Silver's Surfers

Silver's Surfers (156562)
Full name	Silver's Surfers
Nickname:	Surfers
Location:	Zagreb, Hrvatska
Founded:	November 8, 2007
Ground:	Silver's Arena (Capacity 67,419)
Chairman	Mod-Silver
Coach:	Milivoj Piton
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Current League:	II.4
Last season:	1st in III.9
Current season:	See current season

Silver's Surfers 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 to Farmers on the storm on April 2, 2014. On December 26, 2020 SilverZG decided that the club needs to change its name again, and renamed it Silver's Surfers.

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 renaming the club 'Farmers on the storm'.

2014 - 2020

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 had four players in Croatia national team roster.

In the season 68, Farmers won the series III.15, which is the greatest result of the club in history. After three more seasons, Farmers got relegeted from III.15 and decided for a rebuild. During the rebuilding phase, they decided to play in the competitive 5th division, V.48.

2020 - Present

During aforementioned rebuilding phase, SilverZG decided that Farmers won't be farm team for Croatian NT anymore. Thus started the new era for the team, which was formalized on December 26, 2020 when the team changed the name for the second time in its 13-year history, becoming Silver's Surfers. The new era of the team started with promoting three players from the youth academy - wingback Bruno Baf (who also made U20 Hrvatska team) and central defenders Pero Žungul and Roland Mulc. During the end of season 75, Farmers bought three former U20 international inner midfielders - Uzbekistani Armen Dikranyan, Ecuadorian Erick Ron and Liechtensteinian Giorgio Castellano. Those six players will form the core of the team in the years to come. Surfers made the biggest result in history by promoting to II division in season 83, finishin 4th in their first season up.

Last 10 seasons

Season 82: 1st in III.9
Season 81: 3rd in III.9
Season 80: 4th in III.9
Season 79: 1st in IV.29
Season 78: 1st in V.48
Season 77: 2nd in V.48
Season 76: 5th in V.48
Season 75: 7th in IV.48
Season 74: 1st in V.48
Season 73: 3rd in V.48
Season 72: 7th in IV.23
Season 71: 5th in III.15
Season 70: 4th in III.15

Current squad and staff

Correct as of 20/02/2023

Coach: Milivoj Piton
Assistant coach: Leonardo Kršlović
Assistant coach: Nikola Vukčić
Medic: Giuseppe Montalto

No. Position Player 1 GK Philippe Prost 2 WB Bruno Baf* 3 WB Dominik Masopust 4 CD Roland Mulc* 5 CD Pero Žungul* 6 IM Erick Ron 7 IM Armen Dikranyan 8 IM Giorgio Castellano 9 FW Euricao Campelo 10 FW Marcos Usuriaga

No. Position Player 11 W Akin Alpyürek 12 GK ] Hilary Pierzchala 13 W Roger Siemer 14 IM Miguel Waiben 15 FW Vojko Vatovec* 16 W Jadran Štuka* 17 WB Sven Vukelić 18 WB Tonči Bukić* 19 CD Franko Pintur* 20 CD Klement Budimir*

* denotes Home-grown players

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 Attendance Hatstats Price
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
Best Team Performance	22-10-2022	Silver's Surfers - Zupa dubrovacka 5 - 0	III.9	503
Best Defence Performance	09-09-2017	Laka Lovica - Farmers on the storm 1 - 0	III.15	304
Best Midfield Performance	20-05-2017	Farmers on the storm - Baba RYK 2 - 0	III.15	198
Best Attack Performance	29-10-2022	The Red Lion Göteborg - Silver's Surfers 0 - 4	III.9	188
Largest home attendance	20-11-2021	Silver's Surfers - Vrutki Opatija 6 - 1	IV.29	67 419
Lowest home attendance	01-12-2007	Raiders on the storm - Ado i ekipa 1 - 4	VI.436	2 573
Largest transfer in	18-11-2021	Akin Alpyürek	IV.29	13 503 000€
Largest transfer out	10-01-2021	Nino Grđan	V.48	8 835 000 €

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	Leonardo Kršlović	24
19-50	Friendlies	Nebojša Ralević	35

Competitive Top Scorers by Seasons

List of top scorers for every season, counting only official matches (League, Cups, Qualification)

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	20
23	VI.436	Gorun Patrascu Edgar Gräbitz	17
24	VI.436	Edgar Gräbitz	14
25	VI.436	Joakim Brouwer	24
26	V.58	Morris Hofwijks	7
27	V.58	Yiğit Gizay	20
28	IV.19	Yiğit Gizay	8
29	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	19
30	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	13
31	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	5
32	VI.433	August Trocha	23
33	V.138	August Trocha Marco Antonio Pico Eliezer Yavin Giuseppe Margolfo	6
34	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	20
35	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	18
36	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	18
37	IV.12	Pierrick Mouginot Saliamonas Ščetininas	7
38	IV.12	Baltazar Luzynski	16
39	IV.12	Gordan Domanovac	3
40	V.205	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	8
41	V.205	Nebojša Ralević	8
42	V.205	Nebojša Ralević Benjamin Ramljak	6
43	V.205	Nebojša Ralević Vatroslav Lubanović Zvonko Martin Sanjin Beg Marko Gabelica Olaf Erik Tomschitz	3
44	VI.973	Nebojša Ralević	11
45	V.128	Nebojša Ralević Duško Žuža Olaf Erik Tomschitz	7
46	V.128	Joso Forca	11
47	V.128	Ariel Niepsuj	14
48	IV.48	Ariel Niepsuj	9
49	IV.48	Giuseppe Montalto	12
50	III.15	Aldo Katalenić	8
51	III.15	Leonardo Kršlović	8
52	III.15	Giuseppe Montalto	9
53	III.15	Leonardo Kršlović Lino José Gomes	9
54	III.15	Lino José Gomes	9
55	III.15	Vatroslav Lubanović	10
56	III.15	Shmuel Erez	10
57	IV.23	Vatroslav Lubanović Bruno Baf	4
58	V.48	Pero Žungul Alojzije Dupor Vladimir Stipaničev Ljubivoje Vojnović	3
59	V.48	Alojzije Dupor	10
60	IV.48	Alojzije Dupor	12
61	V.48	Sylvester Wojnowski	5
62	V.48	Giorgio Castellano	10
63	V.48	Reinhold Mölerfeldt	10
64	IV.29	Manolo Gentil-Lloch	12		65	III.9	Dobroslav Doroslovački	11
66	III.9	Euricao Campelo	15
67	III.9	Euricao Campelo	16
68	II.4	Marcos Usuriaga	14

Series Top Scorers

Following Raiders/Farmers players won the titles of division top scorers:

Season	Series	Player(s)	Number of goals
21	VI.436	Kevin Bernard	16
23	VI.436	Gorun Patrascu	17
24	VI.436	Gorun Patrascu Edgar Gräbitz	13
25	VI.436	Joakim Brouwer	20
27	V.58	Yiğit Gizay	17
29	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	14
30	V.12	Yiğit Gizay	12
32	VI.433	August Trocha	23
34	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	17
36	V.138	Giuseppe Margolfo	17
38	IV.12	Baltazar Luzynski	13
49	IV.48	Giuseppe Montalto	9
59	V.48	Alojzije Dupor	9
63	V.48	Reinhold Möllerfeldt	10
64	IV.29	Manolo Gentil-Lloch	12
66	III.9	Euricao Campelo	9
67	III.9	Euricao Campelo	12

Statistics

Note: All games, both competitive and friendly are counted!
Note: Players still at club are marked bold, while members of Hall of Fame are marked italic
Note: Stats correct as of 20/02/2023

Top 20 Appearances

Number	Player	Number of appearances
1	Benjamin Ramljak	500
2	Vatroslav Lubanović	363
3	Nebojša Ralević	350
4	Dario Cakarun	324
5	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	312
6	Bruno Baf Roland Mulc	263
8	Pero Žungul	254
9	Zoran Dobrila	253
10	Robert Jarni	244
11	Jadran Štuka	213
12	Vladimir Stipaničev	203
13	Vojko Vatovec	196
14	Giorgio Castellano	171
15	Erick Ron	170
16	Leonardo Kršlović	167
17	Armen Dikranyan	146
18	Rafael Vukčević	162
19	Gašpar Kukec	157
20	Pavlo Vykidaylo	155

Top 10 Goals

Number	Player	Number of goals
1	Nebojša Ralević	107
2	Giuseppe Margolfo	104
3	Yiğit Gizay Olaf Erik Tomschitz	85
5	Benjamin Ramljak	83
6	Pavlo Vykidaylo	73
7	Edgar Gräbitz	72
8	Vatroslav Lubanović	66
9	August Trocha	65
10	Leonardo Kršlović	63

Team captains

Number	Player	Number of captaincies
1	Benjamin Ramljak	205
2	Olaf Erik Tomschitz	200
3	Armen Dikranyan	149
4	Yigit Gizay	92
5	Bruno Baf	69
6	Vladimir Stipaničev	56
7	Anghel Ivanov	43
8	Dario Cakarun	38
9	Ratko Sedlić Nebojša Ralević	36

Clean sheet Top 5

Number	Player	Number of clean sheets
1	Dario Cakarun	150
2	Gašpar Kukec	54
3	Carlos Salaverri	33
4	Strahinja Petrović Miro Bučar	26

Coaches

#	Seasons	Coach
1	34	Juan Carlos Hollstein
2	34-38	Davy Tonnaer
3	38-?	Diego Javier Lahaye
4	?-?	Anghel Ivanov
5	?-?	Stefano Sieraal
6	?-?	Strahinja Petrović
7	51-54	Eliezer Yavin
8	54-62	Olaf Erik Tomschitz
9	63-66	Nenad Božić
10	66-70	Dario Cakarun
11	70-71	Nebojša Ralević
12	71-78	Vladimir Stipaničev
13	79-82	Tarzan Čajkovski
14	83-	Milivoj Piton