RK Koper
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| Full name | Rokometni Club Koper | ||
| Founded | 1950 | ||
| Dissolved | 2013 | ||
| Club colors | Yellow blue | ||
| Hall | Sport hall Bonifika | ||
| Places | 3.164 | ||
| league | 1st Slovenian League
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| Greatest successes | |||
| National |
Slovenian Champion 2011 Slovenian Cup Winner 2008, 2009, 2011 Slovenian Supercup Winner 2009 |
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| International |
EHF Challenge Cup winner 2011 |
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RK Koper was a Slovenian handball club from Koper . RK Koper played in the 1st Slovenian league. In 2011 the men's team won the Slovenian championship for the first time in the club's history. The home arena was the Bonifika sports hall. In 2013 the association was dissolved due to financial problems
history
The handball department was founded for the 1950/51 season. For a while there were two active handball clubs in Koper: RK iplas and RK Koper. The best result of the first few years was an eighth place in the 1966/67 season. The club had to be saved financially many times, but the handball department was also dissolved several times, most recently after the 1991/92 season. After that, only a few handball enthusiasts played in the team under the then coach Igor Poklar. Later they cooperated with a primary school to promote the next generation. In the 1999/2000 season, the club won against Krim, Krško and Ptuj, qualifying for the 1st B-League, which corresponds to the German 2nd handball Bundesliga. The company Cimos has been a sponsor of the association since 2000. This contributed to the quick economic strengthening of the club. Within just two years, RK Cimos Koper became a member of the Slovenian handball elite, the 1st A-League. Since then, the club has been an important sporting and social sponsor in the region and has made Slovenian handball known throughout Europe. The club was in international business for the first time in the 2004/2005 season. There they were eliminated in the third round against Dunaferr SE in the EHF Cup . The following season they were eliminated again in the third round, this time against VfL Gummersbach . The club is also very successful in youth work, where the U-16s and U-18s won the country's national youth championship in the 2006/2007 season. In the 2006/2007 season they finished third in the national championship, which meant they took part in the EHF Cup for the third time in the 2007/2008 season and then failed in the semi-finals at FCK Håndbold . Up until then that was the best result in international business. In the same season they finished second in the league, which entitles them to participate in the EHF Champions League the following year . And you won the Slovenian Cup for the first time. In the 2008/2009 season they came second in the league and won the Slovenian Cup for the second time in a row. For the first time the Slovenian Supercup was held and won by RK Koper. In the 2008/09 Champions League they were eliminated as the last in Group E against Medvedi Chekhov , SDC San Antonio and Steaua Bucharest. The U-18 team also won the championship. The EHF Challenge Cup was the international competition in which the club participated in 2009/2010. There they were eliminated in the 4th round against the Spanish club BM Granollers . The 2010/2011 season is the most successful season so far. They became Slovenian champions for the first time, celebrated victory in the Slovenian Cup for the third time and won the EHF Challenge Cup 2010/11 .
Name change
The club also competes under the name of its sponsor Cimos (a vehicle manufacturer).
successes
- Slovenian champion:
2011 - Slovenian Cup Winner:
2008, 2009, 2011 - Slovenian Supercup winner:
2009 - Winner in the EHF Challenge Cup :
2011
Most famous current and former players
- Balázs Laluska , player for the Hungarian club KC Veszprém , played in Koper from 2009 to 2010
- Barna Putics , player for the handball Bundesliga club VfL Gummersbach , moved from FC Barcelona to Koper in 2008
- Boštjan Hribar , player at the handball Bundesliga club Eintracht Hildesheim , played for Koper from 2008 to 2009
- Denis Buntić , player for the Polish club KS Kielce
- Draško Mrvaljević , player for the Bundesliga handball team Frisch Auf Göppingen , played for Koper in 2009
- Kristijan Ljubanović , player at the Swiss club GC Amicitia Zurich
- Jure Dobelšek , current player at RK Koper, formerly RK Velenje
The seasonal balance sheets
RK Koper has played in the 1st Slovenian league for nine years.
In the Slovenian game system there is also a playoff round, where the championship is then played out.
Only the league standings are entered in the table.
| season | league | space | Games | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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| 2010/11 | 1st Slovenian League | 2. | 22nd | 736: 577 | + 159 | 42: 2 |