North Macedonia | ||||
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Nickname | Red-Yellow Lions | |||
Association | Macedonian Handball Federation | |||
Coach | Kiril Lazarov | |||
Assistant coach | Petar Basnarkov Ninoslav Pavelić | |||
Captain | Nikola Mitrevski | |||
Most caps | Stevče Aluševski (245) | |||
Most goals | Kiril Lazarov (1717) | |||
Colours | ||||
Results | ||||
World Championship | ||||
Appearances | 8 (First in 1999 ) | |||
Best result | 9th (2015) | |||
European Championship | ||||
Appearances | 8 (First in 1998 ) | |||
Best result | 5th (2012) | |||
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The Macedonian national handball team is the national handball team of North Macedonia. The team is run by the Macedonian Handball Federation, the governing body of handball in North Macedonia. Prior to joining the International Handball Federation in 1991 as an independent country, North Macedonia was represented within the Yugoslavia men's national handball team.
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.
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, North Macedonia. It is named after the former president, Boris Trajkovski. Its 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 and will be used again for the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship for the preliminary and main round.
Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
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1972 to 1988 | 1972,1976,1980,1984,1988 Within Yugoslavia team (1),(5),(6),(1),(3) | |||||||
1992 | banned | |||||||
1996 | Could not participate in qualification | |||||||
2000 | World cup served as qualifiers Did not qualify for World Cup Did not enter | |||||||
2004 | ||||||||
2008 | ||||||||
2012 | play off | |||||||
2016 | play off | |||||||
2020 | Did not qualify | |||||||
2024 | ||||||||
2028 | TBD | |||||||
Total | 0/3 |
Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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1958 to 1990 | 1958,1961,1964,1967, 1970,1974,1978,1982,1986,1990 Within Yugoslavia team (8),(9),(6),(7),(3),(3),(5),(2),(1),(4) | ||||||||
1993 | Could not participate in qualification | ||||||||
1995 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
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 | President's Cup | 15th | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 191 | 199 | −8 |
2021 | Main round | 23rd | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 138 | 192 | −54 |
2023 | President's Cup | 27th | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 221 | 224 | −3 |
2025 | Qualified | ||||||||
2027 | To be determined | ||||||||
2029 | |||||||||
2031 | |||||||||
Total | 9/15 | – | 54 | 21 | 2 | 31 | 1490 | 1596 | −106 |
Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
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1994 | Did not participate | |||||||
1996 | Did not qualify | |||||||
1998 | Preliminary Round | 12th | 6 | 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 | Preliminary round | 22nd | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 86 |
2024 | Preliminary round | 17th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 83 | 100 |
2026 | To be determined | |||||||
2028 | ||||||||
Total | 8/18 | – | 40 | 9 | 6 | 25 | 988 | 1126 |
Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L |
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1993–2009 | Did not participate | |||||
2013 | Group stage | 8th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | Group stage | 13th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | Semi Finals | 4th | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Total | 3/3 | – | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Squad for the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship. [1] [2]
Head coach: Kiril Lazarov
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