POŠK (POmorski Športski Klub: ''Marine Sports Club''), is a professional

water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

club based in

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. The club was founded in 1937. As of 2021–22 season, it competes in the Croatian League and Regional League A2.

History

The club developed in a big name in the world of water polo, especially from the 1980s onwards, during which the

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of Yugoslavia have been lost many times in points after tough "battles" against the remaining giants of the erstwhile Yugoslav and European water polo as Mladost,

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, Partizan and Primorac Kotor.

Honours

European competitions

LEN Champions League The European Aquatics Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A ...

* Winners (1): 1998-99

LEN Cup Winners' Cup The LEN Cup Winners' Cup was a European water polo club competition organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. National cup winners qualified for the tournament. After 2003, the nationalcup winners qualified for the LEN Euroleague, and the cup ...

* Winners (2): 1981–82, 1983–84 * ''Runners-up (1):'' 1979-80

LEN Super Cup The European Aquatics Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by European Aquatics and contested by the reigning champions of the two most important European club competitions, the European Aquatics Champions League and the European A ...

* Winners (1): 1984 * ''Runners-up (1):'' 1982

COMEN Cup The COMEN (COnfederación MEditerránea de Natación) Cup was a competition in the sport of water polo, organized by the Mediterranean Swimming Confederation the period from 1984 to 2007. Participating clubs came primarily from European, African an ...

* Winners (3): 1984, 1985, 1985

Domestic competitions

Croatian League * Winners (1): 1997-98

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup *Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup The Croatian Water Polo C ...

* Winners (1): 1999-00

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...

* Winners (2): 1980, 1982–83

References

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