Krim Mercator will add a new right wing in the 2024/25 season. Only 17-year-old Austrian Philomena Egger has pledged her allegiance to the Ljubljana club until 2027.
HC Krim Mercator is strengthening its ranks ahead of the start of the 2024/25 season. Head coach Dragan Adžić will be able to count on Hawa N’Diaye, a new reinforcement at the pivot position, who has pledged her allegiance to the Ljubljana club until 2026, for the 30th consecutive season of the Krim family in the elite EHF Champions League.
Amra Pandžić, an experienced goalkeeper and a regular member of the Slovenian national team, is returning to Ljubljana after playing abroad for several years. She started her rich handball career in the Krim family and now she will rejoin the Tigresses and contribute to the success of Adžić’s team next season.
Krim Mercator will enter the new season stronger at left wing. Adžić’s team will be strengthened by Swiss-born Spanish international Jennifer Gutiérrez Bermejo, who is moving to Ljubljana from Romanian side CSM Bucuresti.
The handball players of Krim Mercator had already theoretically secured the title of national champions a few days ago. More precisely, on Sunday, 28 April, on the road in Ajdovščina. But they had to wait until the end for the trophy. Until the last game. Until Wednesday, 15 May, when they celebrated their 29th national championship title in the club’s history in Stožice.
On Sunday, 24 March 2024, the players of Krim Mercator concluded their season among the European handball elite. With a 30:24 defeat against CSM Bucuresti, they finished the competition in the EHF Champions League Play-Off.
Expectations before the season were high, so the Krim family didn’t hide their hopes before the first EHF Champions League Play-Off game against CSM Bucuresti. 24:30 for the away team at Arena Stožice. However, nothing has been decided yet. The ticket for the quarter-finals of Europe’s most elite club competition will be awarded next Sunday, when Krim Mercator’s handball players will be away in the Romanian capital.
The Krim family is getting even stronger. After it became clear that Ana Gros, Grace Zaadi Deuma and Tamara Horaček will move to Ljubljana next season, another Slovenian player will return to the Tigers. Ana Abina, who is the left back player, has pledged her allegiance to the best Slovenian women’s handball club for two seasons.
On Saturday, 17 February, at around 19:30, it became clear that the Krim Mercator handball players had clinched their place in the EHF Champions League Play-Offs for the fourth season in a row! Less than 24 hours later, they had won the next round of Europe’s most elite club competition. They will be the handball players of CSM Bucuresti from Romania.
The players of Krim Mercator qualified for the EHF Champions League Play-offs. On Saturday in Stožice, they did not allow any surprises and secured their place in the next round of Europe’s most elite club competition with a 32:19 victory over Zaglebie Lubina. At least one more handball spectacle is coming to Ljubljana next month!