RK Vardar

РК Вардар
RK Vardar
Full name Rakometen klub
Vardar Skopje
Founded 1961
Arena Jane Sandanski Arena
Capacity 6,000
Head coach Raúl González
League VIP Super League
2013/2014 2nd
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RK Vardar (HC Vardar) (Macedonian: РК Вардар) is a handball club from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The team currently competes in the EHF Champions League and in the regional SEHA League. Vardar is the most successful team in the country having won eight Macedonian League titles and nine Macedonian Cups.

History

RK Vardar was founded in 1961, as part of the Vardar Sports Club in Skopje, which had been founded in 1947. The handball team did not have much of a role in the former Yugoslavia, but rose to power in the late 1990s becoming one of three clubs (RK Metalurg and RK Pelister being the others) to dominate the Macedonian handball scene after the independence of the country. They have participated in the EHF Champions League five times and made it to the semifinals of the Cup Winner's Cup three times. Except for 2005, when they came in 4th place, the club has achieved either championship or runner-up in the Macedonian Super League during the past decade since 1999. They achieved a record winner of the Macedonian handball championship by winning their seventh title in 2009 and are the recent record cup winner also with seven. On 15 April 2012, Vardar defeated Metalurg at the Zagreb Arena to become the first SEHA League champion.[1][2]

Accomplishments

Winners (8): 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2008–09 and 2012–13
Winners (9): 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 ,2012 and 2013/14
Winners (2): 2011/12 , 2013/14
finalist (1) 2012/13
Semi-Finalist (3): 1998–99, 2004–05 and 2010–11

Arena information

Unlike the usual situation in handball of clubs renting halls from municipalities or private owners, RK Vardar itself is the owner of the Jane Sandanski Arena where they play all their home matches in the EHF Velux Champions League matches in Skopje.

Current squad

Squad for the 2014–15 season

Goalkeepers
Wingers
Line players
Back players

Technical staff

Former notable players
  • Serbia Vladimir Abadžić
  • Serbia Ilija Belojević
  • Serbia Predrag Dačević
  • Serbia Tihomir Doder
  • Serbia Miloš Dragaš
  • Serbia Borko Đorđević
  • Serbia Mladen Ivanović
  • Serbia Ognjen Kajganić
  • Montenegro Milan Kosanović
  • Serbia Vuk Lazović
  • Serbia Nikola Miricki
  • Serbia Slavoljub Mitrović
  • Serbia Ratko Nikolić
  • Serbia Žarko Petković
  • Serbia Đorđe Pešić
  • Republic of Macedonia Nemanja Pribak
  • Serbia Rajko Prodanović
  • Serbia Obrad Radulović
  • Serbia Aleksandar Stojanović
  • Serbia Nemanja Sudžum
  • Serbia Ivan Šmigić
  • Serbia Milan Vučićević
  • Serbia Ivan Vukadinović
  • Serbia Marko Vukčević
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Saša Đukić
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Vladan Krasavac
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Pijetlović
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Zdravko Stevanović
  • Croatia Damir Batinović
  • Croatia Krešimir Maraković
  • Croatia Ivan Martinović
  • Czech Republic Tomáš Řezníček
  • Czech Republic Jan Sobol
  • Georgia (country) Revaz Chanturia
  • Georgia (country) Tite Kalandadze
  • Montenegro Golub Doknić
  • Montenegro Nemanja Grbović
  • Montenegro Žarko Pejović
  • Montenegro Mladen Rakčević
  • Montenegro Marko Simović
  • Montenegro Stevan Vujović
  • Ukraine Victor Kovalenko
  • Ukraine Oleg Maltsev
  • Ukraine Sergei Stetsuk
  • Ukraine Andriy Vasiuk

Former coaches RK Vardar

Former President clubs RK Vardar

References

  1. ↑ "Vardar is the SEHA League champion!". Borjan Zafirovski. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Вардар ПРО победник СЕХА лигата". МИА. Retrieved 2012-04-16.

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