Goran Perkovac

Goran Perkovac

Player information
birthday	September 16, 1962
place of birth	Slatina , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian Swiss
Club information
society	HC Kriens-Lucerne
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1989	RK Medveščak
1989-1996	BSV Borba Lucerne
1996-2001	TV Suhr
2001–	Pathfinder Winterthur
National team
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia Croatia	? (?) ? (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
0000-2001	TV Suhr
2001-2003	Pathfinder Winterthur
10 / 2003-2007	Cadets Schaffhausen
2005-2007	Greece
2008-2013	Switzerland
2013–2 / 2015	GWD Minden
12 / 2015–2016	TuS N-Lübbecke
2018–	HC Kriens-Lucerne
As of December 26, 2018

Goran Perkovac (born September 16, 1962 in Slatina , at the time in the SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian handball coach and former handball player . He is married and has two children.

Career as a player in Switzerland

Goran Perkovac played for RK Medveščak Zagreb until 1989 . Then he moved to BSV Borba Luzern . With this club, the backcourt player won his very first championship in Switzerland in 1993. In 1996 he switched to TV Suhr for four and a half years , where he retired with two championship titles. His last stop was Pfadi Winterthur .

Goran Perkovac was also successful in the national team, he played in a total of 192 international games and won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics .

With 2,637 goals in 359 games Perkovac is the leader of eternal scorer in the National League A .

Career as a coach

Goran Perkovac began his coaching career at TV Suhr . In the 2001/2002 season he took over Pfadi Winterthur , in which he also won the Swiss championship title as a coach for the first time. In the following season he managed the double, these should have been the last successes with the Winterthur team, because Perkovac did not extend his contract. On October 17, 2003 he took over the coaching position of the eternal championship secret favorite Kadetten Schaffhausen from Wädi Müller and led the club first to the cup and won the first championship in the club's history in the following season.

In addition to his work in Schaffhausen, Goran Perkovac looked after the Greek national handball team . From 2008 to 2013 he was in charge of the Swiss national team. At the beginning of July 2013, the Swiss federation and Perkovac announced that the Croatian's contract, which was valid until 2014, would be terminated by mutual agreement at the end of July 2013. Then Perkovac signed a two-year contract with the German Bundesliga club GWD Minden . When the GWD Minden was relegated in February 2015, he was given leave of absence. In December 2015 Perkovac took over the coaching office of the Bundesliga club TuS N-Lübbecke . He has been coaching the Swiss club HC Kriens-Luzern since summer 2018 .

Success as a trainer

• 2001/2002 Swiss champion with Pfadi Winterthur
• 2002/2003 Swiss champion with Pfadi Winterthur
• 2002/2003 Swiss Cup winner with Pfadi Winterthur
• 2003/2004 Swiss Cup winner with Kadetten Schaffhausen
• 2004/2005 Swiss Cup winner with Kadetten Schaffhausen
• 2004/2005 Swiss Champion with Cadets Schaffhausen
• 2005/2006 Swiss champions with cadets Schaffhausen
• 2006/2007 Swiss Cup winner with Kadetten Schaffhausen
• 2006/2007 Swiss champions with cadets Schaffhausen
• 2006/2007 Swiss Trainer of the Year

Web links

• Goran Perkovac in handball-hall-of-fame.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eternal scorer League NLA / SHL ( Memento of 5 February 2009 at the Internet Archive ) 31, of May 2009
2. ↑ handball-world.com: Switzerland separates from national coach on July 8, 2013, accessed on July 8, 2013
3. ↑ gwd-minden.de: GWD Minden hired a new trainer on July 9, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2013
4. ↑ mt.de: Change of coach at GWD Minden - Carstens follows Perkovac from February 24, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2015
5. ↑ handball-world.com: TuS N-Lübbecke signs new coach from December 21, 2015, accessed on December 21, 2015
6. ↑ handball-world.news: HC Kriens-Luzern finds new coach from November 23, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017