Ples sa zvijezdama season 9

The ninth season of Croatian dance competition television series Ples sa zvijezdama premiered on 3 March and concluded on 2 June 2019 on Nova TV.^[1]

Ples sa zvijezdama
Season 9
Hosted by	Janko Popović Volarić Mia Kovač
Judges	Dinko Bogdanić Nicolas Quesnoit Tamara Despot Almira Osmanović
Celebrity winner	Slavko Sobin
Professional winner	Gabriela Pilić
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	Nova TV
Original release	17 March (2019-03-17) – 2 June 2019 (2019-06-02)
Season chronology

The season was won by Slavko Sobin and his professional partner Gabriela Pilić.^[2]

Production

In late 2018, various Croatian news outlets reported that Ples sa zvijezdama is set to return to television after the series went on a hiatus following its eight season in 2013.^[3][4] The license for the series was obtained by Nova TV, making the ninth season the first season of the series to not air on HRT 1.

Due to the network change, the hosts and the panel of judges were revamped. Janko Popović Volarić and Mia Kovačić replaced HRT's Barbara Kolar and Duško Čurlić as the presenters for the ninth season. Dinko Bogdanić, who was the main judge in all of HRT's seasons, remained on the judging panel, and was joined by Nicolas Quesnoit, and Tamara Despot, who previously participated as professional dancers, as well as by Almira Osmanović. Davor Bilman, the main judge in previous seasons, did not return to the judging panel due to judging Nova TV's another talent show series, Supertalent.^[4]

Nova TV ordered 12 episodes for the ninth season, as opposed to HRT's previous eight episodes per season format. Although it is chronologically the ninth season of the series, Nova TV's programming schedule had it listed as season 1, given that it is the first season broadcast by the network.^[5]

Cast

The cast of season 9 was revealed in February 2019.^[6]

Cast of Ples sa zvijezdama (season 9)

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Status
Ana Vučak Veljača	Actress	Mario Ožbolt	Eliminated 1st on 24 March 2019
Nives Celzijus	Actress, singer, model and writer	Mateo Cvenić	Eliminated 2nd on 31 March 2019
Ecija Ojdanić	Theater, television and movie actress	Marko Šapina	Eliminated 3rd on 7 April 2019
Davor Garić	IN magazin journalist	Valentina Walme	Eliminated 4th on 14 April 2019
Damir Kedžo	Pop singer	Helena Janjušević	Eliminated 5th on 21 April 2019
Josipa Pavičić Berardini	Model, singer, writer and journalist	Damir Horvatinčić	Eliminated 6th on 12 May 2019
Sonja Kovač	Former actress and social media personality	Gordan Vogleš	Eliminated 7th on 19 May 2019
Marko Grubnić	Stylist	Ela Vuković	Eliminated 8th on 26 May 2019
Ivan Šarić	Stand-up comedian	Paula Jeričević	Third place on 2 June 2019
Viktorija Đonlić Rađa	Model, singer and wife of former basketball player Dino Rađa	Marko Mrkić	Runner-up on 2 June 2019
Slavko Sobin	Theater, television and movie actor	Gabriela Pilić	Winner on 2 June 2019

Scoring chart

Color key:

  indicates the couple that was eliminated that week

  indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two

  indicates the couple returned to the competition

  indicates the winning couple

  indicates the runner-up couple

  indicates the third place couple

Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week

Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week

Ples sa zvijezdama (season 9) - Weekly scores

Couple	Place	Week
		1	2	1+2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Slavko & Gabriela	1	30	33	63	38	30	35	36	40+31=71		38+40=78	33+36=69	38+40=78	40+40=80	+40=120
Viktorija & Marko M.	2	30	32	62	28	37	34	32	32+35=67		35+40=75	35+40=75	37+40=77	40+40=80	+40=120
Ivan & Paula	3	22	31	53	31	33	26	35	39+35=74		40+37=77	40+36=76	39+36=75	37+39=76
Marko G. & Ela	4	32	25	57	36	27	30	39	28+35=63		36+40=76	33+40=73	40+33=73
Sonja & Gordan	5	25	28	53	27	28	32	29	25+31=56	34+35=69	35+32=67	31+34=65
Josipa & Damir H.	6	33	27	60	30	37	29	29	34+31=65		31+31=62
Damir K. & Helena	7	27	28	55	30	27	26	25		29+36=65
Davor & Valentina	8	18	30	48	24	28	26			29+37=66
Ecija & Marko Š.	9	19	25	44	18	26				20+23=43
Nives & Mateo	10	28	20	48	18					24+25=49
Ana & Mario	11	22	24	46						31+32=63

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
65	1	"Week 1"	17 March 2023 (2023-03-17)
66	1	"Week 2"	24 March 2023 (2023-03-24)
67	3	"Week 3"	31 March 2023 (2023-03-31)
68	4	"Week 4"	7 April 2023 (2023-04-07)
69	5	"Week 5"	14 April 2023 (2023-04-14)
70	6	"Week 6"	21 April 2023 (2023-04-21)
71	7	"Week 7"	28 April 2023 (2023-04-28)
72	8	"Week 8"	5 May 2023 (2023-05-05)
73	9	"Week 9"	12 May 2023 (2023-05-12)
75	10	"Week 10"	19 May 2023 (2023-05-19)
75	11	"Week 11"	26 May 2023 (2023-05-26)
76	12	"Week 12"	2 June 2023 (2023-06-02)