RK Bjelovar

RK Bjelovar (Rukometni Klub Bjelovar) is a team handball club from Bjelovar, Croatia formed in 1955. The club currently competes in the Croatian Second League of Handball (North) and the Croatian Handball Cup.

During Communist Yugoslavia, the club was known as Partizan, named after the Second World War's Yugoslav Partisans. After Croatian independence in 1991, the current name was adopted. Despite being the most successful club in Yugoslavia, it has had little success since the 1980 season and has been thoroughly eclipsed by RK Zagreb in modern Croatian handball.

Accomplishments

• National Championship of Yugoslavia: 9
  • 1958, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979
• EHF Champions League:
  • 1972
• EHF Champions League Finalist:
  • 1962, 1973
• EHF Champions League Semifinalist:
  • 1968, 1971

Famous players

• Hrvoje Horvat
• Albin Vidović
• Vladimir Smiljanić-Babura
• Miroslav Pribanić
• Željko Nimš
• Zvonimir Serdarušić
• Boris Bradić
• Pavle Jurina
• Mirko Bašić
• Željko Vidaković
• Rastko Stefanović

Famous coaches

• Željko Seleš
• Ante Kostelić (father of Janica Kostelić and Ivica Kostelić)

External links

• Official website of RK Bjelovar (Croatian)