle (August 1927 – July 29)
 * 🇭🇺 Imre Emmerich Poszonyi (August 1929 – July 32)
 * 🇮🇹 Luigi Ossoinak (August 1932 – July 33)
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Kregar (August 1933 – July 36)
 * 🇭🇺 Eugen Payer (August 1936 – July 38)
 * 🇮🇹 Marcello Mihalich (August 1938 – July 40)
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Piccalunga (August 1940 – July 42)
 * 🇦🇹 Artur Kolisch (August 1942 – 44)
 * 🇦🇹 Hans Bloch (July 1946 – August 46)
 * Jozo Matošić (August 1946 – August 47)
 * Ivan Smojver & Ante Vukelić (September 1947 – October 47)
 * Franjo Glaser (October 1947 – July 48)
 * Zvonko Jazbec (September 1948 – December 48)
 * Franjo Glaser (January 1949 – December 50)
 * Slavko Kodrnja (January 1951 – December 51)
 * Ljubo Benčić (January 1952 – August 52)
 * Nikola Duković (September 1952 – April 53)
 * Antun Lokošek (May 1953 – December 53)
 * Ratomir Čabrić (January 1954 – July 54)
 * Franjo Glaser (August 1954 – July 56)
 * Nikola Duković (September 1956 – July 57)
 * Milorad Ognjanov (September 1957 – October 59)
 * Luka Kaliterna (November 1959 – May 60)
 * Stojan Osojnak (May 1960 – June 61)
 * Ostoja Simić (June 1961 – May 62)
 * Angelo Ziković (August 1962 – December 62)
 * 🇷🇴 Virgil Popescu (January 1963 – September 64)
 * Stojan Osojnak (October 1964 – June 67)
 * Vladimir Beara (May 1967 – November 68)
 * Angelo Ziković (November 1968 – June 70)
 * Ilijas Pašić (June 1970 – June 71)
 * Stevan Vilotić (June 1971 – June 72)
 * Marcel Žigante (June 1972 – May 73)
 * Ivica Šangulin (May 1973 – June 74)
 * Gojko Zec (June 1974 – June 76)
 * Dragutin Spasojević (June 1976 – April 79)
 * Marijan Brnčić (interim) (April 1979 – June 79)
 * Miroslav Blažević (June 1979 – January 81)
 * Marijan Brnčić (January 1981 – April 83)
 * Josip Skoblar (May 1983 – December 86)
 * Mladen Vranković (January 1987 – June 89)
 * Vladimir Lukarić (June 1989 – January 91)
 * Nikola "Pape" Filipović (January 1991)
 * Mladen Vranković (February 1991)
 * Željko Mudrovičić (March 1991 – June 91)
 * Marijan Jantoljak (June 1991 – November 92)
 * Srećko Juričić & Mile Tomljenović (November 1992)
 * Srećko Juričić (January 1993 – June 94)
 * Zvjezdan Radin (June 1994 – March 95)
 * Mladen Vranković (April 1995)
 * Josip Skoblar (April 1995 – June 95)
 * Marijan Jantoljak (June 1995 – September 95)
 * Ranko Buketa (interim) (September 1995 – October 95)
 * Josip Skoblar (October 1995 – November 95)
 * Miroslav Blažević & Nenad Gračan (January 1996 – June 96)
 * Luka Bonačić (June 1996 – August 96)
 * Ivan Kocjančić (interim) (August 1996)
 * Branko Ivanković (August 1996 – March 98)
 * Nenad Gračan (March 1998 – November 2000)
 * Boris Tičić (interim) (November 2000 – December 2000)
 * Predrag Stilinović (December 2000 – 1 May)
 * Ivan Katalinić (May 2001 – 2 May)
 * Zlatko Kranjčar (May 2002 – 2 November)
 * Mladen Mladenović (November 2002 – 3 March)
 * Vjekoslav Lokica (March 2003 – 3 July)
 * Ivan Katalinić (July 2003 – 4 May)
 * Elvis Scoria (1 July 2004 – 30 September 2005)
 * Dragan Skočić (1 October 2005 – 30 September 2006)
 * Milivoj Bračun (1 October 2006 – 13 March 2007)
 * Josip Kuže (12 March 2007 – 4 June 2007)
 * Zlatko Dalić (1 June 2007 – 30 June 2008)
 * Mladen Ivančić (7 July 2008 – 8 October 2008)
 * Stjepan Ostojić (interim) (4 October 2008 – 13 October 2008)
 * Robert Rubčić (13 October 2008 – 21 September 2009)
 * Zoran Vulić (22 September 2009 – 10 November 2009)
 * Nenad Gračan (10 November 2009 – 6 November 2010)
 * Elvis Scoria (7 November 2010 – 16 June 2011)
 * Alen Horvat (20 June 2011 – 4 October 2011)
 * 🇧🇦 Ivo Ištuk (4 October 2011 – 18 March 2012)
 * Dragan Skočić (19 March 2012 – 30 April 2012)
 * Mladen Ivančić (interim) (30 April 2012 – 2 May 2012)
 * Elvis Scoria (2 May 2012 – 24 February 2013)
 * Matjaž Kek (27 February 2013 – 6 October 2018)
 * Igor Bišćan (9 October 2018 – 22 September 2019)
 * Simon Rožman (23 September 2019 – 27 February 2021)
 * Goran Tomić (1 March 2021 – 27 May 2022)
 * Dragan Tadić (20 June 2022 – 16 August 2022)
 * Fausto Budicin (interim) (16 August 2022 – 5 September 2022)
 * 🇮🇹 Serse Cosmi (5 September 2022 – 13 November 2022)
 * 🇧🇦 Sergej Jakirović (30 November 2022 – 21 August 2023)
 * Darko Raić-Sudar (interim) (22 August 2023 – 25 August 2023)
 * Željko Sopić (25 August 2023 – )

