This article describes the 1997-98 Prva HNL season, the seventh since its establishment.

First stage

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Rounds 1–22 results

Championship group

Rounds 23–32 results

Relegation group

Rounds 23–32 results

Statistics

• The top scorer was NK Zagreb
  NK Zagreb
  NK Zagreb is a Croatian football club, from the Croatian capital of Zagreb.NK Zagreb's home is the Stadion Kranjčevićeva with capacity of 8,850. The club's fans are known as the White Angels...
  
  's Mate Baturina
  Mate Baturina
  Mate Baturina is a former Croatian association football player.He made his single appearance for the Croatia national football team, in a friendly match against Egypt on 13 June 1999.-External links:* at Transfermarkt.de...
  
  , with 19 goals.
• The player of the year was Mario Bazina
  Mario Bazina
  Mario Bazina is a retired Bosnian-born Croatian footballer.He last played as an offensive midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and signed with the club until 2009...
  
   from NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac
  NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac
  NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac is a Croatian football club based in the Novi Zagreb neighbourhood of the country's capital city of Zagreb. The team's fans are known as the "Black Warriors"...
  
  

External links

• 1997–98 in Croatian Football at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation is an international amateur organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football...