Rukometni klub "Medveščak" is a

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 ...

club located 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 ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

. They are one of the more famous branches of the Medveščak sports society, named after the Medveščak neighbourhood of Zagreb. They play in the sports and recreational centre

Šalata Šalata () is a residential neighborhood in Zagreb, Croatia. It is administratively part of the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district in the northern part of Zagreb and it has a population of 1,929. Šalata houses the Šalata Sport and Recre ...

. Through history club was also known as Prvomajska, Coning Medveščak, Medveščak Osiguranje Zagreb, Medveščak Infosistem, Agram Medveščak and Medveščak NFD.

Accomplishments

* National Championship of Yugoslavia: 4 ** 1953, 1954, 1964, 1966 *National Cup of Yugoslavia: 7 ** 1970, 1978, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 *

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 ...

** runner-up 1964/65 *

Limburgse Handbal Dagen The Limburgse Handbal Dagen / Limbourg Handball Days is a handball tournament organized since 1988 in Limburg (Netherlands), especially in the cities of Sittard, Geleen and Beek. The tournament lasts for 3 days with teams from Europe, Africa and A ...

: 1 ** 1993

Notable players

Famous coaches

Vlado Stenzel Vlado Stenzel ( Croatian: Vlado Štencl; born 23 May 1934) is a Croatian former handball goalkeeper and coach. He won the 1972 Summer Olympics gold medal with Yugoslavia and the 1978 World Championship with West Germany. His wife's name is Dia ...

(Štencl) *

Josip Milković Josip () is a male given name largely found among Croats and Slovenes, a cognate of Joseph. In Croatia, the name Josip was the second most common masculine given name in the decades up to 1959, and has stayed among the top ten most common ones thro ...

Velimir Kljaić Velimir Kljaić (10 February 1946 – 12 August 2010) was a Croatian handball player and coach. Career As a player Kljaić played with RK Medveščak Zagreb and Klagenfurt. As a coach, he won two Croatian championships with RK Zagreb and one Cu ...

Josip Šojat Josip Šojat (born 6 March 1948) is a former Croatian handball player. He was the coach of the women's national team of Croatia. His biggest achievement is winning the Women's EHF Champions League in 1996 after losing in the final in the year b ...

Abas Arslanagić Abas Arslanagić (born October 2, 1944) is a Bosnian former handball player and coach who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1972, he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal at ...

Zlatko Lukić Zlatko ( sr-Cyrl, Златко, ) is a South Slavic masculine given name. The name is derived from the word ''zlato'' meaning gold with hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' common in South Slavic languages. Zlatko is a given name. Notable people with the na ...

* Pero Janjić *

Ante Kostelić Ante Kostelić (born 11 August 1938) is a Croatian former handball player, and handball and skier Coach (sport), coach. He is best known for coaching his children, Croatian skiers Janica Kostelić, Janica and Ivica Kostelić, who won the FIS Alpi ...

* Josip Glavaš * Ivica Obrvan *

Mirko Bašić Mirko Bašić (born 14 September 1960) is a Croatian former Team handball, handball player who competed for Yugoslavia men's national handball team, Yugoslavia in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He has also played six E ...

* Vinko Tomljanović *

Boris Dvoršek Boris Dvoršek (born 9 November 1970) is a Croatian Team handball, handball coach who is currently assistant coach in Croatia national handball team, Croatian national handball team. Honours ;Zagreb (Youth) *Croatian Handball U-18 Championship ...

Damir Štokić Damir is a male given name. In the Balkans, Damir is popular among Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs in the former Yugoslav nations, where it is interpreted as a locally originated given name, derived from ''da-'' meaning "give" and ''mir'' meaning "p ...

Željko Zovko Željko (), sometimes written Zeljko, is a South Slavic masculine given name. In Croatia, the name Željko was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1950 and 1979, and was the most common name in the 1960s. Notable pe ...

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