Serbia national handball team
The Serbian national handball team (Serbian Рукометна репрезентација Србије / Rukometna reprezentacija Srbije ) represents Serbia in international competitions in men's handball and is under the leadership of the Serbian Handball Federation RSS. The team is, from both the International as well as by the European Handball Federation, the direct successor of the Serbian - Montenegrin national handball team, which took as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1993 to 2003, treated. Since 2006, the association is a member of the EHF.
History
In qualifying for the Handball World Cup 2007 in Germany, the team failed in the qualifying play-offs in the Czech Republic. For the World Championships in 2009 and 2011 you could qualify and reached the 8th and 10th place.
For the European Handball Championship in 2008 you could not qualify because they lost in the qualifying play-offs Iceland. Two years later, one could indeed for the European Handball Championship 2010 qualifying, but retired in the first round of. When Handball Championship 2012 in our own country we became vice European champions after a 19:21 defeat in the final against Denmark.
In the Mediterranean Games in 2009 in the Italian Pescara, the team secured the gold medal.
Participation in Championships
Handball World Cup
- World Cup 2009: 08th place
- World Cup 2011: 10th place
- World Cup 2013: 10th Place
European Handball Championship
- EM 2010: 13th Place
- Euro 2012: 02 Place
- EM 2014: 13th Place
Olympic games
Participation London, 2012 In the first round excreted
Current squad
Stand: January 10, 2013 ( World Cup squad )