Rukometni klub Mladi Rudar Labin (formerly RK Rudan Labin) is a men's handball club from

Labin Labin (Italian language, Italian/Istriot language, Istriot: Albona) is a town in Istria, west Croatia, with a town population of 5,806 (2021) and 10,424 in the greater municipality (which also includes the small towns of Rabac, Rabac-Porto Albona a ...

Istria County Istria County (; ; , "Istrian Region") is the westernmost Counties of Croatia, county of Croatia which includes the majority of the Istrian peninsula. Administrative centers in the county are Pazin, Pula and Poreč. Istria County has the larg ...

History

The club was founded on October 23, 2000, under the name ''Handball Association "Mladi Rudar"'' (youth team), as a handball organization for the education and development of young handball players for the needs of the MRK Rudar Labin, which in the 2000/01 season competed in the 1st A HRL. However, "Rudar" got into financial problems, and they were called "RK Istra" for a short time. They gave up the 1.A HRL for the 2001/02 season, and the club shut down. ''Mladi Rudar'' took over "Rudar's" younger players and part of the remaining seniors, forming the senior team with which it played in the 2001/02 season, in the 3rd HRL - West 2, which the club won, entering the 2nd HRL - West, in which he played until the 2009/10 season, when it entered the 1st HRL, where the club played for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, whereafter it was again relegated to the 2nd HRL - West, where it played until the 2015/16 season, when it entered the 1st HRL - South, which was won by the club in the 2017/18 season, becoming a member of the

Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...

. The Croatian league is considered the 8th top handball championship in the world. It once was in the top 5. The club has a reserve (B) team, that competes in the 3rd HRL - West. On August 30, 2018, at the assembly of the club, a decision was made to rename the club to ''"RK" Rudar Labin "''. labin.com, ''RK Rudan Labin u dobroj atmosferi najavio povijesnu sezonu; Lovrinović: Raspored nije idealan, ali nećemo se unaprijed predati''
objavljeno 7. rujna 2018., pristupljeno 29. prosinca 2018.

Honours

* 1. HRL - Jug: 2017./2018

History

Honours

References

See also