Greece national handball team

The Greece national handball team is the national handball team of Greece and is controlled by the Greek Handball Association.

Greece has long tradition in handball. First of all, Greece made it to the handball 2005 World Cup and 2004 Olympics where they beat Brazil, Korea and won a hard match against Egypt. They lost to Croatia but Croatia was an Olympic Champion of 2004 and a powerful handball team which had difficulty beating Greece, and took the 6th place. In the World Cup Greece took 6th place.

Tournament records

Olympic Games

• 2004: 6th place

World Championship

• 2005: 6th place

Current squad

The Greece international squad at the 2017 World Championship Qualification

Position	No.	Player	Date of birth	Club
GK	12	Nikolaos Loizos	(1985-07-31) 31 July 1985	AC Diomidis Argous
GK	1	Kostas Gourgoumis	(1986-07-12) 12 July 1986	Fémina Visé
GK		Kostas Tsilimparis	(1983-06-01) 1 June 1983	AEK H.C.
LW	20	Vyron Papadopoulos	(1986-02-22) 22 February 1986	HC Empor Rostock
LW	7	Christos Mylonas	(1976-06-13) 13 June 1976	AC Diomidis Argous
RW	8	Adam Papadopoulos	(1978-08-05) 5 August 1978	AC Diomidis Argous
RW	19	Christoforos Bakaoukas	(1981-04-17) 17 April 1981	AEK H.C.
CB	4	Dimitrios Tzimourtos	(1981-02-10) 10 February 1981	Eintracht Hildesheim
CB	5	Georgios Mastorogiannis	(1981-08-30) 30 August 1981	Filippos Veria
CB	3	Theodoros Megaloikonomu	(1983-08-18) 18 August 1983	AC Diomidis Argous
CB	25	Theodoros Petridis	(1986-06-16) 16 June 1986	PAOK Thessaloniki H.C.
LB	9	Spyros Balomenos	(1979-02-28) 28 February 1979	Handball Tiror
RB	6	Nikolaos Riganas	(1984-01-28) 28 January 1984	HCM Constanţa
RB	19	Alexandros Alvanos	(1980-04-09) 9 April 1980	PAOK Thessaloniki H.C.
P		Georgios Chalkidis	(1977-05-13) 13 May 1977	Wacker Thun
P		Charalampos Mallios	(1987-08-06) 6 August 1987	AC Diomidis Argous