North Macedonia national handball team

The North Macedonia national handball team is the national handball team of North Macedonia. The team is run by the Macedonian Handball Federation, the governing body of handball in North Macedonia. Prior to joining the International Handball Federation in 1993 as an independent country, North Macedonia was represented within the Yugoslavia national handball team.

North Macedonia
Information
Nickname	Red-Yellow Lions
Association	Macedonian Handball Federation
Coach	Danilo Brestovac
Assistant coach	Aleksandar Carchev Nikola Matlieski
Captain	Kiril Lazarov
Most caps	Stevče Aluševski (245)
Most goals	Kiril Lazarov (1717)
Colours
Home Away
Results
World Championship
Appearances	6 (First in 1999)
Best result	9th (2015)
European Championship
Appearances	6 (First in 1998)
Best result	5th (2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

Competitive record

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1993	Did not enter
1995	Did not qualify
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
2017	Round of 16	15th	6	2	1	3	163	171	−8
2019	Presidents' Cup	15th	7	3	0	4	191	199	−8
2021	To be Decided
2023	To be determined
2025
2027
Total	6/15	–	41	17	2	22	1131	1180	−49

European Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	Did not participate
1996	Did not qualify
1998	Preliminary Round	12th	5	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
2018	Main Round	11th	6	2	1	3	143	164
2020	Preliminary round	15th	3	1	0	2	79	84
2022	To be determined
2024
Total	6/14	–	34	8	6	20	835	941

Mediterranean Games

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L
1993–2009	Did not participate
2013	Group stage	8th	4	2	0	2
2018	Group stage	13th	3	1	0	2
Total	2/7	–	7	3	0	4

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Danilo Brestovac

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Nikola Mitrevski (1985-10-03) 3 October 1985 1.88 m 41 2 FC Porto Sofarma 3 LW Dejan Manaskov (1992-08-26) 26 August 1992 1.91 m 72 279 Telekom Veszprém 4 RB Martin Velkovski (1997-03-10) 10 March 1997 1.90 m 6 7 RK Eurofarm Pelister 5 P Stojanče Stoilov (1987-04-30) 30 April 1987 1.91 m 67 143 RK Vardar 1961 7 RB Kiril Lazarov (1980-05-10) 10 May 1980 1.93 m 207 1443 HBC Nantes 11 LB Filip Taleski (1996-03-28) 28 March 1996 2.00 m 43 109 RK Vardar 1961 16 GK Borko Ristovski (1982-11-02) 2 November 1982 1.90 m 155 5 RK Vardar 1961 17 P Nikola Markoski (1990-05-22) 22 May 1990 1.95 m 17 12 RK Eurofarm Pelister 18 LB Filip Kuzmanovski (1996-07-03) 3 July 1996 1.98 m 38 61 TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 21 CB Mario Tankoski (1998-08-28) 28 August 1998 1.92 m 12 5 RK Eurofarm Pelister 22 RW Goce Georgievski (1987-02-12) 12 February 1987 1.85 m 79 158 RK Vardar 1961 25 CB Goran Krstevski (1996-03-29) 29 March 1996 1.96 m 9 2 CSM Focșani 28 RW Martin Popovski (1994-08-26) 26 August 1994 1.77 m 26 19 GC Amicitia Zürich 33 P Žarko Peševski (1991-04-11) 11 April 1991 1.95 m 39 69 TVB 1898 Stuttgart 66 LW Bojan Madzovski (1994-05-08) 8 May 1994 1.84 m 6 10 RK Eurofarm Pelister 97 CB Marko Miševski (1999-08-23) 23 August 1999 1.99 m 3 0 RK Vardar 1961

Recent call ups

These are players that have also received a call.

