The handball players of Krim Mercator have discovered their opponents for the group stage of the 2023/24 EHF Champions League. The Tigresses will embark on their journey in the European handball elite for the 29th consecutive season, starting in Group B. Their first challenge awaits them on September 9th or 10th.
Itana Grbić, Tamara Mavsar, Maja Vojnovič, Nina Zulič and Tatjana Brnović, the handball players who will be changing their club before the new season, stopped in Ljubljana before their well-deserved summer break.
Before the official end of the 2022/2023 season, the players of Krim Mercator won the double crown in the domestic competitions. They won both the national championship and the cup competition.
After finishing the European season, the Krim family has already turned its thoughts to the new one, when a strong team will once again be the key to achieving its ambitious goals. The club will strengthen its ranks with five new handball players, including Itana Grbić, Nina Zulić, Maja Vojnovič, Tamara Mavsar and Tatjana Brnović, while the management has extended contracts with six more players.
Unfortunately, the handball players of Krim Mercator failed to solve the Romanian puzzle once again. In the second leg of the EHF Champions League play-off, they lost 29:24 against CS Rapid Bucuresti and thus ended their European journey. The total score of the two games was 53:54.
Krim Mercator’s handball players won the first match of the EHF Champions League Women play-off! With loud support from the stands of Ljubljana’s Stožice, the Tigers brought Romanian CS Rapid Bucuresti to their knees with a final score of 29:24 on Sunday, March 19, and are thus one step closer to the quarterfinals of the most elite handball competition on European soil!
The handball players of Krim Mercator qualified for the play-offs of the EHF Champions League! With an important victory (28:26) over the great CSM Bucuresti, the Tigers managed to win a ticket among the top 12 teams in Europe for the second season in a row! Jovanka Radičević and Tjaša Stanko were in the best mood in the blue jersey at Sunday’s match, with seven goals each.
Unfortunately, Krim Mercator’s handball players did not succeed against Vipers Kristiansand for the tenth time in a row. The current European champions were better in the 13th round of the EHF Champions League with a final score of 36:31. There is only one more chance for the Krim to break through to the continuation of the most elite European club competition. On Sunday, February 12, at 2 p.m. in Arena Stožice.
Krim Mercator’s handball players achieved their second consecutive domestic European victory! On Sunday, February 22, in the hall under Rožnik, they overcame Czech Banik Most with a final score of 42:31. The heroes of the victory were Daria Dmitrieva and Jovanka Radičević with nine goals, and Barbara Arenhart and Jovana Risović, who collected a total of 19 saves!
It didn’t work out for the third time in a row. After two important victories among the European handball elite, Krim Mercator’s handball players visited Hungary’s Ferencváros on Saturday, January 14. The hosts, who gained a decisive advantage already in the first half, ended up winning 37:26, thus ending the streak of two consecutive victories of the Tigresses.
