Petar Topic (born 30 December 1991) is a Croatian-born Hungarian

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player for

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and for the Hungarian national team.

Career

Club

At the beginning of his career, he played in the Croatian club RK Kastela. Here he made his debut in the

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in the 2010–2011 season. In the summer of 2013, he transferred to the

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team

RK Metalurg Skopje RK Metalurg Skopje () is a Macedonian handball club based in Skopje. They compete in the domestic Macedonian Handball First League, and have competed in the EHF Champions League. History The club was founded in 1971 under patronage of the Skop ...

, which he left again in November and returned to the Croatian Premier League with RK Poreč. With this, he participated in the 2013-14

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. In 2015, he signed for RK Pelister Bitola. In the 2016–17 season, he moved to

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to the Váci KSE team. He then played for

Balatonfüredi KSE Balatonfüredi Kézilabda Sport Egyesület is a Hungarian handball club from Balatonfüred, that currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság I. The team won promotion to the top division in 2007 and achieved th ...

for five years, with which he played in the

. He has been playing in the MOL Tatabánya KC team since 2022. In February 2023, he suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon in the match against Csurgói KK. After an 8-month absence, he returned to the field in the MOL Tatabánya KC-

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...

match, where MOL Tatabánya KC won 29-24, Petar scored 3 goals. In the MOL Tatabánya KC team, he played in the

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in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. At the end of February 2025, it was announced that the Croatian record champion

bought him from the MOL Tatabánya KC team and he transferred to the Croatian team with immediate effect.

National team

In October 2020, he received Hungarian citizenship, thus becoming a player of the Hungarian national team. He played for the Hungarian national team for the first time at the

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: Hungary-Cape Verde 34–27 on January 15, 2021 (scored 1 goals). He scored 2 goals in 2 matches at the

. He was a member of the

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squad, he played in all three matches of the Hungarian national team at the European Championship, scoring 6 goals. He was included in the large squad of the

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, but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad. He was included in the large squad of the

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,https://ehfeuro.eurohandball.com/media/z4pj0vie/official-squad-lists-men-s-ehf-euro-2024-ger.pdf but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad.

Honours

Club

;Balatonfüredi KSE *

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

References

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Petar Topic
at EHF
Petar Topic
at MKSZ {{DEFAULTSORT:Tolic, Petar 1991 births Living people Naturalized citizens of Hungary Croatian expatriate handball players in Hungary Hungarian male handball players Naturalised handball players Tatabánya KC players Croatian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia Croatian male handball players 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen 21st-century Croatian sportsmen