Montenegrin Men's Handball Cup

The Montenegrin Men's Handball Cup (Montenegrin: Rukometni Kup Crne Gore) is an elimination handball tournament held annually. It is the second most important national title in Montenegrin handball after the Montenegrin First League.

It has been held annually since Montenegrin independence in 2006.

History

Montenegrin clubs in Yugoslav Cup

Before Montenegrin independence, clubs from that Republic played in national handball Cup of Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro. Most successful was RK Lovćen with two trophies won.
First time, Lovćen won the trophy at final-four 2002 in Vršac, defeating RK Sintelon (19:18) in the final. Year later, Lovćen won the final four in Belgrade (final match against RK Partizan - 28:28).
Below is a list of Yugoslav Cup trophies won by Montenegrin clubs.

Montenegrin Cup (2006-)

Except Montenegrin First League of Men's Handball as a top-tier league competition, after the independence, Handball Federation of Montenegro established Montenegrin Cup as a second elite national tournament. Inaugural season of Montenegrin Cup was 2006-07, and by now most successful was RK Lovćen with 7 titles. One title won RK Berane, RK Sutjeska and RK Boka.

Competition

Tournament format

There are two phases of Montenegrin Men's Handball Cup. First, there are two elimination phases - 1st leg and the quarterfinals.
Winners of quarterfinals are participating in the second phase - Final tournament, which held on the Montenegrin Independence Day - May 21.

Final four

Traditional event, Final tournament of Montenegrin Cup, every year is organising on 20/21 May. During the first day, there are two Semi-finals, and final match is playing on the Independence Day.

Until today, hosts of Montenegrin Cup Final tournament were cities Cetinje (4), Danilovgrad (3) , Pljevlja (1), Budva (1) and Tivat (1).

Participants

During the history, 11 different clubs played at the Final tournament of Montenegrin Handball Cup. Below is the list of participants on every Final tournament.

• 2006/07: RK Berane, RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Mornar Bar, RK Cepelin Cetinje
• 2007/08: RK Sutjeska Nikšić, RK Berane, RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Mornar Bar
• 2008/09: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Budućnost Podgorica, RK Mojkovac, RK Berane
• 2009/10: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Sutjeska Nikšić, RK Budućnost Podgorica, RK Budvanska rivijera Budva
• 2010/11: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Mojkovac, RK Rudar Pljevlja, RK Sutjeska Nikšić
• 2011/12: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Mojkovac, RK Budvanska rivijera Budva, RK Sutjeska Nikšić
• 2012/13: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Mojkovac, RK Ulcinj, RK Danilovgrad
• 2013/14: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Danilovgrad, RK Budvanska rivijera Budva, RK Sutjeska Nikšić
• 2014/15: RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Budvanska rivijera Budva, RK Berane, RK Rudar Pljevlja
• 2015/16: RK Boka Tivat, RK Lovćen Cetinje, RK Budvanska rivijera Budva, RK Berane

Lovćen is the only club which participated on every Final-four tournament. On the season 2012/13, Danilovgrad became first team from the Second league which participated on the Final tournament.

Winners and finals

Season by season

During the past, most successful team in Montenegrin Cup was RK Lovćen Cetinje.
Below is the list of final matches of Montenegrin Handball Cup

Trophies by team

Montenegrin Cup

There are seven different clubs which participated in the final match of Montenegrin Cup.

Four of them won a trophy.

Overall

Below is an overall list, including titles won in both national Cups - Montenegrin Cup and FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Cup.

See also

• Montenegrin First League of Men's Handball
• Montenegrin Second League of Men's Handball

External links

• Handball Federation of Montenegro