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Presidents

 * Antonio Carlo de Schlemmer 1918–1920
 * Antonio Marcich 1920–1921
 * Pietro Pasquali 1921–1923
 * Clemente Marassi 1923–1925
 * Nino Host-Venturi 1925–1926
 * Giovanni Stiglich 1926–1928
 * Ramiro Antonini 1928–1929
 * Oscar Sperber 1929–1931
 * Costanzo Delfino 1931–1936
 * Alessandro Szemere 1936–1937
 * Eugenio Zoncada 1937–1938
 * Alessandro Andreanelli 1938–1939
 * Giuseppe Ianetti 1939–1940
 * Alesandro Andreanelli 1940–1941
 * Carlo Descovich 1941–1942
 * Andrea Gastaldi 1942–1945
 * Luigi Sošić, 1946
 * Giovanni Cucera, 1946–1948
 * Ambrosio Stečić, 1948–1952
 * Dr. Zdravko Kučić, 1953–1954
 * Milorad Doričić, 1955–1956
 * Milan Blažević, 1957–1959
 * Stjepan Koren, 1960–1963
 * Milorad Doričić, 1964–1969
 * Vilim Mulc, 1969–1971
 * Davor Sušanj, 1971
 * Ljubo Španjol, 1972–1978
 * Zvonko Poščić, 1978–1979
 * Nikola Jurčević, 1980
 * Marijan Glavan, 1981
 * Davor Sušanj, 1981–1984
 * Stjepko Gugić, 1985–1986
 * Dragan Krčelić, 1986–1989
 * Želimir Gruičić, 1989–1991
 * Darko Čargonja, 1991–1992
 * Josip Lokmer, 1993–1994
 * Krsto Pavić, 1994–1995
 * Hrvoje Šarinić, 1995–1996
 * Franjo Šoda, 1996–1997
 * Prof. Žarko Tomljanović, 1997–2000
 * Hrvoje Šarinić, Dr. Ivan Vanja Frančišković, Robert Ježić, 2000
 * Robert Ježić, 2000
 * Sanjin Kirigin, 2000–2002
 * Duško Grabovac, 2002–2003
 * Robert Ježić, 2003–2008
 * Dr. Ivan Vanja Frančišković, 2008–2009
 * Ivan Turčić, 2009–2011
 * Robert Komen, 2011–2012
 * Damir Mišković, 2012–

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Honours
Rijeka has won one Croatian First Football League title, two Yugoslav Cups and six Croatian Cups, one Italian Coppa Federale. In European competitions, the club has reached the quarter-final of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1979–80, UEFA Cup Round of 32 in 1984–85, and group stages of the UEFA Europa League in 2013–14, 2014–15, 2017–18 and 2020–21. The club has also won the 1977–78 Balkans Cup.

Domestic
Croatia
 * Croatian First League
 * Winners (1): 2016–17
 * Runners-up (8): 1998–99, 2005–06, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24
 * Croatian Cup
 * Winners (6): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20
 * Runners-up: (3) 1993–94, 2021–22, 2023–24
 * Croatian Super Cup
 * Winners (1): 2014
 * Runners-up (3): 2005, 2006, 2019

Yugoslavia Italy Free State of Fiume
 * Yugoslav Second League
 * Winners (6): 1952, 1957–58, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74
 * Yugoslav Cup
 * Winners (2): 1977–78, 1978–79
 * Runners-up: 1986–87
 * Italian Coppa Federale
 * Winners (1): 1927–28
 * Italian North-East league
 * Winners (1): 1923–24
 * Runners-up: 1924–25
 * Italian Third League
 * Winners (1): 1940–41
 * Julian March Championship
 * Winners (2): 1921–22, 1922–23
 * Friuli and Julian March Cup
 * Winners (1): 1922–23

 * Fiuman championship
 * Winners (1): 1920–21
 * Fiuman-Julian Cup
 * Winners (1): 1921

Austria-Hungary

 * Grazioli Cup
 * Runners-up: 1919

International
Source:, Last updated 31 July 2020.
 * Balkans Cup
 * Winners: 1977–78
 * Runners-up: 1979–80
 * The Atlantic Cup:
 * Winners: 2017

UEFA club coefficient ranking
The following data indicates Rijeka's coefficient rankings through the years.