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 6 LW Dimitar Dimitrioski ^PRE (1998-02-16) 16 February 1998 1.82 m 0 0 RK Vardar 1961 8 CB Nemanja Pribak (1984-03-26) 26 March 1984 1.90 m 13 17 RK Vojvodina 9 LB Aco Jonovski (1980-12-29) 29 December 1980 1.97 m 70 68 SG Ratingen 2011 10 CB Filip Čurlevski (1992-02-22) 22 February 1992 1.77 m 7 1 RK Prilep 2010 12 GK Martin Tomovski ^PRE (1997-07-10) 10 July 1997 1.90 m 0 0 Die Eulen Ludwigshafen 13 CB Filip Mirkulovski (1983-09-14) 14 September 1983 1.89 m 126 315 HSG Wetzlar 14 LB Velko Markoski ^PRE (1986-04-05) 5 April 1986 1.94 m 51 8 RK Metalurg Skopje 15 CB Lasko Andonovski (1991-06-15) 15 June 1991 1.84 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet 19 RW Nenad Kosteski ^PRE (2001-03-04) 4 March 2001 1.80 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 20 GK Marko Kizikj ^PRE (2001-01-22) 22 January 2001 1.90 m 0 0 RK Vardar 23 LB Filip Lazarov (1985-04-21) 21 April 1985 1.97 m 54 140 SG Ratingen 2011 24 CB Martin Manaskov ^PRE (1994-06-07) 7 June 1994 1.92 m 0 0 GRK Ohrid 26 LW Goce Ojleski (1989-10-10) 10 October 1989 1.88 m 27 21 RK Eurofarm Pelister 27 LB Dejan Kukulovski ^PRE (1998-08-17) 17 August 1998 1.94 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 29 LB Darko Georgievski ^PRE (1992-02-03) 3 February 1992 1.92 m 0 0 Angers SCO 31 LB Mihajlo Mladenovikj (2000-09-21) 21 September 2000 1.94 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje 34 RW Tomislav Jagurinovski ^PRE (1998-08-19) 19 August 1998 1.88 m 0 0 RK Vardar 1961 37 P Milan Lazarevski (1997-02-09) 9 February 1997 1.94 m 1 0 RK Metalurg Skopje 43 P Kostadin Petrov ^PRE (1992-03-30) 30 March 1992 1.90 m 0 0 CSU Suceava 44 P Mihail Alarov (1997-12-21) 21 December 1997 1.97 m 0 0 RK Tineks Prolet 55 RW Nikola Kosteski (1992-08-22) 22 August 1992 1.83 m 0 0 HC Linz AG 77 RB Martin Serafimov ^PRE (2000-03-03) 3 March 2000 1.90 m 7 1 RK Metalurg Skopje 88 LB Darko Dimitrievski ^PRE (1993-05-16) 16 May 1993 1.94 m 0 0 Liberbank Cantabria Sinfín 99 P Filip Arsenovski (1998-07-30) 30 July 1998 1.93 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje GK Jane Cvetkovski (1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 1.91 m 0 0 DVTK-Eger LB Milorad Kukoski (1987-12-07) 7 December 1987 1.94 m 33 165 RK Eurofarm Pelister GK Gradimir Čanevski (1988-03-04) 4 March 1988 1.89 m 0 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister GK Daniel Gjorgjeski (1993-12-08) 8 December 1993 1.85 m 0 0 RK Metalurg Skopje LB Stefan Drogrishki (1994-09-09) 9 September 1994 1.93 m 2 0 RK Eurofarm Pelister 2 GK Nikola Danilovski (1997-02-01) 1 February 1997 1.84 m 0 0 GRK Ohrid

• ^INJ = Injured
• ^PRE = Called up in a preliminary squad for the most recent games[3]

Notable players

• Stevče Aluševski
• Petar Angelov
• Branislav Angelovski
• Vančo Dimovski
• Goran Gjorgonoski
• Aco Jonovski
• Goran Kuzmanoski
• Lazo Majnov
• Pepi Manaskov
• Vlatko Mitkov
• Naumče Mojsovski
• Radoslav Stojanović
• Vladimir Temelkov
• Renato Vugrinec

Statistics

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

Top scorers # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Name Goals Kiril Lazarov 1603 Stevče Aluševski 967 Branislav Angelovski 392 Filip Mirkulovski 296 Pepi Manaskov 264 Vladimir Temelkov 243 Vancho Dimovski 226 Naumče Mojsovski 163 Milorad Kukoski 165

Record against other teams

As of 28 January 2018, after 2018 ECh

Key

	Positive total balance (more wins)
	Neutral total balance (equal W/L ratio)
	Negative total balance (more losses)

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
Angola	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	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	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	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	14	5	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	2	—	—	—	—	10	4	2	4
Denmark	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	—	—	—	—	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	5	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	2	0	1	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	15	3	1	11	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	12	3	0	9
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	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	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	5	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	2	1	0	1
Poland	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1
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
Serbia	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	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	6	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	2	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	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	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	9	3	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	8	2	0	6
Tunisia	5	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
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	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	4	1	2	1
Total (47)	209	91	20	98

References

1. "Селекторот Данило Брестовац го објави списокот на ракометари за ЕП 2020". macedoniahandball.com.mk. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
2. 2020 European Men's Handball Championship squad
3. http://macedoniahandball.com.mk/selektorot-danilo-brestovats-go-objavi-poshirokiot-spisok-na-seniorite-za-ep-2020-vo-avstrija-shvedska-i-norveshka/

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile