Nikola Bilyk

Nikola Bilyk

Nikola Bilyk (2017)
Player information
birthday	28th November 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Tunis , Tunisia
citizenship	Austrian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	THW Kiel
Jersey number	53
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000–2012	Handball club Fivers Margareten
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2012-2016	Handball club Fivers Margareten
2013-2015	Team 94
2016–	THW Kiel
National team
Debut on	March 4, 2014 in Schwechat
against	Germany
	Games (goals)
Austria	76 (322)
As of January 5, 2020

Nikola Bilyk (also Mykola Bilyk ; born November 28, 1996 in Tunis , Tunisia ) is an Austrian handball player .

Career

Born in Tunisia as the son of the Ukrainian handball goalkeeper Serhij Bilyk , the Viennese began his active professional career in 2012 at the handball club Fivers Margareten , where his father was also active for a long time. Before that he was already active for the same club in various youth leagues. After his first season with the Margaretners , he was named "Newcomer of the Year" by the league. In the 2013/14 season , Bilyk was suspended for some games because of insulting the referee. On March 4, 2014, at the age of only 17, he made his debut in the Austrian national team and scored two goals in a friendly against Germany. He is also part of the junior national team born in 1994 and younger, which participated in the HLA season 2013/14 as Team 94 out of competition. In the same year he ran for his home club in both the Handball League Austria and the Handball Bundesliga Austria . In 2012/13 , 2014/15 and 2015/16 he was able to secure the ÖHB Cup with the handball club Fivers Margareten . In the last season before his move to the German Bundesliga, Bilyk secured the Austrian championship title with the Viennese.

With Team 94 he took part in the European Youth Championships in 2012 and 2014 and came in 6th each time. In addition, he was awarded 55 goals in the 2014 competition as the best goalscorer of the tournament, the best back center player and the most valuable player .

When he took part in the 2015 World Handball Championship in Qatar , Bilyk was used in all six Austrian games and scored ten goals.

In February 2015, the German record champions THW Kiel announced that they had signed a three-year contract with Bilyk and that Bilyk would move to Kiel in 2017 at the latest. In favor of THW, Bilyk turned down an offer from FC Barcelona . In December 2015, Kiel announced that they had agreed with Margareten on an early change of Bilyk in July 2016.

At the European handball championship 2020 , Bilyk became the third-best goalscorer of the entire tournament with 46 goals in the 7 games of the Austrian national team.

Private

Nikola Bilyk's father Serhij was also an active handball player until 2016. The Ukrainian-born handball goalkeeper played at Espérance Sportive de Tunis in Tunisia and from 1999 to 2016 for the handball club Fivers Margareten .

Seasonal balance sheets

Bundesliga

season	society	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2016/17	THW Kiel	33	121	8th	113
2017/18	THW Kiel	31	088	0	088
2018/19	THW Kiel	31	091	0	091
2016-2019	total	95	300	8th	292

HLA

season	society	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2012/13	Handball club Fivers Margareten	9	1/1	8th
2013/14	Handball club Fivers Margareten	83	0/0	83
2014/15	Handball club Fivers Margareten	163	28/37	135
2015/16	Handball club Fivers Margareten	210	28/35	182
2009-2016	total	465	57/75 (76%)	408

HBA

season	society	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2013/14	Handball club Fivers Margareten	40	1/1	39
2013-2014	total	40	1/1 (100%)	39

successes

• THW Kiel
  • 1 × German Champion 2020
  • 2 × German Cup Winner 2017, 2019
  • 1 × EHF Cup Winner 2019
• Handball club Fivers Margareten
  • Austrian champion 2015/16
  • 3 × Austrian Cup Winner 2012/13, 2014/15, 2015/16
  • 1 × HLA "Newcomer of the Year" 2012/13
  • HLA Supercup winner 2013 and 2014
• Austrian national team
  • MVP Juniors EM 2014, Best Goalscorer Junior EM 2014, Best Backcourt Middle Junior EM 2014

Web links

Commons : Nikola Bilyk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player profile on the website of THW Kiel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikola Bilyk. oehb.at, accessed on February 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Harald Hofstetter: Nikola Bilyk is the great ÖHB hope for the future. sport.orf.at, January 22, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Current and former "Newcomer of the Year" in the spusu LIGA. spusuliga.at, accessed on April 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ HLA: Top trio in action on Wednesday! oehb.sportlive.at, November 19, 2013, archived from the original on February 24, 2017 ; accessed on February 24, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Match report of the international match against Germany ( memento of March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 10, 2014.
6. ↑ Nikola Bilyk in the team of the 94 youth national team ( Memento from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ MASTER 2015/16! #TripleDREAM !!!!!!!!!!!! fivers.at, May 27, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2016 . 
8. ↑ handball-world.news: Offers from top clubs for Bilyk: The MVP of the Junior European Championship is in great demand , accessed on April 19, 2019
9. ↑ Cumulative Statistics AUT - Austria. ihf.info, January 25, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Nikola Bilyk will move to THW Kiel in 2017 at the latest. thw-handball.de, February 23, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Player portrait Nikola Bilyk. thw-handball.de, February 23, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Nikola Bilyk: Österreichs Handball-Alaba , interview on redbulletin.com, April 2016, accessed on March 30, 2016.
13. ↑ thw-handball.de: Backcourt player Nikola Bilyk is coming in 2016 , accessed on April 19, 2019.
14. ↑ Bilyk wants to become the best handball player of all time , laola1.at, January 12, 2016, accessed on March 30, 2016.
15. ^ "Person of the Week": From Tunis to Kiel - the career of Nikola Bilyk . handball-world.com. February 27, 2015. Accessed June 28, 2016.
16. ↑ Handball Bundesliga season statistics 2016/17. liquimoly-hbl.de, accessed on October 31, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Handball Bundesliga season statistics 2017/18. liquimoly-hbl.de, accessed on October 31, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Handball Bundesliga season statistics 2018/19. liquimoly-hbl.de, accessed on October 31, 2019 .