Club Balonmano Neptuno/Atlético de Madrid was a Spanish professional

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team based in

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. Part of the

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), commonly referred to as Atlético Madrid or simply Atlético, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga. The club play their home game ...

sports organization. They played two seasons in the

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and their home court was the

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History

Balonmano Atlético de Madrid was created in the early 1950s, it won 11 Spanish Leagues and 10 Spanish Cups between 1952 and 1987, and reached the final of the 1984–85

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and the 1986–87

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; they lost both to, respectively, Metaloplastika Sabac and

Granitas Kaunas Granitas-Karys is a team handball club from Kaunas, Lithuania. They compete in Lietuvos Rankinio Lyga (LRL) and Baltic Handball League. Granitas-Karys is the most successful team in Lithuania Handball history. History In 1963 the club won t ...

Jesús Gil Gregorio Jesús Gil y Gil (12 March 1933 – 14 May 2004) was a Spanish businessman and politician. He served as Mayor of Marbella between 1991 and 2002, and presided for a 16-year tenure as president of the football club Atlético de Madrid ...

disbanded the team in 1992, but it still competed as Atlético de Madrid

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for two more seasons under the management of some stockholders before finally disappearing in 1994. ''Los Colchoneros'' welcomed handball back into their organization in 2011, formally known as

BM Ciudad Real Balonmano Ciudad Real was a Spanish handball team based in Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha. BM Ciudad Real played in Liga ASOBAL. History In July 1983 is founded in the city of Ciudad Real a handball club named Asociación Deportiva Cultural ...

, which folded and relocated to

for financial reasons. The new team started off quite successfully, beating

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33–26 in the Supercup match in August 2011. In July 2013, the club announced the shutdown of BM Neptuno/Atletico de Madrid due to little financial support received from public and private entities. bmatleticodemadrid.com, July 9, 2013

Season by season

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Trophies

: **Runners-Up: (2). 2011–12,

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Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

: **Champions: (2).

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Copa ASOBAL The Copa ASOBAL is an annual handball cup competition for Liga ASOBAL teams. It was first played for in 1990 and is contested by the top four teams at the end of the first half of the Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball ...

: **Runners-Up: (1).

Supercopa ASOBAL The Supercopa ASOBAL or the Supercopa de España de Balonmano was an annual cup competition for Spanish handball teams. It was organised by the Liga ASOBAL. It was first played for in 1985 and was disputed between the Liga ASOBAL champions and the ...

: **Champions: (1). 2011 **Runners-Up: (1). 2012 *

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**Runners-Up: (1). 2011–12. *

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: **Champions: (1).

Home arenas

Notable players

Isaías Guardiola Isaías Guardiola Villaplana (born 1 October 1984, in Petrer) is a Spanish handballer who plays for TBV Lemgo and the Spanish national team. He is a twin brother of Gedeón Guardiola Gedeón Guardiola Villaplana (born 1 October 1984) is a ...

(2011–2012) * JJ Hombrados *

Julen Aguinagalde Julen Aguinagalde Akizu (born 8 December 1982 in Irun, Spain) is a Basques, Basque Spanish retired handballer who played as a pivot for the Spain men's national handball team, Spanish national team. Career Aguinagalde started playing handball ...

Jonas Källman Jonas Källman (born 17 July 1981) is a Swedish handball coach and former player. Honours and awards BM Ciudad Real * Liga ASOBAL 2003–2004, Liga ASOBAL 2006-07, 2006–2007, Liga ASOBAL 2007-08, 2007–2008, Liga ASOBAL 2008-09, 2008–2009, ...

* David Davis * Roberto García *

Xavier Barachet Xavier Barachet (born 19 November 1988) is a French retired handball player, two-time World champion and European champion with the France men's national handball team, French national team. On 1 January 2013, Barachet was made a Knight (Cheval ...

Joan Cañellas Joan Cañellas Reixach (born 30 September 1986) is a Spanish former handball player. Cañellas scored 50 goals for Spain at the 2014 European Championship in Denmark. He was the tournament's top scorer. While playing in Madrid, he also studied ...

* Mariusz Jurkiewicz *

Jakov Gojun Jakov Gojun (born 18 April 1986) is a Croatian handball player who plays for RK Zagreb and Croatia men's national handball team, Croatian national team. He competed for the Croatia national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, winning the ...

Ivano Balić Ivano Balić (; born 1 April 1979) is a Croatian former professional handballer who is currently part of the coaching staff at RK Split. Renowned for his speed, creativity, movement and charisma as a player, Balić won the 2003 World Men's Handb ...

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 ...

Ólafur Stefánsson Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson (born 3 July 1973) is an Icelandic former handball player who, for many years was the captain of the Iceland men's national handball team but announced his international retirement after the 2012 London Olympics. H ...

Notable coaches

Talant Dujshebaev Talant Mushanbetovich Dujshebaev (; born 2 June 1968) is a former handball player, and current coach, who serves as the head coach for Vive Kielce. Dujshebaev is considered by many to be one of the greatest handball coaches of his generation. H ...

References

External links

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