Women's Regional Handball League

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Women's Regional Handball League

sport Handball
abbreviation WRHL
League foundation 2008
Teams 6th
Country countries North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Macedonia Montenegro Serbia
MontenegroMontenegro
SerbiaSerbia
Title holder ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
Record champions ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica (5 ×)
Website wrhl.info

The Women's Regional Handball League (WRHL) is an international women's handball league with participants from the wider Adriatic. It was held for the first time in the 2008/09 season. Teams from Macedonia , Montenegro and Serbia are currently taking part.

Although the number of teams and their composition varies annually, the league has a consistently high level of play. The (partly former) participants include Hypo Niederösterreich (8 ×), Krim Mercator (2 ×), Podravka Vegeta , Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje and ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica (1 × each), several winners of the EHF Champions League . Furthermore, many of the former and current participants are multiple winners of the respective national championships.

ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica is the most successful team in the competition so far with five titles won.

The most successful clubs
Item society First Second Third
1 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica 5 1
2 Podravka Vegeta 1 1 1
3 RK Metalurg Skopje 2
4th Hypo Lower Austria 1 1
5 ŽRK Zaječar 1
RK GEN-I Zagorje 1
7th RK Lokomotiva Zagreb 2
8th ŽORK Jagodina 1
Country rating
Item country First Second Third
1 MontenegroMontenegro Montenegro 5 1
2 CroatiaCroatia Croatia 1 1 3
3 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Macedonia 2
4th AustriaAustria Austria 1 1
SerbiaSerbia Serbia 1 1
6th SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 1

Winners list

season Winner of the Women's Regional Handball League
2008/09 Podravka Vegeta
2009/10 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2010/11 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2011/12 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2012/13 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2013/14 ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica

Top scorer queens

season Top scorer - basic round Top Scorer - Final Four
2008/09 CroatiaCroatia Andrea Penezić n / A
2009/10 BrazilBrazil Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento BrazilBrazil Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento
2010/11 SerbiaSerbia Sanja Damnjanović SerbiaSerbia Kristina Liščević
2011/12 CroatiaCroatia Nina Jukopila
2012/13 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Mirjeta Bajramoska
2013/14 MontenegroMontenegro Đurđina Malović n / A

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