Super League (Serbia)

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Super League

Current season 2018/19
sport Handball
League foundation 2006
Country countries Serbia
Title holder RK Vojvodina
Record champions RK Vojvodina (6)
Qualification too EHF Champions League
EHF-Pokal
EHF Challenge Cup
SEHA-Liga

The Super League is the first handball league in Serbia. The league is run by the Handball Federation of Serbia and was founded in 2006 after the state of Serbia and Montenegro collapsed and the then Super League was dissolved.

mode

The first round of the competition is played by all teams, with the exception of the two participants in the SEHA league . A total of 12 clubs play for a place in the championship round in 22 rounds. The four best teams from the first round as well as the two participants in the SEHA league qualify for the championship round. The six teams then play for the championship title on ten match days.

The two worst-placed teams in the preliminary round are relegated to the second-class handball league of Serbia.

master

team title Years
RK Vojvodina 7th 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
RK Partizan Belgrade 3 2009, 2011, 2012
RK Red Star Belgrade 2 2007, 2008
RK Kolubara 1 2010

Cup winners

team title Years
RK Partizan Belgrade 4th 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013
RK Vojvodina 3 2011, 2015, 2019
RK Kolubara 2 2009, 2010
RK Železničar Niš 2 2014, 2018
Metaloplastika Šabac 1 2016
RK Red Star Belgrade 1 2017

Supercup

team title Years
RK Vojvodina 5 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
RK Partizan Belgrade 3 2009, 2011, 2012
RK Red Star Belgrade 1 2017
  • In 2010 the Supercup was not held because Kolubara won the double.

History 1953-2006

The first championship of Yugoslavia in a "small handball" (at that time big handball was still played) was held in 1953 as a tournament in Virovitica. The first master was Prvomajska Zagreb. From the 1957/58 season to 1991 the first Bundesliga was formed, which was played in the double league system (with two games each, home and away). The record champions were the Croatian team Partizan Bjelovar, now RK Bjelovar . The record cup winner is the Bosnian team Borac Banja Luka. The cup was held from 1955 to 1992.

Most successful teams 1953–1992

team nation title master Cup winners
RK Borac Banja Luka Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina 17th 1959, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981 1957, 1958, 1961, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1992
Metaloplastika Šabac SerbiaSerbia 12 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
RK Bjelovar CroatiaCroatia 12 1958, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979 1960, 1968, 1976
RK Medveščak Zagreb CroatiaCroatia 10 1953, 1954, 1964, 1966 1970, 1978, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1990
RK Zagreb CroatiaCroatia 8th 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1989, 1991 1962, 1991
RK Red Star Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 3 1955, 1956 1956
RK Crvenka SerbiaSerbia 3 1969 1967, 1988
RK Železničar Niš SerbiaSerbia 3 1977, 1982, 1985.
RK Partizan Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 3 1959, 1966, 1971

1992-2006

The first league of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in handball was the highest handball league in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was founded in 1992 after the break-up of the SFR of Yugoslavia and the dissolution of the former First League of Yugoslavia. In 2003 it was renamed the First League of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2006 it was dissolved after the collapse of the common state of Serbia and Montenegro. Partizan Belgrade was the most successful team with six championship titles and four cup wins.

team nation title master Cup winners
RK Partizan Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 10 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2003, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001,
RK Red Star Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 8th 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2006 1995, 1996, 2004
RK Lovćen Cetinje MontenegroMontenegro 4th 2000, 2001 2002, 2003
RK Vojvodina SerbiaSerbia 3 2005 2005, 2006
RK Železničar Niš SerbiaSerbia 2 1997, 1999
RK Proleter Zrenjanin SerbiaSerbia 1 1992
RK Sintelon SerbiaSerbia 1 2000

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