RK Metković

RK Metković ( Rukometni club RK Metković ) is a handball club from the Croatian town of Metković. The first team plays in the Croatian league. Previous names of the club are RK Mehanika, in the meantime, the club took its main sponsors in the club name and was called until 1998 RK Metković - Razvitak and 1999-2003 RK Metković - Jambo.

History

The club was founded on September 1, 1963 under the name " RK Mehanika " initiators for the establishment were Zdravko Vučićević (Zagreb ) and Tomislav Brace Volarević (Split). His first game was the club on the lawn of the local football club "NK Neretva ", as well as various sports fields surrounding schools. As the city Metković lies exactly on the border between Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, at that time, however, on the Croatian side little handball was played, we were associated with the club a lower Bosnian league.

1965/66 was built by the club co-founder Volarević and his students from a local high school through a proactive one asphalted field, later even illuminated. In the first generation, there were mainly former football players who went on to handball.

A significant increase in quality achieved by the club in 1970, when it joined the Dalmatian league. Under the leadership of Luka Veraja stabilized the club and rose almost every year up in the Second Division, with the club for three years did not lose a home game on home soil. In friendlies even opponents like Dukla Prague, VfL Gummersbach or the Swiss national team were defeated. After six years in the second Yugoslav League team in 1978 rose for the first time in their history in the top league, but from which it descended after the season, because financially they could not compete with the other clubs; also lacked a hall that would have been necessary for the license. On November 26, 1982, a gymnasium was opened after a lot of self-work.

After the club had played a minor role in the Yugoslav league, the club saw the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s as an opportunity to catch up with other big clubs such as RK Zagreb. However, we started initially as a second division side, but increased in the first year on the first Croatian league. 1996/97 reached to fourth place in the league, which was the first European competition in the club's result. At the same time they built on a large-scale Handball School, the players like Patrik Ćavar, Slavko Goluža, Ivica Obrvan or Vladimir Jelcic came from. For this, the sports management could also undertake talent from other clubs, such as the later world handball player Ivano Balic, an early stage. With these players it was Cup winners in 2001 and 2002 In addition, the club won the 2000 EHF Cup.; In 2001 he moved again to the final of this competition.

In the third round of the Challenge Cup in 2009, the RK Metković against Ukrainian club SC Time Burevestnik Lugansk won with 32:24, but did not appear on the return leg in Ukraine. In November 2009, the European Handball Federation concluded, therefore, from the RK Metković for two years from all international competitions; the association shall also pay a fine of 10,000 euros.

Achievements

  • Cup holders; 2001, 2002
  • EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 2000
  • EHF Cup finalist: 2001

Well-known former players

  • Ivano Balic
  • Prior Dominiković
  • Mirza Džomba
  • Slavko Goluža
  • Dragan Jerković
  • Goran Jerković
  • Mario Kelentrić
  • Petar Metlicic
  • Renato Sulic
  • Patrik Ćavar

Well-known former coach

  • Zvonimir Serdarušić
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