The club spent its entire existence playing top-flight football (from 1946 to 1991 in the Yugoslav First League, from 1991 onwards in the Prva HNL).
This list details the club's achievements in all major competitions, and the top scorers for each season (note that only goals scored in league matches are taken into account).
However, in spite of good results on the pitch, they failed to clinch a single league title, finishing as runners-up five times in that period.
More importantly, they also won the elusive league championship title in the 1981–82 season under the guidance of eccentric coach Miroslav Blažević.
This was the club's first league triumph in 24 years, a success that they didn't manage to replicate until the end of Yugoslav competitions, although they finished second in 1989–90 and 1990–91, the last two seasons before the country's dissolution.
Affected by the ongoing war in Croatia the league's inaugural season was shortened and held over the course of only one calendar year from February to June 1992.
Due to the ongoing war Croatian clubs had to host their European games abroad so Dinamo played their UEFA Cup first round fixture against Trabzonspor in Klagenfurt, Austria.