Drago Vuković

Drago Vuković

Drago Vuković on September 27, 2008
Player information
birthday	3rd August 1983
place of birth	Split , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
height	1.94 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	RK Split
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2002	RK Split
2002-2006	RK Zagreb
2006-2008	RK Velenje
2008-2011	VfL Gummersbach
2011-2015	TuS N-Lübbecke
2015-2018	Foxes Berlin
2018-2019	VfL Gummersbach
National team
	Games (goals)
Croatia	146 (212)
As of June 20, 2019

Drago Vuković (born August 3, 1983 in Split , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian handball player .

Vuković, who last played for the German Bundesliga club VfL Gummersbach and ran for the Croatian national team (shirt number 14), was mostly used in the left backcourt .

Career

Drago Vuković

Drago Vuković played at RK Split since his youth and played his first league games there. In 2002 he moved to the national top club RK Zagreb , where he was champion and cup winner in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006 he moved on to RK Velenje in Slovenia. From 2008 he played at VfL Gummersbach in the handball Bundesliga . He won the EHF Cup with VfL in 2009 . In 2010 and 2011 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup . From the 2011/12 season he ran for the Bundesliga club TuS N-Lübbecke . For the 2015/16 season he moved to Füchsen Berlin, with whom he became club world champion in 2015 , 2016 and won the EHF Cup in 2018. In summer 2018 he returned to VfL Gummersbach. He ended his career after the 2018/19 season.

Drago Vuković made 146 appearances for the Croatian national team. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he won gold with his country and bronze at the 2012 Olympic Games in London; In addition, he was runner- up at the 2005 World Cup in Tunisia and runner-up at the 2008 and 2010 European championships. At the 2011 World Cup , he finished fifth. In 2012 he won bronze again at the European Championships. He also won bronze at the 2013 World Cup . In 2014 he lost to Spain in the third place match at the European Championships.

successes

• Croatian champion 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Croatian Cup Winner 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
• DHB Cup finalist 2009
• EHF Cup 2009, 2018
• European Cup Winners' Cup 2010 and 2011
• Olympic champion 2004
• Olympic bronze 2012
• Vice World Champion 2005
• Vice European Champion 2008, 2010 and 2012
• World Cup bronze 2013
• Club world champion 2015, 2016

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2008/09	VfL Gummersbach	Bundesliga	34	86	0	86
2009/10	VfL Gummersbach	Bundesliga	33	146	0	146
2010/11	VfL Gummersbach	Bundesliga	33	153	0	153
2011/12	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	29	107	0	107
2012/13	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	27	105	0	105
2013/14	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	28	96	0	96
2014/15	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	34	142	0	142
2015/16	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	32	106	0	106
2016/17	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	16	17th	0	17th
2017/18	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	29	14th	0	14th
2018/19	VfL Gummersbach	Bundesliga	12	18th	0	18th
2008-2019	total	Bundesliga	307	990	0	990

Web links

Commons : Drago Vuković  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Drago Vuković in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Drago Vuković in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Drago Vuković on the website of the Croatian Handball Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Preliminary squad EM 2014 (as of December 10, 2013)
2. ↑ Vukovic leaves Gummersbach in the summer
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Füchse Berlin commit Drago Vuković from 2015 on July 29, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2014
4. ↑ rundschau-online.de: Drago Vukovic returns to VfL Gummersbach on December 6, 2017, accessed on January 9, 2018
5. ↑ handball-world.news: VfL Gummersbach before "Mission 2. League": Personnel question marks and two extensions from June 20, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019