The following clubs have been promoted or relegated at the end of the
2007–08 season:
From 2. HNL Promoted to 1. HNL •
Croatia Sesvete (winners of
2007–08 Druga HNL)
Relegated to 3. HNL •
Marsonia (13th place) •
Kamen Ingrad (14th place) •
Vukovar '91 (15th place) •
Belišće (16th place)
To 2. HNL Relegated from 1. HNL •
Međimurje (12th place)
Promoted from 3. HNL •
Suhopolje (3. HNL East winners) •
Junak Sinj (3. HNL South third place)
1 •
Karlovac (3. HNL West winners) •
Lokomotiva (3. HNL West runners-up)
2 Notes • 1
Hrvace had won the 3. HNL South but didn't obtain a license for competing in Druga HNL, while second-placed team
Zagora didn't even requested one. Because of this, third-placed
Junak Sinj qualified automatically for promotion. • 2
Lokomotiva, as the 3. HNL West runners-up, qualified for the two-legged promotion playoff, which would have taken place between second-placed teams of 3. HNL East and West Division. As the 3. HNL East runners-up Grafičar Vodovod didn't get the license for Druga HNL, third-placed
Virovitica qualified for the playoff. However, their board of directors decided to withdraw five days before the first match. Because of this, Lokomotiva were automatically promoted to Druga HNL. In a two-legged promotion/relegation
playoff between
Inter Zaprešić (as 11th placed 1. HNL team) and
Hrvatski Dragovoljac (as 2. HNL runners-up), the former kept their Prva HNL status by beating Hrvatski Dragovoljac with 2–0 on aggregate (2–0, 0–0). ==Clubs==