Macedonia national handball team

Macedonia
Information
Nickname	Црвено-жолти (The Red-Yellows)
Association	Macedonian Handball Federation
Coach	Lino Červar
Most caps	Stevče Aluševski (243)
Most goals	Kiril Lazarov (1203)
Colours
Home Away
Results
World Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 1999)
Best result	9th (2015)
European Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 1998)
Best result	5th (2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Macedonia national handball team is the national handball team of the 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 Yugoslavia

Olympics record

• 1936 - did not participate
• 1972 - Champion
• 1976 - 5th place
• 1980 - 6th place
• 1984 - Champion
• 1988 - 3rd place

World Championship record

• 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 - 2nd place
• 1986 - Champion
• 1990 - 4th place

Accomplishments

Olympics Record

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1992–2016	Did not qualify

2012 Olympic Qualification Tournament #2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	3	0	0	78	67	+11	6
Hungary	3	2	0	1	81	79	+2	4
Brazil	3	1	0	2	75	81	−6	2
Macedonia	3	0	0	3	76	83	−7	0

6 April 2012 14:45	Hungary	28 − 26	Macedonia	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 5,004 Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Pérez, Császár 6	(15–13)	Lazarov 7
	8× 3×	Report	4× 3×

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6 April 2012 17:05	Sweden	25 − 20	Brazil	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 7,124 Referees: Krstic, Ljubic (SLO)
	Larholm 5	(12–10)	Ribeiro 5
	4× 3×	Report	5× 3×

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7 April 2012 13:45	Brazil	27 − 29	Hungary	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 3,976 Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Pacheco 7	(15–16)	Császár, Iváncsik 6
	4× 3×	Report	3× 3×

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7 April 2012 16:05	Macedonia	23 – 27	Sweden	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 8,333 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Lazarov, Mirkulovski 5	(12–14)	Andersson 8
	2× 3×	Report	5× 3×

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8 April 2012 14:45	Brazil	28 – 27	Macedonia	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 4,235 Referees: Krstic, Ljubic (SLO)
	Pires 7	(15–13)	Lazarov 6
	1× 3×	Report	2× 3×

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8 April 2012 17:05	Sweden	26 – 23	Hungary	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 7,289 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Petersen 6	(11–12)	Harsányi 8
	4× 3×	Report	4× 3×

2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to 2016 Summer Olympics
2	Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Chile	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 8 April 2016. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host.

8 April 2016	Chile	v	Tunisia	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

8 April 2016	Poland	v	Macedonia	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

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9 April 2016	Poland	v	Chile	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

9 April 2016	Macedonia	v	Tunisia	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

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10 April 2016	Tunisia	v	Poland	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

10 April 2016	Macedonia	v	Chile	Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot

World Championships

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1993	Did not qualify
1995
1997
1999	Preliminary round	18th	5	1	0	4	122	149	−27
2001	Did not qualify
2003
2005
2007
2009	Main Round	11th	11	5	0	6	309	322	−13
2011	Did not qualify
2013	Round of 16	14th	6	2	1	3	165	171	−6
2015	Round of 16	9th	6	4	0	2	181	168	+13
Total	4/12	-	28	12	1	15	777	810	−33

European Championship record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	Did not qualify
1996
1998	Preliminary Round	12th	6	0	1	5	130	174
2000	Did not qualify
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012	5th/6th Place	5th	7	4	1	2	185	175
2014	Main Round	10th	6	1	1	4	141	167
2016	Main Round	11th	6	0	2	4	157	176
Total	4/12	-	25	5	5	15	613	693

Mediterranean Games record

Year	Round	Position	W	D	L
1993-2009	Did not participate in MG
2013	Group stage	8th	2	0	3
2017	Decision on participating is still to be made

Team

Current squad

This is the squad for the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.^[1]

Head coach:

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 LW Dejan Manaskov 26 August 1992 1.80 m 32 85 Vardar 5 P Stojanče Stoilov 30 April 1987 1.92 m 26 48 Vardar 7 RB Kiril Lazarov (c) 10 May 1980 1.93 m 114 935 Barcelona 8 RB Vlatko Mitkov 16 August 1981 1.92 m 85 73 UHK Krems 9 LB Aco Jonovski 29 December 1980 1.97 m 70 68 Bergischer HC 10 GK Daniel Dupjačanec 15 July 1983 1.89 m 2 0 Metalurg Skopje 13 CB Filip Mirkulovski 14 September 1983 1.89 m 120 301 HSG Wetzlar 14 LB Velko Markoski 5 April 1986 1.94 m 38 47 RK Zagreb 16 GK Borko Ristovski 2 November 1982 1.90 m 118 3 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 17 P Nikola Markoski 22 May 1990 1.96 m 17 10 Rabotnički 18 CB Naumče Mojsovski 17 June 1980 1.87 m 101 130 CSM București 21 CB Nemanja Pribak 26 March 1984 1.90 m 13 17 Beşiktaş 22 RW Goce Georgievski 12 February 1987 1.85 m 37 59 Fenix Toulouse 23 LB Filip Lazarov 21 April 1985 1.97 m 42 110 Vardar 26 LW Goce Ojleski 10 October 1989 1.88 m 21 17 HC Odorheiu 27 LB Filip Kuzmanovski 3 July 1996 1.98 m 4 2 Metalurg Skopje 33 P Žarko Peševski 11 April 1991 1.95 m 6 14 Metalurg Skopje

