Spain men's national handball team

Spain
Information
Nickname	Hispanos
Association	Royal Spanish Handball Federation
Coach	Jordi Ribera
Assistant coach	César Montes Ignacio Torrrescusa
Captain	Gedeón Guardiola
Most caps	Raúl Entrerríos (294)
Most goals	Juanín García (822)
Colours
Home File:Kit left arm grayborder.png File:Kit right arm grayborder.png Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	10 (First in 1972)
Best result	3rd (1996, 2000, 2008, 2020)
World Championship
Appearances	22 (First in 1958)
Best result	1st (2005, 2013)
European Handball Championship
Appearances	15 (First in 1994)
Best result	1st (2018, 2020)
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Spain men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	Team
	2000 Sydney	Team
	2008 Beijing	Team
	2020 Tokyo	Team
World Championship
	2005 Tunisia
	2013 Spain
	2011 Sweden
	2021 Egypt
	2023 Poland/Sweden
European Championship
	2018 Croatia
	2020 Sweden/Austria/Norway
	1996 Spain
	1998 Italy
	2006 Switzerland
	2016 Poland
	2022 Hungary/Slovakia
	2000 Croatia
	2014 Denmark

File:Jornada de las Estrellas de Balonmano 2013 - Selección masculina de España - 01.jpg

Spain national handball team in 2013.

The Spain national handball team is governed by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation. Spain is one of the most successful handball teams in the world, having won two World Championships. They are also the only team, besides Sweden, to have successfully defended a European Championship title, having won in 2018 and 2020. As of January 2021, they are reigning double defending European Champions.

Honours

Competition				Total
Olympic Games	0	0	4	4
World Championship	2	0	3	5
European Championship	2	5	2	9
Total	4	5	9	18

Competitive record

     Champions       Runners-up       Third place       Fourth place  

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 15th place	15th of 16	5	1	0	4	82	89	−7
1976 Montreal	did not qualify
1980 Moscow	Match for 5th place	5th of 12	6	3	1	2	126	129	−3
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	0	4	122	124	−2
1988 Seoul	Match for 9th place	9th of 12	6	3	0	3	122	121	+1
1992 Barcelona	Match for 5th place	5th of 12	6	4	0	2	133	119	+14
1996 Atlanta	Third place	3rd of 12	7	5	0	2	161	147	+14
2000 Sydney	Third place	3rd of 12	8	5	0	3	222	206	+16
2004 Athens	Match for 7th place	7th of 12	8	5	0	3	242	222	+20
2008 Beijing	Third place	3rd of 12	8	5	0	3	246	234	+12
2012 London	Quarter-finals	7th of 12	6	3	0	3	162	159	+3
2016 Rio de Janeiro	did not qualify
2020 Tokyo	Third place	3rd of 12	8	6	0	2	245	233	+12
Total	11/14	0 Titles	74	42	1	31	1,853	1,783	+80

World Championship

Year	Position	Pld	W	D	L
1938	did not enter
1954
1958	12th	3	1	0	2
1961	did not enter
1964
1967
1970
1974	13th	3	1	0	2
1978	10th	3	1	0	2
1982	8th	6	3	1	2
1986	5th	6	2	2	2
1990	5th	6	4	0	2
1993	5th	6	3	1	2
1995	11th	6	4	0	2
1997	7th	7	5	1	1
1999	4th	9	7	0	2
2001	5th	9	7	0	2
2003	4th	9	7	0	2
2005		10	8	1	1
2007	7th	10	6	0	4
2009	13th	9	6	0	3
2011		10	8	1	1
2013		9	8	0	1
2015	4th	9	7	0	2
2017	5th	7	6	0	1
/ 2019	7th	9	6	0	3
2021		9	7	1	1
/ 2023		9	7	0	2
// 2025	to be determined
2027
Total	22/27	164	114	8	42

European Championship

Final tournament							Qualification
Year	Position	Pld	W	D	L		Position	Pld	W	D	L
1994	5th	5	3	0	2		1st	8	7	0	1
1996		7	5	0	2		Directly qualified
1998		7	5	1	1		2nd	6	3	1	2
2000		7	5	0	2			2	2	0	0
2002	7th	6	3	1	2		Directly qualified
2004	10th	6	2	0	4			2	2	0	0
2006		8	6	1	1			2	1	1	0
2008	9th	6	3	0	3		Directly qualified
2010	6th	7	4	1	2		1st	8	7	0	1
2012	4th	8	5	1	2		2nd	6	4	0	2
2014		8	6	0	2		1st	6	6	0	0
2016		8	5	1	2		1st	6	5	0	1
2018		8	6	0	2		1st	6	6	0	0
2020		9	8	1	0		Directly qualified
2022		9	7	0	2		Directly qualified
2024	qualified						Directly qualified
2026	TBD						TBD
2028	Qualified as co-host						Qualified as co-host
Total	16/18	100	66	7	27

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Jordi Ribera

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas (1991-01-10) 10 January 1991 1.89 m 153 15 Barça 4 P Iñaki Peciña (1988-05-31) 31 May 1988 2.00 m 38 22 Pays d'Aix UC 5 RB Jorge Maqueda (1988-02-06) 6 February 1988 1.97 m 181 460 HBC Nantes 6 LW Ángel Fernández Pérez (1988-09-16) 16 September 1988 1.93 m 101 301 Limoges Handball 10 RB Alex Dujshebaev (1992-12-17) 17 December 1992 1.88 m 129 366 Industria Kielce 12 GK Rodrigo Corrales (1991-01-24) 24 January 1991 2.00 m 111 4 Telekom Veszprém 14 RW Ferran Solé (1992-08-25) 25 August 1992 1.93 m 89 347 Paris Saint-Germain 17 P Adrià Figueras (1988-08-31) 31 August 1988 1.93 m 109 293 C' Chartres MHB 18 RB Imanol Garciandia (1995-04-30) 30 April 1995 2.01 m 26 58 OTP Bank-Pick Szeged 20 P Abel Serdio (1994-04-16) 16 April 1994 1.95 m 20 42 Orlen Wisła Płock 21 LB Joan Cañellas (1986-09-30) 30 September 1986 1.98 m 217 529 Kadetten Schaffhausen 25 CB Agustín Casado (1996-05-21) 21 May 1996 1.90 m 19 56 MT Melsungen 30 P Gedeón Guardiola (1984-10-01) 1 October 1984 1.98 m 184 213 TBV Lemgo 31 CB Pol Valera Rovira (1998-09-19) 19 September 1998 1.87 m 10 14 BM Granollers 36 CB Ian Tarrafeta (1999-01-04) 4 January 1999 1.88 m 30 69 Pays d'Aix UC 51 LW Miguel Sánchez-Migallón (1995-02-08) 8 February 1995 2.02 m 27 20 Industria Kielce 59 LB Daniel Dujshebaev (1997-07-04) 4 July 1997 1.97 m 60 124 Industria Kielce 62 RW Kauldi Odriozola (1997-01-07) 7 January 1997 1.83 m 36 112 HBC Nantes 70 LW Daniel Fernández (2001-03-28) 28 March 2001 1.76 m 12 35 TVB 1898 Stuttgart

Individual records

• Bold denotes players still playing international handball.

Most capped players

#	Player	Matches
1	Raúl Entrerríos	294
2	David Barrufet	280
3	José Javier Hombrados	260
4	Viran Morros	252
5	Lorenzo Rico	245
6	Juan Francisco Muñoz	243
7	Alberto Entrerríos	240
8	Mateo Garralda	233
9	Eugenio Serrano	231
10	Javier Cabanas	228

Top scorers

#	Player	Goals
1	Juanín García	822
2	Iker Romero	753
3	Alberto Entrerríos	726
4	Juan Francisco Muñoz	701
5	Raúl Entrerríos	681
6	Enric Masip	656
7	Eugenio Serrano	622
8	Albert Rocas	599
9	Mateo Garralda	593
10	Talant Dujshebaev	569

External links

• IHF profile