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Croatia

Nickname	Pakleni (Hell Boys)
Association
Most caps	?
Most goals	{{{Most goals}}}
Home colours 　 Away colours
Summer Olympics
Appearances	2 (First in 1996)
Best result	Winners, 1996 and 2004
World Handball Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1995)
Best result	Winners, 2003
European Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1994)
Best result	Third place, 1994

The Croatian national handball team is a handball team that represents Croatia in the international matches and has been playing since the country's independence in the early 1990s. The team is controlled by the Croatian Handball Federation.

Contents 1 Results at the international tournaments 2 World Championship record 3 Current squad 4 External link

Despite of its relatively short history, the Croatian team has already made some significant results at the international tournaments. During the 1990s they placed third at the 1994 European Championship and second at the 1995 World Championship before eventually winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

After these successes they have been going through the time without such good results until they eventually made their comeback by winning the 2003 World Championship. In 2004 they were fourth at the European Championship, but won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics later that year. After these results it was logical that they were one of the favorites of the 2005 World Championship, but lost to Spain in the final match.

In 2006 the team finished fourth at the European Championship, where they have qualified for the semifinals by winning the group in the main stage, but were subsequently defeated by Slovenia in the semifinals and Denmark in the third place match.

• 1938 - Was part of Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• 1942 - Not held, represented as Independent State of Croatia
• 1946, 1950 - Not held, was part of communist Yugoslavia
• 1954 to 1990 - Was part of communist Yugoslavia
• 1993 - Did not qualify
• 1995 - Second-place
• 1997 - Thirteenth-place
• 1999 - Tenth-place
• 2001 - Ninth-place
• 2003 - Champion
• 2005 - Second-place
• 2007 - Fifth-place

This list represents the Croatian squad at the 2007 World Championship. The current selector of the team is Lino Červar.

• 1 - Venio Losert (goalkeeper)
• 2 - Nikša Kaleb
• 3 - Renato Sulić
• 4 - Ivano Balić
• 5 - Domagoj Duvnjak
• 6 - Blaženko Lacković
• 7 - Vedran Zrnić
• 8 - Dalibor Anušić
• 9 - Igor Vori
• 11 - Mirza Džomba
• 14 - Drago Vuković
• 16 - Dragan Jerković (goalkeeper)
• 17 - Goran Šprem
• 18 - Denis Špoljarić
• 19 - Petar Metličić
• 20 - Denis Buntić
• 23 - Ljubo Vukić
• 24 - Tonči Valčić
• 25 - Marko Golubi' (goalkeeper)

• Croatian Handball Federation (in Croatian)

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