RK Bjelovar
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| Full name | Rukometni Club Bjelovar | ||
| Founded | 1955 | ||
| Club colors | blue White | ||
| Hall | Školsko-sportska dvorana Bjelovar | ||
| Places | 1,500 | ||
| president | Dinko Tandara | ||
| Trainer | Željko Vidaković | ||
| league | 1. HRL
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| Website | rkbjelovar.hr/ | ||
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| Greatest successes | |||
| National |
Yugoslavian champion 1958, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979 Yugoslav Cup Winner |
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| International |
Champions League winner 1972 |
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RK Bjelovar is a Croatian handball club from Bjelovar . The first team plays in the first Croatian league. The club also played under the name Partizan Bjelovar .
history
From two clubs founded in the early 1950s, Slavs and a school team, the Partizan Bjelovar club was formed in 1955. In 1957, the club rose to the first Yugoslav league for the first time and became champions in the first season. This marked the beginning of a great era; the club was champion eight more times by 1980.
Successes were also achieved on the European stage: If Partizan Bjelovar failed in the first attempt in a continental competition in 1958 in the first round at Dinamo Bucharest , he reached the final three years later, which he lost against Frisch Auf Göppingen . At this event, Partizan was the first club from Yugoslavia that was allowed to contest a final outside the national borders. As a result, Partizan regularly took part in European competitions. In the EHF Champions League final in 1972 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle , they beat the big favorites VfL Gummersbach 19:14. A year later they failed again in the final at MAI Moscow .
With the penultimate place in the 1979/80 season, Partizan Bjelovar was relegated after 22 years from the House of Lords and could not build on the successes of previous years for a long time.
After the civil war in Croatia in 1991, the club was renamed RK Bjelovar. The handball club from Bjelovar played in the lower regions of the Croatian league for another sixteen years, before being promoted to the first division in the 2007/08 season.
Known players
- Hrvoje Horvat
- Albin Vidović
- Vladimir Smiljanić-Babura
- Miroslav Pribanić
- Zvonimir Serdarušić
- David Špiler
- Boris Bradic
- Pavle Jurina
- Mirko Bašić
- Željko Vidaković
Well-known trainers
Club successes
championship
- Yugoslavia: 1957/58, 1960/61, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1971/72, 1976/77, 1978/79
- Yugoslav runner-up: 7 times
European competitions
- Champions League winner: 1971/72
- Champions League semi-finals: 1967/68, 1970/71
- European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals: 1976/77