The Croatia national junior handball team is the national under-21/20

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

team of

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. Controlled by the

Croatian Handball Federation The Croatian Handball Federation ( hr, Hrvatski rukometni savez; abbr. HRS) is the governing body of handball in Croatia. It is based in Zagreb. It organizes the handball leagues: * Croatian Premier Handball League, Croatian Men's Premier Handball ...

that is an affiliate of the

International Handball Federation The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball C ...

IHF as well as a member of the

European Handball Federation The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations (England and Scotland), and is headquartered in Vienna, ...

EHF, The team represents Croatia in international matches.

History

Despite being one of the strongest men's

nations globally, Croatia have never managed to win the Crown of the

IHF Men's Junior World Championship The IHF Men's Junior World Championship is the official competition for men's national handball teams of under-21 years category. It is being organized by the International Handball Federation since 1977. It takes place every two years in odd year ...

. Their best performance so far was Vice-Champions in the 2019 Edition in Spain.

Statistics

IHF Junior World Championship record

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

European Championship

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

Squad

''Last world championship squad'' 2019 WC Squad Croatia
PDF Retrieved 9 November 2020 * 01 EREŠ Ivan * 04 MALEC Lovro * 05 MILETA Fran * 06 NOVAK Dominik * 09 GODEC Karlo * 12 PANJAN Ivan * 13 VISTOROP Filip * 14 MARTINOVIĆ Ivan * 17 ŠPRUK Tomislav * 18 MILIČEVIĆ Adrian * 19 SRNA Zvonimir * 20 VEKIĆ Josip * 21 RAČIĆ Marko * 22 PAPIĆ Daniel * 25 ŠARAC Josip * 45 JAGANJAC Halil

References

External links

Handball in Croatia Men's national junior handball teams

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