Fixtures

North Macedonia Superleague 04/21 17:00 10 Охрид 2013 vs Еврофарм Пелистер - View
North Macedonia Superleague 04/28 14:00 11 HC Tineks Prolet vs Еврофарм Пелистер - View
North Macedonia Superleague 05/05 14:00 12 Еврофарм Пелистер vs Тиквеш 2014 - View
North Macedonia Superleague 05/26 14:00 13 HC Struga vs Еврофарм Пелистер - View
North Macedonia Superleague 06/02 14:00 14 Еврофарм Пелистер vs РК Алкалоид - View

Results

North Macedonia Superleague 04/13 16:00 9 Еврофарм Пелистер v Бутел W 30-22
North Macedonia Superleague 04/09 16:00 8 ХК Вардар v Еврофарм Пелистер L 24-20
North Macedonia Superleague 04/06 16:00 7 РК Алкалоид v Еврофарм Пелистер W 25-35
North Macedonia Superleague 03/30 17:00 6 Еврофарм Пелистер v HC Struga W 34-23
Macedonia Cup 03/23 11:30 - Еврофарм Пелистер v Kumanovo HC W 40-21
North Macedonia Superleague 03/09 18:00 5 Тиквеш 2014 v Еврофарм Пелистер W 21-24
Шампионска Лига 03/06 17:45 14 [7] Колстад v Еврофарм Пелистер [8] L 34-27
North Macedonia Superleague 03/02 17:00 4 Еврофарм Пелистер v HC Tineks Prolet W 32-29
Шампионска Лига 02/28 19:45 13 [8] Еврофарм Пелистер v Олборг Хандболд [2] L 28-33
North Macedonia Superleague 02/25 17:00 3 Еврофарм Пелистер v Охрид 2013 W 31-27
Шампионска Лига 02/22 17:45 12 [2] ТХВ Кил v Еврофарм Пелистер [8] L 29-23
North Macedonia Superleague 02/17 17:00 2 Бутел v Еврофарм Пелистер W 24-28

Wikipedia - RK Eurofarm Pelister

RK Eurofarm Pelister (HC Eurofarm Pelister) (Macedonian: РК Еурофарм Пелистер) is a handball club from Bitola, North Macedonia. They currently compete in the Macedonian Handball Super League and EHF Champions League.

History

The original team was the first handball club in Macedonia, formed in 1946 under the name Pelagonija. It later changed its name to Pelister in 1955. The 60s were very successful, winning 4 championships starting in 1960 till the last one in 1969. The club ended up winning three more titles in the 70s. In the 80s, the 1981 season was the last winning season, capturing their 8th Macedonian league title. From the 1983-84 season, Pelister began to participate regularly in the Yugoslav Handball Championship. They finished in third place in 1985 and were runners-up in back-to-back seasons (1986–87 and 1987–88) behind the dominant club Metaloplastika Šabac. Around that time the slogan "He who hasn't played in Bitola doesn't know what real support looks like" gained popularity, being uttered by the likes of Vlado Šola, Lino Červar and Zlatan Saračević. Pelister became the first Macedonian club to play in Europe. In 1986 they defeated AS Filippos Veriasand in the 1st round, but they ended up losing in 1/8 finals from Atlético Madrid BM winning 24:19 at home and 10:19 away (34:38) aggregate. In the 1988/1989 season they reached the EHF Cup quarterfinal, eliminating SPE Strovolos Nicosia, HC Banik and finally losing out to German club ASK Vorwärts. The first leg in Bitola was won by six goals, but the second leg in Berlin resulted in a loss by seven points 22:16 and 13:22 (35:38). When the Macedonian Handball Super League was formed in 1992, Pelister became the most successful club in the country, winning five league titles and five Cups that decade. In 1996, they made it to the semi-finals of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup where they lost on aggregate by one goal to the eventual champion TBV Lemgo. A record, 7,000 spectators were in attendance for the rematch in Bitola. Another proof of Pelisters' dominance at the time, seven players on Macedonia's squad at the 1999 World Men's Handball Championship in Egypt played for the club.

The club's most successful European run was made during the 2001/02 season when they played in the EHF Challenge Cup. First, they started by beating Zilant Kazan in the 3rd round and advanced to round 4, where they went on to defeat Paris Saint-Germain. In the quarterfinal they got past GAS Kilkis 52-51, setting up a semifinal match-up with Frederiksberg IF. Pelister would go on to win that tie in dramatic fashion in Bitola, when Naumče Mojsovski scored a goal in the final seconds of the game to even the score on aggregate, going through on a penalty shootout by the final score of 61-60. In the final, Pelister lost to Skjern Håndbold, but even in that match-up they still ended up winning the home game by 7 goals. Proving yet again that it was no easy task for any road team to win in Bitola.

In 2005, Trifun Kostovski with Kometal became sponsor of the club bringing back the glory days, winning another double crown and capturing its sixth domestic league title, which was a record at the time. However, the success was short lived as Kometal left following that season. Afterwards, Pelister was marred by financial problems and struggled to achieve the same level of success.

On 29 November 2019, a joint ownership was signed by the owners of RK Eurofarm Rabotnik (which was formed in 2011 and owned by Eurofarm) and RK Pelister (owned by Bitola Municipality). According to the platform, RK Eurofarm Rabotnik would change the name to Eurofarm Pelister, and the original RK Pelister would change its name to Eurofarm Pelister 2. Eurofarm Pelister will be the leading club with high European ambitions, while Eurofarm Pelister 2 will be a developmental club filled with young handball players from Bitola and all of Macedonia. The combination of a strong sponsor and a sports brand known throughout the former Yugoslavia took final shape through an agreement with the city administration in 2020. Eurofarm Pelister has already surpassed the domestic framework, played in the EHF Champions League and set the contours of a team that could return trophies back to "Boro Čurlevski" arena. This was officially accomplished in May 2023, when they were crowned Macedonian Super League champions for the first time in 18 years.