KH Trepça is a handball team based Mitrovica, Kosovo.^[1][2] KH Trepça competes in the Kosovar Superliga and Cup. Their home ground is the Minatori Sports Hall which has a capacity for 3,000 people.

History

KH Trepça was founded in 1950 in Mitrovicë. They competed in the Yugoslav regional campionship of Kosovo and in the second Yugoslav League. During the Yugoslav era they won the Regional Championship three times.^[3] KH Trepça reached the Yugoslav First League in the 1979–80 season and were the first Kosovan club to achieve this huge success.^[4] In 1991, KH Trepça like many other Kosovan clubs left the Yugoslav handball league system because Kosovo proclaimed independence from Serbia and they started competing in the Superliga. Trepça won the Kosovar Superliga in 1994 and 2001. In addition to that, Trepça won the Kosovar Cup in 1994, 2002 and 2023.

Titles

• Yugoslav Regional Championship:
  • Winners (3): 1968, 1975, 1990
• Superliga :
  • Winners (2): 1994, 2001
• Kosovo Cup:
  • Winners (3): 1994, 2002, 2023

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2017–18	EHF Challenge Cup	R3	AHC Potaissa Turda	19-35	30-40	49-75
2021–22	EHF Challenge Cup	R1	HC Holon	22-29	25-37	47-66
2022–23	EHF Challenge Cup	R2	RK Vogošća	27-27	30-31	57-58

EHF ranking

As of 26/10/2023^[5]

Rank	Team	Points
182	SG Handball West Wien	16
183	HSG Wetzlar	16
184	RK Dubrava	16
185	Mors-Thy Håndbold	16
186	KH Trepça	16
187	RK Sloga Doboj	16
188	HC Erlangen	16
189	VfL Gummersbach	15
190	RK Radnički Kragujevac	15

Notable players

• Aziz Makiqi
• Basri Tupella
• Sali Maxhera
• Deniz Terziqi
• Lulzim Shabani
• Atdhe Basholli
• Yassine Henahem
• Yassine Ben Jouida

See also

• KB Trepça (basketball)
• KF Trepça (football)

References

External links

• KH Trepça on Instagram