 * (As of 9 May 2024), Source:

All time UEFA ranking: 271

By competition
Source: uefa.com, Fully up to date on 31 August 2023. Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

By ground
Source: uefa.com, Fully up to date on 31 August 2023. Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against.

By season
Non-UEFA competitions are listed in italics. Last updated on 18 July 2024. Note: List includes matches played in competitions not endorsed by UEFA. † Matches played at neutral ground in Ascoli and Pisa, Italy.

Player records

 * Most appearances in UEFA club competitions: 38 appearances
 * Zoran Kvržić
 * Ivan Tomečak
 * Top scorer in UEFA club competitions: 8 goals
 * Andrej Kramarić

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Dag the Wise

Dag the Wise or Dagr spaki was a mythological Swedish king of the  House of Ynglings (dated to the 4th century by 16th-century historiographer Johannes Magnus). He was the son of Dyggvi, the former king. According to legend, he could understand the speech of birds and had a sparrow that gathered news for him from many lands. When the bird was killed on one of these trips, Dag invaded Reidgotaland (considering the date and location, apparently Gothiscandza), in order to avenge it. There he was ambushed by a thrall and killed.

The earliest two versions based on Ynglingatal, i.e. Historia Norwegiæ and Íslendingabók (see below) say that Dag was succeeded by his sons Alrekr and Eírikr who in their turn were succeeded by Dag's grandson Agne (in Historia Norwegiæ incorrectly called Hogne ):

Historia Norwegiæ:

Íslendingabók only lists the line of succession: ''x Dyggvi. xi Dagr. xii Alrekr. xiii Agni. xiiii Yngvi.

However, in the Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson gives Agne as Dag's son and successor, and the two brothers Alrekr and Eiríkr as his grandsons.

This is what Snorri tells of Dag:

Then Snorri quoted Ynglingatal (9th century):

The fact that Skjótansvað/Vápnavað appear both in Ynglinga saga and in Historia Norwegiæ's earlier summary of Ynglingatal but not in Snorri's later quotation from it, suggests that all of Ynglingatal was not presented by him.

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Fiona Ma

Fiona Ma (born March 4, 1966) is an American politician and accountant. She has been serving as the California state treasurer since January 7, 2019. She previously was a member of the California Board of Equalization (2015–2019), the California State Assembly (2006–2012), and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2002–2006).

A member of the Democratic Party, Ma was the first Asian American woman to serve as California Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore, the second highest-ranking office in the California Assembly. Ma is also only the second Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to be elected to the Board of Equalization. She was selected as Chairperson of the California Board of Equalization in 2016, and ordered three external audits of the agency.

In March 2019, Ma announced she would run for the 2026 California gubernatorial election. In March 2023, she announced that she would be running for Lieutenant Governor in 2026 instead.

Early life and education
Ma is the oldest of three children born to William and Sophia Ma, both Chinese immigrants. Her grandfather, Lieutenant General, was the first mayor of Kunming, Yunnan.

Born and raised in New York, she attended Baker Elementary School before graduating from Great Neck North Middle and High Schools. Her father, William Ma, was a mechanical engineer who later specialized in construction claims and litigation before he retired. Her mother, Sophia (née Doo), was a high school art teacher for 20 years before moving the family to San Francisco to be closer to her parents. Rev William Doo was posted as a minister at the San Francisco Swatow Christian Church in San Francisco's Sunset District.

Ma earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. She is a CPA and a member of the Aspen Institute's 2009 Class of Aspen-Rodel Fellows.

Career
In 1993, Ma worked at Ernst & Young, one of the "big six" accounting firms at the time. However, seeing few female managers and even fewer female partners during her time with the firm, she decided to start her own accounting practice with an associate.

In 1994, Ma was elected president of the Asian Business Association, which led to her first involvement with politics, lobbying San Francisco City Hall and the Sacramento State Capitol for business issues that affected women and minorities. As a result of her work on behalf of the Small Business Association at that same time, she was elected in 1995 as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business under President Bill Clinton. Ma's advocacy work in that role helped lead to socially responsible contracting for minorities and women in San Francisco, and produced a report to Congress on the 60 top policy recommendations to help small businesses grow and prosper in the 21st century.

Ma is an active member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA), Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC). She was also a Hunt Keane Fellow in 2019, Cohort 6. Additionally, she is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and had a small role in the short film My Name Is Moe.

