Club Balonmano Mar Alicante is a Spanish

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club from

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

, that plays in Segunda División Nacional, the 3rd-tier handball league for women in Spain. Founded in 1996, the team has achieved its best results in recent years. They were the runners-up of the 2010 Spanish Cup and Supercup and the 2011 Cup Winners' Cup (in their second international appearance following their debut in the 2010

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),Profile and record
in the

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's website falling short to

SD Itxako Sociedad Deportiva Itxako, known as Asfi Itxako for sponsorship reasons, was a Spanish women's team handball, handball team from Estella-Lizarra, Navarre. Itxako were four times División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano, Spanish league winners and ...

and

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros wa ...

respectively.

Honours

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: 1 **''Winners'': 2010–11 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 0 **''Runners-up'': 2011 *

Copa de la Reina Copa or COPA may refer to: COPA COPA may refer to: * Computer Operator Programming Assistant. trade of ITI * Child Online Protection Act, a former U.S. law to protect minors from certain material on the internet * Canadian Owners and Pilots Asso ...

: 0 **''Runners-up'': 2010 *

Supercopa de España The Supercopa de España or the ''Spanish Super Cup'' is a super cup tournament in Spanish football. Founded in 1982 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2019–20 by four teams: the winners and runners-up of ...

: 0 **''Runners-up'': 2010

Season to season

------- *15 seasons in División de Honor

Notable players

Vanesa Amorós Vanesa Amorós Quiles (born 7 December 1982 in Elche, Alicante province, Valencian Community, Spain) is a former Spanish handball player. She played for the Spanish national team, and competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. and the 20 ...

Nuria Benzal Nuria Benzal Andaloussi (born 3 April 1985) is a Spanish handball player who most recently played for Üsküdar Bld. SK and formerly was a member of the Spanish women's national team. Benzal was part of the Spanish team at the 2008 European W ...

Laima Bernatavičiūtė Laima Bernatavičiūtė (born 12 April 1985) is a former Lithuanian people, Lithuanian team handball, handballer who was member of the Lithuania women's national handball team, Lithuanian national team. She signed to Egle Vilnius at the age of 1 ...

Mercedes Castellanos Mercedes Castellanos Soánez known as Merche Castellanos (born 21 July 1988) is a Spanish female handball player for CBF Málaga Costa del Sol and the Spanish national team. Achievements * División de Honor: **''Winner'': 2018 *Queen's Cup ...

* Véronique Démonière *

Fabiana Diniz Fabiana "Dara" Carvalho Carneiro Diniz (born 13 May 1981) is a retired Brazilian handball player. She played on the Brazilian national team and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil and the 2012 Summer Olympic ...

Marizza Faría Marizza Alejandra Faría Servin (born 20 August 1983) is a Paraguayan handball player for club Liberbank Gijón and the Paraguay national team. She represented Paraguay at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where the Paragu ...

Beatriz Fernández Beatriz Fernández Ibáñez (born 19 March 1985) is a former Spanish handball player who was member of the Spanish national team. Fernández played on the Spanish team at the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship, where Spain reached ...

Anna Manaut Anna Manaut Caixal (born 17 December 1990) is a Spanish handball player for AS Cannes Handball and the Spanish national team. In 2016 she left the Spanish league to sign for the French team ESBF Besançon. Achievements * Youth European Cham ...

Carmen Martín Carmen Dolores Martín Berenguer (born 29 May 1988) is a Spanish handballer who plays as a right wing for IK Sävehof and the Spanish national team. Martín has three All- European Championship first team selections, one All-World Championship ...

* María Muñoz *

María Núñez María Núñez Nistal (born 27 November 1988) is a Spanish handball player for ESBF Besançon and the Spanish national team. She represented Spain at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Women's Handball Championship ...

Isabel Ortuño Isabel María Ortuño Torrico (born 16 March 1982) is a former Spanish handballer, who have been capped for the Spanish national team. Ortuño was born in Elda, Spain, and competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she finished sixt ...

* Linda Pradel * Ana de Sousa * Anna Vicente *

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* Marianne Storkås

References

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mar Alicante Handball clubs in Spain Handball clubs established in 1996 Sport in Alicante Sports clubs and teams in the Valencian Community