RK Našice
Full name | Rukometni club Nexe Našice | ||
Founded | 5th October 1959 | ||
Club colors | white-green | ||
Hall | Sportska dvorana kralja Tomislava | ||
Places | 2,500 | ||
president | Josip Ergović | ||
Trainer | Hrvoje Horvat | ||
league |
Premijer Liga SEHA-Liga |
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2017/18 | |||
rank | 2nd place 8th place |
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Nat. Cup | final | ||
International | Quarter final EHF Cup | ||
Website | rknexe.hr | ||
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RK Našice is a handball club from the Croatian city of Našice . The first team plays in the first Croatian league, as well as in the newly established transnational SEHA league . A previous name of the club is RK Partizan . Since 2009 it has been called RK NEXE Našice .
history
The history of handball in Našice began in 1956 when this sport was tried out for the first time in the grammar school. Three years later an association was officially founded under the name "RK Partizan". After the first official game against "RK Polet" in 1960, a "night game" was played in April of the same year on the town square, which had previously been freshly paved. The game was very popular with the audience.
Since the 2008/09 season, the RK Našice has always been runner-up behind the RK Zagreb . When he first participated in the SEHA League in 2011/12, he narrowly missed the play-offs in fifth. In 2012/13 they only came in seventh.
The club made its international debut in the EHF Cup in 2008/09. Since then he has taken part in this competition every season and reached the second round in 2011/12, where after a 31:33 defeat at SC Magdeburg they won the second leg at home with just 22:21. In 2017/18 they made it to the quarter-finals of the EHF Cup. In the first leg you could defeat the eventual winner the Füchse Berlin with 28:20 as the second leg was lost with 16:25 you just missed the place in the final four.
Well-known current and former players
- Šime Ivić (current)
- Franjo Lelić (current)
- Marko Mrđenović (act.)
- Alen Blažević (until 2011)
- Nikola Kedžo (until 2012)
- Robert Markotić (until 2013)
- Sandro Obranović (until 2013)
- Ivan Slišković (until 2013)
- David Špiler (until 2017)
- Mate Šunjić (until 2013)
- Can Çelebi (until 2015)
Web links
- official page
- RK Našice in the database of the European Handball Federation