# GRK Ohrid

GRK Ohrid (Macedonian: ГРК Охрид) is a handball club from Ohrid, North Macedonia. They compete in the domestic Macedonian Handball Super League.

## Crest, colours, supporters
### Kits

HOME :
* 2022–23
AWAY :
| 2022–23 | 2023-24 |

## History

Elektromontazha shortly EMO Ohrid was established in 1972 and for the last 30 years has been a leading Macedonian manufacturer and supplier of electro-mechanical components and systems, with design, manufacturing and installation capability.
The company had established its own Handball Club Elektromontazha Ohrid. It was one of the top clubs in the 70s and early 80s. They had won three championships back in 1977, 1978 and 1983. The club had decreased in the 90s due to the companies financial crises. It stopped working in the early 2000s. After the sports center Biljanini izvori was built, the city of Ohrid started working on re-establishing the handball club. GRK Ohrid was founded in 2011 in Ohrid as a successor of HC Elektromontazha.
In the first two seasons, they competed in the First Macedonian Handball League. The 2013–14 season was their first season in Macedonian Handball Super League, when they finished in eighth position.
Their first qualification in Play-off phase was season 2015–16, when they finished second in Regular season and fifth in play-off. Season after that they were placed third at the end, so they qualified for the 2017–18 EHF Cup qualification.
After the end of the 2023/24 season, GRK Ohrid again qualified to play for the next season in one of the European Cups, by winning the fourth place. In the 2024/25 season, it starts from the second round of the EHF European Cup, where the opponent is the team of Potaisa Turda from Romania.

## Ohrid Arena

The Biljanini Izvori Sports Arena is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The sports hall was inaugurated in August 1998 and has a capacity of 4,000 seats for handball and 4,500 for basketball. It is used by several handball and basketball teams from Ohrid. It was one of two venues used during the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship.

## Accomplishment

       Macedonian Champions
    :1977, 1978, 1983

## European record
### EHF Cup

| Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 2017-18 | R1 | KRAS/Volendam | 24–24 | 24–23 | 48–47 |
| 2017-18 | R2 | FC Porto | 20–37 | 26–44 | 44–81 |

## Team
### Current squad

    Squad for the 2024–25 season

### Transfers

    Transfers for the 2025–26 season

## Staff
### Retired numbers

| No. | Nat. | Player | Position | Tenure | Ref. |
| 97 | | Nikola Danilovski | Goalkeeper | 2019–2021 | |

## Notable former players

* Blagojče Trajkovski
* Kiril Kolev
* Milan Levov
* Toše Ončev
* Nikola Danilovski
* Mihajlo Mladenovikj
* Martin Manaskov
* Igor Čagalj
* Darko Pavlović
* Eldin Vražalica
* Lazar Adamović
* Lazar Petrović
* Aleksa Milošević
* Stefan Dodić
* Filip Grubor
* Aleksandar Milenković
* Denis Tot
* Josip Kežić
* Marko Kobetić
* Tomislav Kljaić
* Lucijan Bura
* Berin Brkić
* Dejan Šešić
* Jagoš Braunović
* Filip Krivokapić
* Balša Čejović
* Admir Pelidija
* Derviš Birdahić
* Lekso Tsitelishvili
* Zurab Tsintsadze
* Xazein Rustamov
* Jalil Machou
* Abderrahim Boudrali
* Halil Öztürk
* Eray Karakoç
* Malik Hoggas

## Notable former coaches

* Goran Andonovski
* Radoslav Stojanović