The Croatia national junior handball team is the national under-21/20 handball team of Croatia. Controlled by the Croatian Handball Federation that is an affiliate of the International Handball Federation IHF as well as a member of the European Handball Federation EHF, The team represents Croatia in international matches.[1]
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| Information | |||
| Association | Croatian Handball Federation | ||
| Coach | Igor Vori | ||
| Colours | |||
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| Results | |||
| IHF U-21 World Championship | |||
| Appearances | 9 (First in 1997) | ||
| Best result |  Runners-Up : (2019) | ||
| European Junior Championship | |||
| Appearances | 11 (First in 1996) | ||
| Best result |  Runners-Up : (2012) | ||
| Last updated on Unknown. | |||
History edit
Despite being one of the strongest men's handball nations globally, Croatia have never managed to win the Crown of the IHF Men's Junior World Championship . Their best performance so far was Vice-Champions in the 2019 Edition in Spain.[2]
Statistics edit
IHF Junior World Championship record edit
Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place
| Year[3] | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD |
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1977  |
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1979 / 
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1981 
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1983 
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1985 
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1987 
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1989 
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1991 
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1993 
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1995 
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1997  |
10th place | ||||||||
1999  |
11th place | ||||||||
2001  |
9th place | ||||||||
2003  |
5th place | ||||||||
2005  |
Didn't Qualify | ||||||||
2007  |
4th place | ||||||||
| 2009 |
Didn't Qualify | ||||||||
| 2011
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2013  |
4th place | ||||||||
| 2015 |
Didn't Qualify | ||||||||
2017[4]  |
10th place | ||||||||
| 2019[5] |
2nd place[6] | ||||||||
2023  |
8th place | ||||||||
| Total | 9/23 | 0 Titles | |||||||
European Championship edit
Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place
| European Junior Championship record | ||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | |
 1996 |
5th place | |||||||||
 1998 |
6th place | |||||||||
| 2000 |
8th place | |||||||||
 2002 |
11th place | |||||||||
 2004 |
Didn't Qualify | |||||||||
| 2006 |
7th place | |||||||||
| 2008 |
16th place | |||||||||
 2010 |
11th place | |||||||||
| 2012 |
Final | Runners-Up | ||||||||
| 2014 |
Didn't Qualify | |||||||||
| 2016 |
Semi-finals | 4th place | ||||||||
 2018 |
6th place | |||||||||
| 2022 |
14th place | |||||||||
| Total | 11/13 | 0 Titles | ||||||||
Squad edit
Last world championship squad[7]
- 01 EREŠ Ivan
- 04 MALEC Lovro
- 05 MILETA Fran
- 06 NOVAK Dominik
- 09 GODEC Karlo
- 12 PANJAN Ivan
- 13 VISTOROP Filip
- 14 MARTINOVIĆ Ivan
- 17 ŠPRUK Tomislav
- 18 MILIČEVIĆ Adrian
- 19 SRNA Zvonimir
- 20 VEKIĆ Josip
- 21 RAČIĆ Marko
- 22 PAPIĆ Daniel
- 25 ŠARAC Josip
- 45 JAGANJAC Halil
References edit
- ^ Croatian Handball Federation
- ^ Team Info Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Junior World Championship Info Retrieved 2 November 2020
- ^ 2017 men u21 Edition Retrieved 8 November 2020
- ^ 2019 men u21 Edition Retrieved 8 November 2020
- ^ "HRVATSKA – FRANCUSKA 23:28: Naši mladi rukometaši izgubili su u povijesnom finalu, ali njihovo svjetsko srebro je nevjerojatan rezultat". net.hr (in Croatian). 28 July 2019. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ 2019 WC Squad Croatia PDF Retrieved 9 November 2020
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