RK Astraion Strumica () is a

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club from

Strumica Strumica (, ) is the largest city2002 census results
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Background

The club was founded in 1954. They defeated GRK Kavadarci in a 2012 promotion playoff and play in the VIP Super League. The team played in

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season. They finished last in their group with 6 loses. In the next two seasons the team played again in

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but they didn't reach the group stage again. In the 2015-16 season they also played in the regional

SEHA League The South East Handball Association League, or simply the SEHA League, is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast Europe, featuring teams from Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovakia. Due to sponsorship reasons, the le ...

, but they didn't do much where only in the 1 half season they played 14 matches in which they had 2 draws and 12 losses. In 2015-16 season the team also had financial problems who led to most of the players to leave the team. Even though they finished third in the Macedonian handball league they went into bankruptcy and as of the start of the 2016-17 season the club only runs with a youth team and goes by the name RK Strumica.

Kits

Home Ground

Handball Club Strumica plays their handball matches at Arena Park Sports Hall with capacity of 5000.

Macedonian Champions 20px

*1991

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2020–21 season

Notable former players

* Aleksandar Trencevski *

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* Blagojče Trajkovski * Kiril Kolev * Milorad Kukoski * Igor Pavlovski * Rade Stojanovic * Velko Markoski * Nikola Markoski * Jovica Mladenovski * Dejan Pecakovski * Aleksandar Boseovski * Slavisha Dimitrijeski * Pavle Atanasov * Zlatko Vezenkovski * Borce Sokolov * Milan Levov * Vaso Dimitrov * Krste Kosteski * Daniel Vasilev * Stefan Čizmović *

Mirko Majić Mirko Majić (born 6 June 1989) is a Montenegrin 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 ...

* Alen Kulenović * Igor Milosavljević * Stefan Terzic * Luis Enrique Yant Sanchez * Khoder Al Nahhas * Revaz Chanturia

External links

Macedonian Handball Federation

Strumica Strumica (, ) is the largest city2002 census results
in English and Macedonian (PDF) in so ...

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