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North Macedonia men's national handball team
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Information
NicknameRed-Yellow Lions
AssociationMacedonian Handball Federation
CoachDanilo Brestovac
Assistant coachAleksandar Carchev
CaptainKiril Lazarov
Most capsStevče Aluševski (245)
Most goalsKiril Lazarov (1717)
Colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
1st
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
2nd
Results
World Championship
Appearances6 (First in 1999)
Best result9th (2015)
European Championship
Appearances7 (First in 1998)
Best result5th (2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Macedonia national handball team is the national handball team of Republic 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 1993 as an independent country, Macedonia was represented within the Yugoslavia national handball team.

Accomplishments within Federation

Olympic Games: World Championship: Mediterranean Games:
  • 1936 – did not participate
  • 1972 – Champion
  • 1976 – 5th place
  • 1980 – 6th place
  • 1984 – Champion
  • 1988 – 3rd place
  • 1938 – did not participate
  • 1954 – did not participate
  • 1958 – 8th place
  • 1961 – 9th place
  • 1964 – 6th place
  • 1967 – 7th place
  • 1970 – 3rd place
  • 1974 – 3rd place
  • 1978 – 5th place
  • 1982 – Runner-up
  • 1986 – Champion
  • 1990 – 4th place

Accomplishments

Olympic Games

Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
1992 The separation of the SFR Yugoslavia led to United Nations sanctions, athletes
were not allowed to participate with their own team. However, some individual
athletes competed under the Olympic flag as Independent Olympic Participants.
1996–2016 Did not qualify

World Championships

Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
Sweden 1993 The separation of the SFR Yugoslavia led to United Nations sanctions,
athletes were not allowed to participate with their own team.
Iceland 1995 Did not qualify
Japan 1997
Egypt 1999 Preliminary round 18th 5 1 0 4 122 149 −27
France 2001 Did not qualify
Portugal 2003
Tunisia 2005
Germany 2007
Croatia 2009 Main Round 11th 11 5 0 6 309 322 −13
Sweden 2011 Did not qualify
Spain 2013 Round of 16 14th 6 2 1 3 165 171 −6
Qatar 2015 Round of 16 9th 6 4 0 2 181 168 +13
France 2017 Round of 16 15th 6 2 1 3 163 171 −8
DenmarkGermany 2019 Presidents' Cup 15th 7 3 0 4 191 199 −8
Total 6/13 — 41 17 2 22 1131 1180 −49

European Championship

Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Portugal 1994 Did not participate
Spain 1996 Did not qualify
Italy 1998 Preliminary Round 12th 6 0 1 5 130 174
Croatia 2000 Did not qualify
Sweden 2002
Slovenia 2004
Switzerland 2006
Norway 2008
Austria 2010
Serbia 2012 5th / 6th Place 5th 7 4 1 2 185 175
Denmark 2014 Main Round 10th 6 1 1 4 141 167
Poland 2016 Main Round 11th 6 0 2 4 157 176
Croatia 2018 Main Round 11th 6 2 1 3 143 164
AustriaNorwaySweden 2020 Qualified
Total 6/13 — 31 7 6 18 756 857

Mediterranean Games

Year Round Position Pld W D L
1993–2009 Did not participate in MG
Turkey 2013 Group stage 8th 4 2 0 2
Spain 2018 Group stage 13th 3 1 0 2
Total 2/7 — 7 3 0 4

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship qualification games against Turkey and Greece.[1]

Head coach: Danilo Brestovac

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
1 GK Nikola Mitrevski (1985-10-03) 3 October 1985 (age 39) 1.88 m 63 1 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
5 P Stojanče Stoilov (1987-04-30) 30 April 1987 (age 37) 1.92 m 30 65 North Macedonia RK Vardar
6 LW Dimitar Dimitrioski (1998-02-16) 16 February 1998 (age 26) 1.82 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
7 RB Kiril Lazarov (1980-05-10) 10 May 1980 (age 44) 1.93 m 237 1717 France HBC Nantes
11 LB Filip Taleski (1996-03-28) 28 March 1996 (age 28) 2.02 m 26 65 Germany Rhein-Neckar Löwen
14 LB Velko Markoski (1986-04-05) 5 April 1986 (age 38) 1.94 m 51 8 Romania HC Dobrogea Sud
16 GK Borko Ristovski (1982-11-02) 2 November 1982 (age 42) 1.90 m 124 3 Portugal S.L. Benfica
17 P Nikola Markoski (1990-05-22) 22 May 1990 (age 34) 1.96 m 10 10 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
18 LB Filip Kuzmanovski (1996-07-03) 3 July 1996 (age 28) 1.98 m 18 52 Germany SC Magdeburg
19 RW Nenad Kosteski (2001-03-04) 4 March 2001 (age 23) 1.80 m 0 0 Croatia RK Zagreb
21 LB Mario Tankoski (1998-08-28) 28 August 1998 (age 26) 1.92 m 6 2 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
22 RW Goce Georgievski (1987-02-12) 12 February 1987 (age 37) 1.85 m 71 180 Romania CSM București
25 CB Goran Krstevski (1996-03-29) 29 March 1996 (age 28) 1.96 m 7 3 Austria HC Linz AG
33 P Žarko Peševski (1991-04-11) 11 April 1991 (age 33) 1.95 m 18 41 Germany TVB 1898 Stuttgart
34 RW Tomislav Jagurinovski (1998-08-19) 19 August 1998 (age 26) 1.88 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
43 LB Milorad Kukoski (1987-12-07) 7 December 1987 (age 36) 1.94 m 33 165 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
66 LW Bojan Madzovski (1994-05-08) 8 May 1994 (age 30) 1.85 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
77 RB Martin Serafimov (2000-03-03) 3 March 2000 (age 24) 1.90 m 7 1 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
88 LB Darko Dimitrievski (1993-05-16) 16 May 1993 (age 31) 1.94 m 0 0 Spain Balonmano Sinfín

Recent call ups

These are players that have also received a call recently.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
3 LW Dejan Manaskov INJ (1992-08-26) 26 August 1992 (age 32) 1.80 m 45 150 Hungary Telekom Veszprém
4 RB Martin Velkovski INJ (1997-03-10) 10 March 1997 (age 27) 1.91 m 3 6 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
8 CB Nemanja Pribak (1984-03-26) 26 March 1984 (age 40) 1.90 m 13 17 Turkey Beşiktaş
9 CB Aco Jonovski (1980-12-29) 29 December 1980 (age 43) 1.97 m 70 68 Germany SG Ratingen 2011
10 CB Filip Čurlevski (1992-02-22) 22 February 1992 (age 32) 1.77 m 7 1 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
12 GK Martin Tomovski PRE (1997-07-10) 10 July 1997 (age 27) 1.92 m 0 0 Germany TSG Friesenheim
13 CB Filip Mirkulovski (1983-09-14) 14 September 1983 (age 41) 1.89 m 126 315 Germany HSG Wetzlar
15 CB Lasko Andonovski (1991-06-15) 15 June 1991 (age 33) 1.84 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
20 GK Blagojče Trajkovski (1986-10-06) 6 October 1986 (age 38) 1.84 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
23 LB Filip Lazarov (1985-04-21) 21 April 1985 (age 39) 1.97 m 54 140 Germany SG Ratingen 2011
24 GK Zlatko Daskalovski (1984-12-08) 8 December 1984 (age 39) 1.93 m 6 0 France Strasbourg
26 LW Goce Ojleski PRE (1989-10-10) 10 October 1989 (age 35) 1.88 m 27 21 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
28 RW Martin Popovski PRE (1994-08-26) 26 August 1994 (age 30) 1.77 m 11 11 North Macedonia RK Vardar
29 LB Marko Neloski (1996-06-06) 6 June 1996 (age 28) 2.00 m 2 5
37 P Milan Lazarevski (1997-02-09) 9 February 1997 (age 27) 1.94 m 1 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
71 LW Davor Palevski (1997-02-26) 26 February 1997 (age 27) 1.82 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Rabotnički
LB Risto Arnaudovski (1981-07-09) 9 July 1981 (age 43) 1.96 m 0 0 Austria Alpla HC Hard
LW Vlado Nedanovski (1985-06-23) 23 June 1985 (age 39) 1.87 m 4 7 North Macedonia RK Vardar
LB Jovica Mladenovski (1987-05-20) 20 May 1987 (age 37) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Butel Skopje
GK Jane Cvetkovski (1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 (age 37) 1.91 m 0 0 Germany HSG Wetzlar
GK Gradimir Čanevski (1988-03-04) 4 March 1988 (age 36) 1.89 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Rabotnik
P Kostadin Petrov (1992-03-30) 30 March 1992 (age 32) 1.90 m 0 0 Spain AD Ciudad de Guadalajara
P Ivan Taseski (1993-07-14) 14 July 1993 (age 31) 1.82 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Ohrid 2013
GK Daniel Gjorgjeski (1993-12-08) 8 December 1993 (age 30) 1.85 m 0 0
CB Martin Manaskov PRE (1994-06-07) 7 June 1994 (age 30) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
LB Stefan Drogrishki (1994-09-09) 9 September 1994 (age 30) 1.93 m 2 0 North Macedonia RK Pelister
P Filip Arsenovski PRE (1998-07-30) 30 July 1998 (age 26) 1.93 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
CB Marko Miševski PRE (1999-08-23) 23 August 1999 (age 25) 1.99 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar
LB Mihajlo Mladenović PRE (2000-09-21) 21 September 2000 (age 24) 1.94 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
GK Marko Kizić PRE (2001-01-22) 22 January 2001 (age 23) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar
  • INJ = Injured
  • PRE = Called up in a preliminary squad for the most recent games