Ma was appointed to the Assessment Appeals Board of San Francisco by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1995. That same year, she started her public service career as a part-time district representative for then-State Senator John Burton. She served as John Burton's district representative until her election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2002. She was responsible for helping constituents with Medi-Cal, Workers' Compensation, Unemployment Insurance, Franchise and Employment Development Department taxes, and professional licensing.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Ma was later elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors from 2002 to 2006 representing District 4, the Sunset District, Outer Sunset, Parkside, Outer Parkside, and Pine Lake Park. While serving on that board, her major legislative push was a human rights campaign to shut down massage parlors who illegally trafficked persons into the country and used them to run illegal prostitution rings. Following the passage of Proposition 209, which barred public institutions from considering sex, race or ethnicity, she led the effort to create the city's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program to enable small businesses to more easily participate in public works projects, aiming to broaden the scope of inclusion. As a Supervisor, she also started her advocacy regarding banning toxins from children's toys - passing Ordinance Number 060107 to "prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any toy or child-care article…if it contains bisphenol-A or other specified chemicals."

California Assembly
Fiona Ma was first elected to represent California's 19th Assembly District from November 2006 to November 2012 (serving the maximum three terms). She was the 112th woman to be elected to the California legislature and the first Asian woman to serve as Speaker pro Tempore since 1850.

Ma won the Democratic nomination to represent California's 19th Assembly District against fellow Democrat Janet Reilly in the state primary election of June 6, 2006. The campaign was one of the more expensive legislative primary races in the state of California.

On November 7, 2006, Ma received 70 percent of the votes and defeated her two opponents for California Assembly, Republican Howard Epstein and Green Barry Hermanson. She replaced Leland Yee as 19th District assemblywoman. Her district included San Francisco, Daly City, Colma and Broadmoor, totaling some 420,000 constituents.

Ma was appointed Assembly majority whip by the speaker of the assembly, Fabian Núñez, a position which she held for 4 years. As Majority Whip, she marshaled votes to ensure the passage of legislation that affected public education, expanded healthcare access, and set in place environmental protections. In 2010, Speaker of the Assembly John Pérez appointed Ma to the leadership position of Speaker pro Tempore, a position which she held for her final 2 years as the California Assembly. As presiding officer and member of the leadership team, Ma guided assembly members through the daily business of the house, responds to parliamentary inquiries, issues rulings on points of order when necessary, and is responsible for guiding legislative priorities. Ma presided over a record-breaking 18-hour session to pass California's budget.

As an assemblywoman, Ma continued her work around toxic children's toys, authoring legislation banning toxic chemicals in products for babies and small children in assembly bill 1108. The bill came to be known as the "Rubber Duck Bill", so named because phthalates are often used in the manufacture of soft plastic toys and baby teethers. Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor of California, signed the bill into law in October 2007; it took effect in January 2009. Ma's legislation was later incorporated into Senator Dianne Feinstein's federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 signed by President George W. Bush on August 15, 2008. She also worked on the creation of statewide high-speed rail, granting equal rights to men and women to change their last names when they are married or become domestic partners, and was a co-author of SB 840, a bill that would create a single payer universal health care system throughout California.

Committee membership
Standing committees:

 * Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review
 * Committee on Agriculture
 * Committee on Appropriations
 * Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media
 * Committee on Business and Professions
 * Committee on Governmental Organization
 * Committee on Health
 * Committee on Higher Education
 * Committee on Housing and Community Development
 * Committee on Labor and Employment
 * Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security
 * Committee on Public Safety
 * Committee on Revenue and Taxation
 * Committee on Utilities and Commerce

Select committees:
 * Chair, Select Committee on Domestic Violence
 * Select Committee on Alcohol And Drug Abuse
 * Select Committee on Foster Care
 * Select Committee on Preservation of California's Entertainment Industry
 * Select Committee on Rail Transportation
 * Select Committee on Regional Approaches To Addressing The State's Water Crisis
 * Select Committee on Safety And Protection Of At-Risk Communities In California

Joint committees:
 * Joint Committee on Fairs, Allocation, and Classification
 * Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe

California Board of Equalization
On November 4, 2014, Ma won election to Board of Equalization district 2. She received 1,448,657 votes to win the election by 68.5% of the vote. District 2 covers nearly 10 million people along California's coastline from Oregon to Santa Barbara.

On, February 24, 2016, at the Board of Equalization (BOE) meeting in Culver City, the Board selected Ma as its chair. As chair, Ma also sits on the California Franchise Tax Board.

The California's Board of Equalization was created by voter initiative in 1879 to "equalize" property values/taxes. The board has broad regulatory and adjudicatory powers as a state tax board. The five-member Board meets monthly and is the only elected tax board in the country. The BOE administers more than 30 tax and fee programs. During fiscal year 2014–15, the BOE generated $60.5 billion of revenue. The BOE's monthly meetings offer taxpayers and other interested parties opportunities to participate in the formulation of rules and regulations adopted by the Board.

California state treasurer
On May 17, 2016, Ma announced she was opening her campaign to run for California treasurer in the 2018 election. On June 5, 2018, she finished first in the nonpartisan open primary, and then defeated Republican Greg Conlon in the November 6 election receiving 7,825,587 votes – the most votes ever earned by a candidate for treasurer of California. On January 7, 2019, she was sworn in as the first woman of color and the second CPA to ever serve as California State Treasurer. In the Assembly, Ma was one of California's most powerful legislators, and as State Treasurer, she continued developing new laws and policies. In 2019 she sponsored 15 pieces of legislation, supported 25 bills, and provided technical support to 30 others, focusing on her priority areas of fiscal accountability, green financing, high-speed rail, affordable housing and consumer protections.

