RK Metković is a 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 Metković

Metkovic

Metković is a city in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county of Croatia, located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the river Neretva and on the border with Herzegovina.-Demographics:...

, 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 ...

. Currently, RK Metković competes in the Croatian First League of Handball 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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The club was founded on September 26, 1963 under the name Mehanika. RK Metković has changed its name several times since his foundation, so it played under the names of Razvitak and Metković-Jambo.

Today, this club has men's and female's section.

Accomplishments

• Croatian Handball Championship: 0
  • 0

Metković finished first in the league in 1999/2000 season before the playoff, but because of a player whose transfer from 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....

 to Metković wasn't completed (it was still a case in arbitration) played for them in a friendly match under a different name they were moved to second place. Therefore RK Zagreb had one home game more in the final where it managed to defeat RK Metković in five games with three home wins.

• 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....
  
  : 2
  • 2001, 2002
• EHF Cup
  EHF Cup
  The EHF Cup is an official competition for men's handball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. From 2012/13 it will be merged with EHF Cup Winners' Cup to EHF European Cup....
  
  : 1
  • winners: 2000
  • runners-up: 2001

Famous players

• Blaženko Lacković
  Blaženko Lackovic
  Blaženko Lacković is a Croatian handball player. He is World champion from 2003 with the Croatian national team, and Olympic champion from 2004...
  
  
• Petar Metličić
  Petar Metlicic
  Petar Metličić is a Croatian handball player. He was captain of the Croatian national team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as well as the 2003 World Handball Championship in Portugal...
  
  
• Ivano Balić
• Nikša Kaleb
  Nikša Kaleb
  Nikša Kaleb is a Croatian handball player. He is World champion from 2003 with the Croatian national team, and Olympic champion from 2004. He received a silver medal at the 2005 World championship, and a silver medal at the 2008 European championship.-References:...
  
  
• Davor Dominiković
  Davor Dominikovic
  Davor Dominiković is a Croatian handball player. He is World champion from 2003 with the Croatian national team, and Olympic champion from 2004. He received a silver medal at the 2005 World championship, and a silver medal at the 2008 European championship.-Club player:Dominiković is currently...
  
  
• Ivan Čupić
  Ivan Cupic
  Ivan Čupić is a Croatian professional handballer who currently plays for Slovenian team RK Gorenje.He was selected by the Croatian national team for the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship...
  
  

External links

• Official website of RK Metković Vjesnik Špoljarić igrao za Zagreb, a nije slobodan igrač