Croatian Sports Association
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Croatian Sports Association (Croatian: Hrvatski športski savez) was founded on October 5, 1909 (according to some sources on October 8, 1909) in Zagreb at the in a "Grič" as the central sports organization that coordinated the work of clubs in various sports branches. The goal of the CCA was to avoid the Croatian clubs joining the Hungarian or Austrian federation, and to participate independently in the international sports field.[1]
Without sports competitions, clubs could not prosper or survive, and the further progress of Croatian sport depended on the establishment of a single federation of all sports branches. The first initiative for the establishment of the Alliance was given by Mario Rieger Vinodolski, a well-known sports journalist and employee, and the secretary of the PNIŠK in the weekly "Croatian Sports Journal" from June 1, 1908. The invitation to the meeting was published on September 1, 1908. At the meeting at the inn "Three ravens" on September 18, 1908, due to the presence of too few club representatives and the lack of representatives of one of the strongest sports organization of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Association was not successful. During 1909, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts needed the existence of the Alliance because it had difficulty arranging football matches with clubs from the Austrian and Hungarian federations, and finally, on October 5, 1909, the Croatian Sports Federation was established.