HC Minaur Baia Mare

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HC Minaur Baia Mare
Founded	1974
Full Name	HC Minaur Baia Mare
Arena	Sala Lascar Pana, 2060 seats
Club Colours	orange - black
Chairman	Viorel Maier
Head Coach	Petre Avramescu

HC Minaur Baia Mare is a handball club from Baia Mare, Romania, which plays in the Romanian First League of Handball and Romanian Cup of Hanball.

Contents 1 History 2 Accomplishments 3 Current squad 4 Famous players 5 Famous coaches 6 External Links

[edit] History

• 1974 - HC Minaur Baia Mare was founded on May 14, when it became the first handball-club only (without any other sports sections) in Romania;
• 1978 - Minaur win the first trophy - the Romanian Cup of Handball;
• 1985 - By winning the EHF Cup, Minaur became the first Romanian team from outside Bucharest to win an European Trophy. The performance is repeated in 1988;
• 1998 - Minaur win the Romanian Handball League for the first time, making it again in 1999.

[edit] Accomplishments

• EHF Cup
  • Winners: 1985, 1988
• Cup Winners' Cup
  • Semifinalists: 1979, 1981, 1986
• Romanian Handball League
  • Winners: 1997-98, 1998-99
  • Runners-up: 1979-80, 1980-81, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-85
• Romanian Cup
  • Winners: 1977-78, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1988-89, 1998-99
  • Runners-up: 1984-85

[edit] Current squad

As of December 1, 2006

1 Vasile Viman 2 Florin Mates 3 Iuliu Csepreghi 4 Silviu Surdocan 5 Marius Kovacs 7 Yan Vizhbovskyy 9 Cristian Baban 10 Petru Pop 12 Daniel Apostu

13 Iuliu Varady 15 Cristian Zenoviu 16 Ionut Irimus 17 Bogdan Cosma 19 Alin Bondar 20 Raul Fotonea 21 Adi Popovici 25 Alexandru Sabou 33 Daniel Muresan

[edit] Famous players

• Gheorghe Covaciu
• Ioan Marta
• Doru Porumb
• Alexandru Stamate
• Maricel Voinea

[edit] Famous coaches

• Ioan Gerhardt
• Aihan Omer
• Lascar Pana

[edit] External Links

Official Website (Romanian, English, French)