Recent call ups

These are players that have also received a call up in the last 12 months and are on the preliminary roster for the 2016 Euro Handball Championship in Poland starting January 2016.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Nikola Mitrevski 3 October 1985 1.88 m 12 0 Benfica 6 LB Milorad Kukoski 7 December 1987 1.95 m 33 165 Metalurg Skopje 11 LB Filip Taleski 28 March 1996 2.01 m 3 2 Metalurg Skopje 20 GK Petar Angelov 8 March 1977 1.92 m 43 0 Vardar GK Zlatko Daskalovski 8 December 1984 1.95 m 0 0 Poli Timişoara GK Stefan Kimevski 31 December 1990 1.93 m 0 0 Prolet LW Bojan Madzovski 8 May 1994 1.84 m 36 83 Metalurg Skopje 29 CB Darko Dimitrievski 16 May 1993 1.92 m 0 0 Csurgói KK 10 LB Stefan Drogrishki 9 September 1994 1.93 m 0 0 Pelister 19 P Vasko Dimitrovski 9 October 1982 1.93 m 0 0 Pelister 25 CB Nikola Stojcevski 9 August 1984 1.96 m 24 33 HK Drott CB Goran Krstevski 29 March 1996 1.96 m 30 112 Metalurg Skopje CB Martin Manaskov 7 June 1994 1.92 m 25 108 Vardar Junior 31 CB Goran Kuzmanoski 30 November 1982 1.90 m 25 45 HC Odorheiu 55 RW Nikola Kosteski 22 August 1992 1.83 m 2 1 Metalurg Skopje RB Martin Velkovski 10 March 1997 1.90 m 0 0 Metalurg Skopje

Notable players

Pepi Manaskov Stevče Aluševski Vancho Dimovski Renato Vugrinec Goran Gjorgonoski Petar Angelov

Player statistics

Most appearances # Name Matches 1 Stevče Aluševski 243 2 Kiril Lazarov 171 3 Branislav Angelovski 159 4 Vancho Dimovski 119 5 Filip Mirkulovski 118 6 Borko Ristovski 111 7 Naumče Mojsovski 108

Top scorers # Name Goals 1 Kiril Lazarov 1289 2 Branislav Angelovski 392 3 Stevče Aluševski 361 4 Filip Mirkulovski 296 5 Pepi Manaskov 264 6 Vladimir Temelkov 243 7 Vancho Dimovski 226 8 Naumče Mojsovski 163 9 Milorad Kukoski 165

Supporters

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  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 Jan 28 2016

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	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Austria	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Belarus	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Belgium	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	10	10	0	0
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	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
Bulgaria	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	6	6	0	0
Chile	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
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	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
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	9	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	1	—	—	—	—	6	2	2	2
Denmark	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Egypt	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonia	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	6	4	2	0
Finland	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	1	0
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	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
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	12	2	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	11	2	0	9
Iceland	12	2	0	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	10	2	0	8
Iran	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Israel	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	3	0	1
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	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	2	0	0
Lithuania	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	3	0	1	2
Luxemburg	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	4	0	0
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Norway	4	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Poland	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Portugal	8	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	8	4	0	4
Qatar	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Romania	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Russia	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Slovenia	4	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
South Korea	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0
Spain	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Sweden	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
Switzerland	7	1	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	6	0	0	6
Tunisia	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
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	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	2	0	1	1
Total (48)	183	81	16	86

References

1. 2016 European Championship roster
2. "Macedonia defeats Russia, qualifies for next round". MINA. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
3. "Macedonia beats Slovenia for the 5th place". Borjan Zafirovski. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
4. "EHF Euro 2012 – The Macedonians Are In Town". D Hero. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
5. "IHF recognizes Macedonian Phalanx". MINA. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
6. ""Falangata" nema ramni na sebe". Zoran Misevski. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
7. ""Македонската фаланга" доби признание од ИХФ". IDIVIDI. Retrieved 2012-04-18.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile