Greece
Information
Association	Hellenic Handball Federation
Coach	Georgios Zaravinas
Captain	Charalampos Mallios
Most caps	Georgios Chalkidis (220)
Most goals	Savvas Karypidis (930)
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	1 (First in 2004)
Best result	6th (2004)
World Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2005)
Best result	6th (2005)
European Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2024)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Greece national handball team is the national handball team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Handball Federation.

Greece has a long tradition in handball. First of all, Greece made it to the handball 2005 World Cup and the 2004 Olympics where they beat Brazil, Korea and won against Egypt in a close game. In the Olympics they lost to eventual champions Croatia, and finished sixth in the tournament. In the World Cup they finished in the sixth position as well. Greece will take part in the EHF Euro for the very first time in 2024.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Olympic record
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1936 Berlin	did not qualify
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	did not qualify
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens	Quarter-finals	6th place	8	3	0	5	188	220
2008 Beijing	did not qualify
2012 London
2016 Rio de Janeiro
2020 Tokyo
Total	1/14	–	8	3	0	5	188	220

World Championships

World Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	did not qualify
1954
1958
1961
1964
1967
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005	Quarter-finals	6th place	9	4	1	4	245	246
2007	did not qualify
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
/ 2019
2021
/ 2023
// 2025	to be determined
2027
Total	1/30	–	9	4	1	4	245	246

European Championships

European Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	did not qualify
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024	Qualified
2026	To be determined
2028
Total	1/18

Current squad

The squad for the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship in Germany.^[1]

Head coach: Georgios Zaravinas

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 5 CB Dimitrios Panagiotou (2004-05-21)21 May 2004 (aged 19) 1.82 m 8 14 ASE Douka 6 LB Theodoros Boskos (2001-04-07)7 April 2001 (aged 22) 1.90 m 20 48 BM Puente Genil 8 P Nikolaos Liapis (1999-08-24)24 August 1999 (aged 24) 1.93 m 29 52 AEK Athens 11 CB Charalampos Mallios (1987-08-06)6 August 1987 (aged 36) 1.84 m 70 206 AEK Athens 12 GK Eleftherios Papazoglou (1997-07-03)3 July 1997 (aged 26) 1.92 m 2 0 AC PAOK 13 P Stefanos Michailidis (1994-05-15)15 May 1994 (aged 29) 2.00 m 27 16 Olympiacos 14 LB Nikolaos Passias (1995-02-17)17 February 1995 (aged 28) 1.92 m 52 68 Olympiacos 15 RB Achilleas Toskas (2004-10-01)1 October 2004 (aged 19) 1.91 m 12 44 Bianco Monte Drama 16 GK Petros Boukovinas (1994-03-08)8 March 1994 (aged 29) 1.88 m 62 12 TV Großwallstadt 18 LW Georgios Papavasilis (2000-07-31)31 July 2000 (aged 23) 1.82 m 23 14 Olympiacos 19 P Panagiotis Karampourniotis (1998-02-20)20 February 1998 (aged 25) 1.96 m 26 25 Olympiacos 20 RB Athanasios Papazoglou (2002-01-28)28 January 2002 (aged 21) 1.92 m 7 8 AC PAOK 21 RW Dimitrios Tziras (1991-04-05)5 April 1991 (aged 32) 1.90 m 81 296 Olympiacos 24 CB Petros Kandylas (1991-02-28)28 February 1991 (aged 32) 1.97 m 59 52 Olympiacos 28 P Anastasios Papadionysiou (1990-08-11)11 August 1990 (aged 33) 1.90 m 81 117 AEK Athens 38 RW Evangelos Arampatzis (1996-08-04)4 August 1996 (aged 27) 1.84 m 43 80 AEK Athens 40 GK Panagiotis Papantonopoulos (2001-10-02)2 October 2001 (aged 22) 1.90 m 19 0 Olympiacos 77 LB Savvas Savvas (1997-07-07)7 July 1997 (aged 26) 1.92 m 8 33 Olympiacos 99 LW Christos Kederis (1994-04-29)29 April 1994 (aged 29) 1.69 m 18 29 AEK Athens

References

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile