RK Pelister Bitola
| Full name | Rakometniot Club Pelister Bitola |
| Abbreviation (s) | RKP |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Club colors | Green white |
| Hall | Mladost sports hall |
| Places | 3,500 |
| president | Efto Bozinovski |
| executive Director | Goce Grozdanovski |
| Trainer | Alexander Zarkov |
| league | VIP Super League |
| 2016/17 | |
| rank | 2nd place |
| Website | rkpelister.mk |
| Greatest successes | |
| National |
Macedonian champion 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005 Macedonian cup winner 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2005 |
The RK Pelister Bitola is a North Macedonian handball club from Bitola . With RK Metalurg Skopje and RK Vardar Skopje , the club is one of the strongest teams in North Macedonia.
history
The RK Pelister Bitola was founded in 1946 under the name Pelagonia; he was the first Macedonian handball team. From the 1983/84 season Pelister took part in the 1st Yugoslav League. In the 1987/1988 season, the team reached the quarter-finals of the EHF Cup for the first time and was eliminated from the GDR against ASK forward Frankfurt . The club was the most successful Macedonian team in the 1990s, when they regularly qualified for European competitions through nine national titles. In the EHF European Cup Winners' Cup in 1995/96 , the club only just failed in the semifinals against the German representative TBV Lemgo . The greatest international success was the final participation in the EHF Challenge Cup 2001/02 against Skjern Håndbold . In 2005 the national double was won again.
successes
- Championships: 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1981, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005
- Cup winners: 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2005
- EHF Challenge Cup Finalist: 2002
Former players
- Petar Angelov
- Stefce Alusovski
- Tome Petresky
- Ivan Markovski
- Branislav Angelovski
- Boris Curlevski (Boro Curlevski)
- Pece Dimitrovski
- Zlatko Dimitrovski
- Abdullah Jusufovski
- Aco Nikolova
- Vanco Jovanovski
- Cane Krstevski
- Kiril Lazarov
- Mirza Mamedov
- Pepi Manaskov
- Vlatko Mitkov
- Naumče Mojsovski
- Dragan Marinkovic
- Petar Misovski
- Goce Makaloski
- Slobodan Nikolic
- Dusan Novokmet
- Zoran Petkovski
- Kire Popovski
- Sandor Hodik
- Zvonko Sundovski
- Stevce Stefanovski
- Rade Stojanovic
- Vladimir Temelkov
- Bilal Suman
- Danijel Vukicevic
- Dejan Uncanin
- Adem Vukas
- Dinko Vule
- Samir Sarac
- Mladen Cacic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sid: Tumults after the handball semifinals in Macedonia Lemgo continues despite a scandalous game . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 1, 1996, ISSN 0174-4909 , p. 32 .
- ↑ Peter ELSNAB: Skjern vandt Challenge Cup i håndbold. In: jyllands-posten.dk. Jyllands-Posten , April 28, 2002, accessed April 23, 2019 (Danish).