HC Zalău is a

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club from

Zalău Zalău (, unofficial and former official name: ro, Zălau (; german: Zillenmarkt or , hu, Zilah, tr, Zile) is the seat of Sălaj County, Romania. In 2011, its estimated population was 56,202. History Ancient times Zalău is situated in the a ...

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, that plays in the

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. On domestic level HC Zalau won three league titles (2001,2004,2005) and Romanian Cup once in 2003. In Europe HC Zalau won the Women's

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1995–1996 season and in the same season by participating in the

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won 3rd place. In the 2011–2012 season in the EHF Cup HC Zalau played second final in history, lost against the Russian team Lada Togliatti.

History

In 1978

Gheorghe Tadici Gheorghe Tadici (born 27 March 1952 in Piatra Neamț) is a Romanian handball coach in charge of the Romanian top division side HC Zalău. In 2012 he also became head coach of the Romania women's national handball team, Romanian women's national han ...

- John Bal Crișan - Simon Talos trio, with Tadici in the main role, set foot in the city of Meseş a women's handball team called Didactica Zalău. In 1979 Didactica Zalău get to promote Division B, moving, for the first time in official competition at the senior level. In 1980, Didactica Zalău turns to Textila Zalau, textile enterprise is willing to invest in handball team. Four years later, in 1984 Textila managed to promote the first scene of Romanian handball. Two years later the team would relegate in Division B in the 1985–1986 season and a year later to promote back to the first division after a perfect season. Since then handball team HC Zalău evolving Romanian Handball League. After two bronze medals in the seasons 1989 - 1990 and 1990 - 1991, Textila Zalău turns to Silcotex in 1992. Under this name, he became vice season 1993 - 1994 and in the same year (1994) changed their name for the third time, becoming Silcotub Zalău. Again finishing 2nd in Romanian Handball League in the season 1995 - 1996, Silcotub Zalău have win at the end of the same season and

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or City Cup. Also in 1996 he finished third in the EHF Champions Trophy. For 14 consecutive years from 1994 to 2007 HC Zalău participated in European Cups,

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, EHF Champions Trophy,

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and

. After the third title in history (2005) team changes its name to HC Zalău, earning the title of national runner at the end of the 2005–2006 season. At the end of the same season,

had to leave for the Chimistul Râmnicu Vâlcea champion. Separation of Zalău handball would be almost fatal to the season 2007 - 2008, when HC Zalău, under the command of John Gherhardt, came to tour the dam to maintain in the National League. Back to HC Zalău, after two years of absence,

again resumed reconstruction of the team, saying it could even be the last in his career coach.

Kits

Arena

*Name: Sala Sporturilor „Gheorghe Tadici” *City:

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*Address: Mihai Viteazul nr. 77, Zalău

Team

Current squad

''Squad for the 2022-23 season'' ;Goalkeepers * Paula Vișan-Teodorescu * Viorica Țăgean * Alexandra Popescu ;Wingers ;LW * Roberta Stamin * Andreea Mihart ;RW * Gabriela Vrabie ;Line players * Florentina Moisin * Daniela Marin * Andriyana Naumenko ;Back players * Krisztina Toth * Emilija Lazić * Andreea Mărginean * Andreea Bujor * Bianca Berbece * Alexandra Pricop * Diana Nichitean

Transfers

:''Transfers for 2022–2023'' ;Joining ;Leaving

Staff members

* Chairman: Radu Istrate * Head Coach:

* Assistant Coach: Elena Tadici * Masseur: Ileana Romocean * Masseur: Daniela Morari

Honours

Europe

: **Group stage: 3rd place: 2001-02 **Qualification Round 2: 2004–05, 2005,06 * EHF Champions Trophy: ** (1):

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

: **Semi-finals:

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 Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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 ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

**Quarter-finals:

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

**Eighth-finals:

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 shootin ...

**Round 4:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: ** (1):

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 gather ...

**Semi-finals:

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

**Quarter-finals:

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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 ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

, 2018 **Round 3:

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

: ** (1):

**Semi-finals:

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 t ...

Internal

* Liga Naţională: ** (3): 2001, 2004, 2005 ** (8): 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006 ** (5): 1990, 1991, 1995,

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

*Cupa României: ** (1): 2003 ** (5): 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002 **Semi-finals: 1994, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2006 *Supercupa României ** (1): 2011

Recent Seasons

*Sezoane în '' Liga Naţională'':32 *Sezoane în ''Divizia A'':7

Selected former players

Claudia Constantinescu Claudia Maria Constantinescu (born 18 June 1994) is a Romanian handballer who plays for Rapid București. Achievements *Cupa României: **''Winner'': 2019 * Liga Națională: **''Golden Medalist'': 2022 **''Silver Medalist'': 2019 **''Br ...

* Teodora Bloj *

Crina Pintea Crina Elena Pintea (née Ailincăi; born 3 April 1990) is a Romanian professional handballer who plays as a pivot for CSM București and the Romanian national team. Considered to be one of the best pivots in the world, in 2019 she was named to ...

Georgiana Ciuciulete Georgiana-Andreia Ciuciulete (; née Coadălată) is a Romanian handballer who plays as a line player for Corona Brașov. International honours *EHF Cup: **''Finalist'': 2012 **''Semifinalist'': 2013, 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From t ...

* Ana Maria Șomoi * Valeria Motogna * Gabriella Szűcs * Alina Czeczi * Mirela Nichita * Daniela Băbeanu * Adriana Holhoș-Stoian * Daniela Crap * Talida Tolnai * Daniela Morari * Tereza Ludmila Pîslaru * Raluca Iuliana Agrigoroaie * Ramona Farcău * Roxana Han (Gatzel) * Alina Țurcaș-Jula * Mihaela Pârâianu * Mihaela Crăcană * Carmen Buceschi * Sanda Criste * Alina Șorodoc (Măierean) *

Simona Spiridon Simona Spiridon (née Popa; born 1 February 1980 in Roman, Romania) is a Romanian-Austrian handballer who plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich. She is also member of the Austrian national team. Career Romanian born Spiridon moved ...

* Steluța Luca * Marinela Pătru * Artemizia-Aurica Sagmar * Olimpia Vereș * Lăcrămioara Fiastru * Lucia Butnărașu * Ana Șuhai * Maria Elena Rădoi *

* Roxana Szölösi

Coaches

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zalau Romanian handball clubs Liga Națională (women's handball) clubs Handball clubs established in 1978 1978 establishments in Romania Zalău