North Macedonia women's national handball team

First Handball teams in Macedonia emerged in the second half of the 40s.Soon Macedonian Handball federation started to organize national championships in big handball -11 players on a soccer field size.By the 60s it was transformed in small handball or indoor handball.Macedonian champions were qualified for federal Yugoslav Championship instead of European cup competitions.Best Macedonian players played for the Federal team of Yugoslavia.In the time of the federation 6 of the constitutional republics were sending one federal team to compete at Olympics and World cup. Macedonia was participating within the federal team from 1950 till 1991 .After the split of the federation ,as a single republic from 1992 till 1994 Macedonia didn't manage to enter the qualifications for EC, WC and OG.From 1995 Macedonia participates as a single Republic to all qualifications and Championship tournaments.

The BTSC - Boris Trajkovski Sports Center (Macedonian: Спортски центар Борис Трајковски, Sportski centar Boris Trajkovski) in Skopje is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in the Karpoš Municipality of Skopje, Macedonia. It is named after the former president, Boris Trajkovski. It's capacity is 10,000 .There is an Olympic size Swimming Pool and 5 Star Hotel Alexander Palace within the complex. Additional Water Land Fun Park and Ice Skating Rink next to it.

The arena is a home-ground of the Macedonian handball team (men and women). The venue also contains four restaurants and a sports bar. It was one of two venues for the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship.It will be a Venue again for the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship

Home Ground

Home Ground

During the period 1957 till 1991 Macedonia was within the Federation of SFRJ. It was represented internationally within the team Yugoslavia as part of the Federation of 6 Republics. Macedonia is not a successor of the results of team Yugoslavia it was just part of it.During that time was present at the 3 Olympics and 10 World cup tournaments within the successful team Yugoslavia. After the split Macedonian team started to compete representing the single independent Republic. At the 1992 Olympics Yugoslavia team was banned to participate.At the World cup 1993 only teams from the Olympics qualified so Macedonian team didn't had a chance to qualify . For the first European Championship 1994 team Macedonia didn't enter the qualifications.For the World cup 1995 only teams from EURO 1994 qualified so again team Macedonian didn't get a chance to participate. Since EURO 1996 team Macedonia is regular in the qualifications. It entered 5 European Championships first one in 1998 then 2000,2006,2008 and 2012. Most successful was the 2008 when they've finished 7th as a host.Macedonia team qualified for the EURO 2022 as a host nation again.For the World Cup's they entered 5 times 1997,1999,2001,2005 and 2007.The most successful was in 1997 when they've finished 7th. For the Olympic tournament they've got the best chance in 1999 World Cup when first they've lost the 1/4 final game. Then after in the classification games for the 5 th place -last spot that qualifies for the Olympics finished 8th and didn't qualify.

World Championship

Year	Pos.	Pld	W	D	L
1957 1993	Within Yugoslavia team
1995
1997	7th	9	5	1	3
1999	8th	9	4	0	5
2001	21st	5	0	1	4
2003
2005	15th	5	2	1	2
2007	12th	8	2	1	5
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021	TBD
2023	TBD
Total	5/14	36	13	4	19

European Championship

Year	Pos.	Pld	W	D	L
1994
1996
1998	8th	6	2	0	4
2000	8th	6	1	3	2
2002
2004
2006	12th	6	1	0	5
2008	7th	6	3	0	3
2010
2012	16th	3	0	0	3
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022	Qualified
2024	TBD
Total	5/14	27	7	3	17

Summer Olympics

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1976 1992	Within Yugoslavia team
1996	did not enter
2000	Did not qualify
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020	Qualifications in progress
Total	0/6	–	0	0	0	0	0	0

• North Macedonia men's national handball team
• Macedonian Handball Federation

• Official website
• IHF provile