The Croatian Handball Premier League ( hr, Hrvatska rukometna premijer liga) is the highest men's handball league in

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. It is organized by the

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(''Hrvatski rukometni savez''). The league comprises 16 teams. The league was formed in 1991 with the dissolution of the Yugoslav leagues.

Format

In the first phase, eight teams from two groups compete in a home-and-away round-robin series. All teams advance from the regular season to one of two postseason stages, depending on their league position. The top four teams from the regular season play in the Championship Round, while the bottom four teams play in the Relegation Round. At the end of the season, the bottom finisher is automatically relegated to the second league.

Past champions

* 1992 : Zagreb Loto *

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (2) *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (3) *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (4) * 1996 : Croatia banka Zagreb (5) *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (6) *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (7) *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (8) *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

: Badel 1862 Zagreb (9) * 2001 : RK Zagreb (10) * 2002 : RK Zagreb (11) * 2003 : RK Zagreb (12) * 2004 : RK Zagreb (13) * 2005 : RK Zagreb (14) * 2006 : RK Zagreb (15) * 2007 : RK CO Zagreb (16) *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: RK CO Zagreb (17) * 2009 : RK CO Zagreb (18) * 2010 : RK CO Zagreb (19) * 2011 : RK CO Zagreb (20) *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

: RK CO Zagreb (21) * 2013 : RK Zagreb (22) * 2014 : RK Zagreb (23) * 2015 : RK PPD Zagreb (24) * 2016 : RK PPD Zagreb (25) *

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: RK PPD Zagreb (26) * 2018 : RK PPD Zagreb (27) * 2019 : RK PPD Zagreb (28) * 2020 : Voided due to the

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* 2021 : RK PPD Zagreb (29) *

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...

: RK PPD Zagreb (30) *won by the green table

EHF coefficients

The following data indicates Croatian coefficient rankings between European handball leagues. ;Country ranking: EHF League Ranking for 2018/19 season: *6. (''6'')

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(51.22) *8. (''9'') Croatian Handball Premier League (42.25) *9. (''10'')

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References

External links

Croatian Handball Federation
{{EHF leagues

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