Split · Sports & events

The Croatian league runs late July to May in a listed 1979 shell stadium. Buy at the club shop; the Torcida fill the north stand.

A shallow-water ball game invented on this beach — no scoring, no equipment, and a defiant version played on New Year's morning.

An autumn sailing race around a rock off Brač, sailed by hundreds of boats and followed by a party in Milna.

Split's clubs play water polo from autumn to spring, and rowing crews train off the Sustipan headland most mornings, year round.