North Macedonia men's national handball team

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North Macedonia
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Information
NicknameRed-Yellow Lions
AssociationMacedonian Handball Federation
CoachKiril Lazarov
CaptainKiril Lazarov
Most capsStevče Aluševski (245)
Most goalsKiril Lazarov (1717)
Colours
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Team colours
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Home
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Away
Results
World Championship
Appearances7 (First in 1999)
Best result9th (2015)
European Championship
Appearances7 (First in 1998)
Best result5th (2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

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.

History[]

Macedonian bench at EURO 2018
Macedonia team Attacks at EURO 2020

First Handball teams in Macedonia emerged in the second half of the 1940s. Soon Macedonian Handball federation started to organize national championships in big handball −11 players on a soccer field size. By the '60s it was transformed into small handball or indoor handball. Macedonian champions were qualified for federal Yugoslav Championship instead of European cup competitions. The best Macedonian players played for the Federal team of Yugoslavia. In the time of the federation, 6 of the constitutional republics were sending one federal team to compete at the Olympics and World cup. Macedonia was participating within the federal team from 1950 till 1991. After the split of the federation, as a single republic from 1992 till 1994 Macedonia didn't manage to enter the qualifications for EC, WC and OG. From 1995 Macedonia participates as a single Republic to all qualifications and Championship tournaments.

  • Home ground
Home Ground
Home Ground

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, 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.

  • Competitive record

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. After the split Macedonian team started to compete representing the single independent Republic. At the 1992 Olympics Yugoslavia team was banned to participate. At the World cup 1993 only teams from the Olympics qualified so the Macedonian team didn't have a chance to qualify. For the first European Championship 1994 team Macedonia did not enter the qualifications. For the World cup 1995 only teams from EURO 1994 qualified so again team Macedonian didn't get a chance to participate. Since EURO 1996 team Macedonia is regular in the qualifications. It entered 6 European Championships first one in 1998 then 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. Most successful was the 2012 when they've finished 5th. For the World Cup's they entered 7 times – 1999, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021. The most successful was in 2015 when they finished 9th. For the Olympic tournament qualifications they have entered two times – 2012 finishing 4th and 2016 finishing 3rd .They didn't manage to finish in the first two spots and haven't qualified.

Olympic Games[]

Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Germany 1972 to South Korea 1988 1972,1976,1980,1984,1988
Within Yugoslavia team
(1),(5),(6),(1),(3)
Spain 1992 banned
United States 1996 Did not qualify
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012
Brazil 2016
Japan 2020
France TBD
United States
Total 0/8

World Championship[]

EHF EURO 2012 Squad
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
East Germany 1958 to Czechoslovakia 1990 1958,1961,1964,1967, 1970,1974,1978,1982,1986,1990
Within Yugoslavia team
(8),(9),(6),(7),(3),(3),(5),(2),(1),(4)
Sweden 1993 Couldn't participate in qualification
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
Egypt 2021 Main round 23rd 6 1 0 5 138 192 −54
PolandSweden 2023 To be determined
CroatiaDenmarkNorway 2025
Germany 2027
Total 7/15 – 47 18 2 27 1269 1372 −103

European Championship[]

Lazarov Against Germany EHF EURO 2018
Velkovski Against Denmark EHF EURO 2018
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Portugal 1994 Did not participate
Spain 1996 Did not qualify
Italy 1998 Preliminary Round 12th 5 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 Preliminary round 15th 3 1 0 2 79 84
HungarySlovakia 2022 Preliminary round 22nd 3 0 0 3 70 86
Germany 2024 To be determined
DenmarkNorwaySweden 2026
PortugalSpainSwitzerland 2028
Total 7/18 – 34 8 6 20 835 941

Mediterranean Games[]

Year Round Position GP W D L
1993–2009 Did not participate
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

Macedonian fans[]

Macedonia has great support at their matches from their fans. There is always a great number of fans following the national team on every World Cup or EURO championship they attend. Cheerful friendly fans create a great atmosphere at every game.

  • EHF EURO 2012.

  • Macedonian fan

  • Macedonian fans at EHF EURO 2012

  • Macedonian fans at EHF EURO 2012

  • Macedonian fans Atmosphere

Team[]

Current squad[]

Players called up for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Kiril Lazarov

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
1 GK Nikola Mitrevski (1985-10-03) 3 October 1985 (age 36) 1.88 m 42 2 Portugal FC Porto Sofarma
4 RB Martin Velkovski (1997-03-10) 10 March 1997 (age 24) 1.88 m 6 7 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
5 P Stojanče Stoilov (1987-04-30) 30 April 1987 (age 34) 1.91 m 67 143 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
7 RB Kiril Lazarov (1980-05-10) 10 May 1980 (age 41) 1.93 m 207 1443 France HBC Nantes
8 LW (1999-12-05) 5 December 1999 (age 22) 1.92 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
9 CB (2000-06-02) 2 June 2000 (age 21) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia
10 CB (2003-02-23) 23 February 2003 (age 18) 1.83 m 0 0 North Macedonia
11 LB Filip Taleski (1996-03-28) 28 March 1996 (age 25) 2.00 m 43 109 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
12 GK Martin Tomovski (1997-07-10) 10 July 1997 (age 24) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
13 CB Filip Mirkulovski (1983-09-14) 14 September 1983 (age 38) 1.89 m 126 315 Germany HSG Wetzlar
14 P (2000-05-29) 29 May 2000 (age 21) 1.87 m 0 0 North Macedonia
16 GK Gradimir Čanevski (1988-03-04) 4 March 1988 (age 33) 1.89 m 0 0 North Macedonia
18 LB Filip Kuzmanovski (1996-07-03) 3 July 1996 (age 25) 1.98 m 38 61 Germany TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
19 RW (2001-03-04) 4 March 2001 (age 20) 1.80 m 2 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
22 RW Goce Georgievski (1987-02-12) 12 February 1987 (age 34) 1.85 m 79 158 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
25 CB Goran Krstevski (1996-03-29) 29 March 1996 (age 25) 1.96 m 9 2 Romania CSM Focșani
33 P Žarko Peševski (1991-04-11) 11 April 1991 (age 30) 1.95 m 39 69 Germany TVB 1898 Stuttgart
66 LW Bojan Madzovski (1994-05-08) 8 May 1994 (age 27) 1.84 m 6 10 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
77 RB Martin Serafimov (2000-03-03) 3 March 2000 (age 21) 1.88 m 7 1 North Macedonia
92 P Kostadin Petrov (1992-03-30) 30 March 1992 (age 29) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
97 CB Marko Miševski (1999-08-23) 23 August 1999 (age 22) 1.99 m 3 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961

Recent call ups[]

These are players that have also received a call.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
3 LW Dejan Manaskov (1992-08-26) 26 August 1992 (age 29) 1.81 m 72 279 Hungary Telekom Veszprém
6 LW Dimitar Dimitrioski (1998-02-16) 16 February 1998 (age 23) 1.82 m 3 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
10 CB Filip Čurlevski (1992-02-22) 22 February 1992 (age 29) 1.77 m 7 1 Finland
15 CB Lasko Andonovski (1991-06-15) 15 June 1991 (age 30) 1.84 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
16 GK Borko Ristovski (1982-11-02) 2 November 1982 (age 39) 1.90 m 155 5 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
17 P Nikola Markoski (1990-05-22) 22 May 1990 (age 31) 1.95 m 17 12 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
21 CB Mario Tankoski (1998-08-28) 28 August 1998 (age 23) 1.92 m 12 5 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
23 LB PRE (2002-06-09) 9 June 2002 (age 19) 1.95 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
24 P Milan Lazarevski (1997-02-09) 9 February 1997 (age 24) 1.94 m 1 0 Slovenia RK Trimo Trebnje
26 LW Goce Ojleski (1989-10-10) 10 October 1989 (age 32) 1.88 m 27 21 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
27 LB PRE (1998-08-17) 17 August 1998 (age 23) 1.94 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
28 RW Martin Popovski PRE (1994-08-26) 26 August 1994 (age 27) 1.77 m 26 19 Switzerland
29 LB (1992-02-03) 3 February 1992 (age 29) 1.92 m 0 0 France
31 LB Mihajlo Mladenovikj (2000-09-21) 21 September 2000 (age 21) 1.94 m 0 0 North Macedonia GRK Ohrid
34 RW Tomislav Jagurinovski PRE (1998-08-19) 19 August 1998 (age 23) 1.88 m 0 0 Iceland Þór Akureyri
43 LB Milorad Kukoski (1987-12-07) 7 December 1987 (age 34) 1.94 m 33 165 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
44 P PRE (1997-12-21) 21 December 1997 (age 24) 1.97 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
71 LW Davor Palevski (1997-02-26) 26 February 1997 (age 24) 1.82 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
88 LB Darko Dimitrievski (1993-05-16) 16 May 1993 (age 28) 1.94 m 0 0 Germany TV Emsdetten
99 P Filip Arsenovski (1998-07-30) 30 July 1998 (age 23) 1.93 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
CB Nemanja Pribak (1984-03-26) 26 March 1984 (age 37) 1.90 m 13 17 Serbia RK Vojvodina
LB Velko Markoski (1986-04-05) 5 April 1986 (age 35) 1.94 m 51 8 North Macedonia RK Metalurg Skopje
GK Jane Cvetkovski (1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 (age 34) 1.91 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
CB Martin Manaskov (1994-06-07) 7 June 1994 (age 27) 1.92 m 0 0 North Macedonia GRK Ohrid
LB Stefan Drogrishki (1994-09-09) 9 September 1994 (age 27) 1.93 m 2 0 North Macedonia GRK Tikveš
LW Ivan Dimitrovski PRE (1998-04-02) 2 April 1998 (age 23) 1.88 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
LB (1998-06-01) 1 June 1998 (age 23) 1.91 m 0 0 North Macedonia
RW Mice Shilegov (1998-06-19) 19 June 1998 (age 23) 1.75 m 0 0 North Macedonia GRK Ohrid
CB Ivan Djonov (1997-07-15) 15 July 1997 (age 24) 1.95 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
LB (1998-09-30) 30 September 1998 (age 23) 1.91 m 0 0 North Macedonia
CB Martin Karapalevski (2000-03-11) 11 March 2000 (age 21) 1.78 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
RB PRE (2000-09-11) 11 September 2000 (age 21) 1.98 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
GK PRE (2000-11-03) 3 November 2000 (age 21) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
GK Marko Kizikj PRE (2001-01-22) 22 January 2001 (age 21) 1.90 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister
CB (2001-03-26) 26 March 2001 (age 20) 1.85 m 0 0 North Macedonia GRK Ohrid
GK PRE (2001-05-30) 30 May 2001 (age 20) 1.92 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Tineks Prolet
RW Alen Kjosevski (2001-06-07) 7 June 2001 (age 20) 1.87 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
LW PRE (2001-08-24) 24 August 2001 (age 20) 1.85 m 0 0 North Macedonia GRK Tikveš
P PRE (2003-06-27) 27 June 2003 (age 18) 2.04 m 0 0 North Macedonia
LB PRE (2003-07-09) 9 July 2003 (age 18) 1.98 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Eurofarm Pelister 2
P Stefan Atanasovski (1999-09-08) 8 September 1999 (age 22) 2.07 m 0 0 North Macedonia RK Vardar 1961
P (2002-10-10) 10 October 2002 (age 19) 2.09 m 0 0 North Macedonia
  • INJ = Injured
  • PRE = Called up in a preliminary squad for the most recent games[1]
  • COV = Withdrew due to COVID-19

Notable players[]

Manaskov in action

Statistics[]

Record against other teams[]

As of 3 May 2021

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 5 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Bahrain Bahrain 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 0 0
Belarus Belarus 4 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 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 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 — — — — — — — — 1 1 0 0
Croatia Croatia 6 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 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 15 5 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 — — — — 10 4 2 4
Denmark Denmark 7 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 — — — — 2 1 0 1
Egypt Egypt 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 — — — — 1 0 0 1 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 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 4 3 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 8 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 6 0 2
Hungary Hungary 12 2 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 — — — — 11 2 0 9
Iceland Iceland 18 4 2 12 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 — — — — 14 4 1 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
Japan Japan 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — — — — — 0 0 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 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 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 4 2 0 2
Russia Russia 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 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 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 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 7 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 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 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Sweden Sweden 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — 1 0 0 1
Switzerland Switzerland 11 5 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — 10 4 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 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 5 5 0 0
Ukraine Ukraine 5 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 — — — — 4 1 2 1
Total (49) 244 108 21 115

References[]

  1. ^ "Селекторот Кирил Лазаров го објави поширокиот список на сениорите за квалификациските натпревари". macedoniahandball.com.mk. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

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