Farmers on the storm

Farmers on the storm (156562)
Full name	Farmers on the storm
Nickname:	Farmers
Location:	Zagreb, Hrvatska
Founded:	November 8, 2007
Ground:	Arrakis (Capacity 60,000)
Chairman	SilverZG
Coach:	Nenad Božić
League:	III.15
Last season:	3rd in III.15

Farmers on the storm is Croatian Hattrick football club, managed by SilverZG and founded in Zagreb on November 8, 2007 as Raiders on the storm. After the team owner decided that they should become farm for Croatian national team, the club changed its name on April 2, 2014.

Club history

2007 - 2013

The team was founded in Croatian season 19 (World season 34) and played in series VI.436 for 7 seasons, winning it twice, before being promoted to V.58.

In V.58 Raiders were very succesful, achieving #2 in season 24 and winning the series with maximum of 42 points in season 25, thus being promoted to IV.19, where they played an unsuccesful season, being relegated immediately. Raiders were relegated to V.12, where they won the title in season 29, but failed to qualificate to 4th division.

Next season, they finished at dissapointing 3rd place, and manager SilverZG almost decided to stop playing Hattrick. The club then struggled and was relegated back to lowest tier of Croatian Hattrick pyramid, in series VI.433. After coming back from brief semi-retirement, Silver bought a handful of good players and started playing passing, with young players in attacking positions and veterans in defence. This "revamped" Raiders team won back promotion to 5th tier after winning VI.433 with maximum amount of points and was promoted to V.138.

Raiders played in V.138 for 4 seasons, reaching one 4th and two 3rd places in the division before winning the title, the clubs third V division title in history.

The club played two very succesful seasons in IV.12, ending third on both occasions. Buring this time, it was training a lot of players, but most notably wingback Benjamin Ramljak. Ramljak played all 14 games in Croatian unsuccesful campaing (ending 3rd in the group) to reach U20 WC XX in [Italia|Italy]]. As Ramljak was amongst greatest talents in his generation, Raiders had two options - continue training him, but with suffering in results, or to sell him. SilverZG decided that the team will train Ramljak - and many other top Croatian prospects! - thus announcing selling of all other players besides Ramljak, making Olaf Erik Tomschitz, clubs' trusted captain, new long-term coach and deliberately losing all games in the league. On April 2, 2014, the club board decided that new era should be marked by new name, thus renameing the club 'Farmers on the storm'.

2014 - Present

In the first 4 seasons of farming, Farmers were very bad team, losing almost all games against human opponents and ending in qualifications in all of its seasons in V.205. In qualification game in season 43, Farmers failed to field a team, thus losing the match and being relegated in lowest divison again. But, around this time Ramljak came of age, even earning a few caps for Croatia National Team at the age of 25 and Farmers bought another top wingback prospect in the likes of Zoran Dobrila. The teams fortunes reversed, and the greatest era of success came. Farmers won VI.973 in season 44 and V.128 the next season, but lost qualifications match for IV. Next season ended with dissapointing 3rd place, but in season Farmers again won V.128, and this time defeated IV. league opponent, PoolSideLiver and won promotion to series IV.48.

In IV.48, Farmers enjoyed success, reaching 2nd place in debut season, and surprasingly winning the series title a season after, which earned them first ever promotion to Div. III! In first season in new division, III.15, Farmers again made good result against the odds, ending in 3rd spot. During this time, Dobrila and Ramljak (now National Team players with 50+ caps) were joined by two other Croatia national team players, wingback Vladimir Stipaničev and centre-back Leonardo Kršlović. At the begining of qualificating phase for World Cup XXVIII, Farmers on the storm has four players in Croatia national team roster.

