Handball Basketball Football GRK Tikvesh (), formerly known as GRK Lozari, is a handball club from Kavadarci, North Macedonia. Tikves is a member of the VIP Super league.
History The Tikvesh Club was established in 1955 by the Tikvesh Sports Association. The first coach was Lazar Lalkov, the initiators of the formation of the club besides Lalkov were also Gjoko Mukaetov and Dobre Stavrov, founders of the handball game in Kavadarci. Tikvesh played their first season in the 1955 Championship when they finished second behind Rabotnichki.
The club was four times champion of Macedonia (1962, 1964, 1972, 1976), three times winner of the Macedonian Cup (1958, 1963 and 1970). Tikves also played in the Second League in the former Federal league when in its first appearance in 1971 placed at the seventh place. Tikves also played in the Inter-Republic League in the 1980–81 season, winning second place.
Notable players from this period were Pane Malinkov, brothers Simon and Jovan Kjurchievi, Jordan Ilkov, brothers Angjushevi, Miodrag Micajkov, Zarkov, Zafirov, the goalkeeper Rizov, Kamchev, Maslarkov.
They competed in the First League, second tier handball league. They won the championship in season 2019-20 and qualified for the VIP Super League. This season they compete in the Top Division. EHF Cup After Finishing 4 th in the season 2022-23 of the top Flight Division HC Tikvesh manage to qualify for the EHF Cup competition.
Home ground Jasmin Sports Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena located in Kavadarci, Macedonia and seats 3,500 spectators.
The arena is used for basketball by KK Feni Industries.In May 2011, it hosted the Final Four of the Balkan International Basketball League. It has also been used for concerts and handball by GRK Tikveš.
Accomplishment
Macedonian Champions (4) 1962,1964,1972, 1976
Cup Winners (3) 1958,1963,1970
Team
Current squad Squad for the 2026–27 season
Goalkeepers 12 Marjan Velkov Blashko Bakev Bojan Solev Left Wingers 33 Dimitar Kocev 41 Dimitrij Angelov Right Wingers 2 Djulijano Hristovski 13 Balša Cejović Line players 5 Stefan Jovevski 45 Aleksandar Simonovski 9 Borjan Cekovski
Left Backs 8 Matej Petreski 77 Toše Ončev 96 Mohamed Aziz Ben Mahfoudh Central Backs 23 Miki Lazov 29 Martin Todorov 34 Strahinja Simić 20 Tomislav Dimkovski Right Backs 19 Martin Dimovski
Staff
Professional staff Position Name Head coach Kristijan Grcevski Assistant coach Boro Georgiev Conditioning coach Mladen Todorovski Doctor Filip Dimitriev
Transfers Transfers for the 2026–27 season
Joining Bojan Solev (GK) (from RK Tineks Prolet) Mohamed Aziz Ben Mahfoudh (LB) (from RK Eurofarm Pelister 2) Toše Ončev (LB) (from MRK Kumanovo) Tomislav Dimkovski (CB) (from RK Tineks Prolet) Borjan Cekovski (P) (from MRK Kumanovo)
Leaving Blagoj Panov (GK) (to RK Mladost 1977) Vasilije Pečurica (GK) (to RK Budvanska rivijera) Petar Cvetkovski (CB) (to RK Ilinden) Bogdan Mijušković (LB) (to Bnei Herzliya) Tomche Stojanovski (LB) (to Raimond Sassari) Stefan Atanasovski (P) (to ?)
Transfer History
Transfers for the 2025–26 seasonJoining Vasilije Pečurica (GK) from RK Eurofarm Pelister 2 Tomče Stojanovski (LB) from RK Vardar Petar Cvetkovski (CB) from HC Butel Skopje Mohamed Elazhary (RB) from Zamalek SC Augusto Aranda (RB) from CS Vesoul Balša Cejović (RW) from KH Besa Famgas Jan Tajnik (P) from Dijon Métropole Handball Stefan Atanasovski (P) from RK Struga Giorgi Grishikashvili (P) from HC Pegasi
Leaving Igor Arsić (GK) to A.C. PAOK Martin Manaskov (LB) to Alpla HC Hard Ani Obinna (RB) to Pau Billère Handball Mohamed Elazhary (RB) to SSV Brixen Handball Evgenij Temelkoski (RW) to A.C. PAOK Augusto Aranda (RB) to ? Kristijan Anastasovski (P) to RK Vardar Jan Tajnik (P) to RK Frankstahl Radovljica Giorgi Grishikashvili (P) to ?
References
External links
EHF Profile Macedonian Handball Federation