Riihimäki Cocks ( fi, Riihimäen Cocks) is a

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Riihimäki Riihimäki (literally "Drying barn hill") is a town and municipality in the south of Finland, about north of Helsinki and southeast of Tampere. An important railway junction is located in Riihimäki, since railway tracks from Riihimäki lead to ...

. The club is playing in the

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(SM-liiga), and play their home matches in Cocks Areena.

History

Riihimäki Cocks were founded in 1973 when the club decided to separate from RiPS. The newly founded team gained promotion to Finnish Handball Championship League during the following season. The team won their first Championship medals in 1978, when the team finished second in the championship. Riihimäki Cocks got their first Finnish handball championships in 2007 and repeated the success in 2008. Cocks also won the Finnish Cup in 2007 and 2008, winning the double two times consecutively.

Honours

: 12 **: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 **: 1978, 1979, 2005, 2011 **: 1998, 2000, 2006, 2012 *Finnish Cup of Handball: 10 **: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

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: 4 **: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 **: 2010, 2013, 2015 **: 2014

European record

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Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2022–23 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 12 Nicolas Gauthier * 16 Dmitry Kholmov * 87 Vitalii Shitsko ;Left Wingers * 15

Teemu Tamminen Teemu Tamminen (born 27 August 1987) is a Finnish handball player who plays for Riihimäen Cocks and the Finnish national team. References 1987 births Living people People from Riihimäki Finnish male handball players Sportspeople fro ...

( c) * 26 Julius Kemppainen ;Right Wingers *4 Oreste Vescovo * 63 Nuno Santos ;Line players * 17

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;Left Backs *3 Igor Mandić *9

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;Central Backs *7 Piotr Rybski * 21

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* 84 Miika Kaukoranta ;Right Backs * 23 Vitalie Nenita * 99 Pavel Duda

Technical staff

* Head Coach: Christophe Viennet * {{flagicon, SRB Assistant Coach: Bojan Županjac

External links

* http://cocks.fi/historia/
Official website
* https://www.baltichandball.net/history * https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-suomen-cup/ * https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-sm-sarjan-mitalitaulukko/ * https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-sm-sarjan-mitalijoukkueet/