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The Macedonian national handball team is the national

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team of

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. The team is run by the

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, the governing body of handball in North Macedonia. Prior to joining 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 ...

in 1991 as an independent country, North Macedonia was represented within the

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History

*First Handball teams in Macedonia emerged in the second half of the 1940s. Soon Macedonian Handball federation started to organize national championships in big handball −11 players on a soccer field size. By the '60s it was transformed into small handball or indoor handball. Macedonian champions were qualified for federal Yugoslav Championship instead of European cup competitions. The best Macedonian players played for the Federal team of Yugoslavia. In the time of the federation, 6 of the constitutional republics were sending one federal team to compete at the Olympics and World cup. Macedonia was participating within the federal team from 1950 till 1991. During that time was present at the 5 Olympics and 10 World cup tournaments within the successful team of Yugoslavia. * After the split of the federation, as a single republic from 1992 till 1994 Macedonia did not manage to enter the qualifications for EC, WC and OG. At the World cup 1993 only teams from the Olympics qualified so the Macedonian team did not have a chance to qualify. From 1995 Macedonia participates as a single Republic to all qualifications and Championship tournaments. *European Championship For the first European Championship 1994 team Macedonia did not enter the qualifications. Since EURO 1996 team Macedonia is regular in the qualifications. It entered 8 European Championships first one in 1998 then 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024. Most successful was the 2012 when they've finished 5th. *World Cup For the World cup 1995 only teams from EURO 1994 qualified so again team Macedonian did not get a chance to participate. At the World Cup's they entered 9 times – 1999, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most successful was in 2015 when they finished 9th. *Olympics For the Olympic tournament qualifications they have entered two times – 2012 finishing 4th and 2016 finishing 3rd. They did not manage to finish in the first two spots and have not qualified.

Home ground

The BTSC – Boris Trajkovski Sports Center ,

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is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in the

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. It is named after the former

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Boris Trajkovski Boris Trajkovski ( GCMG; , pronounced ; 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was a Macedonian politician who served as the President of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash. Early life Trajkovski was born on 25 June 195 ...

. Its capacity is 10,000 .There is an Olympic size Swimming Pool and 5 Star Hotel Alexander Palace within the complex. Additional Water Land Fun Park and Ice Skating Rink next to it. The arena is a home ground of the Macedonian handball team (men and women). The venue also contains four restaurants and a sports bar. It was one of two venues for the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship and will be used again for the

2022 European Women's Handball Championship The 2022 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro from 4 to 20 November 2022. The tournament was advanced a month in order not to coincide with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. This tournament w ...

for the preliminary and main round.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

World Championship

EURO Tournaments

European Championship

Mediterranean Games

Team

Current squad

Squad for the

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. Head coach:

Kiril Lazarov Kiril "Kire" Lazarov (, born 10 May 1980) is a Macedonian former professional handball player and current coach of the North Macedonia men's national handball team, North Macedonia national handball team and RK Alkaloid. He is widely regarded as o ...

Notable players

* Mitko Stoilov * Stole Stoilov * Goran Kuzmanoski * Branislav Angelovski * Stefan Alushevski *

Vlatko Mitkov Vlatko Mitkov () (born 16 August 1981) is a Macedonian handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players a ...

* Aco Jonovski * Filip Mirkulovski * Velko Markoski * Zlatko Mojsoski * Borko Ristovski * Aleksandar Jovikj * Naumče Mojsovski * Vancho Dimovski * Petar Angelov * Filip Lazarov * Zlatko Daskalovski * Goce Makaloski *Goran Gjorgonoski * Radoslav Stojanović *

* Vlado Nedanovski * Lazo Majnov * Pepi Manaskov * Dejan Manaskov * Martin Manaskov * Goce Georgievski * Vladimir Temelkov * Nemanja Pribak * Renato Vugrinec

Statistics

Record against other teams

''As of 3 May 2021''

References

External links

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IHF profile
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