Records and Statistics

Records

Note: only official matches are considered, no friendlies. Note: when some record is achieved on multiple times, only first time is listed

Record	Date	Name	Competition	Result
Biggest Home Win	13-01-2012	Raiders on the storm - The mighty cookies	VI.433	12 - 0
Biggest Away Win	22-02-2012	Mala Marama - Raiders on the storm	Cup	0 - 12
Biggest Home Loss	11-01-2014	Raiders on the storm - NK House	IV.12	0 - 8
Biggest Away Loss	08-02-2014	Simuni - Raiders on the storm	Cup	6 - 0
Largest home attendance	03-12-2016	Farmers on the storm - wildwildcats 0 - 0	IV.48	60 000
Lowest home attendance	01-12-2007	Raiders on the storm - Ado i ekipa 1 - 4	VI.436	2 573
Largest transfer in	21-02-2017	Vladimir Stipaničev	IV.48	12 000 000€
Largest transfer out	23-02-2017	Dino Ferceg	IV.48	6 981 000 €

Top scorers - all time

Note: Bolded players are still playing for the team

Season	Competition	Player	Number of goals
19-50	All games	Nebojša Ralević	107
19-50	Competitive	Giuseppe Margolfo	89
19-50	League - All time	Giuseppe Margolfo	71
19-50	Cup - All time	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	22
19-50	Friendlies	Nebojša Ralević	35

League Top Scorers, Season by Season

Note: Bolded players were also series top scorers for the season

Season	Series	Player(s)	Number of goals
19	VI.436	Martin Gruban	6
20	VI.436	Janko Hrepić	7
21	VI.436	Kevin Bernard	16
22	VI.436	Edgar Gräbitz	16
23	VI.436	Gorun Patrascu	17
24	VI.436	Gorun Patrascu / Edgar Gräbitz	13
25	VI.436	Joakim Brouwer	20
26	V.58	Yiğit Gizay / Morris Hofwijks	5
27	V.58	Yiğit Gizay	17
28	IV.19	Yiğit Gizay	8
29	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	14
30	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	12
31	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	5
32	VI.433	August Trocha	23
33	V.138	August Trocha / Marco Antonio Pico	5
34	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	17
35	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	13
36	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	17
37	IV.12	Pierrick Mouginot	6
38	IV.12	Baltazar Luzynski	13
39	IV.12	Lorenzo Veccia	1
40	V.205	Zvonko Martin	5
41	V.205	Nebojša Ralević	5
42	V.205	Benjamin Ramljak	5
43	V.205	Zvonko Martin / Vatroslav Lubanović / Olaf Erik Tomschitz	3
44	VI.973	Dino Ferceg	10
45	V.128	Duško Žuža	7
46	V.128	Duško Žuža / Mateo Anđelić	8
47	V.128	Ljudevit Miloš / Ariel Niepsuj	9
48	IV.48	Aldo Katalenić	7
49	IV.48	Giuseppe Montalto	9
50	III.15	Giuseppe Montalto / Leonardo Kršlović / Frank Kupfer	5

Statistics

Note: All games, both competitive and friendly are counted! Note: Players still at club are marked bold Note: Correct as of week 2, Croatian season 51

Top 20 Caps

Number	Player	Number of caps
1	Nebojša Ralević	347
2	Dario Cakarun	324
3	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	312
4	Benjamin Ramljak	267
5	Vatroslav Lubanović	196
6	Robert Jarni	196
7	Pavlo Vykidaylo	155
8	Tran Le Buu Chau	131
9	Stefano Sieraal	130
10	Giuseppe Margolfo	129
11	Stig Tornes	120
12	Yiğit Gizay	115
13	Anghel Ivanov	111
14	Rafael Vukčević	105
15	Ratko Sedlić	104
16	Filip Mandžo	103
17	Luca Minicucci	102
18	Zoran Dobrila	100
19	Mateo Anđelić	100
20	Dino Ferceg	97

Top 10 Goals

Number	Player	Number of goals
1	Nebojša Ralević	106
2	Giuseppe Margolfo	102
3	Yiğit Gizay	85
4	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	84
5	Benjamin Ramljak	79
6	Pavlo Vykidaylo	75
7	Edgar Gräbitz	72
8	August Trocha	64
9	Stig Tornes	52
10	Gorun Patrascu	49

Top 5 Clean sheets

Number	Player	Number of clean sheets
1	Dario Cakarun	152
2	Strahinja Petrović	26
3	Ferenc Zsinka	23
4	Dimitrije Latinović	23
5	Milan Gomilanović	20

Team captains

Number	Player	Number of captaincies
1	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	200
2	Yigit Gizay	92
3	Benjamin Ramljak	77
4	Anghel Ivanov	43
5	Ratko Sedlić	36
6	Dario Cakarun	36
7	Nebojša Ralević	34
8	Eliezer Yavin	33
9	Ian MacAchailles	32
10	Stefano Sieraal	31