HC Vardar PRO - Skopje
| РК Вардар RK Vardar |
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| Full name | Ракометен клуб Вардар Скопје (Rakometen klub Vardar Skopje) |
| Founded | 1961 |
| Arena | Jane Sandanski Arena |
| Capacity | 6.500 |
| President | Sergey Samsonenko |
| Head coach | Raúl González |
| League | VIP Super League |
| 2016/2017 | 1st |
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Website Official site |
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RK Vardar (HC Vardar) (Macedonian: РК Вардар) is a handball club from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The team is current EHF Champions League and regional SEHA League title holder. Vardar is the most successful team in the country having won eleven Macedonian League titles and twelve Macedonian Cups.
RK Vardar was founded in 1961, as part of the Vardar Sports Club in Skopje, which had been founded in 1947. The handball team rose to power in the late 1990s becoming one of the two clubs (RK Pelister being the other) to dominate the Macedonian handball scene after the independence of the country.
They have participated in the EHF Champions League five times and made it to the semifinals of the Cup Winner's Cup three times. Except for 2005, when they came in 4th place, the club has achieved either championship or runner-up in the Macedonian Super League during the past decade since 1999. They achieved a record winner of the Macedonian handball championship by winning their eleventh title in 2017 and are the recent record cup winner with twelve. On 15 April 2012, Vardar defeated Metalurg at the Zagreb Arena to become the first SEHA League champion.
The season 2016–17 was the most successful for the team because they managed to win the EHF Champions League and the regional SEHA League including the two main domestic championships, the Macedonian Handball Super League and the Macedonian Handball Cup. Two days after winning the EHF Champions League the team arrived in Macedonia and celebrated the victory with approximately 150,000 people with central ceremony on the Macedonia Square in Skopje. Because of the huge success, the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorgje Ivanov, awarded the members of the handball club Vardar with a Medal of Merit for the results they achieved, especially for winning the Champions League title. The club was awarded with the Charter of the Republic of Macedonia.
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