Luka Raković (born 6 June 1988) is a Croatian
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 and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
player who plays for
Grand Nancy Métropole HB. A
Croatian international, Raković was runner-up at the
2010 European Men's Championship in Austria.
Clubs
Born in
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...
, Raković played for Croatian clubs Perutnina Pipo Cakovec,
RK Bjelovar
RK Bjelovar (Rukometni Klub Bjelovar) is a team handball club from Bjelovar, Croatia formed in 1955. The club currently competes in the Croatian Second League of Handball (North) and the Croatian Handball Cup.
During Communist Yugoslavia, th ...
and
RK Zagreb
Rukometni klub Zagreb (, ) is a men's professional handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. It competes in the
Croatian Premier League and the EHF Champions League.
RK Zagreb has won 38 national championships and the national cup 32 times. The c ...
. He was a member of Bosnian club
Bosna BH Gas, which reached the
EHF Champions League
The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...
last 16 of the
2010–11 season. With the latter he won the
domestic league in 2011. In the summer 2012, he signed for Macedonian side
RK Vardar Skopje. Two years later, he returned to RK Zagreb. In November 2016, he joined Portuguese side
S.L. Benfica
(), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
Founded on 28 February 1904, as ''Sport Lisboa'', Benfica is one of the " ...
for one season.
"O Benfica tem um projeto muito ambicioso"
S.L. Benfica (in Portuguese)
Honours
RK Zagreb
*Premier League
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...
: 2009–10, 2014–15, 2015–16
* Croatian Cup: 2010, 2015, 2016
Bosna Sarajevo
*Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (; ; sr-Cyrl, Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), officially known as the Wwin League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for sponsorship purposes, is the top tier football leagu ...
: 2010–11
Vardar
* Macedonian Super League: 2012–13
* Macedonian Cup: 2014
*SEHA League
The South East Handball Association League, or simply the SEHA League, is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast Europe, featuring teams from Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovakia. Due to sponsorship reasons, the le ...
: 2013–14
References
External links
Profile at European Handball Federation
Profile at EHF Champions League 2013–14
1988 births
Living people
Handball players from Zagreb
Croatian male handball players
21st-century Croatian sportsmen
RK Zagreb players
S.L. Benfica handball players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Croatian expatriate handball players in Germany
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players
Expatriate handball players in Portugal
Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia
Croatian expatriate handball players in France
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