RK Metalurg Skopje () is a Macedonian

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club based in

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

. They compete in the domestic Macedonian Handball First League, and have competed in the

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History

The club was founded in 1971 under patronage of the Skopje steel industry. There, an idea was born to form a team composed of employees that worked in the nearby steel mill. Nikola Bogdanovski accepted the idea after it was reviewed by the board of directors. Thus, RK Metalurg was created. The same concept realized by Bogdanovski continues to live today. At the time, the club didn't even think of playing in any of the European competitions, because they played their best not to be relegated from the first league. It's well worth mentioning that Metalurg in its first official match won against the team of RK Pirin with a score of 22–14. In 1974 the club created a youth team, led by Kreshnik Pustina. In the following two decades, this youth team would constitute the core of the club. The first European debut for Metalurg was in 1993, when they played in the

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, where their opponent was

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HC Herstal Liège. Currently, Metalurg is the best handball club in the country, and in the last five years, they've won the first league championship three times, as well as becoming national cup winners. The team regularly participates in the best European handball competitions and is currently considered as a club - national team. Macedonian national team.

Golden Years

:Lino Cervar era are the golden years of Metalurg.Winning championships and cup trophies. Best season in Europe and Champions league happened under Lino Cervars management of the team from Avtokomanda. Lino Cervar 20141130

In the 2011–12 season, Metalurg made it to the Last 16 of the

where they lost to Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb. The following season they made history, becoming the first Macedonian men's handball club to reach the

quarterfinals. In the 2013–14 season, they repeated their success by reaching the

quarterfinals for the second time in a row. Dejan Manaskov 02

In the 2014–2015 season there were misunderstandings in the club and financial problems. At the beginning of November there were misunderstandings between the coach

Lino Červar Lino Červar (born 22 September 1950) is a Croatian retired handball coach. In 2003 he guided Croatia men's national handball team to gold in the 2003 World Championship as well as to gold at the 2004 Olympics. As a member of the largest centr ...

and the players, so they didn't want to play under his command. Because of that they were suspended by the management of the club. They came back so they wouldn't be eliminated from the

But in the time of the crisis 7 players left the club:

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, Kocić, Marsenić, Borozan, Cindrić,

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, Lipovina. As the crisis continued in 2015, 9 more players left the club: Mojsovski, Jonovski, V.Markoski, N.Markoski, Vugrinec, Mirkulovski, Dimovski, Manaskov,

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. The management of the club decided to temporarily pull the shirt number 13, which in the previous 12 years wore Mirkulovski. In continuation of the season, "Metalurg" continued to play with reserve, mostly made up of young players. Filip Mirkulovski 2014

Season 2018-2019 was marked as an Extraordinary . Metulurgs Squad played on 4 fronts with combined team and many new young players . Again Metalurgs youngsters from the youth team of previous seasons proved to be great investment of the club. Although they've finished third in the League and didn't make for the SEHA playoffs, they had a great season in the Macedonian Handball Cup 2019 . They've riched all the way to the final 4. In the semis they beat the tough team of HC Butel and they had to face the European Champions Vardar and their Superstars. The final was fantastic, and Metalurgs players, played their best game of the season. The thriller match ended with tie 29–29 in a very tight game from begging till the end. It came to the Penalties in the end. Metalurgs goal keeper was fantastic and he saved the crucial PK for a victory 4-3 for his team. Bringing back another CUP title in Metalurgs collection . Renato Vugrinec 2014

Home Ground

''RK Metalurg Skopje'' has its own home arena in

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with a capacity of 1,200 seats, that is where they play their domestic matches. Before the construction of its sports center, RK Metalurg played their European Cup matches at

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. In the 2008–09 season, Metalurg started playing the

matches at the

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arena, where the average attendance was about 5,000 people.

Kits

Trophies

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:Winners :1980, 1986, 1992, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020 *

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:Winners (6): 2006, 2009, 2010,

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, 2013, 2019 *

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:Finalist : 2012 :3rd : 2013 *

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: Winners (3): 2005–06, 2009–10, 2010–11

European record

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: 2005-06 Eight-Finals Last 16 : 2008-09 Quarter-finals best 8 : 2009-10 Eight-Finals Last 16 *

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: 1993–94 Eight-Finals Last 16 : 1994–95 Round 2 : 2001–02 Round 2 *

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: 2003–04 Round 3 : 2004–05 Round 3 : 2007–08 Quarter-finals best 8 :

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Eight-Finals best 16 : 2019–20 play-off :

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Group Stage *

: 2006–07 group stage : 2008–09 group stage : 2011–12 Eight-Finals best 16 :

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Quarter-finals best 8 : 2013–14 Quarter-finals best 8 : 2014–15 group stage : 2015–16 group stage : 2016-17 group stage : 2017–18 Group stage : 2018–19 Group stage

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2024–25 season''

Staff

Professional staff

Management

Former club members

Notable former players

* Filip Taleski * Martin Manaskov * Dejan Manaskov * Borjan Madzovski * Petar Misovski * Nikola Mitrevski * Goce Ojleski * Milorad Kukoski *

Renato Vugrinec Renato Vugrinec (born 9 June 1975) is a Slovenian-Macedonian retired handball player. Before switching his national team alliagance, Vugrinec was a long time member of Slovenia men's national handball team and represented the country on several i ...

Filip Mirkulovski Filip Mirkulovski () (born 14 September 1983) is a retired Macedonian handball player. Honours * Macedonian Handball Super League :Winners (6): 2005-06, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2013-14 * Macedonian Handball Cup :Winners ( ...

* Goran Krstevski * Goran Kuzmanoski * Lazo Majnov * Marko Neloski * Kostadin Petrov * Darko Dimitrievski * Filip Kuzmanovski * Dimitar Dimitrioski * Bojan Madzovski * Martin Velkovski * Mario Tankoski * Filip Arsenovski * Mice Šilegov * Daniel Gjorgjeski *

Martin Serafimov Martin Serafimov () (born 3 March 2000) is a Macedonian handball player for RK Alkaloid and the Macedonian national team. He represented Macedonia at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship. Honours ;RK Metalurg Skopje * Macedonian Handba ...

* Stojanče Stoilov * Velko Markoski * Nikola Markoski * Borko Ristovski * Goce Georgievski * Filip Lazarov * Aco Jonovski * Kiril Kolev * Stevče Aluševski * Vančo Dimovski * Goran Gjorgonoski * Petar Angelov * Naumče Mojsovski * Branislav Angelovski * Zlatko Mojsovski *

Nikola Kosteski Nikola Kosteski () (born 22 August 1992) is a Macedonian handball player who plays for Talent Plzeň. His brother Nenad Kosteski is also a handball player. Honours * RK Alkaloid * EHF European Cup The EHF European Cup is an annual men's ...

* Stefan Drogrishki *

Žarko Peševski Zharko Peshevski () (born 11 April 1991) is a Macedonian handball player for RK Eurofarm Pelister and the North Macedonia national team. Honours *RK Metalurg Skopje * Macedonian Handball Super League :Winner :''2014'' *HC Motor Zaporizhzhia * ...

* Davor Palevski *

Martin Tomovski Martin Tomovski () (born 10 July 1997) is a Macedonian handball player who plays for RK Vardar 1961 and the Macedonian national team. He participated at the 2016 Men's Junior European Handball Championship and 2017 Men's Junior World Handbal ...

* Nikola Danilovski * Tomislav Jagurinovski * Dejan Pecakovski * Mihajlo Mladenovikj * Milan Lazarevski *

Daniel Dupjačanec Daniel Dupjačanec (; born 15 July 1983) is a Macedonian handball player who plays for Handball Bagnols Gard Rhodanien. ReferencesEHF profile
*https://rukometnizurnal.com/danijel-dupjacanec-pronasao-novi-angazman-u-francuskoj/ 1983 births ...

Aleksandar Stojanović (handballer) Aleksandar Stojanović (; born 22 June 1983) is a Serbian handball player for RK Rudar (Kostolac). Career Over the course of his career, Stojanović played in Slovenia (Celje and Koper), Macedonia (Vardar and Metalurg Skopje), Switzerland ( Kad ...

Darko Stanić Darko Stanić (; born 8 October 1978) is a Serbian former handball player for the Qatari Al Rayyan and the Serbia national team. He was dubbed the "Minister of Defence" due to his performances for the Serbia. Club career After making his EHF C ...

* Darko Arsić *

Đorđe Golubović Đorđe Golubović (born May 20, 1992) is a Serbian 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 ...

* Janja Vojvodić *

Miloš Dragaš Miloš Dragaš (; born 11 June 1990) is a Serbian handball player for Romanian club Potaissa Turda and the Serbia national team. Club career After starting out at his hometown club Priboj, Dragaš moved across the border and played for Bosnian ...

* Darko Đukić *

Vojislav Brajović Vojislav "Voja" Brajović ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав "Воја" Брајовић; born 11 May 1949) is a Serbian actor. Career Brajović graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts in 1971. He has been member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre ...

* Nemanja Obradović * Nemanja Mladenović * Predrag Vejin * Vanja Ilić *

Aleksandar Gugleta Aleksandar Gugleta (; born 17 July 1991) is a Serbian handball player who plays for Riihimäen Cocks. Gugleta won a silver medal with the Serbian national team at the 2015 Summer Universiade The 2015 Summer Universiade (), officially known ...

* Luka Stojanović *

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* Momir Rnić *

Stefan Dodić Stefan Dodić (born 13 March 2003) is a Serbian handball player for RK Vojvodina and the Serbian national team. Honors RK Vardar *Macedonian Handball Super League : - 2022 *Macedonian Handball Cup : - 2022 RK Zagreb *Croatian Handball Premie ...

Luka Mrakovčić Luka Mrakovčić (born 22 September 1994) is a Croatian handball player who plays for RK Zamet and the Croatia national team. Career Mrakovčić started his career at youth clubs Pećine and Kozala before joining Premier League club RK Zamet. D ...

Marko Buvinić Marko Buvinić () (born 28 June 1992) is a Croatian 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 ...

Luka Cindrić Luka Cindrić (born 5 July 1993) is a Croatian professional handball player for ONE Veszprém and the Croatian national team. He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship. Honours Individual awards * EHF Player of the Year: 2 ...

Marko Matić Marko Matić (born 25 January 1988) is a Croatian 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 ...

* Martin Marčec *

Halil Jaganjac Halil Jaganjac (born 22 June 1998) is a Croatian handball player who plays for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the Croatian national team. Career Jaganjac was born in Rijeka to Bosnian parents. His father hails from Bosanski Petrovac, and his mother h ...

* Adrian Miličević * Ante Tokić * Marijan Marić *

Zlatko Horvat Zlatko Horvat (born 25 September 1984) is a Croatian handball player for RK Dubrava Zagreb. Career Since 2003 Horvat's Zagreb has not lost a match in the domestic league and cup. Horvat has reached the quarter-final of the EHF Champions League ...

* Mladen Rakčević * Stevan Vujović *

Rade Mijatović Rade Mijatović (; born 30 June 1981) is a Montenegrin handball player. Club career Over the course of his career, Mijatović played for Vojvodina, Partizan, Altea, Crvena zvezda, Teka Cantabria, Alcobendas, Toledo, Antequera, Dinamo Minsk, ...