Head banker and strengthening state finances
In her first year in office, Wall Street's Fitch Ratings and Moody's upgraded California's general obligation bonds, citing improved fiscal management, and stating California's budget reserves had "never been stronger". Ma stated her goal to help create "lower borrowing costs, a favorable interest rate environment, improved ratings, and a continued commitment to building reserves". In the first quarter of 2019, Ma sold more bonds than any other state treasurer in America, including a different bond issuance almost every week during March and April. From July to December 2019, her office sold an additional $7.65 billion of bonds. In November 2019, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst's Office reported on the Treasurer's cost-cutting impact stating: "the State Treasurer has been able to refinance much of the state's bond debt. Consequently, much of the state's outstanding debt now carries a lower interest rate resulting in lower annual costs." Overall in 2019, Ma's office oversaw $85 billion in bonds and $85 billion to $100 billion (an all-time high) in short term investments. "I believe in checks and balances, accountability and also being proactive," Ma told Bloomberg news. Ma's priorities for California's bond program include:
 * saving taxpayer's billions of dollars by refinancing at lowering interest rates
 * solving the housing crisis with more bonds allocated to affordable and low cost housing
 * green bonds which promote environmental benefits for the people of California
 * broadening efforts to include women, minority and veteran-owned broker-dealer firms to manage bond issuances
 * helping local city governments to manage their finances soundly
 * statewide infrastructure projects and voter approved bonds such as clean water and high-speed rail.

Green financing and environmental policy
Ma chaired the inaugural meeting of the California Green Bond Market Development Committee on June 5, 2019 to "establish California as the world's green bond leader" by developing standards for what qualifies as green bonds, and incorporating green bonds into the financing of state infrastructure projects.

Ma launched the Small Business Energy Efficiency Financing and the Affordable Multifamily Energy Efficiency Financing programs in October 2019 to help small business, nonprofits and affordable housing owners to reduce the cost of financing energy efficiency improvements. She also co-sponsored the California Recycling Market Development Act to promote California's recycling programs, AB 1583 authored by Assemblymember Susan Eggman and signed in to law by Governor Newsom. Ma also chairs the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA), which assists the state in meeting its greenhouse gas goals and works with the private market. CAEATFA operates the CA Hub for Energy Efficiency Financing Program, which has provided more than $825 million in sales tax exclusions for over 200 green projects that support solar manufacturing, geothermal, renewable fuels, and biogas production. Ma also chairs the California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA), providing $16.2 billion in low-cost innovative financing to California businesses since 1972 to make California more economically prosperous and environmentally clean. CPCFA was the first statewide financing authority to sign the Green Bond Pledge, vowing to meet climate bond principles in all of its projects. CPCFA awarded $73.7 million in tax-exempt green bond financing in 2019 to CalPlant I, LLC, a company that will turn rice straw into medium density fiberboard, employing 115 full- time workers, 450 part-time harvest-season workers, and supporting 325 construction jobs to build this first-of-a-kind project.

In December 2020, Ma's office enrolled the milestone 1,000th loan of the Residential Energy Efficiency Loan Program, to a Yuba County homeowner to install a highly efficient HVAC and smart thermostat.

Affordable housing
Ma's office oversees private activity bonds and state housing tax credits that are used to build and maintain low-income housing and keep rents in these units affordable for 55 years. In 2019, her office sold over $180 million of bonds for the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) program to provide affordable loans to veterans.

Ma also sold $500 million (in 2019) and $450 million (in 2020) in revenue bonds for California's No Place Like Home (NPLH) program, a groundbreaking California effort to develop permanent supportive housing for homeless and mentally ill persons. This "social bond," to fund projects that produce positive social outcomes, won the Bond Buyer Magazine's Deal of the Year award in 2020.

In September 2020, Ma released policy reports on affordable housing for community college students, working with the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing. With the California School Finance Authority (CSFA), Ma's office issued $87 million in bonds to build 352 beds for Santa Rosa Junior College. In October 2020, the CTCAC chaired by Ma approved $91 million in tax credits for 2,846 units of low-income housing in counties heavily damaged by the Camp, Tubbs, Thomas, and Mendocino Complex wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

Protecting families, consumers and small business
In June 2019, Ma announced the official launch of the CalSavers Retirement Savings Program (CalSavers), which offers an IRA retirement savings option to employees who don't currently have one through their employer. The program also offers an option for self-employed "gig" workers who don't work as traditional employees.

In October 2019, Ma announced that California's family college savings plan known as California's ScholarShare 529 had received a gold rating from Morningstar Inc, making it one of the four top college savings plan in the nation. In 2019, the "Scholar Dollars" program as part of ScholarShare 529 awarded more than $300,000 to 20 K-8 California public schools to fund technology, music, art, theater, computer science, sports, and other programs. In 2020, Ma moved to further protect these college savings accounts, sponsoring SB898 authored by State Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont and signed by Gov. Newsom. The new law protects ScholarShare 529 accounts from being raided by debt collectors.

As part of Governor Gavin Newsom's Master Plan for Aging, Ma co-sponsored three bills addressing the needs of older adults, people with disabilities and family caregivers: AB 1287 (Nazarian), AB 1382 (Aguiar-Curry), and SB 611(Cabellero). In 2019, the Treasurer Office's CalABLE program was expanded to allow anyone with a disability diagnosed before the age of 26 to open up an account and save up to $15,000 a year.

In 2020, as part of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (iBank), Ma began administering the California Rebuilding Fund, a new public-private partnership to support California's small businesses. The fund is part of the California Governor's Office of Economic Development.

High-speed rail
In her first year as treasurer, Ma appointed Dr Beverly Scott, adjunct professor at the Mineta Transportation Institute of San Jose State University, and Frederick Jordan, president of Bay Area construction company F.E. Jordan Associates Inc, to the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group. Ma also provided support to the SoCal-to-Las Vegas Brightline West high-speed rail project connecting Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada when she announced approval of a $300 million bond issuance for the project. The $8-billion, 170-mile long line running along Interstate 15 is slated to start construction in 2023 with trains running by 2025. "This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm that we have ever seen," said Art Bishop, a councilman and former mayor in the San Bernardino County, California area, with an expected 600 permanent jobs generated and thousands of new homes in the region.

Cannabis banking
Ma continued her efforts to regulate the legal marijuana industry, and on February 13, 2019, she was the highest-ranking government official to testify at the first congressional hearing to authorize "safe-harbor" banking services for marijuana businesses located in states which have legalized marijuana use. Ma pointed out that "the cannabis market in California alone is expected to exceed $5.1 billion" by 2020, but federal roadblocks prevent those funds from going through the banking system. Those huge amounts of cash are untraceable and can lead to violent crimes like armed-robbery and other illicit activities. In addition, Ma pointed out that marijuana-related businesses are forced to pay employees in cash and therefore these employees are unable to pay into the Social Security system, unable to get car loans or home mortgages, and even unable to pay into alimony and child support. In 2019, Ma sponsored SB 51, by Senator Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg, to allow private banks and credit unions to apply for state licensing which would allow licensed cannabis-related businesses to open accounts and deposit income.

Collecting sales tax revenue from Amazon
On April 25, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that Ma had pushed to require out-of-state and online retailers like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon (company) to collect sales taxes in line with the practices of local California businesses, eliminating an unfair advantage that Amazon and other out-of-state and online businesses had claimed. Ma had championed such legislation when she sat on the Board of Equalization, and during her time in the California Assembly since 2007.

COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic beginning March 2020, all Ma's operations were considered essential services and kept fully-open and operational. Ma's office and agencies she chaired took the following actions: In May 2020, Ma began operating the COVID-19 Emergency HELP Loan Program to provide financial assistance to health facilities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Loans authorized include: By May 2020, California had spent $2.2 billion on safety gear to prevent coronavirus infection. No-bid contracts were used because of the emergency and unprecedented need for personal protective equipment. The state's standard purchasing processes were disrupted and Ma's office, which normally just carries out final stages of financial transactions, took on an oversight role.
 * assembled resources for taxpayer relief, food sources for needy families, and financial resources for small business.
 * Extended deadlines for business for the CalSavers retirement program and supported Governor Newsom and the State Franchise Tax Board in extending deadlines for California tax returns.
 * Launched $5 million emergency loan program for hospitals and health facilities in small, rural and district communities.
 * Increased bond money available to build additional 4,054 units of affordable housing including the first housing to target LGBT elders in the Davis region.
 * Pushed forward on $600 million in bonds for the Southern California to Las Vegas high speed rail project including 1,250 workforce housing units, 30,000 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs.
 * $250,000 to Operation Samaha in San Diego to increase space for a drive-thru COVID-19 screening clinic and other renovation's.
 * $250,000 to Asian American Drug Abuse Program in Los Angeles County

2023 Writers Guild of America strike
On August 30, 2023, Ma sent letters to Netflix, The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery Channel, Apple Inc., Paramount Global and Amazon, telling them to return to negotiations and settle the strikes. She states that the impact of the strikes "paralyzes Hollywood and reverberates across the state, affecting countless businesses, thousands of pension fund beneficiaries, and millions of Californians."

Accusations of impropriety
In summer of 2021, a former staffer filed a civil rights complaint against Ma, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination for declining the harassing behavior. In court filings, Judith Blackwell complained that Ma created a hostile work environment by making overt and unwanted advances while the two shared a hotel room on work trips. Such behavior included exposing her bare rear end to Blackwell on multiple occasions. Ma also gave Blackwell many gifts, such as jewelry, a prime parking spot and marijuana edibles, up until the time she was fired according to Politico. Ma is also accused of accepting inappropriate gifts.

