RK Bjelovar is a team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club from Bjelovar

Bjelovar

Bjelovar is a city in central Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. During the 2001 census, there were 41,869 inhabitants, 90.51% which are Croats....

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

 formed in 1955. The club currently competes in the Croatian Second League of Handball (North) and the Croatian Handball Cup

Croatian Handball Cup

The Croatian Handball Cup is a national team handball competition in Croatia operated by the Croatian Handball Federation. It has been held annually since Croatian independence in 1991 and succeeded the former Yugoslavian Handball Cup....

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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

RK Zagreb

RK Zagreb is a team handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. Currently, RK Zagreb competes in the Croatian First League of Handball and the Croatian Handball Cup....

 in modern Croatian handball.

Accomplishments

• National Championship of Yugoslavia: 9
  • 1958, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979
• EHF Champions League
  EHF Champions League
  The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...
  
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  • 1972
• EHF Champions League
  EHF Champions League
  The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...
  
   Finalist:
  • 1962, 1973
• EHF Champions League
  EHF Champions League
  The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...
  
   Semifinalist:
  • 1968, 1971

Famous players

• Hrvoje Horvat
  Hrvoje Horvat
  Hrvoje Horvat is a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia.-International career:...
  
  
• Albin Vidović
  Albin Vidovic
  Albin Vidović is a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal. He played one match.-External links:* ...
  
  
• Vladimir Smiljanić-Babura
• Miroslav Pribanić
  Miroslav Pribanic
  Miroslav Pribanić was a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal at the Munich Games...
  
  
• Željko Nimš
  Željko Nimš
  Željko Nimš is a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia.In 1976 he was part of the Yugoslav team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament...
  
  
• Zvonimir Serdarušić
  Zvonimir Serdarušic
  Zvonimir "Noka" Serdarušić is a former Bosnian Croat handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia....
  
  
• Boris Bradić
• Pavle Jurina
  Pavle Jurina
  Pavle "Pavo" Jurina was a former Croatian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....
  
  
• Mirko Bašić
  Mirko Bašic
  Mirko Bašić is a former Yugoslav/Croatian handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics....
  
  
• Željko Vidaković
• Rastko Stefanović

Famous coaches

• Željko Seleš
• Ante Kostelić (father of Janica Kostelić
  Janica Kostelic
  Janica Kostelić is a retired alpine ski racer from Croatia. She is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics , and the only woman to win three alpine skiing gold medals in one Olympics ....
  
   and Ivica Kostelić
  Ivica Kostelic
  Ivica Kostelić is an alpine ski racer from Zagreb, Croatia. He won the world championship in slalom in 2003 and three Olympic silver medals in slalom and combined , along with the overall World Cup title in 2011 and 18 World Cup races during his career...
  
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External links

• Official website of RK Bjelovar (Croatian)