Ludovic Fabregas (born 1 July 1996) is a French professional

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 for ONE Veszprém and the French national team.

Career

Fabregas started playing handball at Banyuls HB in 2004. In 2011, he joined the youth team of

Montpellier Handball Montpellier Handball, formerly named Montpellier Agglomération Handball, is a professional handball club from Montpellier, France. Montpellier is the only French club to ever have won the EHF Champions League. History The team was founded as ...

. Here he made his senior debut in the 2013-14 season. In 2015, he signed a professional contract with the club. With Montpellier, he won the 2016 French Cup. In 2018, he won 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 ...

and

IHF Men's Super Globe The Men's Super Globe is a handball competition contested between the champion clubs from continental confederations. On 7 December 2018, the IHF moved the Super Globe to Saudi Arabia for four years, until 2022. In May 2024, the IHF moved the S ...

. He then joined Spanish top team

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

. Here, he won the

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

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 ...

Spanish Cup 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 Spanish f ...

, and Supercup. In 2022, he once again won the Champions League. In the final he scored the deciding penalty to win the match. In 2021, he was nominated to the best player in the world. In 2023, he joined Hungarian

Veszprém KC Veszprém KC is a Hungarian professional handball club from Veszprém, that for sponsorship reasons is called ONE Veszprém. Veszprém plays in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság I and are the most successfu ...

National team

Fabregas debuted for the French national team on 10 June 2015 against Czechia. At the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, he won silver medals with the French team. He won the 2017 World Championship. At the 2018 European Championship and 2019 World Championship, he won bronze medals at both occasions. At the

2020 Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo, he won gold medals. Here, he was included in the tournament All star team. At the 2023 World Championship, he won silver medals with the French team, and was once again selected for the tournament all star team. In 2024, he won the

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

. He played all 9 games and scored 44 goals. At the 2025 World Championship, he won bronze medals with the French team. He played 8 games and scored 23 goals.

Personal life

Born in France, Fabregas' parents were Catalonians who fled Spain to France under the

Franco regime Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death i ...

Titles

Club

; With

* French Men's Handball Cup: 2016 * French League Cup: 2016 *

: 2018 *

: 2018 ; With

: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 *

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 ...

: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 * Spanish Supercup: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 * Catalan Supercup: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 *

: 2021, 2022 *

: 2019 ; With

* Hungarian Championship: 2024 *

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

: 2024 *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

National Team

* U-18 European Championship: 2014 * U-19 World Championship: 2015 *

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: 2020 ** Silver: 2016 *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: ** Gold:

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

** Silver:

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

** Bronze:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

** Gold:

** Bronze:

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Individual awards

*All-Star Pivot at the Olympic Games:

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

*All-Star Pivot of the World Championship:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* All-Star pivot of the European Championship:

* All-Star Pivot of the Youth World Championship:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

*All-Star Pivot of EHF Champions League:

* Best Young Player of EHF Champions League:

* EHF Excellence Awards Best line player of the season: 2022/23

References

External links

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Ludovic Fabregas
at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fabregas, Ludovic 1996 births Living people French male handball players Sportspeople from Perpignan Olympic handball players for France Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball Montpellier Handball players Liga ASOBAL players FC Barcelona Handbol players Veszprém KC players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France French people of Catalan descent French people of Spanish descent Sportspeople of Spanish descent Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics French expatriate handball players in Spain French expatriate handball players in Hungary 21st-century French sportsmen Sportspeople from Catalonia