Ma had also shared hotel rooms 13 times with her chief of staff over a two-year period. And while the practice of sharing rooms with subordinates does not violate departmental policy, the situation was criticized, according to the Associated Press. Ma has denied any wrongdoing in her defense against Blackwell and said the sharing of hotel rooms was a cost-saving measure.

In the last week of October 2023 Treasurer Ma expressed disappointment that the trial was delayed after Blackwell's attorney Waulkeen McCoy filed for a delay saying he had another trial in Texas. "The Treasurer has said for months that she wants her day in court to disprove these bogus allegations," said Ma spokesperson Steve Maviglio. The trial was set for February 2024, then postponed to June due to scheduling conflicts.

Personal life
She is married to Jason Hodge, a Ventura County firefighter of Native American descent and an Oxnard Port Commissioner with the Port of Hueneme in Ventura County.

Business taxes
A top priority for Ma while on the Board of Equalization was to get everyone to pay "their fair share of taxes", particularly "the $8 billion in unpaid taxes in the underground economy." This included efforts to get Amazon to collect sales tax on transactions from third-party sellers as a way of helping local brick-and-mortar retailers to compete – estimated at between $431 million and $1.8 billion in new revenue for California every year. In her first year, Ma also advocated for e-cigarettes to be taxed like tobacco products, as a way to deter vaping and smoking, and to pay for health-costs caused by tobacco use. Two years later in 2017, voters passed Prop. 56 with a nearly 2/3 majority, collecting $1.7 billion in new tobacco taxes which was spent on anti-smoking programs and funding Medi-Cal payments for the poor. Ma also identified the cannabis industry as "the largest shadow economy in California" with "hundreds of millions of dollars that disappear into an underground cannabis economy". Her tireless efforts to regulate the industry, develop systems to "track and trace" all marijuana in California, and to develop legal banking mechanisms for marijuana businesses earned her the nickname of "chief marijuana tax collector".

Tax relief for citizens and small business
After 2015's Valley Fire in Lake County left four dead and nearly 2,000 buildings destroyed, Ma proposed a new law (enacted the following year) that granted some tax relief to businesses that suffer losses from a natural disaster like the Valley Fire. Ma has also actively supported California's Earned Income Tax Credit to give cash back to low-income individuals, and promoted expansion of the program to minimum wage earners and independent contractors.

Clean government reforms
Within months of joining the Board of Equalization, Ma became "very, very frustrated" with the agency's fiscal conditions and mishandling of state tax accounts. She called for the formation of an Auditing and Oversight Committee, and when she became Chairperson in 2016, initiated three external audits of the agency. The audits exposed a culture of mismanagement, nepotism and political use of state resources. Ma co-sponsored legislation to toughen campaign reporting requirements for BOE members. She then led the effort to ask the Governor to appoint a public trustee to take over the agency, and called on CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra to assign independent legal counsel for the agency. Ma laid out a list of reforms which was incorporated into the "Taxpayer Transparency and Fairness Act of 2017", the biggest restructuring of the Board of Equalization in its 138-year history. The law was signed by Governor Jerry Brown in June 2017 and supported by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Kevin de León, and former BOE member Controller Betty Yee.

Women and diversity
Ma continued her lifelong commitment to promoting women and diversity in public office. In 2016, she received Emerge California's Woman of the Year Award and was a speaker at the Ascend Conference, the largest non-profit Pan-Asian business conference in America. Among her many other activities, Ma also celebrated Women's Equality Day at the Kelley House in Mendocino and spoke to students at the Future Chinese Leaders of America in Los Angeles.

Requiring consent to plastinate a corpse
On February 23, 2007, Ma introduced a bill requiring commercial exhibitors of plastinated corpses to obtain a county permit, which would be dependent on proof of consent from the decedent or next of kin. It passed the Senate on August 15, 2008 and was vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 26, citing a budget delay.

Banning toxic chemicals
Ma has passed legislation banning toxic chemicals in plastics and children's toys. As a Supervisor in San Francisco, she authored and passed Ordinance Number 060107 to "prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any toy or child-care article…if it contains bisphenol-A or other specified chemicals." This was the first ordinance of its kind. The goal of the ordinance was to place pressure on the California State Legislature and national government to follow suit. As a California State Legislator, she continued her work, passing A.B. 1108, which also banned toxic chemicals from children's toys. Her language was later used by Senator Dianne Feinstein in the federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, signed into law in 2008.

Hepatitis B awareness and prevention
At the age of 22, Ma learned that she had Hepatitis B (HBV), a virus that causes 80 percent of all liver cancer if left untreated and often shows no symptoms until it is almost too late. Almost 1.4 million Americans are infected with HBV, and more than half are Asian Pacific Islander Americans. An estimated one in ten are chronically infected with the virus. As a result of its high Asian population, San Francisco has one of the highest rates of liver cancer in the nation, and HBV-related liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among API men in California.