Notable players

Statistics

Supporters

  • Macedonian fans
    Macedonian fans
  • Macedonian fans
    Macedonian fans
  • Macedonian fans

Macedonian handball supporters are known as Makedonska Falanga or Macedonian Phalanx. They are one of the best national handball supporters in the world and travel everywhere with the team. In 2009, at the World Handball Championship they supported the team in large numbers especially in Varaždin where they helped Macedonia defeat Poland and Russia, to reach the Main Round of the tournament.[2] They followed that up with an even bigger showing at the European Handball Championship in Serbia. The massive show of support by the Makedonska Falanga helped the Macedonian team achieve its highest placing to date, when they finished in 5th place.[3] The team started as one of the biggest outsiders, playing with heart and never giving up, supported by thousands of Macedonian fans it was able to upset a lot of opponents and missed a chance for semi-finals by only losing 2 games by 1 point in the last seconds.[4] In April 2012, the head of the IHF sent out a letter to the Macedonian handball federation to applaud the fans' support during the Olympic qualification matches in Sweden. Although Macedonia didn't qualify for the Olympics, its fans are widely acknowledged as the best handball fans in the world.[5][6][7]

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 Algeria 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Angola Angola 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Austria Austria 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Belarus Belarus 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Belgium Belgium 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 10 10 0 0
Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Brazil 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — — — — — 1 0 0 1
Bulgaria Bulgaria 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 6 6 0 0
Chile Chile 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 1 1 0 0
Croatia 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 Cuba 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Cyprus 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 Czech Republic 14 5 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 — — — — 10 4 2 4
Denmark Denmark 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 — — — — 0 0 0 0
Egypt Egypt 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonia Estonia 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 6 4 2 0
Finland Finland 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 2 1 1 0
France 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 Germany 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 — — — — 0 0 0 0
Greece 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 Hungary 12 2 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — 11 2 0 9
Iceland Iceland 15 3 1 11 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 — — — — 12 3 0 9
Iran Iran 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Israel Israel 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 4 3 0 1
Italy 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 Latvia 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 2 2 0 0
Lithuania Lithuania 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 3 0 1 2
Luxembourg Luxemburg 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 4 4 0 0
Montenegro 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 Netherlands 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Norway Norway 5 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Poland Poland 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 — — — — 1 0 0 1
Portugal Portugal 8 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 8 4 0 4
Qatar Qatar 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Romania Romania 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Russia Russia 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 — — — — 0 0 0 0
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Serbia 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 Slovakia 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Slovenia 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 South Korea 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Spain 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 Sweden 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 — — — — 1 0 0 1
Switzerland Switzerland 9 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — 8 2 0 6
Tunisia Tunisia 5 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 — — — — 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
Turkey 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 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. ^ http://macedoniahandball.com.mk/selektorot-danilo-brestovats-go-objavi-poshirokiot-spisok-na-seniorite-za-kvalifikatsiskite-natprevari-2/
  2. ^ "Macedonia defeats Russia, qualifies for next round". MINA. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
  3. ^ "Macedonia beats Slovenia for the 5th place". Borjan Zafirovski. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  4. ^ "EHF Euro 2012 – The Macedonians Are In Town". D Hero. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  5. ^ "IHF recognizes Macedonian Phalanx". MINA. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  6. ^ ""Falangata" nema ramni na sebe". Zoran Misevski. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  7. ^ ""Македонската фаланга" доби признание од ИХФ". IDIVIDI. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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