Vuko Borozan Vuko Borozan (born 9 April 1994) is a Montenegrin handball player who plays for RK Vardar, RK Vardar 1961 and the Montenegro men's national handball team, Montenegro national team. Achievements Vardar * EHF Champions League : ''Winner'': 2016� ...

Božo Anđelić Božo Anđelić (born 16 March 1992) is a Montenegrin handball player for HC Meshkov Brest HC Meshkov Brest (Myashkov Brest, officially A. P. Myashkow Brest Handball Club, ) is a professional handball club from Brest, Belarus. They currently ...

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Branko Kankaraš Branko Kankaraš (; born 28 May 1988) is a retired Serbian-born Montenegrin handball player. Club career At club level, Kankaraš played in Serbia ( Jugović, Metaloplastika, and Vojvodina), Turkey (Mersin), France (Valence and Istres), Belarus ...

* Milan Popović *

Vasilije Kaluđerović Vasilije () is a South Slavic masculine given name, a variant of Greek given name ''Vassilios'' ("Basil"). It may refer to: * Vasilije, Serbian Patriarch (), Serbian cleric born Vasilije Jovanović-Brkić * Vasilije Calasan (born 1981), French rac ...

* Januš Lapajne * David Špiler *

Miladin Kozlina Miladin Kozlina (born 11 February 1983) is a Slovenian 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 an ...

* Aleksander Špende * Miha Pučnik * Damir Efendić *

Kemal Fazlić Kemal may refer to: ;People * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey * Kemal (name), a Turkish name ;Places * Kemalpaşa, İzmir Province, Turkey * Mustafakemalpaşa, Bursa Province, Turkey ;See also *"Kema ...

* Dragan Vrgoč * Marko Tarabochia *

Milan Šajin Milan Šajin (; born 16 Mаy 1993) is a Serbian-born Qatari Team handball, handball player who plays for RK Jugović and the Qatar men's national handball team. References

* http://milansajin.blogspot.mk * http://derbi.mk/metalurg-kje-se-za ...

* Žarko Marković *

Janko Božović Janko Božović (born 14 July 1985) is an Austrian handball player for Al-Sulaibikhat Sulaibikhat Sporting Club is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Sulaibikhat Area, about from the capital of Kuwait City. Achievements *Kuwaiti ...

Pavel Atman Pavel Nikolayevich Atman (; born 25 May 1987) is a Russian 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 playe ...

Amin Yusefinezhad Amin Yousefinezhad (born 11 January 1996) is an Iranian handball player who plays for Espérance Sportive de Tunis Espérance Sportive de Tunis (), known as ES Tunis or simply EST for short, is a Tunisian professional sports club founded ...

* Revaz Chanturia * Irakli Kbilashvili *

Gonçalo Ribeiro Gonçalo Ribeiro may refer to: *Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (25 May 1922 – 11 November 2020) was a Portugal, Portuguese politician and landscape architect. He was born and died in Lisbon. He was a founder of ...

* Ulisses Ribeiro * Abdoulah Mané *

Halil Öztürk Halil is a common Turkish, Albanian and Bosnian male given name. It is equivalent to the Arabic given name and surname Khalil or its variant Khaleel. Notable persons with the name include: * Halil Akbunar (born 1993), Turkish footballer * Hali ...

Notable former coaches

Jovica Cvetković Jovica Cvetković (; born 18 September 1959) is a Serbian handball coach and former player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Summer Olympics. Club career At club level, Cvetković played for Crvena zvezda (two spells), Metaloplastika, GW ...

Zvonko Šundovski Zvonko Šundovski () is a former Macedonian team handball player and a former coach of the North Macedonia National Handball Team. He was born on 7 September 1967 in Bitola, then in SFR Yugoslavia. Starting from October 2010, he served as the ...

Statistics

All–time Top 10 Scorers in the EHF Champions League

:''As of 2018–19 season''

Most appearances in the EHF Champions League

:''As of 2018–19 season''

References

External links

Official website

RFM Profile

EHF Profile
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