Ma assumed a leading role in the fight against Hepatitis B, serving as a spokesperson for San Francisco Hep B Free - the largest and most intensive healthcare campaign for APIs in the United States. It is widely considered a model for the nation in eliminating HBV in a regional area.

In 2008, Ma introduced Assembly Bill 158, which would have required the Department of Health Care Services to apply for a federal waiver to expand Medi-Cal eligibility for individuals with chronic Hepatitis B. She also introduced a resolution declaring May 2009 as Hepatitis B Awareness Month in California.

High-speed rail
Ma is a longtime advocate of transportation solutions, the Joint author of Proposition 1-A and the convener of the High Speed Rail Caucus. Ma was one of the leading advocates of high-speed trains in California and one of its main campaigners traveling statewide promoting its environmental benefits and job creating effects. The proposition ultimately was approved by the voters in November 2008 maintaining critical funding after the Governor Schwarzenegger had proposed a major defunding of high-speed rail.

Non-profit and community involvement
Ma serves on the Board of Directors, and was a past Treasurer, for Curry Without Worry, a non-profit based in San Francisco. Since 2006, this organization has fed over 45,000 people.[8] She is also currently on the Board of Directors of CA Women Lead and Asian Inc. She is the Honorary Chair and spokesperson of the San Francisco Hep B Free Campaign; Honorary California Chair of the New Leaders Council, Board Advisory Committee for the James L. Brady Riding Program for Children with Disabilities, Board Advisory Committee for Family Connections, President of Board of Asian American Donor Program, and Board Advisory Committee of the SF Ethnic Dance Festival.

State and national outreach
Assembly member Ma has been active in promoting trade and fostering relationships between California and the Nation. As an Executive Board Member of the National Conference of State Legislators, she worked to keep California competitive with other states. She also served as the Western Region Director of Women in Government, the State Legislative Leaders Council, and was an Executive Board Member of the California Democratic Party.

International outreach
Since 1998, Ma has been on the forefront in promoting trade and commerce between California and Asia, leading legislative delegations to China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. She has been a frequent speaker in the region promoting US interests in high-speed rail, agriculture, entertainment and education. She has also taken the lead to welcome foreign dignitaries visiting California in her elected capacities. She has participated in various California trade delegations and has met with legislative leaders and decision-makers in India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, France, Israel, Ireland and Iceland.

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Talk:Herdsman

True or false: some registered Wikipedian (it doesn't matter who) knows what this article should be renamed to make it non-sexist. 66.245.72.176 20:16, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

No idea, what would you suggest? Kim Bruning 23:22, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I put herder, a dis-ambiguation page, on Vfd; because I always thought that that was the correct title to move this page to to avoid sexism. It is an important goal of Wikipedia to avoid sexist language. 66.245.124.71 23:23, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, it'd be a bad idea to put a disambig page on VfD if you ask me! Maybe we need to rename this to Herder_(somethingsomething) and link that off of the disambig page. What would be best to replace somethingsomething with, do you think? Kim Bruning 23:26, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Actually while I'm looking at it, that disambig page looks rather measly. Tell you what, instead of vfd (let's remove that in a minute), we can make this page a redirect. You do that like so:
 * 1) REDIRECTHerder

and we can cut and paste the text that was here to Herder, and then leave the single disambig that's left on top of the page.

You could call that set of moves inlining after the computer term.

Right, would you like to try that yourself? Else I'd help out if you want.

Kim Bruning 23:31, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh, bother, inlining makes very simple things look really complicated, skip that link if you will :-) Kim Bruning 23:32, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Cut-and-paste page moves are generally frowned upon as it makes it difficult to find edit history and attribution (see m:Help:Renaming (moving) a page). -Sean Curtin 03:01, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah right, that's what I was looking for thank ye! :) Kim Bruning 11:04, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I don't want to sound like a curmudgeon, but based on the evidence available to me now I am opposed to the page move. We do not have a guiding principle of strict gender-neutrality. We do have a guiding principle of neutral point of view which should guide us away from innappropriate gender-specific usage. However, for article titles, that principle is trumped by the principle of most common English usage. The most common name gets to have the article. The less common name gets the redirect. Regardless, both titles stay in the Wikipedia.

Before I can be comfortable with moving the page to Herder, you will have to provide some evidence that it is more widely used and recognized than Herdsman. In addition to my personal experience which suggests that herdsman is the more common term, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists herder as "see herdsman" and puts the full definition at herdsman. I've also found that foreign language dictionaries make a good proxy for the relative commonness of certain words since they will choose to not list the less common form. Neither my German/English nor Latin/English dictionaries list herder while both list herdsman. Google search in this case was unhelpful because herder returned a high propotion of "Herder" as a personal name - false positives in this test. Rossami 02:52, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

title: Talk:Herdsman