GRK Ohrid () 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 from

Ohrid Ohrid ( ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording a population of over 42,000 inhabitants as of ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

. They compete in the domestic

Macedonian Handball Super League The Macedonian Handball Super League (), is the top-tier team handball competition in North Macedonia. As of 2018, the Macedonian Handball Federation was ranked 8th in the world. Current teams Teams for season 2024–25 Handball League * RK ...

Crest, colours, supporters

Kits

History

Elektromontazha shortly EMO Ohrid was established in 1972 and for the last 30 years has been a leading Macedonian manufacturer and supplier of electro-mechanical components and systems, with design, manufacturing and installation capability. The company had established its own Handball Club Elektromontazha Ohrid. It was one of the top clubs in the 70s and early 80s. They had won three championships back in 1977, 1978 and 1983. The club had decreased in the 90s due to the companies financial crises. It stopped working in the early 2000s. After the sports center Biljanini izvori was built, the city of Ohrid started working on re-establishing the handball club. GRK Ohrid was founded in 2011 in Ohrid as a successor of HC Elektromontazha. In the first two seasons, they competed in the First Macedonian Handball League. The 2013–14 season was their first season in

, when they finished in eighth position. Their first qualification in Play-off phase was season 2015–16, when they finished second in Regular season and fifth in play-off. Season after that they were placed third at the end, so they qualified for the

2017–18 EHF Cup The 2017–18 EHF Cup was the 37th edition of the EHF Cup, the second most important European handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF), and the sixth edition since the merger with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup. Te ...

qualification. After the end of the 2023/24 season, GRK Ohrid again qualified to play for the next season in one of the European Cups, by winning the fourth place. In the 2024/25 season, it starts from the second round of the EHF European Cup, where the opponent is the team of Potaisa Turda from Romania.

Ohrid Arena

The Biljanini Izvori Sports Arena is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The sports hall was inaugurated in August 1998 and has a capacity of 4,000 seats for handball and 4,500 for basketball. It is used by several handball and basketball teams from Ohrid. It was one of two venues used during the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship. 300px

Accomplishment

:: Macedonian Champions : Gold medal with cup

:1977, 1978, 1983

European record

EHF Cup

European Cup

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2024–25 season'' ;Goalkeepers *1 Gradimir Čanevski * 30 Bojan Blažeski * 93 Daniel Gjorgjeski ;Left Wingers *3 Goce Ojleski * 17 Nikola Risteski ;Right Wingers * 44 Gal Cirar * 45 Darko Đukić ;Line players * 19 Ivan Taseski * 20 Oriol Rey Morales * 22

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;Central Backs *2 Tilen Strmljan * 23

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;Right Backs * 10 Predrag Vejin * 13

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* 21 David Savrevski

Transfers

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)'' * David Savrevski (RB) ''(from RK Alkaloid)'' * Darko Đukić (RW) ''(from

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Staff

Professional staff

Management

Retired numbers

Notable former players

* Blagojče Trajkovski * Kiril Kolev * Milan Levov * Toše Ončev * Nikola Danilovski * Mihajlo Mladenovikj * Martin Manaskov * Krste Andonoski * Milorad Kukoski * Goran Krstevski *

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* Darko Pavlović *

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* Lazar Adamović *

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* Filip Grubor *

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* Denis Tot *

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* Tomislav Kljaić * Lucijan Bura * Rudolf Zvonimir Šafranko * Berin Brkić *

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* Jagoš Braunović *

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* Admir Pelidija * Derviš Birdahić * Lekso Tsitelishvili * Zurab Tsintsadze * Xazein Rustamov * Jalil Machou * Abderrahim Boudrali *

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* Eray Karakoç * Malik Hoggas

Notable former coaches

* Goran Andonovski *

Radoslav Stojanović Radoslav Stojanović, PhD (Радослав Стојановић) (1930, Obrenovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – 31 August 2011) was a Professor of Law at the University of Belgrade and was a member of the Founding Committee of the Democratic P ...

References

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