ŽRK Metalurg

ŽRK Metalurg (WHC Metalurg) (Macedonian: ЖРК Металург) is a women's handball club from Skopje, North Macedonia. The team currently competes in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball and in the EHF Women's Champions League.

ЖРК Металург
ŽRK Metalurg
Full nameŽenski rakometen klub
Metalurg Skopje
Founded1964
ArenaAvtokomanda, Skopje
Capacity2,000
PresidentTome Trenovski
Head coachKrsto Petruševski
LeagueSkopsko Super League
2018–191st (champions)
Club colours   
Home
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Website
Official site

History

The club was established in 1964 under the name MIK and played in the amateur handball league of SR Macedonia. In the season 1969/70 MIK became winner of the handball league of SR Macedonia. In 1973 the club was renamed to RK Skopje. Finally in 1975, RK Skopje achieved their greatest success, participation in the First Yugoslav Handball League. In 1978, RK Skopje won the Yugoslav Cup for the territory of SR Macedonia. From then until the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, RK Skopje played in the Second Yugoslav Handball League.[1]

After the independence of Macedonia in 1991, RK Skopje competed in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball, and the club played in the EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup in 1994 and in the Women's EHF Challenge Cup the following year.

In the season 2007/08 the club got a strong sponsor, and under the name ŽRK Metalurg Skopje, unbeaten entered in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball. In the 2009/10 season ŽRK Metalurg Skopje won the Macedonian Championship and the Macedonian Cup without losing a point. The following season the club again won the league title and domestic cup. In the 2011-12 season, they had their best showing in Europe by making it to the Last 16 of the Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup.[2] They followed that up with their third straight domestic double crown.[3]

Arena

Avtokomanda (Macedonian: "Автокоманда") is an indoor sports arena located in Skopje, owned and used by Metalurg handball club. It's a small arena with its own fitness center and canteen restaurant. It has a capacity of 2500 people, 2000 seated and 500 standing.

Accomplishments
Winners  Gold (6): 1970, 1985, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2018/19
Winners  Gold (5): 1978,2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Semi-Finalist  Bronze (1): 2009/10
  • WRHL Women
Finalist  Silver (1) : 2011/12
Third place  Bronze (1) : 2009/10

European record
Season Competition Round Club 1st leg 2nd leg Aggregate
2017–18 Challenge Cup R3 Rincón Fertilidad Málaga 14–31 14–37 28–68

Team

Current squad
Squad for the 2015–16 season

Technical staff
  • Head Coach: Aleksandar Petrovski
  • Assistant Coach: Blagoja Vesikj
  • Physiotherapist: Kate Andonovska
  • Director: Filip Hristov

References
  1. "History of WHC Metalurg" (in Macedonian). RK Metalurg official website.
  2. http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/cwc/women/2011-12/round/4/Last+16
  3. http://kurir.mk/sport/rakomet/71196-Dvojna-kruna-za-ZRK-Metalurg
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