Riihimäki Cocks ( fi, Riihimäen Cocks) is a
Finnish handball club from
Riihimäki.
The club is playing in the
Finnish Handball League (SM-liiga), and play their home matches in Cocks Areena.
History
Riihimäki Cocks were founded in 1973 when the club decided to separate from
RiPS
Rips may refer to:
Places
* Rips, Sarandë, location in Albania on the border with Greece
* De Rips, a village in the Netherlands
People
* Eliyahu Rips (born 1948), Israeli mathematician
* Lance Rips (born 1948), American psychologist
* Nicolaia ...
. The newly founded team gained promotion to Finnish Handball Championship League during the following season.
The team won their first Championship medals in 1978, when the team finished second in the championship.
Riihimäki Cocks got their first Finnish handball championships in 2007 and repeated the success in 2008. Cocks also won the Finnish Cup in 2007 and 2008, winning the double two times consecutively.
Honours
*
Finnish Handball League: 12
**: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
**: 1978, 1979, 2005, 2011
**: 1998, 2000, 2006, 2012
*Finnish Cup of Handball: 10
**: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
*
Baltic Handball League : 4
**: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
**: 2010, 2013, 2015
**: 2014
European record
Cocks
Finnish handball clubs
Team
Current squad
:''Squad for the 2022–23 season''
;Goalkeepers
* 12
Nicolas Gauthier
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to:
People Given name
* Nicolas (given name)
Mononym
* Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer
* Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer
Surname Nicolas
* Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–17 ...
* 16
Dmitry Kholmov
* 87
Vitalii Shitsko
;Left Wingers
* 15
Teemu Tamminen (
c)
* 26
Julius Kemppainen
;Right Wingers
*4
Oreste Vescovo
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* 63
Nuno Santos
;Line players
* 17
Yury Lukyanchuk
* 25
Santeri Vainionpää
* 44
Davor Basarić Davor can refer to:
* Davor, Croatia, a village in Croatia
* Davor (name), a Slavic given name
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;Left Backs
*3
Igor Mandić
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*9
Edson Imare
* 29
Teimuraz Orjonikidze
;Central Backs
*7
Piotr Rybski
* 21
Luka Brkljačić
* 51
Roope Ahlgren
* 84
Miika Kaukoranta
;Right Backs
* 23
Vitalie Nenita Vitalie is a Romanian-language given name that may refer to:
*Vitalie Bordian
*Vitalie Bulat
*Vitalie Călugăreanu
*Vitalie Cercheș
*Vitalie Ciobanu
*Vitalie Grușac
*Vitalie Manaliu
*Vitalie Marinuța
*Vitalie Nagacevschi
*Vitalie Pîrlog
*Vital ...
* 99
Pavel Duda
Technical staff
* Head Coach: Christophe Viennet
* {{flagicon, SRB Assistant Coach: Bojan Županjac
External links
* http://cocks.fi/historia/
Official website* https://www.baltichandball.net/history
* https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-suomen-cup/
* https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-sm-sarjan-mitalitaulukko/
* https://msm.finnhandball.net/historia/miesten-sm-sarjan-mitalijoukkueet/