Serbia women's national handball team

Serbia
Information
Association	Handball Federation of Serbia
Coach	Uroš Bregar
Assistant coach	Dragan Markov
Most caps	Katarina Krpež Slezak (146)
Most goals	Andrea Lekić (517)
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
World Championship
Appearances	8 (First in 2001)
Best result	Silver: (2013)
European Championship
Appearances	12 (First in 2000)
Best result	4th (2012)
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Serbia women's national handball team

Medal record
World Championship
	2013 Serbia
	2001 Italy
Mediterranean Games
	2013 Mersin	Team
	2005 Almería	Team
	2022 Oran	Team
Summer Universiade
	2015 Gwangju	Team
Carpathian Trophy
	2004 Cluj-Napoca
	2011 Drobeta-Turnu Severin
	2022 Bistrita
	2001 Cluj-Napoca
Intersport Cup
	2010 Tromsø/Bodø

The Serbia women's national handball team is the national team of Serbia. It is governed by the Handball Federation of Serbia and takes part in international handball competitions.

Olympic Committee of Serbia declared women's national handball team as the best female team of the year in 2001 and 2013.

Results

The Serbian Handball Federation is deemed the direct successor to Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro by EHF.

Summer Olympics

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1976–1988	part of Yugoslavia
1992	qualified and later suspended
1996	suspended from playing qualification tournaments
2000	did not qualify
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
2028	future events
2032
Total	0/8	–	0	0	0	0	0	0

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1957–1990	part of Yugoslavia
1993	qualified and later suspended
/ 1995	suspended from playing qualification tournament
1997	did not qualify
/ 1999
2001	Third place	3rd	9	6	1	2	313	236
2003	Main group stage	9th	8	5	0	3	258	241
2005	did not qualify
2007
2009
2011
2013	Runner-up	2nd	9	7	0	2	240	197
2015	Round of 16	15th	6	2	1	3	164	168
2017	Round of 16	9th	6	3	2	1	188	152
2019	Main round	6th	9	5	1	3	272	258
2021	Main round	12th	6	4	0	2	167	143
// 2023	Main round	21st	6	1	0	5	141	153
/ 2025	future events
2027
Total	8/15	–	59	33	6	21	1743	1548

European Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	suspended from playing qualification tournament
1996	did not qualify
1998
2000	Main group stage	7th	6	3	1	2	178	176
2002	Main group stage	6th	7	4	0	3	223	200
2004	Main group stage	12th	6	1	0	5	165	200
2006	Preliminary round	14th	3	0	0	3	77	92
2008	Preliminary round	13th	3	0	0	3	87	93
/ 2010	Preliminary round	14th	3	0	0	3	71	91
2012	Semi-finals	4th	8	4	1	3	213	209
/ 2014	Preliminary round	15th	3	0	0	3	56	72
2016	Main group stage	9th	6	2	1	3	158	176
2018	Main group stage	11th	6	2	0	4	164	168
/ 2020	Preliminary round	13th	3	1	0	2	79	88
// 2022	Preliminary round	15th	3	0	0	3	66	88
2024	future event
2026
2028
Total	12/15	–	57	17	3	37	1537	1653

** Red border color indicates that tournament was held on home soil.

Mediterranean Games

• 1993 – Suspended
• 1997 – 4th
• 2001 – 4th
• 2005 – Runners-up
• 2009 – 5th
• 2013 – Champions
• 2018 – 8th
• 2022 – 3rd

Other tournaments

Carpathian Trophy

• Carpathian Trophy 1999 – 5th place
• Carpathian Trophy 2000 –
• Carpathian Trophy 2001 –
• Carpathian Trophy 2002 – 4th
• Carpathian Trophy 2004 –
• Carpathian Trophy 2006 – 5th
• Carpathian Trophy 2011 –
• Carpathian Trophy 2018 – 4th
• Carpathian Trophy 2022 –

Møbelringen Cup/Intersport Cup

• Møbelringen Cup 2001 – 4th place
• Møbelringen Cup 2010 –
• Møbelringen Cup 2014 – 4th

Team

Current squad

Roster for the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship.^[1][2]

Head coach: Uroš Bregar

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Marija Simić (2000-02-21) 21 February 2000 (age 24) 1.77 m 5 0 ŽORK Jagodina 2 LW Sanja Radosavljević (1994-01-15) 15 January 1994 (age 30) 1.72 m 90 244 Kristianstad Handboll 3 LB Teodora Veličković (2001-04-28) 28 April 2001 (age 22) 1.75 m 5 6 ŽRK Naisa 4 CB Teodora Majkić (2000-10-06) 6 October 2000 (age 23) 1.70 m 3 2 RK Crvena zvezda 7 CB Aleksandra Vukajlović (1997-06-07) 7 June 1997 (age 26) 1.74 m 41 54 CS Minaur Baia Mare 11 RB Marija Laništanin (1995-08-09) 9 August 1995 (age 28) 1.78 m 19 31 Békéscsabai Előre NKSE 14 P Edita Nuković (1997-08-01) 1 August 1997 (age 26) 1.80 m 8 15 SV Union Halle-Neustadt 15 RB Anđela Janjušević (1995-06-18) 18 June 1995 (age 28) 1.81 m 66 158 CS Rapid București 22 LB Jovana Jovović (2001-12-04) 4 December 2001 (age 22) 1.81 m 23 49 Debreceni VSC 25 LW Aleksandra Stamenić (1998-07-12) 12 July 1998 (age 25) 1.67 m 14 12 RK Crvena zvezda 27 GK Molli Kubina (2002-05-14) 14 May 2002 (age 21) 1.78 m 0 0 Alba Fehérvár KC 29 RW Nataša Lovrić (2000-10-02) 2 October 2000 (age 23) 1.74 m 13 17 ŽRK Zelezničar 31 P Katarina Bojicić (1998-03-13) 13 March 1998 (age 25) 1.79 m 12 18 SCM Craiova 34 RW Dunja Radević (2005-11-25) 25 November 2005 (age 18) 1.69 m 5 8 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica 36 LB Emilija Lazić (2000-08-04) 4 August 2000 (age 23) 1.78 m 0 0 HC Zalău 92 P Jovana Milojević (1992-07-24) 24 July 1992 (age 31) 1.76 m 39 32 MKS Zagłębie Lubin 99 GK Marija Čolić (1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 (age 33) 1.73 m 29 1 OGC Nice

Famous players

• Dragana Cvijić
• Sanja Damnjanović
• Kristina Liščević
• Svetlana Kitić – 1988 IHF World Player of the Year
• Bojana Radulović – 2000 and 2003 IHF World Player of the Year
• Andrea Lekić – 2013 IHF World Player of the Year
• Katarina Tomašević

Statistics

References

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile