The Yugoslav Women's Handball Championship was the premier championship for women's

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clubs in

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. Founded like its male counterpart in 1953, it was dissolved in 1992 following the

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. The championship's most successful teams were Radnički Belgrade with fourteen championships (including ten titles in a row) and

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with ten.

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follows with four titles, while Spartak Subotica won three, and Lokomotiva Virovitica,

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and Voždovac Belgrade clinched two. The teams from the championship were successful in international competitions, most notably Radnički Belgrade winning three European Cups and three Cup Winners' Cups. ŽRK Osijek and ŽRK Split also won the Cup Winners' Cup and ŽRK Trešnjevka and Lokomotiva Zagreb did the same in the

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, while Budućnost Titograd won both competitions.List of finals
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List of champions

* 1953 Mirko Kljajić * 1954 Železničar Belgrade * 1955 Lokomotiva Virovitica * 1956

* 1957 Spartak Subotica * 1958 Lokomotiva Virovitica * 1959

* 1960 Spartak Subotica * 1961

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* 1962

* 1963 Spartak Subotica * 1964

* 1965

* 1966

* 1967

* 1968

* 1969

* 1970

* 1971 Voždovac Belgrade * 1972 Radnički Belgrade * 1973 Radnički Belgrade * 1974

* 1975 Radnički Belgrade * 1976 Radnički Belgrade * 1977 Radnički Belgrade * 1978 Radnički Belgrade * 1979 Radnički Belgrade * 1980 Radnički Belgrade * 1981 Radnički Belgrade * 1982 Radnički Belgrade * 1983 Radnički Belgrade * 1984 Radnički Belgrade * 1985

* 1986 Radnički Belgrade * 1987 Radnički Belgrade * 1988 Voždovac Belgrade * 1989

* 1990

* 1991

* 1992

References

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