North Macedonia men's national handball team

The Macedonia national handball team is the national handball team of Macedonia. The team is run by the Macedonian Handball Federation, the governing body of handball in Macedonia. Prior to joining the International Handball Federation in 1991 as an independent country, Macedonia was represented within the Yugoslavia men's national handball team.

Macedonia
Information
Nickname	Red-Yellow Lions
Association	Macedonian Handball Federation
Coach	Danilo Brestovac
Assistant coach	Nikola Matlieski
Captain	Kiril Lazarov
Most caps	Stevče Aluševski (245)
Most goals	Kiril Lazarov (1717)
Colours
Home Away
Results
World Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1999)
Best result	9th (2015)
European Championship
Appearances	6 (First in 1998)
Best result	5th (2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

History

Macedonian bench at EURO 2018

Macedonia team Attacks at EURO 2020

First Handball teams in Macedonia emerged in the second half of the 40s.Soon Macedonian Handball federation started to organize national championships in big handball −11 players on a soccer field size.By the 60s it was transformed in small handball or indoor handball.Macedonian champions were qualified for federal Yugoslav Championship instead of European cup competitions.Best Macedonian players played for the Federal team of Yugoslavia.In the time of the federation 6 of the constitutional republics were sending one federal team to compete at Olympics and World cup. Macedonia was participating within the federal team from 1950 till 1991 .After the split of the federation ,as a single republic from 1992 till 1994 Macedonia didn't manage to enter the qualifications for EC, WC and OG.From 1995 Macedonia participates as a single Republic to all qualifications and Championship tournaments.

• Home ground

Home Ground

Home Ground

The BTSC – Boris Trajkovski Sports Center Macedonian: Спортски центар Борис Трајковски, Skopje is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in the Karpoš Municipality of Skopje, Macedonia. It is named after the former president, Boris Trajkovski. It's capacity is 10,000 .There is an Olympic size Swimming Pool and 5 Star Hotel Alexander Palace within the complex. Additional Water Land Fun Park and Ice Skating Rink next to it.

The arena is a home-ground of the Macedonian handball team (men and women). The venue also contains four restaurants and a sports bar. It was one of two venues for the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship.

• Competitive record

During the period 1958 till 1991 Macedonia was within the Federation of SFRJ. It was represented internationally within the team Yugoslavia as part of the Federation of 6 Republics. Macedonia is not a successor of the results of team Yugoslavia it was just part of it.During that time was present at the 5 Olympics and 10 World cup tournaments within the successful team Yugoslavia. After the split Macedonian team started to compete representing the single independent Republic. At the 1992 Olympics Yugoslavia team was banned to participate.At the World cup 1993 only teams from the Olympics qualified so Macedonian team didn't had a chance to qualify . For the first European Championship 1994 team Macedonia didn't enter the qualifications.For the World cup 1995 only teams from EURO 1994 qualified so again team Macedonian didn't get a chance to participate. Since EURO 1996 team Macedonia is regular in the qualifications. It entered 6 European Championships first one in 1998 then 2012,2014,2016,2018 and 2020. Most successful was the 2012 when they've finished 5th.For the World Cup's they entered 7 times 1999,2009,2013,2015,2017,2019 and 2021.The most successful was in 2015 when they've finished 9th. For the Olympic tournament qualifications they've entered two times 2012 finishing 4th and 2016 finishing 3rd .They didn't manage to finish in the first two spots and haven't qualified.

Olympic Games

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1972 to 1992	Within Yugoslavia team
1996	Did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024	TBD
2028
Total	0/8

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1958 to 1993	Within Yugoslavia team
1995	Did not qualify
1997
1999	Preliminary round	18th	5	1	0	4	122	149	−27
2001	Did not qualify
2003
2005
2007
2009	Main Round	11th	11	5	0	6	309	322	−13
2011	Did not qualify
2013	Round of 16	14th	6	2	1	3	165	171	−6
2015	Round of 16	9th	6	4	0	2	181	168	+13
2017	Round of 16	15th	6	2	1	3	163	171	−8
2019	Presidents' Cup	15th	7	3	0	4	191	199	−8
2021	Main round	23rd	6	1	0	5	138	192	−54
2023	To be determined
2025
2027
Total	7/15	–	47	18	2	27	1269	1372	−103

European Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	Did not participate
1996	Did not qualify
1998	Preliminary Round	12th	5	0	1	5	130	174
2000	Did not qualify
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012	5th / 6th place	5th	7	4	1	2	185	175
2014	Main Round	10th	6	1	1	4	141	167
2016	Main Round	11th	6	0	2	4	157	176
2018	Main Round	11th	6	2	1	3	143	164
2020	Preliminary round	15th	3	1	0	2	79	84
2022	To be determined
2024
Total	6/14	–	34	8	6	20	835	941

Mediterranean Games

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L
1993–2009	Did not participate
2013	Group stage	8th	4	2	0	2
2018	Group stage	13th	3	1	0	2
Total	2/7	–	7	3	0	4

Macedonian Fans

Macedonia has a great support at their matches from their fans. There is always great number of fans following the national team on every World Cup or EURO championship they attend. Cheerful friendly fans create a great atmosphere on every game.

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  EHF EURO 2012.

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  Macedonian fan
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  Macedonian fans at EHF EURO 2012

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Danilo Brestovac

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Nikola Mitrevski 3 October 1985 1.88 m 42 2 FC Porto Sofarma 4 RB Martin Velkovski 10 March 1997 1.90 m 6 7 RK Eurofarm Pelister 5 P Stojanče Stoilov 30 April 1987 1.91 m 67 143 RK Vardar 1961 6 LW Dimitar Dimitrioski 16 February 1998 1.82 m 3 0 RK Vardar 1961 7 RB Kiril Lazarov 10 May 1980 1.93 m 207 1443 HBC Nantes 8 LW Cvetan Kuzmanoski 5 December 1999 1.90 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 2 11 LB Filip Taleski 28 March 1996 2.00 m 43 109 RK Vardar 1961 12 GK Martin Tomovski 10 July 1997 1.90 m 0 0 Die Eulen Ludwigshafen 17 P Nikola Markoski 22 May 1990 1.95 m 17 12 RK Eurofarm Pelister 18 LB Filip Kuzmanovski 3 July 1996 1.98 m 38 61 TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 19 RW Nenad Kosteski 4 March 2001 1.80 m 2 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 20 GK Nikola Danilovski 1 February 1997 1.84 m 0 0 GRK Ohrid 21 CB Mario Tankoski 28 August 1998 1.92 m 12 5 RK Eurofarm Pelister 25 CB Goran Krstevski 29 March 1996 1.96 m 9 2 CSM Focșani 28 RW Martin Popovski 26 August 1994 1.77 m 26 19 GC Amicitia Zürich 29 LB Darko Georgievski 3 February 1992 1.92 m 0 0 Angers SCO 31 LB Mihajlo Mladenovikj 21 September 2000 1.94 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje 33 P Žarko Peševski 11 April 1991 1.95 m 39 69 TVB 1898 Stuttgart 77 RB Martin Serafimov 3 March 2000 1.90 m 7 1 RK Metalurg Skopje 97 CB Marko Miševski 23 August 1999 1.99 m 3 0 RK Vardar 1961

Recent call ups

These are players that have also received a call.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 LW Dejan Manaskov 26 August 1992 1.81 m 72 279 Telekom Veszprém 10 CB Filip Čurlevski 22 February 1992 1.77 m 7 1 Sjundeå IF 13 CB Filip Mirkulovski 14 September 1983 1.89 m 126 315 HSG Wetzlar 14 LB Velko Markoski 5 April 1986 1.94 m 51 8 RK Metalurg Skopje 15 CB Lasko Andonovski 15 June 1991 1.84 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet 16 GK Borko Ristovski 2 November 1982 1.90 m 155 5 RK Vardar 1961 22 RW Goce Georgievski 12 February 1987 1.85 m 79 158 RK Vardar 1961 23 LB Filip Lazarov 21 April 1985 1.97 m 54 140 SG Ratingen 2011 24 P Milan Lazarevski 9 February 1997 1.94 m 1 0 RK Metalurg Skopje 26 LW Goce Ojleski 10 October 1989 1.88 m 27 21 RK Eurofarm Pelister 27 LB Dejan Kukulovski 17 August 1998 1.94 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 34 RB Tomislav Jagurinovski 19 August 1998 1.88 m 0 0 RK Vardar 1961 43 LB Milorad Kukoski 7 December 1987 1.94 m 33 165 RK Eurofarm Pelister 44 P Mihail Alarov 21 December 1997 1.97 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet 55 RW Nikola Kosteski 22 August 1992 1.83 m 0 0 HC Linz AG 66 LW Bojan Madzovski 8 May 1994 1.84 m 6 10 RK Eurofarm Pelister 71 LW Davor Palevski 26 February 1997 1.82 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet 88 LB Darko Dimitrievski 16 May 1993 1.94 m 0 0 Liberbank Cantabria Sinfín 99 P Filip Arsenovski 30 July 1998 1.93 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje CB Nemanja Pribak 26 March 1984 1.90 m 13 17 RK Vojvodina GK Jane Cvetkovski 29 August 1987 1.91 m 0 0 DVTK-Eger GK Gradimir Čanevski 4 March 1988 1.89 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister P Kostadin Petrov 30 March 1992 1.90 m 0 0 CSU Suceava GK Daniel Gjorgjeski 8 December 1993 1.85 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje CB Martin Manaskov 7 June 1994 1.92 m 0 0 GRK Ohrid LB Stefan Drogrishki 9 September 1994 1.93 m 2 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 2 RW Mice Shilegov 19 June 1998 1.75 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje CB Ivan Djonov 15 July 1998 1.95 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet CB Martin Karapalevski 11 March 2000 1.78 m 0 0 RK Vardar 1961 GK Marko Kizikj 22 January 2001 1.90 m 0 0 RK Vardar 1961 GK Andrej Petkovski 30 May 2001 1.92 m 0 0 RK Golden Art KL7 RW Alen Kjosevski 7 June 2001 1.87 m 0 0 RK Rabotnički

• ^INJ = Injured
• ^PRE = Called up in a preliminary squad for the most recent games
• ^COV = Withdrew due to COVID-19

Notable players

• Stevče Aluševski
• Petar Angelov
• Branislav Angelovski
• Vančo Dimovski
• Goran Gjorgonoski
• Aco Jonovski
• Goran Kuzmanoski
• Lazo Majnov
• Pepi Manaskov
• Vlatko Mitkov
• Naumče Mojsovski
• Radoslav Stojanović
• Vladimir Temelkov
• Renato Vugrinec

Statistics

Most appearances # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Name Matches Stevče Aluševski 243 Kiril Lazarov 171 Branislav Angelovski 159 Vancho Dimovski 119 Filip Mirkulovski 118 Borko Ristovski 111 Naumče Mojsovski 108

Top scorers # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Name Goals Kiril Lazarov 1603 Stevče Aluševski 967 Branislav Angelovski 392 Filip Mirkulovski 296 Pepi Manaskov 264 Vladimir Temelkov 243 Vancho Dimovski 226 Naumče Mojsovski 163 Milorad Kukoski 165

Record against other teams

As of 28 January 2018, after 2018 ECh

Key

	Positive total balance (more wins)
	Neutral total balance (equal W/L ratio)
	Negative total balance (more losses)

National team	Total				Olympic Games				World Championship				European Championship				Mediterranean Games				Qualifications
	Pld	W	D	L	Pld	W	D	L	Pld	W	D	L	Pld	W	D	L	Pld	W	D	L	Pld	W	D	L
Algeria	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Austria	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Belarus	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Belgium	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	10	10	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	2	2
Brazil	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
Bulgaria	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	6	6	0	0
Chile	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	0	0
Croatia	5	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1
Cuba	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Czech Republic	14	5	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	2	—	—	—	—	10	4	2	4
Denmark	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Egypt	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonia	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	6	4	2	0
Finland	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	1	0
France	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Germany	5	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Greece	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	1
Hungary	12	2	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	11	2	0	9
Iceland	15	3	1	11	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	12	3	0	9
Iran	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Israel	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	3	0	1
Italy	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	0
Latvia	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	2	0	0
Lithuania	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	3	0	1	2
Luxemburg	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	4	0	0
Montenegro	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Norway	5	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Poland	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
Portugal	8	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	8	4	0	4
Qatar	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Romania	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Russia	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Serbia	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Slovenia	6	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
South Korea	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Spain	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Sweden	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
Switzerland	9	3	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	8	2	0	6
Tunisia	5	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Turkey	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	3	0	0
Ukraine	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	1	2	1
Total (47)	209	91	20	98

References

1. "играчи ќе патуваат на СП во Египет". 24rakomet.mk. 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
2. "Team Roster Macedonia" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile

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