Damir Mišković

On 20 March 2012 Mišković rescued Croatian football club HNK Rijeka from debt and threatening collapse, becoming the club's owner and chairman. HNK Rijeka is his hometown club which he was a big fan of from his youngest age. Over the next several years he created the powerful football club with excellent results recorded domestically and in Europe. Over the years Mišković invested approximately 50 million euros into the club and associated infrastructure, including the construction of new training camp and stadium called Rujevica. Very soon after taking ownership and establishing management that today leads the club HNK Rijeka won several historical trophies and the most important one is first-ever league title in 2017, ending Dinamo Zagreb's run of eleven successive titles. Rijeka has also won five Croatian Cups, including back-to-back titles in 2005, 2006, 2014 and in 2017 which helped them secure the historic Double, and most recently in 2019.

Damir Mišković (born 20 March 1965) is a Croatian businessman and entrepreneur who is the chairman and owner of Croatian football club HNK Rijeka, a position he has held since 2012.

Mišković was born in 1965 in Rijeka. His family is originally from the village of Miškovići on the island of Pag which his grandfather had left after the Second World War for Rijeka, where he was employed in the port. Damir's father Šime grew up in old part of Rijeka where he met his mother who worked in a footwear store Beograd (Serbian capital city, English: Belgrade).

Mišković also used to be a football goalkeeper, playing for many local clubs such as Krasica, Orijent 1919, Pomorac 1921 and Grobničan.